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National Guardsman Is First Service Member To Die After Testing Positive For...
Updated at 11:11 p.m. ETA New Jersey Army National Guardsman who had tested positive for the coronavirus and been hospitalized since March 21, died Saturday, according to the Department of Defense. The...
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The 1918 Flu Pandemic Was Brutal, Killing As Many As 100 Million People...
Last week in a Fox News town hall, President Trump said the 1918 flu pandemic, took the lives of close to 100 million people globally, and those who contracted the illness faced a 50-50 chance, "or...
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Pope Francis Livestreams Palm Sunday Mass In An Empty St. Peter's Amid The...
Pope Francis was the sole celebrant at Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the commencement of Holy Week, and the service took place without a congregation, which the Vatican press office said...
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Australian Officials Launch Criminal Investigation Into Ruby Princess Cruise...
Updated at 8:30 p.m. ETThe Ruby Princess cruise ship docked in Sydney on March 19 and nearly 2,700 passengers who were on board left freely, though some exhibited flu-like symptoms. On Sunday,...
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Starbucks Now Requires Employees To Wear Face Coverings At Work
Citing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendation that all Americans wear face coverings in public, starting Tuesday Starbucks will require all employees to wear one at work.In a...
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Coronavirus Fears Prompt Suspensions Of Bans On Single-Use Plastic Bags
In the last decade, bans and taxes on single-use plastic bags have been enacted in a number of states including California, Hawaii and Massachusetts and cities such as New York and Washington, D.C., as...
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New Survey Highlights Racial Disparities In The Coronavirus Pandemic
A Pew Research Center survey conducted this month among 4,917 U.S. adults found that 27% of black people personally knew someone who was hospitalized with or died from COVID-19, compared to just 1 in...
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Mass. Governor Warns 'Don't Leave Anything Unsaid' With Loved Ones During...
As global cases of coronavirus top 2 million, and people across the world lose loved ones to the virus without being given the chance for final farewells, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker said at a...
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Coronavirus Cases Continue To Climb In The U.S. And Around The World
Updated at 6:56 p.m. ETAs of Sunday, nearly three months since the first confirmed case of the coronavirus was reported in the United States, there are over 746,300confirmed cases of the virus in the...
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Georgia Beginning To Reopen Its Economy, Lifting Some Coronavirus-Crisis Limits
Updated at 10:31 p.m. ETCiting President Trump's guidelines for Opening Up America Again, released last week, Gov. Brian Kemp announced at a news conference Monday steps to reopen Georgia's economy,...
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Family Members Of Four Killed In Kobe Bryant Crash Sue Helicopter Company
Almost three months after LA basketball icon Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and seven others were killed in a helicopter crash, family members of four people who died in the crash are suing to hold...
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Federal Judge Orders ICE To Consider Releasing Detainees At High Risk For...
A federal judge in California on Monday ordered U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to "identify and track" every person in ICE detention at an elevated risk of complications from COVID-19 and to...
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MLB Punishes Red Sox In Sign Stealing Scandal
The Boston Red Sox's illegal sign stealing during their 2018 championship season has cost them their second-round draft pick this year, a decision announced by Major League Baseball Wednesday. An MLB...
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Antibody Tests Go To Market Largely Unregulated, Warns House Subcommittee Chair
Coronavirus antibody tests have garnered attention from officials as a potential tool to evaluate people's immunity to the illness. But the majority of companies creating the tests have had little to...
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Calif. Governor Warns That Packed Beaches Put Coronavirus Pandemic Progress...
High temperatures drew large crowds to beaches along the California coastline over the weekend, and Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday that photos of the packed shorelines show "what not to do."That...
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Calif. Governor Expected To Order Closure Of All Beaches And State Parks
A California Police Chiefs Association memo sent Wednesday informed its members that Gov. Gavin Newsom will order all California beaches and state parks to close, effective Friday."After the...
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Governor Temporarily Closes All Beaches And State Parks In Orange County,...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered all beaches and state parks in Orange County to temporarily close on Thursday, after images in the news showed crowds gathering on beaches there and, according to...
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2 Orange County Cities To Challenge Calif. Gov. Newsom's Order Closing Beaches
The city councils of both Huntington Beach and Dana Point voted tonight to pursue legal action against the state of California to block Gov. Gavin Newsom's beach-closure order.Newsom ordered all...
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U.K.'s Boris Johnson Says His Battle With Coronavirus 'Could Have Gone Either...
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson opened up about his nearly two-week-long battle with coronavirus on Sunday, revealing that at points during his ICU stay doctors were making arrangements for "what to...
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Orange County Beaches Shut Down, But Legal Battle Still Making Waves
Two Orange County cities' attempt to legally challenge California Gov. Gavin Newsom's beach shutdown order failed for now, but the battle between local and state officials over the shoreline will...
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Gov. Newsom Announces California Will Begin Easing Coronavirus Closures This...
Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that California will allow some retail businesses to reopen with modifications as early as Friday, amid encouraging coronavirus benchmarks. "We are entering into the next...
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U.K. Surpasses Italy In Recorded Coronavirus Deaths, Now Leads Europe In...
Over 32,000 people have died from the new coronavirus in the United Kingdom, according to the Office for National Statistics, marking the first time in the pandemic that it has led Europe in the number...
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Discharged From Hospital
After being treated on Tuesday for a gallbladder infection at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburgwas discharged on Wednesday."She is doing well and glad to be...
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Former Georgia Police Officer And His Son Arrested In The Death Of Ahmaud...
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced Thursday that it has arrested two white men in the death of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old unarmed black man who was shot and killed in February while...
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Unemployment Numbers 'Will Get Worse Before They Get Better,' Mnuchin Says
The worst of the nation's historic job losses are yet to come, according to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who told Fox News Sunday that "the reported numbers are probably going to get worse before...
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Boris Johnson Outlines Plan To Ease Coronavirus Restrictions In England
Prime Minister Boris Johnson outlined plans Sunday for a phased reopening of Britain's economy, citing decreasing coronavirus hospitalizations and deaths, and asked anyone who cannot perform their jobs...
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MLB Owners Propose Opening Day In Early July
Major League Baseball owners will submit a proposal to the players' union to start its 2020 season in July without fans.If the proposal is approved by the baseball players' union, Opening Day would...
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Wisconsin Supreme Court Overturns The State's Stay-At-Home Orders
Wisconsin's Supreme Court has overturned the state's "Safer at Home" orders and mandated that all future statewide restrictions to battle the coronavirus must be approved by the legislature's...
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18 Counties In California Set To Further Relax Coronavirus Restrictions
Eighteen of California's 58 counties have received state approval to further ease coronavirus restrictions, but major population centers such as the San Francisco Bay Area are choosing not to relax...
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CDC Issues Tools To Guide Reopening Of Schools, Businesses, Transit
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a set of documents on Thursday designed to provide guidance on how child care centers, schools,restaurants and bars, and other establishments...
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FDA Cautions About Accuracy Of Widely Used Abbott Coronavirus Test
Updated at 11:16 p.m. ETThe Food and Drug Administration is cautioning the public about the reliability of a widely used rapid test for the coronavirus. The test, made by Abbott Laboratories, has been...
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Democrats Launch Probe Into Trump's Firing Of State Department Inspector...
Congressional Democrats announced Saturday they're requesting all records and documents regarding President Trump's decision to fire State Department Inspector General Steve Linick, the fourth...
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California Loosens Counties' Reopening Requirements
On Monday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced during his daily coronavirus press briefing an updated set of public health benchmarks that counties must meet to move further into reopening their...
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On Nearly Emptied Roads, Motor Vehicle Fatality Rate Spikes By 14% In March
In March, as states across the country began implementing stay-at-home orders and commuters got off the road, traffic dropped, but a new National Safety Council report finds that the number of motor...
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Cuomo Says New York Is Now 'Decidedly In The Reopening Phase'
New York is "decidedly in the reopening phase," Gov. Andrew Cuomo said on Sunday, as the state hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic gave sports leagues, campgrounds and veterinarian offices the...
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At Least 2 Killed In Nationwide Protests Over George Floyd's Death
Updated at 1:42 p.m. ET SaturdayAngry protests nationwide on Friday followed the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis. Clashes erupted between activists and law enforcement in many...
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Target Says It Will Temporarily Close Stores In Several States As Protests...
Amid continuing protests over the death of George Floyd, Target has temporarily closed or adjusted hours at more than 200 stores nationwide.The announcement on Saturday from the nation's eighth-largest...
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George Floyd Reverberates Globally: Thousands Protest In Germany, U.K., New...
Updated at 8:29 p.m. ETU.S. protesters rallying against the killing of George Floyd and countless other black Americans are being heard around the world as demonstrators launched their own protests in...
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Despite Curfews And Heavy Police Presence, Protests Persist Across The Country
Updated at 11:44 a.m. ETOne week after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis Police custody, demonstrations against police brutality and systemic racism continued across the United States. Many...
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Protests Continue Despite Curfews Across The Country
Updated at 2 a.m. ET WednesdayProtesters — raw, sad and angry over the killing of George Floyd and the disproportionately high number of black people who face injustice, violence and death — filled the...
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'I Can't Breathe': Peaceful Demonstrators Continue To Rally Over George...
Updated at 3:30 a.m. ET on ThursdayWhat appeared to be overwhelmingly peaceful protests compared to earlier days persisted Wednesday across the U.S.In Minneapolis, prosecutors said the police officer...
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Protesters Came Out Again In Washington, D.C. — And Some Stayed, Despite...
A thunderstorm dispersed many demonstrators protesting against George Floyd's killing and police brutality, for a seventh consecutive day, in Washington, D.C., on Thursday evening. But some protesters...
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Police Injure Protester In Buffalo As Demonstrations Continue Nationwide
Updated at 3 a.m. ET FridayProtesters poured into streets again across the nation to honor George Floyd following a memorial service in Minneapolis. Demonstrations have taken place every day since...
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EPA Orders Amazon And EBay To Stop Selling Bogus Coronavirus-Fighting Products
On Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency ordered Amazon and eBay to stop selling certain pesticide-containing products, many of which claimed to fight off and disinfect from the coronavirus.The...
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Atlanta Police Release Video Of Minutes Before Rayshard Brooks Shooting
Updated at 9:44 p.m. ET SundayAs Atlanta protesters took to the streets again Sunday, incensed by the killing of Rayshard Brooks, a 27-year-old black man fatally shot by a police officer, body cam...
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Virginia Rep. Riggleman, Who Officiated Same-Sex Wedding, Loses Republican...
Republican Rep. Denver Riggleman, who received blowback from some members of his party after officiating the same-sex wedding last year of former campaign volunteers, has lost the GOP nomination for...
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In Wake Of Rayshard Brooks' Killing, Atlanta Mayor Orders Police Department...
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced a series of administrative orders on Monday that will require the police department to reform its use-of-force rules and amp up de-escalation tactics, three...
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Airlines Say They Will Ramp Up Enforcement Of Face Covering Policies
Major airlines will ratchet up their enforcement of face-covering policies, according to Airlines for America, an industry association. Prior to each flight, Alaska, American, United, Delta, Southwest,...
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Oakland Mayor Launches Hate Crime Investigation Into Nooses Found At Park
Nooses found at a public park in Oakland, Calif., will be removed and investigated as hate crimes, according to Mayor Libby Schaaf.The news follows the hanging deaths of two black men that were...
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Wildfires In California Have Firefighting Teams Stretched Thin
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