The Miami Marlins are stranded in Philadelphia after 14 players and staff members tested positive for the coronavirus. Major League Baseball postponed the Marlins’ games on Monday and Tuesday against the Baltimore Orioles in Miami and the New York Yankees’ game in Philadelphia. The Yankees would have used the same clubhouse as the Marlins. MLB said the Marlins will remain self-quarantined while it conducts more testing.

Kim Jong Un locked down the city of Kaesong, North Korea, on Friday. If a suspected case of COVID-19 is confirmed, it would be the country’s first official recorded infection. The patient fled to South Korea and then crossed back into the North, according to state media. Kim and members of his government discussed punishment for the guards who let the individual into the country despite closed borders.

Protesters gathered near Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s house on Thursday night and cheered at the news that she was having two statues taken down. Early on Friday morning, crews dismantled monuments to Christopher Columbus in the city’s Grant and Arrigo parks. Police last week clashed with demonstrators who wanted to tear down the Grant Park memorial because of Columbus’ alleged harmful actions toward Native Americans. Lightfoot said the statues were “temporarily removed … until further notice.”

COVID-19 expert Dr. Anthony Fauci tossed out the opening pitch when the defending World Series champion Washington Nationals played the star-powered New York Yankees on Thursday night. The Yankees beat the Nationals 4-1. Superstar outfielder Mookie Betts, in his Los Angeles debut, joined the Dodgers on opening day to clobber the San Francisco Giants 8-1. The new 60-game season starts after months of wrangling between players and owners to agree on terms for the 2020 Major League Baseball season.

Michael Cohen sued federal correctional officials and Attorney General William Barr on Monday for sending him back to prison. President Donald Trump’s former lawyer was serving the first year of a three-year sentence for violating campaign finance rules. He and other inmates received furloughs in May to avoid spreading the coronavirus. U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein ruled Thursday that Cohen could return to home confinement.

The federal government will contract with the drug company Pfizer to deliver 100 million vaccines to Americans as soon as they are developed, President Donald Trump revealed in a Wednesday news conference. An additional 500 million vaccines would arrive in a later wave as part of “Operation Warp Speed.” The president also announced a $5 billion grant to nursing homes to battle the coronavirus outbreak among the nation’s elderly.

American Indians and African Americans suffered hospitalizations as a result of COVID-19 at a rate between four and five times higher than that of whites, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said last month. In response to this disparity, the U.S.