Tens of thousands of people have been displaced by wildfires in Oregon, California and Washington state. Many more are living with air contamination levels at historic highs. The region’s death toll has topped 30 and could increase sharply. https://t.co/27Gi6G2MQ1
Thousands of firefighters from across the U.S. have converged on the West as the wildfire season enters its peak. It’s an inherently dangerous job that now carries the additional risk of COVID-19 transmission https://t.co/aQobeW5xoz
About a third of Americans surveyed by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have used some kind of risky cleaning practice to stop the spread of Covid-19, the CDC says https://t.co/xjcn6IONsU
Judges in Harris County, Texas, were far more likely to appoint lawyers who had donated to their campaigns to represent poor criminal defendants, a new study found https://t.co/DFvVUV4QpQ
A 19-year-old man was killed after shots were fired into a crowd of protesters in Detroit from an unknown suspect in a vehicle, police say https://t.co/epNtOVo7SL
The Senate may move as soon as this week to advance a bill to sanction Chinese government officials responsible for forced labor camps in Xinjiang, where up to two million ethnic Muslims have been forcibly detained https://t.co/Wf7g9j2bkT
Dr. Lorna M. Breen, a top emergency room doctor at a Manhattan hospital that treated coronavirus patients, died by suicide on Sunday, according to her father, Dr. Philip C. Breen. “She tried to do her job," he said, "and it killed her." https://t.co/9eOiEMdkrV
Despite it appearing on the president's official schedule, the White House has now cancelled Monday's coronavirus task force briefing after President Trump faced backlash for his disinfectant comments. https://t.co/MlFKR1Yp7s
'At one point I was so exhausted … I was saying, if I had no children or partner then it would be easier just to be left in peace,' COVID-patient Andre Bergmann on his fight to beat the virus without a ventilator https://t.co/FkasVoq2zn 1/8
An Ohio man, who initially criticized shutdown orders and claimed the pandemic was overblown, died from COVID-19. Now, his family is grieving.
"Many, like John, made statements early on, not fully aware of the severity of COVID-19," his wife said. https://t.co/vnOiNFusH8
Healthcare workers confronted people protesting stay-at-home orders in Denver and blocked their cars on Sunday, according to photojournalist Alyson McClaran.
"People were putting their cars right up against them," she said.
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