Sinclair Broadcast Group recently published an online interview with a conspiracy theorist who claimed that Dr. Anthony Fauci created the coronavirus using monkey cells. Sinclair — which operates almost 200 television stations — has also run segments downplaying the severity of the virus. Fox News has repeatedly run segments promoting …...Read More

[music] michael barbaro From The New York Times, I’m Michael Barbaro. This is “The Daily.” Today: A fight has erupted among congressional Republicans over how long and how generously government should help the unemployed during the pandemic. Nick Fandos on what that battle is really about. It’s Tuesday, July 28. …...Read More

A disease-modeling system like that used by the National Weather Service to predict storms is needed, said Caitlin Rivers, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. Right now, the country has surveillance for seasonal flu but no national map tracking all disease outbreaks. As Dr. Thomas R. …...Read More

Many shoppers and workers say the retailers’ reluctance to police their customers’ mask wearing ultimately renders the new rules toothless and will perpetuate the spread of the coronavirus. And workers find themselves thrust onto the front line of a cultural and political war over masks that can lead to ugly …...Read More

When Rodney King was on the ground, getting kicked, hit with batons and shot with Tasers by several members of the Los Angeles Police Department in 1991, the episode was captured on video by a man who lived across the street from the attack and happened to have a new …...Read More

“Particularly women in the suburbs broke in a big way for us Democrats,” said Mr. Gilchrist, who was elected with Ms. Whitmer, “and I think the Biden campaign is running an effort to continue to build on that momentum.” Then there are Mr. Trump’s self-inflicted political wounds in the state, …...Read More

“What people aren’t recognizing is that people who live there are having a very, very challenging time from the unlawfulness that is occurring after the sun goes down,” said Andrea Jenkins, a member of the City Council whose district includes the memorial space. “There are constant gunshots every night. Emergency …...Read More

Large-scale randomized testing and contact tracing over time, which would give a more complete picture of who transmits the virus and how, hasn’t been done yet in schools. In July, in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, researchers from the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published the results of …...Read More

President Trump devolved into self-pity during a White House coronavirus briefing on Tuesday, lamenting that his approval ratings were lower than those of two top government medical experts. Just over a week after he began a rebooted effort, driven by rising infection rates and sinking poll numbers, to talk about …...Read More

“It’s needed,” Mr. Shelby said. “The question is, is it needed now?” In recent days, Mr. Meadows had pushed the plan to replace the building, which is crumbling, out of date — and long the subject an unusual fixation for Mr. Trump, a former real estate developer. As far back …...Read More