Leaders of the District of Columbia have pushed for representation in Congress for years, but Friday was the first time either chamber has approved it. The House vote fell mostly along party lines, with Democrats supporting the bill and Republicans opposing it.

As many as 20 million Americans have contracted the coronavirus, according to U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials on Thursday. Though the official count of confirmed U.S. cases is about 2.4 million, “our best estimate right now is that for every case that was reported, there actually are 10 more infections,” CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield said on a call with reporters.

The communist dictatorship has prepared 12 million leaflets of its own to send into South Korea as relations between the two countries fall apart. The propaganda, a response to leaflets that South Korean civilians sent across the border by balloon earlier this month, blames President Moon Jae-in for the rising tension.

Police officers in Atlanta walked off their shifts and refused to respond to calls because they felt “abandoned, betrayed, used in a political game,” said Vince Champion, southeast regional director for the International Brotherhood of Police Officers. On Wednesday, Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard announced felony murder charges against former Officer Garrett Rolfe in the shooting death of Rayshard Brooks on Friday.

The Indian and Chinese troops who fought over a disputed border high in the Himalayas pounded each other with fists and rocks in sub-zero temperatures. The Indian army on Tuesday raised the death toll from the battle to 20 and said 17 soldiers received critical injuries.

Three employers who fired homosexual or transgender workers unlawfully discriminated against them on the basis of sex, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday. The decision expands the definition of “sex” in Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include sexual orientation and gender identity. One of the employers in the case was a Christian funeral home whose owners said a male employee’s dressing as a woman at work would disturb bereaved families and violate their religious convictions about gender.

When President Donald Trump heard the negative reaction to his planned campaign event in Tulsa, Okla., on Juneteenth, the June 19 celebration of the end of slavery in the United States, he changed it. “Many of my African American friends and supporters have reached out to suggest that we consider changing the date out of respect for this Holiday,” Trump tweeted on Friday. “I have therefore decided to move our rally to Saturday, June 20th.”