The United States’ coronavirus-related death toll passed 50,000 Friday morning, after more than 3,000 people died Thursday.A tally compiled by Johns Hopkins University put the death toll at 50,031, with more than 869,000 cases across the country. The country with the next highest death toll is Italy, with more than 25,000.After the death toll dipped…
As some European countries gradually ease lockdown restrictions, the picture is quite different in the United Kingdom.Research by the Office of National Statistics suggested the actual death toll in England and Wales – in early April - was 40 percent higher than the number reported by Downing Street. The death toll in the UK is…
LONDON (Reuters) - The true extent of Britain’s COVID-19 death toll was more than 40% higher than the government’s daily figures indicated as of April 10, according to data that put the country on track to become among the worst-hit in Europe. The Office for National Statistics said it recorded 13,121 deaths by April 10…
As the deadly coronavirus continues its rampage through Minnesota nursing homes, public health officials are facing a fresh dilemma: Where to care for surging numbers of sickened patients without spreading the virus. Over the past 10 days, authorities have scrambled to evacuate dozens of residents from three long-term care facilities in separate parts of the…
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Some issues, like immigration or student loans, are too divisive to unite Trinity Moravian Church. “We’ve got quite a spread of political beliefs,” said the Rev. John Jackman, who leads this 114-year-old red-brick church near Winston-Salem’s old textile mills. Conservative Republicans sit with liberal Democrats. Supporters of President Donald Trump mix with
17 min read IT’S APPROACHING 11 A.M. on a humid day in May. Ben Simmons has been out fishing in the waters southeast of Miami since 6:15, his boat pushing away from the marina with a waning crescent still hung in the sky. The 29-year-old has spent most of the morning up on the bow
For companies, choosing not to look is not a defense. It is willful blindness, and juries understand it instantly. Published: June 29, 2026, 12:06 am When I started suing food companies more than thirty years ago, after E. coli O157:H7 in undercooked Jack in the Box hamburgers killed four children and sickened hundreds, proving where