Maintaining adequate staffing has been a key challenge, with hundreds of local medical professionals out sick or in quarantine. Managers are offering bonuses to nurses, attempting to hire new ones, and
For Oklahoma Tribe, Supreme Court Case Brings Vindication at Long Last
For Muscogee citizens, who make up the country’s fourth-largest Native American tribe, it was alsosomething deeply personal, a thoroughly American moment that rippled across time, connecting ancestors forced to leave their
How ICE Spread Coronavirus At Home And Abroad
These four immigrants have something in common. They were recently deported from the United States, and they all had the coronavirus. Even as extreme measures were taken around the world to
A Woman Without a Country: Adopted at Birth and Deportable at 30
Three days later, they were homebound with their daughter. At the border, a U.S. agent peered into their vehicle, where Rebecca was bundled up in her new mother’s arms; he waved
Pittsburgh Seemed Like a Virus Success Story. Now Cases Are Surging.
“You are seeing what could be the beginning of what we’ve been seeing in Texas and Arizona,” said Dr. Bill Miller, a professor of epidemiology at the Ohio State University. He
A Reporter’s Lonely Mission When the Writing Is on the Wall
The Mercury was imagined into reality in 1931 by Shandy Hill, a seasoned editor, and William Hiester, a young man with a passion for journalism — and, more essential, access to
As November Looms, So Does the Most Litigious Election Ever
“We understand if people want to vote absentee, but there’s a process for that,” Ms. Harrington said. Easing rules can lead to errors, she said, citing reports that some ballots mailed
The Last Reporter in Town Had One Big Question for His Rich Boss
The Mercury was imagined into reality in 1931 by Shandy Hill, a seasoned editor, and William Hiester, a young man with a passion for journalism — and, more essential, access to
Drivers Are Hitting Protesters as Memes of Car Attacks Spread
Perhaps the most high-profile example of a car attack in the United States is from the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017, when James Alex Fields Jr. killed Heather
Colleges Plan to Reopen Campuses, but for Just Some Students at a Time
“This pandemic is among the worst crises ever to hit Princeton, or college education more broadly,” Christopher L. Eisgruber, president of Princeton, said in his reopening announcement. “Princeton’s preferred model of
Like ‘a Bus Accident a Day’: Hospitals Strain Under New Flood of Covid-19 Patients
“The hospitals are full,” said Dr. Esmaeil Porsa, president and chief executive officer of the county’s two-hospital public health system, Harris Health. “We have been over capacity for a couple of
International Students in Online Courses Face Lost F1 Visas, ICE Says
“If they’re not going to be a student or they’re going to be 100 percent online, then they don’t have a basis to be here,” Mr. Cuccinelli said, adding, “They should
Chicago Gun Violence Spikes and Increasingly Finds the Youngest Victims
Some experts attribute the high numbers of children being killed to collateral damage from gunmen leaving their fingers on the triggers of automatic weapons that they have never been trained to