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How laid-off Americans may ‘fall through the cracks’ of the health care system during COVID-19

By Courtney Vinopal

Some newly uninsured Americans say they’re living without a health care safety net in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Police in riot gear clear New York City’s ‘Occupy City Hall’ camp

By Karen Matthews, Jennifer Peltz, Associated Press

Police in riot gear moved in early Wednesday to clear a month-long encampment of protesters and homeless people from a park near New York’s City Hall.

WATCH: House Democrats discuss legislation to remove Confederate statues from U.S. Capitol

By Jessica Gresko, Matthew Daly, Associated Press

The House is to vote soon on removing from the U.S. Capitol statues of Confederate heroes, including Robert E. Lee, and a bust of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, the author of the 1857 Dred Scott decision.

WATCH: Trump announces $5 billion more for nursing homes

By Associated Press

Nursing homes have borne a disproportionate share of the death toll in the coronavirus pandemic.

Incarcerated people look to U.S. Senate to cap prison phone rates

By Associated Press

The coronavirus outbreak has cast a harsh spotlight on America's prisons and jails, which house more than 2.2 million people, who are disproportionately people of color.

Judge hears Oregon request to restrain federal agents

By Gillian Flaccus, Associated Press

The lawsuit, filed by Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum, alleges that federal agents sent by President Donald Trump have arrested people with no probable cause, whisked protesters away in unmarked cars and used excessive force to quell the unrest.

WATCH: Trump deploys federal officers to Chicago, Albuquerque

By Colleen Long, Jill Colvin, Associated Press

With less than four months until Election Day, Trump has been serving up dire warnings that the violence would worsen if his Democratic rival Joe Biden is elected in November.

U.S. signs contract with Pfizer for COVID-19 vaccine doses

By Associated Press

he Trump administration will pay Pfizer nearly $2 billion for a December delivery of 100 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine the pharmaceutical company is developing, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar announced Wednesday.

Trump will face court challenge to order excluding unauthorized immigrants from U.S. Census

By Mike Schneider, Associated Press

Civil rights groups on Wednesday gave notice in court of their intent to squelch an effort by President Donald Trump to bar people in the U.S. illegally from being included in the head count as congressional districts are redrawn.

AP exclusive: Trump administration holds migrant children in U.S. hotels, then expels them

By Associated Press

The Trump administration is detaining immigrant children as young as 1 in hotels, sometimes for weeks, before deporting them to their home countries under policies that have effectively shut down the nation’s asylum system.