Days after more than 97,000 children tested positive for the coronavirus in July, some teachers have taken to penning their own obituaries to get officials to delay school reopening plans. Whitney Leigh Reddick, a Florida special education teacher, wrote in a Facebook group dubbed the Duval Schools Pandemic Solutions Team Tuesday that in her 33rd year of teaching she “left us while alone in isolation and on a ventilator at a Duval county hospital in Jacksonville, Florida.

In a news cycle that can feel endlessly distressing, good news can sometimes come in the form of people looking out for one another in their communities. One example comes from Durant, Oklahoma, where one woman gave away more than 4,500 face masks from her porch, as reported by local outlet KXII.

Sen. Susan Collins is concerned. While her colleague from Maine, the independent Sen.

Video has begun to spread around the internets purportedly showing LA County, California law enforcement training their guns (including what appears to be an assault rifle) on three Black teenagers while bystanders plead with police, telling them that they are threatening the wrong people.

Primaries are taking place on Tuesday in Connecticut, Minnesota, Vermont, and Wisconsin for congressional and state offices. Georgia is also holding runoffs in races where no candidate cleared 50% of the vote in the state’s June primary.

As we always caution, we may not know all the winners on election night.