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A CDC study of 314 adults who had been tested for the coronavirus found that the positive cases were twice as likely to have dined at a restaurant within a two-week period before they started showing symptoms.

Adults With COVID-19 Twice As Likely To Have Eaten At Restaurants, CDC Study Finds

The study compared the habits and activities of 314 adults who had been tested for the virus. Those who tested positive more often reported dining at a restaurant within 14 days of showing symptoms.

Police moved in on peaceful demonstrators in Lafayette Square near the White House with tear gas and smoke on June 1. U.S. Park Police made announcements asking protesters to leave, but few people appeared to hear them.

Protesters Were Supposed To Hear Warnings Before Federal Police Moved In. They Didn't

In June, federal police cleared peaceful protesters from a park by the White House. Lawyers now say U.S. Park Police violated a settlement that set out rules for engaging mass demonstrations in D.C.

U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos backed a rule that would have increased private schools' share of CARES Act dollars from $127 million to $1.5 billion, according to one analysis.

DeVos Loses Latest Fight Over Rerouting Aid To Private School Students

A federal judge says U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos overstepped in trying to send more CARES Act money to help students at private schools.

A demonstrator raises his arms towards a convoy of police vehicles during a protest in Oakland, Calif. in May 2020 after the death of George Floyd.

FRONTLINE: Policing The Police 2020

Airs Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020 at 9 p.m. on KPBS + Thursday, Sept. 17 at 10 p.m. on KPBS 2 + PBS Video App + YouTube

In interviews with Bob Woodward in February and March, President Trump said he recognized the severity of the novel coronavirus — even though he publicly criticized the World Health Organization for not alerting him to the degree of threat.

Woodward Book Casts New Light On Trump's Fight With WHO

Revelations in Rage lead global health specialists to charge that Trump is scapegoating the World Health Organization.

"The discharge of those 21 shots for those four members of the Houston Police Department are not objectively reasonable,"Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo said of the deadly encounter with Nicolas Chavez in April.

4 Houston Police Officers Fired Over Fatal Shooting Of Nicolas Chavez

"You don't get to shoot somebody 21 times," Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo said of the deadly encounter in April. "I cannot defend that."

Mauricio Claver-Carone, nominated to head the Inter-American Development Bank, speaks with Ricardo Ospina of Caracol TV at the 2019 Concordia Americas Summit in Bogotá, Colombia.

Trump's Candidate Is Poised To Become Inter-American Development Bank's 1st U.S. Head

Mauricio Claver-Carone is the first U.S. citizen to be nominated to lead the region's premier development funder, which provides $12 billion a year for projects in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Protesters rallied outside the Rio Tinto office in June in Perth, Australia, after the destruction of Indigenous heritage sites the month before.

A Mining Company Blew Up A 46,000-Year-Old Aboriginal Site. Its CEO Is Resigning

In May, mining giant Rio Tinto blasted through two ancient rock shelters in Western Australia in order to mine iron ore. The company has been under rising pressure to hold executives accountable.

Supporters of President Trump line PA-981 outside of Arnold Palmer Regional Airport to get into a Sept. 3 rally in Latrobe, Pa.

Amid Flood Of News, Voters Appear Locked In On Their Presidential Choices

For many, this election is a "clear choice." Here's what voters said in interviews in six key swing states about President Trump and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.

Landfill workers bury all plastic except soda bottles and milk jugs at Rogue Disposal & Recycling in southern Oregon.

How Big Oil Misled The Public Into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled

An NPR and PBS Frontline investigation reveals how the oil and gas industry used the promise of recycling to sell more plastic, even when they knew it would never work on a large scale.

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