A top aide to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo told leading state Democratic lawmakers that the administration had withheld data on COVID-19 deaths at nursing homes to avoid federal scrutiny, according to a bombshell new report.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama would be the first state to carry out an execution this year if it proceeds with plans to put to death a 51-year-old inmate convicted of the shotgun slaying of a police detective's sister decades ago.
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a stay blocking the Thursday night execution, but the state is expected to appeal.
Willie B. Smith III was scheduled to receive a lethal injection at a...
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Major League Baseball held its first amateur draft in 1965, and with the fifth overall pick, the Red Sox selected Billy Conigliaro, an outfielder from Swampscott High School.
It was no surprise, as Mr. Conigliaro’s older brother, Tony, was the immensely popular power-hitting right fielder for the Sox.
Billy Conigliaro overcame the pressure and made his own path, debuting with the Sox in 1969 with two home runs in his first start, and...
The Michigan Health Lab collected some of the most widespread rumors, claims, myths and worries about the COVID-19 vaccines, and checked them out with help from Michigan Medicine experts.
The origin of the year-long coronavirus pandemic remains a mystery after scientists from the World Health Organization (WHO) wrapped up its investigation in Wuhan, China -- drawing criticism from U.S. officials.
WUHAN, China (AP) — The coronavirus most likely first appeared in humans after jumping from an animal, a team of international and Chinese scientists looking for the origins of COVID-19 said Tuesday, saying an alternate theory that the virus leaked from a Chinese lab was unlikely.
A closely watched visit by World Health Organization experts to Wuhan — the Chinese city where the first coronavirus cases were discovered — did not dramatically change the current...
The Michigan Health Lab collected some of the most widespread rumors, claims, myths and worries about the COVID-19 vaccines, and checked them out with help from Michigan Medicine experts.
In Texas, 187 inmates have been confirmed or presumed to have died from COVID-19, according the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Thirty-seven agency employees are presumed to have died from the virus.
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Hours after Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and state Health Commissioner Howard Zucker were served with a lawsuit over their failure to include incarcerated individuals in the early stages of the coronavirus vaccination rollout, state officials said they would begin inoculating more than 1,000 inmates who are 65 and over.
The state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision late Thursday announced the updated response a few hours after initially saying the agency was working...
BOSTON (AP) — A prominent Jewish organization is cutting ties with a longtime Massachusetts rabbi for actively promoting anti-vaccine views and strident opposition to public health efforts to rein in the coronavirus pandemic.
Central Massachusetts Chabad said Thursday it dismissed Rabbi Michoel Green as a representative of the organization, which oversees Jewish community centers in the region, on Jan. 27.
Green has run the Chabad house in Westborough, which is a suburb of Worcester, New England's...
USA TODAY – Around 5 a.m. Friday in the nation's capital, bleary-eyed senators who had spent hours debating a COVID relief bill looked up to see Vice President Kamala Harris presiding over the chamber.
Within minutes, she would cast two important, tie-breaking vote on a budget resolution, clearing the way for what Democrats hope is the quick passage of a $1.9 trillion COVID relief package that President Joe Biden sees as necessary to ramp up...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended prioritizing shots based on occupation and health factors, but its guidelines are arbitrary and states don’t have to follow them.
