New York Headlines

• Live Coronavirus News: Trump Wears Mask Publicly for First Time

  (by for The New York Times 36 minutes ago)
  Louisiana’s governor ordered bars to close. A flare-up in Pittsburgh offered a cautionary tale. And India recorded more than 28,000 new cases, with a top Bollywood star among those infected.
  
  

• City Hall ‘walks’ back Mayor’s plan for community leaders to ‘walk with police officers’

  (by Khristina Narizhnaya, Alex Taylor, Laura Italiano for The New York Post 5 hours ago)
  Mayor de Blasio has said community leaders would walk “with police officers” through violent hot spots in the city this weekend — but a day later, City Hall was backpedaling on the odd plan. Community leaders would indeed be going on the violence-prevention walks — including one Saturday night in Harlem — but the NYPD...
  
  

• NYC dad says coronavirus-shuttered Family Court failed him as mom took kids

  (by Kathianne Boniello for The New York Post 5 hours ago)
  Closures from coronavirus have wreaked havoc in courts across the city and state, including in Family Court, which deals with domestic disputes and child custody issues.
  
  
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• Could This City Hold the Key to the Future of Policing in America?

  (by Joseph Goldstein and Kevin Armstrong for The New York Times 6 hours ago)
  As protesters across the country call for police departments to be defunded and dismantled, Camden’s experience offers some lessons.
  
  

• NYPD cop placed in headlock while trying to break up Bronx crowd, video shows

  (by Joe Marino for The New York Post 8 hours ago)
  A pair of NYPD cops simply wanted to disperse a crowd gathered on a hot July night at a Bronx street corner. But as this disturbing video shows, in an instant the two officers found themselves surrounded by angry, taunting bystanders. And as the crowd cheered, a man they were trying to arrest put one...
  
  

• How to Reopen Schools: What Science and Other Countries Teach Us

  (by Pam Belluck, Apoorva Mandavilli and Benedict Carey for The New York Times 17 hours ago)
  The pressure to bring American students back to classrooms is intense, but the calculus is tricky with infections still out of control in many communities.
  
  

• What’s the Value of Harvard Without a Campus?

  (by Ezra Marcus and Jonah Engel Bromwich for The New York Times 20 hours ago)
  Many first-generation, low-income Harvard students feel that the elite institution has failed them.
  
  

• ‘I Couldn’t Do Anything’: The Virus and an E.R. Doctor’s Suicide

  (by Corina Knoll, Ali Watkins and Michael Rothfeld for The New York Times 1 day, 4 hours ago)
  Dr. Lorna Breen was unflappable — until she faced a new enemy.
  

• Hunger Is Worsening. Here Are 7 Ways New Yorkers Are Addressing It.

  (by Jane Margolies and Alix Strauss for The New York Times 1 day, 4 hours ago)
  Pastors, theater technicians and nonprofit leaders are repurposing their organizations to create and distribute meals.
  
  

• How Two Waves of Coronavirus Cases Swept Through the Texas Panhandle

  (by Lauren Hilgers for The New Yorker 2 days, 2 hours ago)
  Lauren Hilgers writes on how the coronavirus swept refugee and immigrant communities connected to meatpacking plants in the Texas Panhandle.
  

• Donald Trump, President Winning-by-Losing, Is, in Fact, Losing

  (by Susan B. Glasser for The New Yorker 2 days, 13 hours ago)
  Susan Glasser writes about how the coronavirus pandemic has further revealed Donald Trump’s seeming inability to process negative information and his tendency to paint losses as wins, and about Mary Trump’s new book “Too Much and Never Enough.”
  

• Why Andrés Manuel López Obrador Went to Dinner with Donald Trump

  (by Jon Lee Anderson for The New Yorker 2 days, 15 hours ago)
  Jon Lee Anderson on why the Mexican President, Andres Manuel López Obrador, visited the White House to celebrate the U.S.M.C.A. and have dinner with Donald Trump, in the midst of the U.S. Presidential campaign.