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Tuesday, July 14, 2020

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Parent and teacher Stacey Pugh poses for a photograph outside her home Monday in Humble, Texas. While children have proved to be less susceptible to the coronavirus, teachers are vulnerable. “I will be wearing a mask, a face shield, possibly gloves, and I’m even considering getting some type of body covering to wear,” says Pugh, a fifth-grade teacher in suburban Houston.

Masks for kids? Schools confront the politics of reopening

On one side are parents saying, let kids be kids. They object to masks and social distancing in classrooms this fall -- arguing both could hurt their children's well-being -- and want schools to reopen full time. On the other side are parents and teachers who call for safeguards that would have been unimaginable before the coronavirus pandemic: part-time school, face coverings for all or a fully online curriculum.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, with Sen. John Barrasso, a Wyoming Republican, speaks to reporters following a GOP policy meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington. President Donald Trump’s push to reopen schools is being complicated by a split within his ranks over how to do it. Some advisers are advocating for a massive federal expenditure to make campuses safe. This comes Congress is compiling the next COVID-19 relief bill. McConnell said July 13 schooling will be a priority in the coming package.

Trump team eyes school funds boost in next virus aid bill

President Donald Trump's push to reopen schools is being complicated by a split within his ranks over how to do it, with some advisers advocating for a massive federal expenditure to make campuses safe as Congress compiles the next COVID-19 relief bill.
Vice President Mike Pence gives a thumbs-up Thursday before departing on Air Force Two from Philadelphia International Airport after a series of stops in Pennsylvania.

Pence heads to Louisiana amid renewed surge in virus cases

Vice President Mike Pence travels Tuesday to Louisiana, which has reemerged as one of the nation's hot spots for the coronavirus only months after seeming to contain its outbreak.
President Donald Trump watches as Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks about the coronavirus.

White House virus task force member says 'none of us lie'

WASHINGTON -- A top member of the White House coronavirus task force said Tuesday that "none of us lie" to the public, an accusation President Donald Trump had retweeted, and that while kids need to be back in school as Trump insists, "we have to get the virus under control." Adm. Brett Giroir's comment came a day after Trump shared a Twitter post from a former game show host who, without evidence, accused government medical experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, among others, of "lying."
In this photo provided by U.S. Navy, Aviation Electronics Technician 3rd Class James Benzel, from Louisville, Ohio, assigned to the Saberhawks of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron, signals an MH-60R Sea Hawk to disengage its rotors on the flight deck of the USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) as USS Mustin (DDG 89) steams alongside in South China Sea, Thursday, July 9, 2020. China on Tuesday, July 14, described a U.S. rejection of its maritime claims in the South China Sea as completely unjustified and accused the U.S. of attempting to sow discord between China and the Southeast Asian countries with which it has territorial disputes. (Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Erica Bechard/U.S.Navy via AP)
China accuses US of sowing discord in South China Sea
The Trump administration's rejection of broad Chinese claims to much of the South China Sea is being seen in Asia as an election-year political move, with some appealing for calm amid fears of greater tensions
What is contact tracing, and how does it work with COVID-19?
What is contact tracing, and how does it work with COVID-19
FILE - In this March 16, 2020 file photo, a health worker gives a polio vaccine to a child in Lahore, Pakistan. Pakistan's army chief has told Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates that despite the challenge of COVID-19, Pakistan plans to restart polio vaccination campaigns across the country. The military said late Wednesday, June 10, that Gen. Qamer Javed Bajwa spoke by phone with Gates who has worked to try and eradicate polio worldwide. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary, File)
Pakistan to resume polio campaign as COVID-19 cases decline
Pakistan says it will resume a nationwide anti-polio campaign next week, months after the drive against this crippling children's disease was halted because the coronavirus overwhelmed the country
This June 1, 2020, rendering provided by Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre shows the Hope probe. The U.S., China and the United Arab Emirates are sending spacecraft to Mars in quick succession beginning this week.(MBRSC via AP)
UAE's Mars orbiter launch from Japan delayed by weather
The liftoff of the United Arab Emirates' Mars orbiter has been postponed until Friday due to bad weather at the Japanese launch site
The house on the 100 block of Picton Road in Roselle.
Police: More than 60 shots fired in fatal Roselle shooting
More than 60 gunshots were fired during a fracas at a rented house in Roselle in which one man was killed June 27, Roselle police said in their first release of information since the day of the shooting.
Neuqua Valley High School in Naperville plans to resume classes with a hybrid schedule alternating in-person instruction with virtual learning each week.
'No easy solutions': Indian Prairie District 204 unveils reopening plans
Families in Indian Prairie Unit District 204 will confront two choices when student registration for the new year begins next week during the coronavirus pandemic.
FILE - In this June 5, 1991 file photo, British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell arrives at Epsom Racecourse. Jeffrey Epstein's former girlfriend will face a judge and at least one of her accusers by video at a hearing to determine whether she stays behind bars until trial on charges she recruited girls for the financier to sexually abuse a quarter-century before he killed himself in a Manhattan jail. The hearing Tuesday, July 14, 2020, in Manhattan federal court was expected to feature a not guilty plea by Maxwell along with arguments over whether she'll flee if she's released. (Chris Ison/PA via AP, File)
Maxwell denied bail on Epstein-related sex abuse charges
Jeffrey Epstein's former girlfriend has been denied bail and will remain behind bars on charges she recruited girls and women for the financier to sexually abuse more than two decades ago
Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell denied bail after she pleads not guilty to sex abuse charges
Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell denied bail after she pleads not guilty to sex abuse charges
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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