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WASHINGTON — Mail piling up. Constant attacks from the president. Cuts to overtime as record numbers of ballots are expected to pass through post offices this fall. The success of the 2020 presidential election could hinge on a most unlikely government agency: the U.S. Postal Service. Current signs are not...

SAVANNAH, Mo. — A nearly all-white northwest Missouri town is divided over an effort to change its high school’s “Savages” mascot that depicts a Native American amid a nationwide movement calling for racial justice. The high school had a “Savannah Savages” mascot since at least 1926 and the name and...

ptr-BrightonIntro Talk. Kenneth Miller has heard a lot of it since March when night and day, people all around him began dying at Brighton Rehabilitation and Wellness Center. There has been talk of change, talk of state and federal probes into how the aging, 589-bed Beaver County facility that one...

ptr-BrightonOversight `Covid cannot be used as a cover-up`: Brighton Rehab residents, families outraged by lax oversight during outbreak As death became a constant at Brighton Rehabilitation and Wellness Center in mid-April, so did certain daily rituals, according to some of the more than dozen residents, families and current and former...

ptr-BrightonHydro Brighton Rehab under scrutiny for hydroxychloroquine use to thwart coronavirus Evelyn Gilbert, 53, began her five-day dose of hydroxychloroquine while battling covid-19 in a room with three other infected residents at Brighton Rehabilitation and Wellness Center. Kenneth Miller, 66, who had not shown symptoms of the virus, was jolted...

ptr-BrightonManagement Veil of silence: As outbreak spun out of control, Brighton Rehab ownership group remained mum. It still does. A knock on the door at two Long Island addresses listed for the owners of Brighton Rehabilitation and Wellness Center did nothing to lift a veil of silence surrounding the company...

ptr-BrightonAllaire After months of uncertainty at the top, Brighton Rehab has manager in place through end of year A state-appointed manager will oversee operations at the troubled Brighton Rehabilitation and Wellness Center at least through the end of the year, signaling some consistency after months of uncertainty about who is...

TOKYO — The Japanese city of Nagasaki on Sunday marked the 75th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the town, with the mayor and a dwindling number of survivors urging world leaders including their own to do more for a nuclear weapons ban. At 11:02 a.m., the moment a...

WASHINGTON — President Trump on Saturday said he was bypassing Congress and taking unilateral action to provide financial relief to Americans struggling during the coronavirus crisis, despite uncertainty about his legal authority to do so. Following the breakdown of talks on Capitol Hill to reach a bipartisan deal, Trump signed...

WAYCROSS, Ga. — State authorities said they’re investigating after a Georgia police officer opened fire Saturday morning at a vehicle with at least two teenagers inside during an attempted traffic stop. Nobody was injured by the gunshots in Waycross near the Georgia-Florida state line, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said....

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Stewy Carlo had a short life, but he lived every moment. While serving in the Army, he bought a 1951 Mercedes and motored around Europe. After his service years, he roamed South America where he developed a love of photography and then later turned heads while driving...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Protesters in Portland, Ore., defied police orders to disperse and threw rocks, frozen or hard-boiled eggs and commercial-grade fireworks at officers as unrest in the Northwest city continued early Saturday. An Oregon State Police trooper was struck in the head by a large rock and suffered a...

TikTok plans to file a federal lawsuit as soon as Tuesday to challenge President Trump’s executive order banning the video-sharing service from the U.S. as unconstitutional, National Public Radio reported. The lawsuit will be filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, where TikTok’s American operations...

ATLANTA — A letter recently posted online is raising questions about whether the University System of Georgia’s reopening plans for the fall semester, which starts Monday on some campuses, is being steered by finances and not the health and safety of its students and employees. The May 29 letter from...

BEDMINSTER, N.J. — Seizing the power of his podium and his pen, President Trump on Saturday moved to bypass the nation’s elected lawmakers as he claimed the authority to defer payroll taxes and extend an expired unemployment benefit after negotiations with Congress on a new coronavirus rescue package collapsed. At...

WARSAW, Poland — A large crowd of LGBT rights supporters gathered in Warsaw on Saturday to protest the arrest of a transgender activist who had carried out acts of civil disobedience against rising homophobia in Poland. “You will not lock all of us up!” people chanted at the demonstration that...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The fourth covid-19 test result for Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine came back negative Saturday after he received conflicting positive and negative results two days before, ahead of a scheduled meeting with President Trump. The governor and first lady, Fran DeWine, were tested at Ohio State University “out...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Bob Garick was looking forward to being a field supervisor during the door-knocking phase of the 2020 census, but as the number of new coronavirus cases in Florida shot up last month, he changed his mind. With widespread home visits for the 2020 census set to begin...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — U.S. Senate candidate Marquita Bradshaw said Saturday her campaign fundraising is in full swing and she plans to visit all 95 Tennessee counties as she tries to flip the seat from Republican to Democrat. Bradshaw won Thursday’s Democratic primary election in the contest to replace Republican U.S....

The delay in a decision over whether charges will be raised in the death of Breonna Taylor has been caused by a wait for additional evidence, which is still being tested and analyzed by federal authorities, the attorney general said. Taylor, a 26-year-old EMT, was fatally shot by plainclothes police...

BEDMINSTER, N.J. — Ready and willing to bypass elected lawmakers, President Trump seemed set to claim the power to suspend payroll taxes and extend expired unemployment benefits after negotiations with Congress on coronavirus rescue money collapsed. The White House signaled Saturday the president was soon expected to sign four executive...

Reopening schools is easy. Keeping them open will be the hard part. As educators prepare to welcome students back to class for the first time in months, schools’ ability to quickly identify and contain coronavirus outbreaks before they get out of hand will be put to the test in thousands...

STURGIS, S.D. — The coronavirus may be changing the world, but there aren’t many signs of the pandemic at the massive annual motorcycle rally being held this week at a small city along Interstate 90 in western South Dakota. The scene Saturday at the 80th Sturgis Motorcycle Rally was familiar...