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Omar easily defeats challenger in primary

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Big Ten, Pac-12 cancel fall season
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Biden picks Harris as running mate
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Midwest surveys derecho damage
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NCAA fumbles at Supreme Court

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Blowing in the wind

Politics | From the Senate in the 1970s to the presidential campaign trail in 2020, Joe Biden has a long record of going where political pressures push him—and right now they’re pushing him aggressively leftward

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The COVID-19 chasm

Coronavirus | The pandemic divides Americans—even Christians

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The COVID-19 chasm: Viral division

Coronavirus | Some Americans take extra precautions. Some go on with business as usual

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The COVID-19 chasm: The pandemic hits the heartland

Coronavirus | Middle America is seeing spikes in cases and the exhaustion of fending off the virus

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The COVID-19 chasm: Some groups take their work outside

Coronavirus | Schools, churches, and businesses find creative ways to protect against the virus without closing down

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On Washington Wednesday, political analyst Kyle Kondik discusses the delays over Joe Biden’s running mate announcement and what that tells us about what’s going on behind the scenes of his campaign; Nick Eicher and Megan Basham run down international news on World Tour; and Laura Finch reports on urban farmers in Chicago who are trying to provide a measure of security in food self-sufficiency. Plus: commentary from Janie B. Cheaney, finding baby Nemo, and the Wednesday morning news. Support The World and Everything in It today at wng.org/donate. Additional support comes from ConquerSeries.com. Helping more than one million men break free from pornography.

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A conversation with Peter Wehner

This week, hear Warren Smith's 2019 conversation with author and former White House official, Peter Wehner.

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Looters flood downtown Chicago

Mayor Lori Lightfoot said law enforcement will use surveillance videos to hunt down and prosecute those who looted stores in Chicago’s Loop.

Police, protesters continue to clash in Portland

A small group of protesters lit a fire inside the Portland, Ore., police union building on Saturday night, causing police to declare a riot and adv

Court lifts ruling, allows abortion restrictions

Starting on Aug. 28, the state of Arkansas can enforce four laws to protect unborn babies that a federal judge blocked in 2017.

Pro-life bill moves forward in Nebraska

Lawmakers in Nebraska broke a filibuster on Wednesday to move forward a bill protecting babies from dismemberment abortions.

Isaias batters East Coast, leaving six dead

The tropical storm dumped heavy rains and spawned tornadoes, one of which killed two people at a mobile home park in North Carolina on Tuesday.

California fires rage on

Fire officials blame a malfunctioning diesel vehicle for starting a wildfire east of Los Angeles that has consumed more than 42 square miles of bru

GOP candidates sling mud over abortion

Life | Kansas primary battle zeroes in on the pro-life argument over ectopic pregnancies

Mexico’s Roe v. Wade

Abortion | The nation’s Supreme Court slows but does not stop a pro-abortion trend

Three charged in celebrity Twitter hack

Prosecutors say a 17-year-old from Florida posted fake tweets to celebrity accounts on

Primaries grind to a halt in Puerto Rico

Many voting centers lacked ballots when Puerto Ricans went to the polls on Sunday, and only 60 of the island’s 110 precincts were able to return re

Trump orders economic relief

President Donald Trump on Saturday took executive action to extend extra unemployment benefits, defer payroll taxes, pause student loan payments, a

Stimulus bill negotiations collapse

WASHINGTON—The White House and congressional Democrats failed on Friday to reach a deal to send extra benefits to unemployed Americans.

Economic stimulus stalemate

Politics | Republicans and Democrats find little common ground this time around

New York attorney general sues NRA

If New York Attorney General Letitia James gets her way, the National Rifle Association won’t exist anymore.

TikTok standoff

Politics | The Trump administration threatens to ban the popular Chinese app

Newcomer pulls off upset in Missouri primary

A woman who was once homeless and led Black Lives Matter protests in Ferguson, Mo., snagged the Democratic nomination for a U.S.

Trump signs $3 billion conservation law

WASHINGTON—The Great American Outdoors Act easily passed both houses of Congress earlier this summer in a rare act of bipartisanship.

Mask mutiny

First Amendment | COVID-19 rules test the balance of personal liberty and social good

Russia approves rushed vaccine

The Gamaleya Research Institute in Moscow reportedly modified the adenovirus, which causes the common cold, to help the human body recognize and fi

China sanctions U.S. leaders

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International leaders condemn Hong Kong arrests

Police on Monday arrested pro-democracy activist Agnes Chow Ting and media tycoon Jimmy Lai, as well as two of Lai’s sons and executives from Lai’s

Lebanese prime minister resigns

One day after protesters tried to storm Parliament, Prime Minister Hassan Diab said he would take a step back to help “fight the battle for change”

Belarusians dispute election outcome

Opposition protesters crowded the streets in the capital city of Minsk and at least 20 other cities on Sunday evening after an early vote count sug

Lebanese demand change after Beirut explosion

Hundreds of protesters clashed with security forces on Sunday night as they tried to gain access to the heavily fortified Parliament in Beirut.

Monsoon weather hammers India

A plane skidded off a runway upon landing in southern India on Friday and split into two pieces, killing 18 people and injuring 123 others.

Aid trickles in to Lebanon

French President Emmanuel Macron visited Beirut on Thursday and promised aid but no blank checks, saying Tuesday’s explosion needs to be a turning

Myanmar sentences pastor for defying COVID-19 orders

Pastor David Lah, a Canadian citizen born in Myanmar, held a worship service on April 7 in Yangon, the largest city in the Southeast Asian country