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President Trump’s use of the word to describe Joe Biden’s vice-presidential pick, Kamala Harris, plays off a hurtful stereotype with a decades-long history.
Schools face rising demands for tuition rebates, increased aid and leaves of absence as students ask if college is becoming “glorified Skype.”
For the first time during the pandemic, the United States saw a downward trend in the number of coronavirus tests conducted each day.
Her parents’ arrival to Berkeley as young graduate students was the beginning of a historic wave of immigration from outside Europe that would change the United States in ways its leaders never imagined.
President Trump’s furious objection to mail-in balloting and a new Trump-allied postmaster general are raising fears about the election and the Postal Service.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 12, 2020, covering August 15, 2020.
Taylor Swift
Pop Smoke
Juice WRLD
Original Broadway Cast
Lil Baby
2020Robert Trump, American real-estate developer, business executive (born 1948)[†]
Robert Stewart Trump was an American businessman and investor. He was the younger brother of U.S. president Donald Trump, and was a loyal supporter of Donald's political career.
2020Russia begins production on the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine.[†]
Sputnik V or Gam-COVID-Vac is an adenovirus viral vector vaccine for COVID-19 developed by the Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology in Russia. It is the world's first registered combination vector vaccine for the prevention of COVID-19, having been registered on 11 August 2020 by the Russian Ministry of Health.
In 2020, the world population was approximately 7,887,001,292 people[†]