A surge in coronavirus cases in and around Tulsa, Okla., is probably connected to the campaign rally President Trump held there last month, the city’s top health official said on Wednesday. Tulsa County reported 206 new confirmed cases on Tuesday and 261 — a record high — on Monday, and …...Read More

Glen Bolger, a longtime Republican pollster, said that he saw some Republicans’ heightened aversion as the natural result of what they are seeing in the news. “It’s becoming a partisan issue, and that’s clearly a shame, but there’s not a lot of sympathy for the people who are blowing things …...Read More

A Seattle man who the authorities said drove into a protest on a closed section of Interstate 5 over the weekend, killing one demonstrator, was charged on Wednesday with vehicular homicide, vehicular assault and reckless driving. The man, Dawit Kelete, 27, is being held with bail set at $1.2 million …...Read More

How can schools reopen safely? In an ideal world, schools would reopen in the fall. There’s near universal support for the idea, from the American Academy of Pediatrics, parents, educators and politicians. But that support comes with an important condition: It must be done safely. The Centers for Disease Control …...Read More

“A lot of previous work has focused on patients that present at hospital,” said Dr. Ben Goldacre of the University of Oxford, one of the authors on the study. “That’s useful and important, but we wanted to get a clear sense of the risks as an everyday person. Our starting …...Read More

Also on Wednesday, Max Miller, the head of the advance team at the White House, was announced as the deputy campaign manager for presidential operations. Mr. Trump asked Mr. Miller to assume the role after Brad Parscale, the campaign manager, suggested that Mr. Trump choose a person with whom he …...Read More

Mr. Turner said he made the decision to cancel the event after hoping and expecting that Republican officials would do so voluntarily. He said he feared for the safety not only of the conventiongoers from all over the state but of those who would be working around them — speaking …...Read More

That year — inexplicably, it seemed — Lomax began falling as he walked. Then he learned that he had multiple sclerosis. As the disease progressed, he began using a wheelchair — and it opened his eyes to another form of discrimination. Wheelchairs that were supposed to provide independence, he found, …...Read More

Mr. James’s response is simply that he is an American. But other answers haven’t come so easily. He said his impulse after seeing the Floyd tape was to call his father and head to a Black Lives Matter protest. But then he decided against protesting, reasoning he could do more …...Read More

The policy recommendations will also most likely frustrate some in the Democratic Party’s activist wing who believe they do not go far enough. The task forces did not recommend plans that Mr. Sanders promoted like “Medicare for all,” tuition-free public college for everyone or canceling all student debt. As the …...Read More