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Lack of study and oversight raises concerns about tear gas

By Andrew Selsky, Associated Press

Witnesses and human rights advocates say peaceful protesters, children and pregnant women have sometimes been hit by excessive amounts of tear gas, with police failing to provide an escape route.

WATCH: House Oversight hearing on challenges of reopening schools amid COVID-19 pandemic

By Associated Press

Is it safe for schools to reopen during the pandemic? The House Oversight Committee is expected to hold a hearing on the challenges and risks of reopening schools amid the global outbreak.

Top court rules Brazil must protect Indigenous peoples in pandemic

By Débora Álvares, Associated Press

The top court's justices voted unanimously that the government must install health checkpoints for isolated Indigenous villages plus draft and implement a plan to remove outsiders now within protected areas illegally.

Cuomo takes over governors group as virus batters states

By Marina Villeneuve, Associated Press

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is poised to lead the group representing the nation's governors, which has played a pivotal role in pushing the Trump administration about state needs during the coronavirus pandemic.

A Brief But Spectacular take on surviving coronavirus at age 102

Throughout the pandemic, Americans in elder care facilities have been at a high risk of contracting COVID-19. But there are also those residents of nursing homes who have survived the disease in spite of their age. Centenarian Grace Weissman-Spiegel-Davis is…

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Virus testing in the U.S. is dropping, even as deaths mount

By Matthew Perrone, Nicky Forster, Associated Press

U.S. testing for COVID-19 is dropping even as infections remain high and the death toll rises by more than 1,000 a day. Officials attribute this trend largely to Americans getting discouraged over having to wait hours to get a test…

Missouri Secretary of State Ashcroft defends comments about schools reopening

By Associated Press

Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft says comments he made that fathers would risk dying to send their children back to school are being misconstrued.

WATCH: Trump threatens executive action if no virus relief deal reached

By Associated Press

Trump said Wednesday he'll probably deliver his Republican convention acceptance speech from the White House now that plans to hold the event in two battleground states have been foiled by coronavirus concerns and restrictions.

Chicago schools to begin fall semester remotely, dropping hybrid plan

By Kathleen Foody, Associated Press

Chicago's mayor has announced that the nation's third-largest school district will not welcome students back to the classroom, after all, and will instead rely only on remote instruction to start the school year.

Mississippi’s only federally recognized Native American tribe bears brunt of state’s outbreak

By Leah Willingham, Associated Press

COVID-19 has ripped through Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indian families. Almost 10% of the tribe’s roughly 11,000 members have tested positive for the virus. More than 75 have died.