TOPLINE As lawmakers prepare to pass the next round of economic stimulus legislation at the end of this month, congressional Republicans and the Trump administration are considering proposals to drop the eligibility income threshold on the next round of stimulus checks, according to a report from the Washington Post. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY)…
Houston officials are canceling next week’s in-person Texas Republican convention as coronavirus cases surge across the state, Mayor Sylvester Turner (D) said Wednesday. Turner said he instructed the Houston First Corporation, which operates the George R. Brown Convention Center, to exercise its right to contractually cancel the GOP convention that was set to be held next…
Faced with a record number of hospitalizations of patients with COVID-19, Seminole County health officials expressed concerns that hospitals in the county may soon reach capacity and become overwhelmed in the coming weeks following the Fourth of July weekend, a time when many people gathered to celebrate. On Tuesday, Seminole reported 203 patients being treated…
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionThree black parents and their children have discussions about raising a black child, racism and the Black Lives Matter movement Authorities in the US state of Indiana are investigating allegations that a group of white men attacked and attempted to "lynch" a black man at a 4…
San Luis Obispo County Public Health Officials announced Tuesday that they expect San Luis Obispo County will end up on the state's COVID-19 "watch list" soon.Over the weekend, the county reportedly exceeded the state's COVID-19 case rate criteria.Health officials say the county has seen a rate of about 114 cases per 100,000 population over the…
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…