
Opinion: What's revealed when Americans take off their masks
CNN
Soon after a federal judge struck down the transportation mask mandate on Monday, airlines dropped their requirements and many passengers dropped their masks. Those strips of fabric helped protect millions of passengers from Covid-19, but they couldn't mask the divisions in America that seem wider than ever in the third year of the pandemic.

A federal judge on Friday blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from enforcing most of his executive order on elections against the vote-by-mail states Washington and Oregon, in the latest blow to Trump’s efforts to require documentary proof of citizenship to vote and to require that all ballots be received by Election Day.

A Border Patrol agent shot two people in Portland, Oregon, during a traffic stop after authorities said they were associated with a Venezuelan gang, another incident in a string of confrontations with federal authorities that have left Americans frustrated with immigration enforcement during the Trump administration.











