COVID-19 cases across US decline for almost a month

The number of daily COVID-19 cases across the United States has now been on the downward trajectory for almost a month – but deaths appear to rising in Sunbelt states including Florida, Texas and Louisiana. Just over 42,000 coronavirus infections were reported on Sunday across the US, bringing the nationwide total to more than 5.4 … Read more

‘Multiple’ police officers are shot in Texas after gunman opens fire then barricades himself in home

BREAKING: ‘Multiple’ police officers are shot in Texas after gunman opens fire and then barricades himself in a home Multiple officers have been shot in Texas after they were called to a home  Police in Cedar Park, near Austin, were called to the property on Sunday They said the suspect was ‘barricaded inside the home’  … Read more

‘Multiple’ police officers are shot in Texas after gunman opens fire then barricades himself in home

BREAKING: ‘Multiple’ police officers are shot in Texas after gunman opens fire and then barricades himself in a home Multiple officers have been shot in Texas after they were called to a home  Police in Cedar Park, near Austin, were called to a home Sunday They said the suspect was ‘barricaded inside the home’  The … Read more

Thousands of Seattle ‘flu’ cases may have been coronavirus

Coronavirus had likely already spread to thousands of people in Seattle before the Washington city became home to the first known US case of COVID0-19, new research reveals.  University of Texas (UT), Austin, scientists created a model to estimate how many people had coronavirus based on recently re-tested samples taken from hundreds of samples take … Read more

THOUSANDS of Seattle’s ‘flu’ cases last winter were likely COVID-19

THOUSANDS of people in Seattle who thought they had flu last winter likely had coronavirus, study finds Testing of samples taken from more than 2,000 people suspected of having flu in Seattle last year revealed 25 had coronavirus   A predictive model made by researchers at the University of Texas, Austin, estimates that about 9,000 people … Read more

Los Angeles Angels fielder Jo Adell endures fielding howler in MLB clash against Texas Rangers 

Los Angeles Angels’ Jo Adell commits embarrassing ‘four-base error’ by accidentally knocking a routine fly ball over the outfield fence Angels right fielder Jo Adell committed a rare four-base error on Sunday by misplaying a routine fly ball that popped out of his glove and flew over the fence The official scorer changed what would … Read more

Los Angeles Angels fielder Jo Adell endures fielding howler in MLB clash against Texas Rangers 

Los Angeles Angels’ Jo Adell commits embarrassing ‘four-base error’ by accidentally knocking a routine fly ball over the outfield fence Angels right fielder Jo Adell committed a rare four-base error on Sunday by misplaying a routine fly ball that popped out of his glove and flew over the fence The official scorer changed what would … Read more

‘Invisible’ words like ‘a’, ‘the’ and ‘it’ are found in a similar pattern across narratives

Small and ‘invisible’ words like ‘a’, ‘the’ and ‘it’ appear in a similar pattern across most narratives ranging from Dickens to Spielberg – forming a blueprint for storytelling, a study has found.  Researchers from Lancaster University and the University of Texas recorded 39,000 uses of these words in fictional and non-fictional text from novels to … Read more