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Senate Republicans’ dramatically smaller unemployment insurance proposal, explained

It could cause massive delays for states trying to navigate the changes.

By Li Zhou and Ella Nilsen

Concentration camps and forced labor: China’s repression of the Uighurs, explained

There is more and more evidence of China’s human rights abuses in Xinjiang.

By Jen Kirby

How the coronavirus got Joe Biden to think much bigger

Biden knows there’s no pre-Trump "normal" to go back to.

By Ella Nilsen

System Failure

A small federal agency focused on preventing industrial disasters is on life support. Trump wants it gone.

The Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board is without enough voting members, and its investigations are stuck in limbo.

By Alexia Fernández Campbell

The Navajo Nation president on how his tribe slowed one of the worst Covid-19 outbreaks

"If the Navajo Nation is to be a case study, we had a fast increase in cases ... but wearing masks has flattened our numbers."

By Lois Parshley

A wave of evictions is coming. Democrats are proposing a lifeline.

Exclusive: Reps. Ayanna Pressley and Rosa DeLauro and Sen. Kamala Harris introduce a bill to fund legal assistance for Americans facing eviction.

By Jen Kirby

What the Miami Marlins’ Covid-19 outbreak means for the MLB season, explained by an epidemiologist

"If we’re able to bring sports back in the US, it’s going to be more difficult, more expensive, and more dangerous."

By Aaron Rupar

Emmys 2020: The nominees for the best TV of the year

Despite the pandemic, the Television Academy will host the annual awards show.

By Alex Abad-Santos and Allegra Frank

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In Bethel, Ohio, a Black Lives Matter rally became a standoff between armed bikers and peaceful protesters. BuzzFeed’s Anne Helen Petersen explains.

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