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Transcripts of police body cams show Floyd pleaded 20 times that he couldn’t breathe
The transcripts from cameras worn by ex-officers Thomas Lane and J. Alexander Kueng were filed in Minnesota state court as part of a motion to dismiss charges against Lane.
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Health official: Trump rally ‘likely’ source of virus surge
Although masks were provided to rally goers, there was no requirement that participants wear them, and most didn't.
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‘A hot mess’: Americans face testing delays as coronavirus surges
Some Americans are left to wonder why the U.S. can't seem to get its act together, especially after it was given fair warning as the virus spread in China and elsewhere.
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3 million cases: Coronavirus continues to surge across U.S.
One million of those cases have been confirmed over the past month — part of a wave of infection that began after many states started to reopen their economies in May.
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Trump threatens to cut federal aid if schools don’t reopen
Trump made the comments a day after launching an all-out effort pressing state and local officials to reopen the nation’s schools and colleges this fall.
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Biden wants US to produce more of its own pandemic supplies
It marked the Biden campaign's most comprehensive statements yet on how it would better equip the nation to fight the coronavirus and future pandemics and other threats.
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Protective gear for medical workers begins to run low again
“We’re five months into this and there are still shortages of gowns, hair covers, shoe covers, masks, N95 masks,” said Deborah Burger, president of National Nurses United.
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Aerosols, droplets, fomites: What we know about transmission of COVID-19
Here's what we know about the novel coronavirus' different modes of transmission.
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Trump donors among early recipients of coronavirus loans
The Trump-connected companies obtained the aid through the Paycheck Protection Program, which extends a lifeline to small businesses struggling to navigate the pandemic.
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New rules: Foreign pupils must leave US if classes go online
New federal guidelines say international students will be forced to leave the U.S. or transfer to another college if their schools offer classes entirely online this fall.
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White woman charged after racist Central Park confrontation
In May, Amy Cooper drew widespread condemnation for calling 911 to report she was being threatened by “an African-American man."
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Pooling coronavirus tests can spare scarce supplies, but there’s a catch
Instead of running a COVID test on every specimen, a lab can combine multiple samples. If the batch is negative, everyone is in the clear. A positive leads to more testing.
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Supreme Court rules states can require presidential electors to back popular vote winner
So-called faithless electors have not been critical to the outcome of a presidential election, but that could change in a race decided by just a few electoral votes.
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Trump-connected lobbyists reap windfall in COVID-19 boom
The findings were detailed in a report released Monday by the watchdog group Public Citizen. Trump campaigned on a pledge to “drain the swamp.”
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U.S. COVID-19 deaths near 130,000; Florida and Texas report record case numbers
Florida and Texas reported their biggest daily rise in new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the past few days as deaths in the U.S. continue to rise.
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