“Hey hey, ho ho, these racist cops have got to go. Hey hey, ho ho, these racist cops have got to go. Hey hey, ho ho.” “I’m here right now because the feds are here, and that’s terrifying to me as a citizen.” President Trump’s deployment of federal agents is …...Read More
Cities in Bind as Turmoil Spreads Far Beyond Portland
A Liberal Town Built Around Confederate Generals Rethinks Its Identity
But Lexington is no longer a bastion of conservatism. It is a liberal college town of about 7,000 people that voted 60 percent for Hillary Clinton four years ago, and in 2018 gave 70 percent of its vote to the Democratic Senate candidate, Tim Kaine. Black Lives Matter signs dot …...Read More
States Issue Warnings About Seed Packets From China
Officials in at least four states are urging residents to report any unsolicited packages of seeds that appear to have been sent from China, warning that they might be invasive or otherwise harmful. The agriculture departments in Washington State, Louisiana, Kansas and Virginia have issued statements in recent days, noting …...Read More
Mason Gaffney, Who Argued for Taxing Only Land, Dies at 96
As Mason Gaffney bicycled to a Boy Scout meeting in 1940, a chauffeur-driven car clipped him, leaving him with injuries that kept him bedridden for months. During his convalescence his mother, appreciating his restless intellectual curiosity, gave him books to read, including complex tax policy textbooks in which he learned …...Read More
Garrett Foster Brought His Gun to Austin Protests. Then He Was Shot Dead.
AUSTIN, Texas — It was not unusual for Garrett Foster to be at a protest against police brutality on a Saturday night. And it was not out of character for him to be armed as he marched. Mr. Foster was carrying an AK-47 rifle as he joined a Black Lives …...Read More
Hurricane Douglas: Hawaii Braces for 'Triple Threat'
But the force of the storm was forecast to weaken during the next 48 hours. Only two storms since modern record-keeping started in 1900 are known to have struck the islands: In 1992, Hurricane Iniki hit Kauai as a Category 4 storm, killing six people and causing about $3 billion …...Read More
Selma Helped Define John Lewis’s Life. In Death, He Returned One Last Time.
“This is where it all started for him,” Hydreca Lewis-Brewster, one of his nieces, said after a Saturday morning service in Troy, where a crowd of hundreds filed past his coffin to pay their respects. During the service, his family, local officials and pastors talked about his enduring connection to …...Read More
‘You Do the Right Things, and Still You Get It’
We’re here at Houston Methodist Hospital. The number of new coronavirus patients just skyrocketed here through June and much of July. We’re hearing about these crazy numbers all over the country. Thousands of people getting sick with Covid, high numbers of people in the hospitals, and of course, the increasing …...Read More
Your Coronavirus Antibodies Are Disappearing. Should You Care?
A mild illness may trigger production of only a few antibodies, and a severe one many more. The vast majority of people who become infected with the coronavirus have few to no symptoms, and those people may produce a milder immune response than those who become severely ill, Dr. Havers …...Read More
Fires and Pepper Spray in Seattle as Police Protests Widen Across U.S.
Other demonstrations took place on Saturday in New York, Omaha and Oakland, Calif., among other cities. In Richmond, Va., riot police fired chemical agents at hundreds of Black Lives Matter protesters who had marched through the city and gathered around the Richmond Police Department. The police said some protesters had …...Read More
