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A a county employee waits for a person to swab themselves for a COVID-19 test in a University of San Diego parking lot, July 15, 2020.

San Diego County Reports 263 New COVID-19 Cases, Five Deaths And Six New Outbreaks

San Diego County health officials have reported 263 new COVID-19 infections and five additional fatalities, raising the county's totals to 31,127 cases and 583 deaths.

Gompers Preparatory Academy in this undated photo is a public charter school in Chollas View.

Budget Cuts Blamed For Layoffs At Gompers Charter School; Teachers Union Disagrees

Officials at the 15-year-old public charter school say the layoffs are because of a budget crisis spurred in part by COVID-19. But some teachers contend the move takes aim at their union by getting rid of its supporters.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has argued that "borrower defense" is too lenient.

Betsy DeVos And The High-Stakes Standoff Over Student Loan Forgiveness

The Education Department narrowly avoids a subpoena in a fight with House Democrats over forgiving the loans of defrauded student borrowers.

Economists say helping the health care sector, including through emergency financing to states and cities, is one of the steps urgently needed to weather the coronavirus crisis.

How To Avert Economic Catastrophe: Ideas From 5 Top Economists

Avoid layoffs at any cost. Set up emergency financing for states and cities to help health systems. Cut regulations to speed medical response. Those are some recommendations from leading economists.

Coronavirus testing capacity has begun to expand, with drive-through testing starting up in many places. But experts warn we still need to vastly expand testing to control the outbreak.

To End The Coronavirus Crisis We Need Widespread Testing, Experts Say

The Trump administration says not everyone needs a test, but experts say a strategy of broad testing and isolating the sick is our best way to solve this crisis.

Police and protesters converge during a demonstration, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020, in Louisville, Ky. A grand jury has indicted one officer on criminal charges six months after Breonna Taylor was fatally shot by police in Kentucky.

2 Louisville Officers Shot Amid Breonna Taylor Protests

Police say two Louisville, Kentucky, police officers have been shot and wounded during protests over a lack of charges in Breonna Taylor's death.

Straphangers wait for an L Train in New York City as it pulls into the First Avenue station. A bill under consideration might bar New York from replacing these cars with Chinese-made ones.

Congress Mulls Ban On Chinese Trains And Buses. Oh, Come On, Builder Says

A bill would curtail cities' ability to buy transit equipment on economic and national security grounds. The manufacturer says it's all hysteria — plus there are no U.S. builders anyway.

Spotlight Lands On Amy Berman Jackson, Judge In Stone Case, After A Lengthy Career

Jackson has been a player in Washington, D.C.'s legal world for three decades and now is center stage amid disputes over Roger Stone and the independence of the Justice Department.

National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins, right, received the Templeton Prize for his work to de-escalate mistrust between scientists and people of faith.

NIH Chief Francis Collins Awarded 2020 Templeton Prize

Collins, a top scientist and evangelical Christian, says, "The realization that principles of faith and science are complementary has been of great comfort to me in the search for truth."

People react after a decision in the criminal case against police officers involved in the death of Breonna Taylor, who was shot dead by police in her apartment, in Louisville.

Kentucky Grand Jury Indicts 1 Of 3 Officers In Breonna Taylor Case

Brett Hankison, who was terminated in June, has been charged with three counts of wanton endangerment. None of the three men faces state charges directly over Taylor's death.

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