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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is considering tapping social media platform TikTok to encourage more young Americans to practice public health precautions as coronavirus cases surge among younger people, officials said Thursday.Data indicates that the new infections seen across the country "are targeting younger individuals," CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield said on a conference…

Nearly 300 Portland, Oregon city employees have taken bereavement leave over the past two weeks to mourn the deaths of unarmed black people killed by police officers across the country.Democratic Mayor Ted Wheeler announced earlier this month that he would instruct managers to approve a week of leave without question and encouraged private employers to…

Sorry folks, the Justice Department is not in the business of issuing coronavirus mask exemption cards. A U.S. attorney in North Carolina issued an alert this week saying that the cards that have been popping up are bogus, and despite the wording on the card they are not official Justice Department documents. The cards purport…

Presumed Democratic presidential nominee Joseph R. Biden is eating into President Trump’s cash advantage in the 2020 race for The White House. Mr. Biden struggled to raise money in the Democratic presidential primary, but things have brightened for him on that front since it became clear that he would lead the party into the November…

The number of confirmed new coronavirus cases per day in the US hit an all-time high of 40,000 according to figures released on Friday, eclipsing the mark set during one of the deadliest stretches in late April – in a resurgence that has led some governors to backtrack or at least pause the reopening of…