Longevity rates
A man jogs as it snows, at Cinquantenaire park during a cold spring day in Brussels, Tuesday, April 6, 2021. Belgians woke up on Tuesday to a dusting of snow in the capital in an unusual weather event for this time of the year. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
EU life expectancy drops across bloc amid virus pandemic

Apr. 07, 2021 03:35 AM EDT

FILE - In this Friday, March 27, 2020 file photo, William Samuels delivers caskets to the Gerard Neufeld Funeral Home during the coronavirus pandemic in the Queens borough of New York. A report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021 finds that life expectancy in the United States dropped a staggering one year during the first half of 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic caused its first wave of deaths. Minorities suffered the biggest impact, with Blacks losing nearly three years and Hispanics, nearly two years, according to preliminary estimates. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
US life expectancy drops a year in pandemic, most since WWII

By Marilynn Marchione Feb. 18, 2021 12:01 AM EST

FILE - This Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020 photo provided by the California Office of Emergency Services (OES) shows hospital beds set up in the practice facility at Sleep Train Arena in Sacramento, Calif., that is ready to receive patients as needed. This is the deadliest year in U.S. history, with deaths topping 3 million for the first time. It's due mainly to the coronavirus pandemic that has killed nearly 320,000 Americans. (California OES via AP, File)
US deaths in 2020 top 3 million, by far most ever counted

By Mike Stobbe Dec. 22, 2020 12:01 AM EST

Editorial Roundup: US

By The Associated Press Jun. 10, 2020 05:33 PM EDT
Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ June 10 The Los Angles Times...

FILE In this file photo taken on Sunday, May 10, 2020, Grave diggers wearing protective suits bury a COVID-19 victim as relatives and friends stand at a safe distance, in the special purpose for coronavirus victims section of a cemetery in Kolpino, outside St.Petersburg, Russia. The Russian government on Friday May 29, 2020, released updated coronavirus statistics to include deaths of those who tested positive but died of other causes. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, File)
After criticism, Russia expands stats on virus-linked deaths

By Vladimir Isachenkov May. 29, 2020 04:14 PM EDT