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PHOENIX — As infections surged through Arizona’s desert landscape this week, word spread that the Round Valley Rodeo, a century-old tradition luring calf ropers, youth riders and big crowds to the mountain town of Springerville, might be called off. The fate of the Fourth of July parade in the nearby hamlet of Eagar seemed in…

Governors were closing bars — again — in some states as coronavirus clusters emerged. Even federal health officials have pointed to bars as a problem.People enjoyed a night out in St. Petersburg, Fla., on Saturday after new guidance was issued. The whipsawing rules nationwide have led to a backlash from bar owners who say their…

After @CarpeDonktum vanished from Twitter without explanation, the meme-maker resurfaced on Parler, a new social media platform that has become a refuge for free speech absolutists who abhor Big Tech censorship. The aggressive crackdown on content by social media giants Twitter and Facebook have pushed droves of President Trump’s supporters to search for an alternative.…

CLOSEThe past month of America’s coronavirus crisis has looked different.Stores, restaurants and workplaces reopened. People became more comfortable leaving their homes. Mass protests over the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police dominated television and social media just as fewer people talked about wearing masks and social distancing.All the while, the virus…

On a June 10 call, Oklahoma health officials told the state's nursing homes that they would take a slow, measured approach toward allowing visitors to return to the facilities whose elderly, vulnerable residents account for more than half of Oklahoma's coronavirus deaths.Two days later, some leaders of long-term care facilities say they were startled to…