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“The interest in trying to reopen and restart economic activity had a much greater pull at the time … than did public health concerns or question marks about how it would go.”

Making history, Harris officially accepted the Democratic nomination for vice president Wednesday night. Read her full speech below.

While the GOP pushed states to reopen this summer, the coronavirus found its way into nursing homes in the South and West—with dire consequences.

“One week I might have seven, eight, 10 families I was shopping for. I had a week when I had no money. That’s definitely a challenge.”

Trump’s relationship with the nation’s military community has been frequently strained. But just four months before the November election, reports that he either ignored, or was unaware of, a Russian plot to kill U.S. troops could intensify the tension and create new political risks.

In the video, Elijah McClain can be seen sobbing as he repeatedly tells officers, “I’m just different.” Samara McClain said her brother was a massage therapist who planned to go to college.

Leading public health officials spent more than five hours testifying before Congress as coronavirus cases are rising in about half the states and political polarization competes for attention with public health recommendations.

In 2015, Dylann Roof killed nine worshippers at Mother Emanuel AME church, sparing one woman’s life so she could tell everyone he wanted to start a race war. He was sentenced to death and remains in federal prison.

Floyd, the Black man whose death has inspired a worldwide reckoning over racial injustice, will be buried in Houston Tuesday.

Amid nationwide protests on racial inequality, rural North Carolina city of Rocky Mount says their Confederate monument is coming down.