Hospitals in the hardest-hit counties see modest declines as a welcome lull continues into a sixth week.
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Eight Central Maine high school field hockey teams to raise funds for breast cancer
Though Battle for Breast Cancer event canceled, players will collect donations through July 25 for 10th annual event.
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BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘All Our Summers’ and ‘Life List’
A brooding tale of two estranged sisters and field notes of a Maine birdwatcher
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‘A hot mess’: Americans face testing delays as virus surges
Four months, 3 million confirmed infections and over 130,000 deaths into the U.S. coronavirus outbreak, Americans are facing long lines at testing sites and going a week or more without receiving a diagnosis.
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Texas resumes executions after pandemic hiatus
A Texas inmate was put to death Wednesday for fatally shooting an 82-year-old man nearly three decades ago.
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Biden-Sanders task forces unveil joint goals for party unity
To solidify support among the Democratic Party’s progressive wing, they are recommending that the former vice president embrace proposals to combat climate change and institutional racism.
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Wall Street’s rally gets back on track as tech leads the way
More gains for big technology stocks helped pull the S&P 500 to its sixth gain in seven days.
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Oprah Winfrey and Lionsgate to adapt slavery series ‘1619 Project’ for TV and film
“1619 Project,” the New York Times’ award-winning, multimedia series that examines slavery’s lingering effects on contemporary life, is about to go widescreen with the help of Oprah Winfrey and Lionsgate. Creator Nikole Hannah-Jones, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for the New York Times Magazine, and NYT will work with Winfrey and Lionsgate to adapt “The 1619 […]
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United sending layoff notices to nearly half of U.S. employees
The airline says that it will offer early retirement benefits and that furloughing 36,000 employees in October is a worst-case scenario.
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Supreme Court sides with Trump in birth control opt-out, job discrimination cases
The ruling in 2 cases could leave more than 70,000 women without free contraception and tens of thousands of people with no way to sue for job discrimination.