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China’s Wolf Warrior policy

Asia | China is getting aggressive toward adversaries in the face of coronavirus criticism

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Zooming to the White House?

Elections | As COVID-19 upends the traditional campaign season, candidates go off the trail in a reality-show era fit for a pandemic

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Reshaping the courts

Judiciary | Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell have made court appointments a high priority, and their work is showing results

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California grasps for coronavirus prevention among the homeless

Homelessness | Advocates fear crowded shelters turning into outbreak hot spots

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Could vitamin D reduce severe COVID-19?

Health | New research suggests patients with vitamin D deficiency fare worse

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Independent autopsy says Floyd asphyxiated

Attorney Ben Crump, who represents the family of George Floyd, is pushing to upgrade the charge against former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Cha

Louisville suspends no-knock warrants

Police in Louisville, Ky., will stop entering homes to search them without first notifying the residents, at least for now.

Protests continue across the U.S.

Despite curfews and mass security deployments, demonstrators in several cities across the country continued to set fires, throw rocks, and break in

Rage engulfs U.S. cities

Mayors and governors across the United States declared states of emergency, deployed National Guard troops, and set curfews Saturday, but people st

Protecting innocence

Family | Families push back against so-called “comprehensive” sex-ed in schools

Authorities arrest officer in Floyd death

The Minneapolis police officer who knelt on George Floyd’s neck during an arrest on Monday is in custody and charged with third-degree murder and m

Police across America condemn Minneapolis officer

Police chiefs throughout the United States have not held back in describing the death of George Floyd as “brutality” and “deeply disturbing.” Floyd

Minneapolis man’s death sparks violent protests

Protesters set fires and looted stores in Minneapolis late Wednesday and into Thursday morning.

Four Minneapolis police officers fired after man’s death

A video taken by a bystander showed a white Minneapolis police officer pressing his knee on an African American man’s neck for several minutes duri

Trump orders states to send in troops

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump said on Monday that if governors refuse to deploy National Guard troops, he would then send in U.S.

Justices make persecution exception to deportation rule

WASHINGTON—A federal appeals court can review the deportation case against a man who fled to the United States from Lebanon, the U.S.

Trump targets social media protections

President Donald Trump has acted on concerns that social media platforms discriminate against certain political views.

Biden’s blunder and Trump vs. Twitter

Politics | A grab-bag of politics, religion, and other news ahead of the 2020 election

Mail-in voting war escalates

Politics | The pandemic sparks a debate over the pros and cons of different polling methods

U.S. cuts Iran sanction reliefs

The Trump administration will rescind all but one of the remaining waivers that allow some companies in Europe, Russia, and China to work at Irania

House Republicans ask courts to block proxy voting

WASHINGTON—House Republicans sued Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and other top congressional officials on Tuesday for violating the c

Trump and Twitter feud over fact-checking

WASHINGTON—Twitter on Tuesday placed warnings under two

Shuttered churches to reopen

Religious Liberty | California, Minnesota resume worship after church bans challenged

Getting back to school

Education | Large facilities will require significant changes, but it will be business as usual for most small schools

Parents to plead guilty in college scam

Full House actress Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband Mossimo Giannulli will serve prison time as part of a plea deal in their

Pushing for due process on campus

Education | Updated rules about sexual assault in schools receive a mixed response

Seniors mark socially distanced graduations

The coronavirus has canceled traditional graduation ceremonies for high school and college seniors across the country, but that hasn’t stopped stud

Cal State campuses to stay closed in the fall

The largest four-year public university system in the United States will not allow students back on campus after the summer break.

Lawsuits threaten post-pandemic longevity of colleges

Education | Students demand refunds for lost in-person instruction

Education in a quarantine is full of sharp learning curves

Education | Parents, students, and teachers are helping each other grapple with coronavirus classrooms. But it’s more challenging for some than others

What does Harvard know about homeschooling?

Education | The Ivy League school draws fire from alumni for an article that calls for a home education ban

Public school exit strategies

Education | The coronavirus complicates the switch to homeschooling for some