Shihab Rattansi

Don­ald Trump dis­missed this week’s De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Na­tion­al Con­ven­tion and out­lined his line of at­tack against Biden and Har­ris.

As na­tion­wide protests con­tin­ue, the mes­sage is no longer just about spe­cif­ic in­ci­dents of vi­o­lence, but about what demon­stra­tors say is sys­temic racism in polic­ing.

Af­ter near­ly two weeks of na­tion­wide protests against po­lice bru­tal­i­ty, sev­er­al US states are tak­ing steps to re­form con­tro­ver­sial po­lice prac­tices.

In­ter­net gi­ant Ama­zon and su­per­mar­ket chain own­er Kroger among those crit­i­cised for prais­ing their staff as ‘he­roes’ for work­ing dur­ing the coro­n­avirus pan­dem­ic.

The po­lit­i­cal feud threat­en­ing the fu­ture of the US Postal Ser­vice.

A quar­ter of coun­try’s work­force could be job­less at some point this year as COVID-19 dev­as­tates econ­o­my.

Demon­stra­tors call for trans­paren­cy in sur­veil­lance of pub­lic dur­ing state lock­downs to pro­tect civ­il lib­er­ties.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are un­der way in sev­er­al res­i­den­tial care homes in the US, where it is be­lieved thou­sands have died.

Sev­er­al health in­sur­ance com­pa­nies say they will cov­er test­ing and treat­ment, but the sit­u­a­tion re­mains un­clear.

Trump’s US-Cana­da-Mex­i­co deal re­places NAF­TA and like­ly to be much tout­ed dur­ing 2020 elec­tion cam­paign.