Month: July 2020

At least 15 people incarcerated at California’s oldest prison have died since June from apparent Covid-19-related complications amid a growing coronavirus outbreak at the facility, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. John Beames, 67, is the latest inmate to die at San Quentin State Prison. He was pronounced dead at a hospital

Dr. Joe Gerald will be lecturing students in person this fall. But what he might teach them in his public health course is that being in the classroom during a pandemic is a bad idea. Gerald’s 150-student lecture on US health care at the University of Arizona in Tucson will be split into groups so

If the world embarked on an immediate and globally-coordinated effort to reduce our plastic consumption, there would still be an estimated 710 million metric tons of plastic that will pollute the environment by 2040, new research has found. The study, from a group of international researchers and published in the journal Science on Thursday, found

The national Black Lives Matter protest movement, rekindled in the days after an unarmed George Floyd was killed by police in Minneapolis last May, continues to shine a light on what it calls systemic racism and police brutality from America’s small towns to its urban centers. Portland, Oregon, has remained a flashpoint of national and

The question is not whether Russia and China will try to influence Western elections — it’s whether Western governments have the wit and will to do something about it. In Washington, Democrats are warning of a fresh Russian effort to interfere in the upcoming US election with the apparent goal of helping President Donald Trump

A search for potential mass graves from the 1921 Tulsa race massacre has ended without uncovering any evidence of human remains. The test excavation at Tulsa, Oklahoma’s, Oaklawn Cemetery took 8 days and was part of a study to find human remains from the massacre, in which hundreds of Black people were brutally killed by