At least three MTA employees secretly turned a storage room under a platform at the Grand Central Terminal into a private “man cave” complete with futons, TVs, exercise equipment, a fridge and a bed, the agency’s inspector general said on Thursday. . MTA Inspector General Caroline Pokorni said in a …

Swiss authorities have ordered a quarantine for the entire undergraduate student population of the prestigious hospitality management school following the “significant outbreak” of COVID-19. Health officials in Switzerland’s Vaud Canton or the region announced Wednesday that all 2,500 undergraduate students at the “Ecole Hotelier de Lausanne” (EHL) must be self-quarantined …

Less than six weeks before election day in a war-torn state, the five-member board said it had unanimously agreed to a compromise, which the court must approve. A settlement hearing is scheduled for Oct. 2, allowing the postmarked ballot to be received six days later on election day. In a …

Sonoma County, one of California’s last two air counties stalled at a highly restricted level of plans to reopen coronavirus, could reach the state benchmark just like next week, allowing it to resume a wide range of public activities by mid-October. The public health official said Wednesday. The result will …

Now, scientists have awakened Fleming’s original Penicillium mold and sequenced its genome for the first time. They say the information they have collected could help in the fight against antibiotic resistance. “It’s worth noting that after spending all this time in the freezer, it goes back quite easily. It’s fairly …