Monday's Headlines: America’s global standing is at a low point. The pandemic made it worse.
White House urges Congress to act on a slimmed-down stimulus bill to keep unemployment benefits flowing; As public schools go all virtual, parents eye private schools that say they will open their campuses; Protests turn violent as weeks of civil unrest, clashes with police boil over; The echoes of Hong Kong in the Portland protests; John Lewis makes final crossing over Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma; Schools are moving toward closing for the fall. That is not their fault.; Republicans' pandemic blunders keep piling higher; 'We have given up on defeating the pandemic:' Readers grapple with reopening ; Why progressives should welcome anti-Trump Republicans; In just one month, Trump commits a new set of potentially impeachable offenses; Is Europe finally coming together?; Trump touts N.J. fraud case to attack mail voting. Local leaders say he's not telling the whole story.; A trial for vaccine researchers: Making sure black and Hispanic communities are included in studies; Last surviving star of 'Gone With the Wind' dies at 104
At home, President Trump's handling of the pandemic has created division and confusion rather than a national strategy. The global community, meanwhile, is questioning the United States' capacity for a leadership role at a time when the myriad crises call out for cooperation.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has rejected the piecemeal approach, but time is running short because the temporary unemployment benefits are set to expire at the end of this week.
It's a situation that could exacerbate existing inequalities, with wealthier students attending classes in person at private schools, and everyone else using public schools' distance learning.
Thousands took to the streets this weekend from Los Angeles to Richmond to Omaha. In Portland, authorities declared a riot after protesters breached a fence surrounding the city's federal courthouse building.
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Fifty-five years ago, Alabama state troopers beat Lewis and hundreds of protesters as they crossed the bridge. On Sunday, law enforcement paid tribute to the late civil rights leader.
Paterson's city council race this spring has been roiled by claims that ballots were stolen from apartment mail rooms. Officials say the alleged scheme was a complicated one made possible by a series of unique circumstances that would be difficult to reproduce in other cities, much less on a national scale.
Younger people of color die of the coronavirus at twice the rate of white people, and black, Hispanic and Native Americans are hospitalized at four to five times the rate of white people in the same age groups.
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