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An election worker handles vote-by-mail ballots coming out of a sorting machine (JASON REDMOND/AFP via Getty Images)

Judge: All Texans can vote by mail

Igor Derysh

The judge said the "Grim Reaper's scepter of death" is "far more serious than an unsupported fear of voter fraud"

University of Texas clock tower (Getty Images)

COVID outbreak hits University of Texas

Roger Sollenberger

An outbreak at one of America’s flagship state universities could be magnified many times over come September

Ivan Castaneda, a former Mexican soldier deported from the United States, embraces his children at the bank of the Rio Grande during the event called "Abrazos No Muros" (Hugs, not walls). (Getty/Herika Martinez)

Trump admin rushes deportations

Lomi Kriel - ProPublica

With the nation focused on COVID-19, the U.S. government is rushing the deportations of migrant children

Sean Hannity (AP Photo)

Sean backs Trump on hydroxychloroquine

Roger Sollenberger

You "cannot conclude" that "it's going to kill you,” Hannity said. "This will kill you," a Fox colleague also said

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Secretary of State Michael Pompeo (R) and Susan Pompeo arrive for the State Dinner at The White House (Paul Morigi/Getty Images)

Taxes footed dinners for Fox News hosts

Roger Sollenberger

While the department leads U.S. foreign policy, only 14% of the guests were actually diplomats or foreign officials

(Reuters/Lucas Jackson)

Trump keeps chopping away at democracy

David Cay Johnston - DCReport

Trump is targeting our government’s inspectors general — the internal watchdogs uncovering his corruption

Coronavirus economic assistance checks that were sent to citizens across the country (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

GOP says no to another stimulus check

Matthew Rozsa

Congressional Republicans want to tie future relief to work, despite the fact that unemployment is at a record high

This artist’s impression shows the planet orbiting the Sun-like star HD 85512 in the southern constellation of Vela (The Sail). This planet is one of sixteen super-Earths discovered by the HARPS instrument on the 3.6-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory. This planet is about 3.6 times as massive as the Earth and lies at the edge of the habitable zone around the star, where liquid water, and perhaps even life, could potentially exist. (ESO/M. Kornmesser/Nick Risinger)

Stars aligned to reveal this exoplanet

Nicole Karlis

The stars quite literally aligned to make the gravitational microlensing of an Earth-like planet possible

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Ezra Miller, Henry Cavill, Ray Fisher, Gal Gadot, Ben Affleck, and Jason Momoa in "Justice League" (DC Films)

HBO Max will #ReleaseTheSnyderCut

Zack Sharf - Indiewire

HBO Max has not announced a release date for the Snyder cut outside of 2021

President Donald Trump reviews the troops during a full honors welcoming ceremony for Secretary of Defense Mark Esper at the Pentagon, Thursday, July 25, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Leaked DOD memo: No vaccine before 2021

Igor Derysh

Trump and his defense secretary tout a vaccine by year's end. An internal Pentagon memo paints a different picture

Linda Cardellini and Christina Applegate in "Dead to Me" (Netflix)

"Dead to Me" is a captive audience soap

Melanie McFarland

Being stuck with someone can be the best, or the worst, or both, and this show plays that out with lots of soap

US President Donald Trump (Doug Mills/The New York Times-Pool/Getty Images)

Trump wants autocracy — where's media?

Dan Froomkin - Press Watch

In the last week, Trump's administration has tried to assert and consolidate total power. Who's telling the people?

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House of Delegates members eat boxed lunches at a social distance from one another on the steps of the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond, Va. (Bob Brown/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP)

Study: Social distancing works

Matthew Rozsa

A new study finds the nation's drastic measures saved 35 million people from contracting the virus

Karl-Bertil Nordland and Barbora Kysilkova in "The Painter and the Thief" (Neon)

An artist paints her burglar in Hulu doc

Gary M. Kramer

Filmmaker Benjamin Ree spoke to Salon about the three-year process of filming his two subjects and ethical choices

Employees wearing face masks as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus stand at the entrance of a supermarket (ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Kroger won't demand overpaid wages back

Ashlie D. Stevens

Just as the grocery chain canceled its workers' "hero pay," Kroger was asking for emergency overpayment money back

In this April 7, 2020 photo, voters observe social distancing guidelines as they wait in line to cast ballots in the presidential primary election in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

Wisc. election linked to spike in cases

Igor Derysh

University of Wisconsin study finds a "significant" link to increase in infections in weeks following Election Day

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President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Las Vegas Convention Center, Friday, Feb. 21, 2020, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump direct agencies to gut regulations

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams

"And we want to leave it that way," Trump says, indicating an appetite to make the sweeping deregulation permanent

Anti-Abortion Protest | Norma McCorvey in "AKA Jane Roe" (FX/AP Photo/Salon)

Jane Roe and anti-choice lies

Amanda Marcotte

Norma McCorvey said she was paid to "convert": Yet more evidence of the deep sleaze on the Christian right

US President Donald Trump visits the US-Mexico border fence in Otay Mesa, California on September 18, 2019. (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump-backed company gets $1.3B contract

Igor Derysh

A scandal-plagued company under inspector general probe gets another contract after its CEO appeals to Trump on Fox

(AP/Salon)

Trump appears to violate court order

Alex Henderson - Alternet

A unanimous federal appeals court ruling found last year that Trump was prohibited from blocking Twitter followers

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President Donald Trump (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump willing to let benefits expire

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams

"Trump's plan is to cut off the boost to unemployment benefits and shower his wealthy buddies with more tax cuts"

Elaine Chao; Mitch McConnell (Getty/Jeff Swensen)

DOT IG fired amid Chao probe: Democrats

Igor Derysh

Ousted official was probing allegations of special treatment to allies of Chao's husband, Mitch McConnell, Dems say

President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Kellogg Arena, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019, in Battle Creek, Mich. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Trump fumes over absentee ballots

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams

The president's threat shows the lengths to which he is willing to go to stop an expansion of voting rights

William Barr and Lindsey Graham (AP Photo/Salon)

Is Lindsey Graham setting a Trump trap?

Heather Digby Parton

Barr proclaims that no president can be investigated — but Graham's Obamagate show trial could hurt Trump badly

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