A PANDEMIC HAS THROWN the U.S. economy into a tailspin. So far, however, the coronavirus hasn’t stopped Mathew Tubbs. The truck driver from Watertown, Wis., drives 400 miles a day, from a distribution center in Oconomowoc to Target outlets throughout the region, pulling a trailer filled with goods that might include paper products, clothing, or canned goods.

For Jennifer Constant, a small favor for her family grew into a big blessing for her church amid a pandemic.

Constant, a 44-year-old mother of three and a member of Lake Hills Baptist Church in Schererville, Ind., said her church’s livestreaming ministry began by accident: She started streaming Sunday morning services a few years ago so her parents, who live in Tennessee, could see their grandchildren singing and playing instruments on the church worship team. “They liked it because they felt like they were worshipping with us,” Constant said. 

Five former Ohio State University wrestlers this week accused U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, of failing as a coach to respond to accusations of sexual abuse against a former team doctor. Multiple male athletes say that Richard Strauss groped them, watched them take locker room showers, or otherwise behaved inappropriately during medical exams in the 1970s, ’80s, and ’90s.

Police charged a woman with federal trespassing, disorderly conduct, and other offenses after she climbed up the base of the Statue of Liberty in New York on Wednesday, prompting authorities to shut down the monument. The woman, identified in reports as Therese Okoumou, had climbed from the monument’s pedestal to the feet of Lady Liberty, saying she was protesting the separation of immigrant children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border. Police coaxed her down after a standoff lasting about four hours.

Under pressure from political allies, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has agreed to a plan that would tighten immigration policy at the country’s borders. The Monday night compromise, a reversal from Merkel’s longtime open-border policy for refugees, reflects her efforts to hold together her coalition government in the face of growing anti-immigrant sentiment.

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Monday ordered the Trump administration to end the systematic detention of asylum seekers and instead weigh on a case-by-case basis whether such immigrants pose a danger or flight risk. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ruled that administration officials were not abiding by a 2009 Immigration and Customs Enforcement directive that requires them to release, pending a judicial hearing, illegal immigrants who posed no risk and claimed a “credible fear” of persecution in their home countries.

UPDATE: Authorities charged suspected shooter Jarrod W. Ramos with five counts of first-degree murder in Thursday’s gun rampage at a Maryland newspaper office. Prosecutor Wes Adams said the attacker barricaded an exit in the newspaper office so victims couldn’t escape. Ramos allegedly used a pump-action shotgun that was purchased legally about a year ago. Police said Ramos, who appeared in court Friday via video and was denied bail, was “uncooperative” with interrogators, and court papers filed by authorities described him as “recalcitrant.”