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Bacon: Big Ten football's return raises questions about player safety, equity among students

The Big Ten Conference will play football this fall. After postponing the season – and a lot of behind-the-scenes back and forth since then – the leaders…

Photographer Catherine Opie made this mask for Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. "I wanted to make something with a bit of humor ... humor is needed in this moment," Opie says.

If You Have To Wear A Mask, It Might As Well Be A Masterpiece

Many museums are still closed, but their gift shops are doing lively face mask business. You can mask up with a Monet, a van Gogh or, perhaps best suited to These Times: Edvard Munch's The Scream.

Police stand behind their shields outside the Capitol after a day of rioting on Wednesday.

PHOTOS: Mayhem Erupts In D.C. As Pro-Trump Extremists Storm U.S. Capitol

Pro-Trump extremists halted lawmakers as they counted the Electoral College ballots for President-elect Joe Biden.

Tents line a gravel sidewalk off Fulton Street near City Hall in San Francisco on May 5. Last week, city staffers started using chalk to draw socially distant spaces along the street for the tents to stay in.

San Francisco Shifts From Trashing Homeless Camps To Sanctioning Them Amid COVID-19

San Francisco's homelessness solution is one that was once thought unthinkable: city-sanctioned open-air encampments. The advent of COVID-19 forced city leaders to make the difficult decision.

Ann Arbor housing officials already planning how to use funds raised by new millage

Ten city-owned properties in Ann Arbor could become affordable housing sites over the next 10 years, which would put a sizable dent in the city’s goal of…

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden speaks about coronavirus vaccines after a briefing with public health experts in Wilmington, Del., on Wednesday.

'I Trust Vaccines. I Trust Scientists. But I Don't Trust Donald Trump,' Biden Says

In remarks, Joe Biden details his plan to distribute a vaccine for the coronavirus, which he said must be based solely on science.

Police stand guard at an apartment building that's considered a coronavirus hot spot. Other state efforts involve using GPS data to keep track of people who've been ordered into home quarantine.

An Indian State Tells Quarantined Folks: 'A Selfie An Hour Will Keep The Police Away'

In Karnataka, people under quarantine must take hourly selfies as proof of staying home. The government is also publishing addresses of the quarantined. Legal activists are raising privacy concerns.

With corruption charges against ex-president, UAW at a crossroads

Something happened this week that we’ve known was coming for awhile.Former United Auto Workers President Gary Jones was charged with several federal…

The Los Angeles Lakers and a handful of businesses are returning money they received from a federal program that was intended to help small companies hurt by the coronavirus pandemic.

Even The Los Angeles Lakers Got A PPP Small Business Loan

The $3.7 billion NBA franchise and a handful of businesses are returning money they received from a federal program that was intended to help small companies hurt by the coronavirus pandemic.

Christian Drosten, director of the Institute of Virology at Berlin's Charité hospital, is pictured after a news conference in Berlin on March 26, to comment on the spread of the novel coronavirus in Germany.

'Das Coronavirus' Podcast Captivates Germany With Scientific Info On The Pandemic

Produced by the public broadcaster NDR, the program features scientist Christian Drosten giving clear information about COVID-19, but so far it's in German only.

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