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The proposed amendment is expected to be approved Friday, but that's just a first step. It goes then to a policy committee and to the city's Charter Commission for review.

With numbers spiking across southern states, the U.S. set a daily record for new COVID-19 cases Thursday in a return to figures not seen since late April.

LGBTQ Pride is turning 50 this year a little short on its signature fanfare, after the pandemic drove it to the internet and calls for racial equality.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said the Senate faces a choice "to honor George Floyd's life or to do nothing."

Three months after officers busted into Taylor's apartment and shot her to death, only one officer who opened fire has lost his job. No one is facing criminal charges.

As coronavirus clusters have popped up, states are using contact tracing to learn more about how they're contributing to the spread of the virus.

The latest figures coincide with a sudden resurgence of COVID-19 cases in the U.S., especially in the South and West, that’s threatening to derail a nascent economic rebound.

A shift to voting by mail is intended to protect voters from spreading COVID-19. But it’s also making more work for post offices and to delays in determining election winners.

Fireworks are a symbol of celebration, but they're not being saved for Fourth of July festivities in the U.S.

The dismissal was ordered even though Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to prosecutors in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.

His announcement comes after he decried an attempt by demonstrators to remove a statue of Andrew Jackson that sits across from the White House.

New cases in the U.S. have been surging for more than a week after trending down for more than six weeks.

About 2.3 million Americans have been infected and some 120,000 have died, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

A team is scheduled to make only one trip to each city it visits in MLB's shortest season since 1878.

A new paper finds that many of the people studied developed signs of minor lung inflammation while exhibiting no other symptoms of coronavirus.