Новости за 15.05.2020

As states re-open under new pandemic rules, enforcement often falls to the police. But some people — including some police — think that's a bad idea.

Ohio's Twisted Citrus restaurant introduced the Rubber Duckie Mimosa, champagne and blue rasberry lemonade topped with a classic yellow rubber duck, to match its new shower curtain barrier.

The nation's largest grocery store chain ends its so-called "hero pay" — an extra $2 an hour — this week. But with no end in sight for the pandemic, unions and workers are asking for an extension.

President Trump held a ceremony with senior defense officials to unfurl the official flag of the Space Force and boasted about what he called powerful new American weapons.

The country is beginning to reopen. The patchwork of timelines and rules is most pronounced in the Midwest, where some states remain under lockdown and others are back to business.

In Florida, officials say fewer than 2,000 people have died from the coronavirus. But some medical professionals do not agree with how the state is counting deaths and sharing that information.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Gabrielle Mayer, who graduated from medical school early to help out with the coronavirus patients at Bellevue Hospital in New York City a month ago, about her work.

For the first time since Saturday Night Live's debut in 1975, the show ended its season during a census year without doing a sketch about the national head count.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with the Marshall Project staff writer Eli Hager about the increasingly challenging conditions of the teenagers in the U.S. juvenile facilities amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Restaurants in Texas started to reopen slowly, but nothing is quite the same after the coronavirus shutdowns. They have to be creative to survive and ensure the safety of customers and staff.

As the country begins to lift stay-at-home orders, nowhere is the messy patchwork of timelines and rules more pronounced than in the Midwest. Businesses and customers are navigating a confusing maze.

Passaic firefighter and emergency medical technician Israel Tolentino died at 33 from COVID-19.

An evangelical pastor shared a Facebook meme calling concerns about the coronavirus "mass hysteria." He later died of COVID-19. Then his family became the target of online harassment.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., who introduced the Emmett Till Antilynching Act in the House in February, about the Act and the Arbery case.

Hong Kong has reported that it contained the coronavirus. Relaxed social distancing rules have filled bars and revived pro-democracy protests that were dormant since January due to the pandemic.

President Trump spoke Friday about a new initiative to fast-track a coronavirus vaccine: Operation Warp Speed. NPR's correspondents update on the latest coronavirus news.

Defense attorneys representing the white father and son accused of killing a black jogger in Georgia are cautioning people not to rush to judgment.

No more ear piercings or play areas — shopping centers around the country are making safety adjustments, eager to reopen from the costly shutdowns during the pandemic.

Threats against contact tracers, intimidation of people with masks, shooting at McDonald's — the debate over the coronavirus is becoming more violent. Researchers warn that violence can keep rising.

Cynthia Murray's hours had already been cut and she was worried about her health in the pandemic. Then a man shouted at her. "I just really felt uncomfortable," she says. So she went on unpaid leave.

As places around the world begin reopening, people are thinking about flying again — and wondering if it's safe.

Most of the money will go toward helping the International Olympic Committee mount an Olympics one year later than planned — something it's never done before.

The pandemic has hit the global business of surrogate birthing, leaving many infants and their new parents thousands of miles apart.

The president says he hopes the initiative will develop a treatment for COVID-19 by early next year, a timeline that experts have called optimistic.

Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway said this week's decision by the state's supreme court will put lives at risk from the coronavirus and she warned that businesses are still not ready to reopen.