Eduardo Munoz Alvarez / Getty Images The journalists at BuzzFeed News are proud to bring you trustworthy and relevant reporting about the coronavirus. To help keep this news free, become a member and sign up for our newsletter, Outbreak Today. New CDC estimates of coronavirus death rates look suspiciously low and present almost no data…
Chicago Firefighters carry the remains of Firefighter Edward Singleton, a 33 year veteran of the Chicago Fire Department who died last week from complications from coronavirus disease (COVID-19), to a hearse following his funeral service in Chicago, Illinois, April 22, 2020.Shannon Stapleton | ReutersThe U.S. has surpassed the grim milestone of 100,000 deaths as a…
Ice Cube is speaking out against police after a viral video on Monday showed a white police officer pinning his knee against a black man's neck as he struggled to breathe in Minnesota.After viewing the video of an unarmed George Floyd, 46, being subdued on the ground – his pleas proving ineffective – which has permeated through…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.The U.S. reached yet another harrowing milestone on Wednesday as the coronavirus death toll topped 100,000. Globally, COVID-19 has been linked to over 353,000 fatalities and over 5.6 million cases, according to the Johns Hopkins University heat map.On Wednesday evening, the Johns…
(CNN)Minneapolis police officers involved in the death of a black man who they held down as he protested that he couldn't breathe have been placed on leave as the FBI looks into the incident, Police …
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…