The conversations about Mr. Lewis’s legacy, with some of his colleagues calling him the “conscience of Congress,” have pushed many activists and others to consider how his message of nonviolent resistance has endured and evolved for a new generation carrying on the fight. “It’s easy to go violence on violence,” …...Read More

“The disparities we see there with Covid are aligned with those that we see for hospitalizations and deaths due to influenza and other respiratory viruses,” said Allison Barlow, director of the Center for American Indian Health at Johns Hopkins University. Native Americans — particularly those living on reservations — are …...Read More

“We’re getting surprises all the way along,” Dr. Conly said. “This paper I find interesting, but it has a long was to go to be able to get into a line of credibility, in my mind.” Dr. George Rutherford, a professor of epidemiology at the University of California, San Francisco, …...Read More

A 4.2-magnitude earthquake and its aftershocks rolled through the Los Angeles area early on Thursday morning, but there were no immediate reports of damage. The United States Geological Survey showed that the earthquake struck just over a mile north of Pacoima, a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley, at about …...Read More

What makes me pessimistic over time is that there is fatigue with this pandemic, which can make people lapse into a narrative of “It’s those communities. I can get it under control, so what’s the problem?” The reality is that we when our rural counties get overloaded, they airlift the …...Read More

While the White House has officially denied Mr. Trump has any interest in changing the date of the election from Nov. 3, some of his allies and top aides have on occasion floated the possibility. Mr. Trump has no authority to unilaterally change the date of the election, which is …...Read More

Former President Barack Obama has never exactly been a political attack dog. For most of his presidency, he was far more about compromise than bluster. And since leaving office in 2017, he has tended to moderate his public statements about President Trump — attacking him obliquely, if at all. But …...Read More

The European Union seems to be functioning better than the United States in some big ways right now. Europe has been far more successful in subduing the coronavirus. It has also passed a recent economic stimulus bill, while the U.S. Congress has not. But Europe has a major problem. It …...Read More

As states scramble to put out fires, Fauci and other top U.S. health officials will go back before Congress. Two days after U.S. deaths surpassed 150,000, three familiar federal health officials, including Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, will return to Capitol Hill to testify in front of a new audience: the …...Read More

WASHINGTON — Black youth detained in juvenile justice facilities have been released at a far slower rate than their white peers in response to the coronavirus, according to a new report that also found that the gap in release rates between the two groups had nearly doubled over the course …...Read More