US death toll from coronavirus surges past 100,000 people HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The U.S. surpassed a jarring milestone Wednesday in the coronavirus pandemic: 100,000 deaths. That number is the best estimate and most assuredly an undercount. But it represents the stark reality that more ...

A new study on bees, plants and landscapes in upstate New York sheds light on how bee pathogens spread, offering possible clues for what farmers could do to improve bee health. In the paper, “Landscape Simplification Shapes Pathogen Prevalence in Plant-Pollinator Networks ” published ...

(AP) — Jimmy Cobb, a percussionist and the last surviving member of Miles Davis’ 1959 “Kind of Blue” groundbreaking jazz album which transformed the genre and sparked several careers, died Sunday. His wife, Eleana Tee Cobb, announced on Facebook that her husband died at his New York ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Longtime broadcast news executive William J. Small, who led CBS News’ Washington coverage during the civil rights movement, Vietnam War and Watergate and was later president of NBC News and United Press International, died Sunday, CBS News said. He was 93. Small, whose ...

By The Associated Press Today is Monday, May 25, the 146th day of 2020. There are 220 days left in the year. This is Memorial Day. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy told Congress: “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the ...

In 2012, Annie Glenn and I were doing what we so often did, which was to sit side-by-side in a quiet place offstage, waiting for our extroverted husbands to finish speaking to a crowd. We had been close friends for six years by then. My husband, Sherrod Brown, was running for reelection to ...