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Seattle’s mayor said officials will move to wind down an “occupied” protest zone that President Trump asserted is run by “anarchists.”
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Fireworks are a summer tradition. But in New York and cities around the country, complaints over displays have exploded this summer. The exact reasons for the uptick remain a mystery.
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NASCAR fans react to the news that a noose was found in the garage of Black driver Bubba Wallace.
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Local officials in Texas require masks and raise alarm over coronavirus spike, while the governor insists businesses remain open.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning about a Mexican-made hand sanitizer gel that it said is dangerous because it contained large amounts of poisonous methanol, or wood alcohol
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COVID-19 has led to a push for vote by mail, but advocates face logistical and legal hurdles — and “rigged election” claims from President Trump.
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Joe Biden’s campaign commits to participating in three debates and says the Trump camp wants to “create a distracting ‘debate about debates.’”
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Saudi Arabia says this year’s hajj will not be canceled, but that because of the coronavirus only “very limited numbers” of people will be allowed to perform the major Muslim pilgrimage.
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President Trump expands restrictions on U.S. visas to target temporary workers from tech to seasonal construction, but includes broad carve-outs.
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Our special-edition newsletter breaks down the latest coronavirus news, including California’s rising case numbers and hospitalization rates, and temperature checks at LAX.
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Vice President Mike Pence says the U.S. is ‘winning the fight against the invisible enemy’ that is the coronavirus. We fact-check that and other claims.
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2020 Democratic primaries: A Senate race in Kentucky and congressional race in N.Y. are in play as Black candidates tap the progressive movement’s desire for change.
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The New York museum is removing the statue because it ‘depicts Black and Indigenous people as subjugated and racially inferior,’ mayor says.
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The increase in COVID-19 cases has spurred talk of a “second wave” of coronavirus infections. Experts say that’s the wrong term to describe what’s happening.
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Experts warn that an increase in coronavirus cases in the South and Southwest of the U.S. poses a growing threat.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who had declared ‘Canada is back,’ made winning a seat on the United Nations Security Council a foreign-policy priority.
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Discrimination and racial prejudices in the Middle East take on re-energized focus in wake of George Floyd’s death.
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A growing number of people on the far right are falsely claiming that liberal billionaire George Soros orchestrated the protests roiling the U.S.
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Hundreds of workers at a Tyson Foods plant in Arkansas have tested positive for the coronavirus.
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Two people were killed and seven others were wounded in a shooting in Charlotte, North Carolina’s largest city, police said.
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Fireworks are a summer tradition. But in New York and cities around the country, complaints over displays have exploded this summer. The exact reasons for the uptick remain a mystery.
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Seattle’s mayor said officials will move to wind down an “occupied” protest zone that President Trump asserted is run by “anarchists.”
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NASCAR fans react to the news that a noose was found in the garage of Black driver Bubba Wallace.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning about a Mexican-made hand sanitizer gel that it said is dangerous because it contained large amounts of poisonous methanol, or wood alcohol
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A growing number of people on the far right are falsely claiming that liberal billionaire George Soros orchestrated the protests roiling the U.S.
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Special Report
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Fifty years later, the Manson “family” murders remain seared into the collective memory of Los Angeles. The question, which persists to this day, is why?
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Charles Manson and his “family” committed heinous crimes across Los Angeles in 1969. Here is a timeline of what led up to the murders and the aftermath.
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Followers of Charles Manson were tied to the deaths of nine people in the summer of 1969.
