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The debate over masks is heating up again, with increasing calls for all Americans, regardless of coronavirus vaccination status, to return to wearing face coverings in indoor public places to help thwart the spread of the highly contagious delta variant. But some experts say the recommendations should specify the kind of masks people should be using. Support our journalism. Subscribe today. “Delta is so contagious that when we talk about masks, I don’t think we should just talk about masks,” Scott Gottlieb, former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, said during a recent appearance on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”...

The photo of a black woman smiling at a young black boy had been splashed for weeks across a web page detailing South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s plan to combat racial inequality, which he billed as a “comprehensive investment in the empowerment of black America.” But when the woman in the photo learned her likeness was displayed on the Democratic presidential candidate’s campaign website, she was confused, the Intercept’s Ryan Grim reported Sunday. The woman isn’t African American and she’s never heard of the Douglass Plan — she is from Kenya, where the picture was originally taken. “[W]hat’s the...

President Donald Trump, who recently embraced the title of "King of Israel," has been repeatedly accused of promoting anti-Semitic tropes this week for his assertions that Jewish Americans who vote for Democrats are "disloyal."