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  • Documenting America’s Path to Recovery: September 1, 2020

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    Welcome to Documenting America’s Path to Recovery, where we track the status of reopening in all 50 states. Today we look at the announcement of a new phase of reopening in North Carolina, the extension of Mississippi’s mask mandate, school reopenings, and much more. Want to know what happened yesterday? Click here. Since our last…

  • Documenting America’s Path to Recovery: August 31, 2020

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    Welcome to Documenting America’s Path to Recovery, where we track the status of reopening in all 50 states. Today we look at California’s new color-coded reopening system, an update in the lawsuit over reopening Florida schools, mask mandates, and much more. Want to know what happened Friday? Click here.   The next 24 hours What…

  • Documenting America’s Path to Recovery: August 28th, 2020

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    Welcome to Documenting America’s Path to Recovery, where we track the status of reopening in all 50 states. Today we look at the extension of New Mexico’s stay-at-home order, the extension of Louisiana’s mask mandate, travel restrictions, and much more. Want to know what happened yesterday? Click here.     The next 72 hours What is changing in the next 72…

  • Weekly Presidential News Briefing: August 28th, 2020

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    Every weekday, Ballotpedia tracks the news, events, and results of the 2020 presidential election. Here’s the latest from the campaign trail. Candidates by the Numbers Notable Quotes of the Day “Biden is not the first politician, upon entering the general election phase of the campaign, to pivot towards the center and try to build a…

  • Documenting America’s Path to Recovery: August 27, 2020

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    Welcome to Documenting America’s Path to Recovery, where we track the status of reopening in all 50 states. Today we look at the extension of mask requirements in Alabama and Indiana, Hawaii Gov. David Ige’s (D) approval of a new stay-at-home order in Oahu, a lawsuit in California over in-person schooling, and much more. Want…

  • Documenting America’s Path to Recovery: August 26, 2020

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    Welcome to Documenting America’s Path to Recovery, where we track the status of reopening in all 50 states. Today we look at Delaware’s requirement that students wear masks in school, Texas issuing a rule that may allow bars and breweries to reopen, a featured story from the 1918 influenza pandemic, and much more. Want to…

  • Documenting America’s Path to Recovery: August 25, 2020

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    Welcome to Documenting America’s Path to Recovery, where we track the status of reopening in all 50 states. Today we look at when gyms can reopen in New York, the end of a ban on nursing home visits in West Virginia, school reopenings, and much more. Want to know what happened yesterday? Click here. The…

  • Documenting America’s Path to Recovery: August 24, 2020

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    Welcome to Documenting America’s Path to Recovery, where we track the status of reopening in all 50 states. Today we look at schools in Arkansas returning to in-person instruction, Pennsylvania’s application for federal unemployment benefits, mask mandates, and much more. Want to know what happened Friday? Click here. Since our last edition What is open…

  • Documenting America’s Path to Recovery: August 21, 2020

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    Welcome to Documenting America’s Path to Recovery, where we track the status of reopening in all 50 states. Today we look at Connecticut’s decision to stay in Phase Two of reopening, Arkansas’s decision to start in-person instruction at schools on Aug. 24, travel restrictions, and much more. Want to know what happened yesterday? Click here.…

  • Weekly Presidential News Briefing: August 17th – 21st, 2020

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    Every weekday, Ballotpedia tracks the news, events, and results of the 2020 presidential election. Here’s the latest from the campaign trail. Share the latest from the campaign trail. Candidates by the Numbers Notable Quotes of the Day “This was not the Michelle Obama of hope and change that defined her husband’s rise. Michelle was always the…