The United States reported more new cases of the coronavirus on July 16 than on any other day of the last seven months. The country is now nearing that record.
The opioid crisis had already turned Rhea Kelsall’s life upside down. Now, amid the pandemic, she worries about her own survival.
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Campbell RobertsonI’ve been talking with Rhea Kelsall for months about what it’s like to be a grandparent raising grandchildren in the middle of a pandemic.
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The race for mayor in Montevallo used to be low-key and nonpartisan. In the Trump era, one candidate learned the hard way that’s no longer the case.
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Campbell Robertsontfw a mayor’s race in your tiny hometown, in which an old classmate was running and which burned up Facebook all summer, is suddenly there on the front page of the NYT
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“The continued provision of natural gas utility service to field tap customers … is at a critical point."
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Campbell RobertsonMan spent fifty years working in the gas fields, leaving him with a serious back injury. Now the gas company is shutting off service to his and dozens of other rural households because the pipes -- which he himself helped lay -- are decaying.
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For both Democrats and Republicans, there is a sense of foreboding about what the next few months could bring a country already battered by a virus and economic devastation.
Daniel Cameron, a rising G.O.P. star in Kentucky, is seen as a possible successor to Senator Mitch McConnell. But first, he has to navigate a case roiling the nation.
Teachers say crucial questions about how schools will stay clean, keep students physically distanced and prevent further spread of the virus have not been answered.
The Equal Justice Initiative has documented a rate of killing in the period following the Civil War that was far higher than the decades that followed.
The tumult and passion of the past weeks have left the surviving veterans of the civil rights era with trepidation and hope.
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Campbell Robertson“It’s been sparked by this one event, but the event really has opened up a crevasse, so to speak, through which all this history is pouring through, like the Mississippi River onto the Delta.” — Bob Moses on now.
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The Equal Justice Initiative has documented a rate of killing in the period following the Civil War that was far higher than the decades that followed.
Even small differences in timing would have prevented the worst exponential growth, which by April had subsumed New York City, New Orleans and other major cities, researchers found.