NewsMonday, July 13th 2020, 5:05 PM AKDTGov. Mike Dunleavy and Chief Medical Officer Dr. Anne Zink, well-known figures in the state's ongoing efforts to battle the pandemic, spoke to Alaskans Monday evening in another livestreamed address.The duo was joined by public health director Heidi Hedberg and Dr. Joe McLaughlin, the state's chief of epidemiology.Dunleavy touted the state’s…
A fight at a party in Bellevue, Wash., just east of Seattle, left two people dead and two others wounded Saturday evening, Bellevue police confirmed.Police said they responded around 7:30 p.m. to a call of shots fired and a possible stabbing at an apartment complex.When officers arrived they found one person dead and three wounded, two…
The State Department is warning Americans to use “increased caution” in China over what it says is an increased risk of “prolonged interrogations and extended detention” amid increased tensions between Beijing and Washington.The security alert, sent to citizens in China and obtained by Reuters, warns that “U.S. citizens may be detained without access to U.S.…
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(Pixabay)AUSTIN, Texas – A North Texas dog has been found to have the first coronavirus infection confirmed in a Texas animal, state officials said.The Texas Animal Health Commission announced in a statement that the Fort Worth-area dog was confirmed to have the virus that causes COVID-19.A private veterinarian tested the pooch Tuesday as a precaution…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…