Aug 17 Virus clusters erupt at U.S. universities as semester begins By Susan Montoya Bryan, Associated Press From the dorms at North Carolina to the halls of Notre Dame, officials at universities around the U.S. scrambled on Monday to deal with new COVID-19 clusters at the start of the fall semester. Continue reading
Aug 17 Hundreds help clean up site of fatal Baltimore explosion By Associated Press News outlets report that more than 400 people showed up to a northwest Baltimore neighborhood on Sunday to help clear away debris from the scene where three row homes were leveled. Continue reading
Aug 17 Frontline nurses fear coronavirus may follow them home By Stefanie Dazio, Associated Press For four nurses in a Southern California hospital, the scariest place isn't the ward where they care for coronavirus patients. It’s home, where they feel helpless to keep their families safe. Continue reading
Aug 17 Politics slows flow of U.S. virus funds to local public health By Michelle R. Smith, Associated Press, Lauren Weber, Hannah Recht, Laura Ungar, KHN Since the pandemic began, Congress has set aside trillions of dollars to ease the crisis. A joint Kaiser Health News and Associated Press investigation finds that many communities with big outbreaks have spent little of that federal money on local… Continue reading
Aug 15 Watch 4:15 What does the federal methane regulation rollback mean? By PBS NewsHour The Trump administration announced this week that it had finalized a rollback of an Obama-era climate rule on methane emissions — a move that was condemned by environmental groups. Tim Puko, who reports on energy policy for the Wall Street… Continue watching
Aug 14 Watch 9:57 NBA commissioner Adam Silver on playing in a pandemic Nearly 10 months after the NBA season began, the professional basketball league will hold its first playoff games. Teams and their staff are playing in a so-called bubble in Orlando, Florida, where they are required to stay. Meanwhile, the league… Continue watching
Aug 14 Watch 5:29 The pandemic has created unexpected summer jobs for these young people By John Yang, Gretchen Frazee The summer job is a rite of passage for many teens and younger adults. Because of the pandemic, however, traditional roles such as camp counselor, lifeguard and waiter, are scarce. But as John Yang reports, some local governments are providing… Continue watching
Aug 14 Watch 3:23 Remembering 5 lives lost to the coronavirus As we do at the close of every week during this pandemic, we want to take a moment to honor a group of individuals who lost their lives to the coronavirus. Judy Woodruff shares their stories, from a 21-year-old baseball… Continue watching
Aug 14 Texas doctors warn police not to use 'less lethal' munitions which can severely hurt people By Acacia Coronado, Associated Press/Report for America In a letter published Friday in the New England Journal of Medicine, 12 doctors from the Dell Seton Medical Center at The University of Texas say Austin police who fired beanbag rounds caused injuries including bleeding on the brain and… Continue reading
Aug 14 Trump's younger brother, Robert, is hospitalized in New York By Aamer Madhani, Jill Colvin, Associated Press White House spokesperson Judd Deere says the president is expected to visit his 72-year-old brother at a hospital in Manhattan on Friday. Trump says his brother is having "a hard time."… Continue reading