Florida is now the third state to report more than 1 million coronavirus cases. After 8,847 new cases were added Tuesday, the state has now recorded 1,008,166 cases and 18,679 deaths, according to the Florida Department of Health. The only other states to have reported more than 1 million cases are Texas and California. The…… MORE
Though Molly Gibson is just over one month old, she could’ve been born at any point in the last 27 years. Her embryo was frozen in October 1992 and stayed frozen until earlier this year in February, when Tina and Ben Gibson of Tennessee adopted her embryo. Tina gave birth to Molly in late October…… MORE
Patricia and Leslie McWaters spent 47 years together, raising their children, then grandchildren and then great-grandchildren. And last week, they died together of Covid-19, within the same minute. “They literally did everything together and although we’re shocked about it, when we look at it, we also think it’s not so surprising, because they were together…… MORE
An 18-year-old man has been arrested in connection with Friday’s shooting deaths of two people at a mall in California’s capital, police said. Damario Beck was arrested Monday on suspicion of shooting and killing a 17-year-old boy and a 19-year-old man inside Sacramento’s Arden Fair Mall on Friday evening, Sacramento police said. Beck was being…… MORE
Judges on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court questioned and expressed skepticism about the use of five “prior bad acts” witnesses in Bill Cosby’s criminal trial during an appeal hearing on Tuesday. Cosby, 83, is more than two years into a 3-to-10-year sentence at a prison outside Philadelphia for drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand, a former…… MORE
Jessica Lusk and Dylan Garcia are under what they call “unbearable stress.” Every second they worry that in trying to keep their youngest child safe from the pandemic, they might lose their home and hurt their other children. And it still might not be enough. “Is it better off staying at home, or is that…… MORE
It was on this day in 1955 when a simple act of defiance elevated a seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama, into a pivotal symbol in America’s civil rights movement. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of a city bus. Little did the 42-year-old know that her act would help end…… MORE
Health officials projected the Covid-19 surge in the fall would be brutal. November alone proved those predictions true, with about a third of the nation’s total cases reported in just 30 days. Hospitalizations more than doubled since the beginning of November, and the United States saw more Covid-19 deaths last month than the pandemic’s combined…… MORE
Chicago officials say they shut down a 300-person party early Sunday for violating coronavirus restrictions as the city tries to get its Covid-19 surge under control. The Chicago Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection (BACP) said in a statement that it had conducted 93 investigations over the weekend as part of a task force…… MORE
Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things You Need to Know Today” delivered to your inbox daily. Sign up here.) 1. Coronavirus Everyone in the US who wants a Covid-19 vaccine will be able to get one by June, according…… MORE
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