The nation’s largest four-year public university system votes to require a class on ethnic studies or social justice.
Author: Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY
Harvard, MIT sue Trump administration over ICE foreign-student rule, deeming it cruel and reckless
Harvard and MIT sue the U.S. government to block an attempt by ICE to bar foreign students from attending schools that teach only online this fall.
PG&E pleads guilty to 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter for 2018 Northern California fire
The nation’s biggest utility acknowledged its neglected equipment set off the fire that destroyed most of the Northern California town of Paradise.
‘Lawful but awful’: Atlanta police had better options than lethal force in Rayshard Brooks shooting, experts say
The Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office on Sunday said Rayshard Brooks died of two gunshot wounds to his back, and it ruled his death a homicide.
First to close and last to open? California takes ‘appropriately cautious’ path in combating coronavirus
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‘Almost all the kids are treatable’: What parents should know about new COVID-related inflammatory disease
A mysterious inflammatory disease possibly related to the coronavirus is affecting children. It shares some traits with Kawasaki. Here’s what to know.
‘Bad economies are as hurtful to health as viruses’: US lurches toward reopening despite ominous coronavirus models
As opposed to other countries, much of the USA is reopening despite cases of coronavirus rising or plateauing. What lies ahead?
‘It’s going to be around a long time’: What we’ve learned from the first discovered COVID-19 cases
They both died in their homes in February, days before COVID-19 was known to have killed anyone in the U.S. No one knew what killed them – until now.
Coronavirus in the US: How all 50 states are responding – and why nine still refuse to issue stay-at-home orders
Forty-one states have stay-at-home orders in effect, covering more than 300 million Americans. Pressure is growing for the holdouts to follow suit.
While Donald Trump remains optimistic in US fight against coronavirus, the ‘worst’ is yet to come, task force says
President Donald Trump’s glowing update on the battle against the coronavirus pandemic on Sunday clashed with his administration’s task force.