Virus Surge Brings Calls for Trump to Invoke Defense Production Act

“In all indications, the capacity of P.P.E. is lower than the demand,” said Prakash Mirchandani, the director of the Center for Supply Chain Management at the University of Pittsburgh, referring to personal protective equipment. “The total requirement of N95 masks, just for physicians and nurses, is about four to five …...Read More

Before the A.D.A., There Was Section 504

When the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 was passed to prohibit employment discrimination based on disability, it was supposed to protect disabled people and ensure their rights in the United States. “No otherwise qualified individual with a disability in the United States,” Section 504 of that law reads, “shall, solely by …...Read More

Congress Sends Landmark Conservation Bill to Trump

WASHINGTON — The nation’s conservation community achieved a longstanding goal Wednesday when the House passed and sent to President Trump a measure that for the first time guarantees maximum annual funding for the premiere federal program to acquire and preserve land for public use. Fueled by election-year politics, the legislation …...Read More

Kardashians UNFOLLOW Larsa Pippen, who unfollows Kim

Kourtney and Khloe Kardashian have unfollowed Larsa Pippen on Instagram amid the ongoing fallout from Kanye West's Tuesday night Twitter meltdown. The dramatic unfollowing was seemingly prompted after the rapper, 43, cryptically Tweeted: 'Larsa' along with a thinking face emoji, followed by the question: 'Should I name more?'. A search …...Read More

Trump says he's sending hundreds of federal agents to Chicago

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday he was sending 'hundreds' of federal agents into Chicago and other cities to combat street violence – including an influx of a controversial Homeland Security unit that has been deployed in Portland. The president also said he was holding back on dispatching what he termed …...Read More

Charles Evers, Businessman and Civil Rights Leader, Dies at 97

Charles Evers, who gave up life as a petty racketeer to succeed his assassinated brother Medgar Evers as a Mississippi civil rights leader in 1963, becoming the state’s first Black mayor since Reconstruction and a candidate for governor and United States senator, died on Wednesday at his daughter’s home in …...Read More

U.S. Deports Terrorism Convict It Had Sought to Hold Indefinitely

This article was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. The Trump administration said on Wednesday that it had deported a stateless Palestinian man who had completed a terrorism-related prison sentence, averting a legal showdown over whether the federal government has the authority in some cases to …...Read More

Constance Curry, 86, Ally in Civil Rights Fight and Author, Dies

Some of Ms. Curry’s contributions were small but crucial to the movement. Julian Bond, a co-founder of S.N.C.C., once recalled how Ms. Curry had given him a key to her office to use a mimeograph machine. The fund-raising letters he printed, along with the student association network generally, “was an …...Read More

Can You Get Covid-19 Again? It’s Very Unlikely, Experts Say

Megan Kent, 37, a medical speech pathologist who lives just outside Boston, first tested positive for the virus on March 30, after her boyfriend became ill. She couldn’t smell or taste anything, she recalled, but otherwise felt fine. After a 14-day quarantine, she went back to work at Melrose Wakefield …...Read More

Black bear seen sniffing hikers in Mexico seen playing AGAIN

A black bear that made international headlines after it was filmed pawing around with a group of Mexican hikers has been spotted again - this time sniffing a woman in a nearby street. New video posted to the internet on Tuesday shows the curious creature approaching the pedestrian not far …...Read More