Neighborhood threat.
The US is now approaching three million COVID-19 cases, and hospitals in many states are reporting unprecedented levels of hospitalizations.
1/25 | US News & World Report
After weeks of controlling coronavirus outbreaks, California is becoming a new hot spot, with cases up 90% over the past two weeks.
2/25 | Vox
An honest attempt to answer Cornyn's (likely) bad-faith question about anomalous death and case counts in Dallas and Houston.
3/25 | The Washington Post
ICE says international students at universities that move entirely to online coursework will be required to leave the US.
4/25 | CNN
How the production of American diet staples—in this case, a July 4th meal—can expose thousands of US workers to the coronavirus. (See more stories like this in our Editors' Longreads Picks.)
5/25 | BuzzFeed News, The Morning News
Blacks and Latinos in the US have been three times as likely as whites to get infected with COVID-19—and twice as likely to die.
6/25 | The New York Times
See also: "If you just set up the testing sites in wealthy communities, you cannot rein this in."
7/25 | Associated Press
New flood-risk maps could hurt minority neighborhoods by reducing property values as well as access to recovery funds.
8/25 | Quartz
Breonna Taylor's lawyers say the raid that led to her murder was part of a police operation to empty a block for gentrification.
9/25 | The Louisville Courier Journal
Up to 26 million people participated in recent Black Lives Matter demonstrations—making it the largest movement in US history.
10/25 | The New York Times
"It's just so random." Historians react to Trump's choices for statues at his planned National Garden of American Heroes.
11/25 | The Washington Post
See also: How to topple a statue using science.
12/25 | Popular Mechanics
Three years after it became operational, the Dakota Access Pipeline has been shut down by a federal judge's ruling that the Trump Administration broke the law by not performing a full environmental study.
13/25 | BuzzFeed News
Over the holiday weekend, multiple US cities experienced a rash of gun homicides, including shooting deaths of children.
14/25 | The Washington Post
The Supreme Court has ruled unanimously against "faithless electors," deciding the 538 people who cast Electoral College votes must act as their states require.
15/25 | NBC News
In a new report, the UN predicts an increase in diseases passing from animals to people due to human encroachment on wildlife habitats.
16/25 | NPR
Why we shouldn't shame beachgoers: It's a low-risk pandemic activity, and keeps people happy and occupied when they need it most.
17/25 | The Atlantic
"I must admit, it's an epic shot." Travels to the most Instagrammed outdoor locations.
18/25 | Outside
Scientists find evidence of the oldest ochre mine in the Americas, used 12,000 years ago in the Yucatan, and now deep underwater.
19/25 | USA Today
"If we want to experience concerts again, we need to support the artists we love until the pandemic passes."
20/25 | The New York Times
An excellent list of must-hear soundtracks by legendary composer Ennio Morricone, who has died at 91.
21/25 | Metafilter, Pitchfork
Aerial footage of neighborhood fireworks in Los Angeles on July 4th resembles the opening scene in Blade Runner.
22/25 | The Morning News
"The best records for self-dramatizing anything well beyond anything approaching reasonable." A collection of personal soundtracks.
23/25 | OZY
Students have built Agosto Ramelli's 16th-century design for a bookwheel, which enables its user to read multiple books at once.
24/25 | Atlas Obscura
Watch: New in Kirby Ferguson's Everything Is a Remix series: Yes, even reality is a remix.
25/25 | The Morning News
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