Health

The days leading up to the start of what would be Alabama’s first spring exercise in March now seem strange. Before the walls of the COVID-19 pandemic were completely shut down on college sports, the biggest questions about Tide’s season 2020 were more of the nitty-gritty, football variety. Then jumping …

A man remained barricaded early Monday morning in a Texas home with a hostage more than 12 hours after three police officers were shot after they responded to the home, outside Austin. Several law enforcement agencies were at the scene at Natalie Cove in Cedar Park, police said. “This remains …

The University of Tennessee in Chattanooga is warning residents of Chattanooga area about potential exposure to COVID-19 as a result of interaction with members of one of its fraternities, according to a news release from UTC officials. UTC’s COVID-19 Campus Support Team and the Hamilton County Health Department are working …

A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now killed more than 775,000 people worldwide. More than 21.7 million people worldwide have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new respiratory virus, according to data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. The …

Illustration: Elena Scotti. Photos: Getty Images Image nuts swaying with plant life, oceans swaying with life, dinosaurs running across the Earth. Imagine that plants and animals die, and over the course of 300 million years, coal, oil and gas become complex series of processes underground. Fast forward to the present …