Weekly Review

In Rochester, New York, Susan B. Anthony’s gravestone was outfitted with a plastic shield in order to prevent damage from “I Voted” stickers. Read More

Election officials in Sacramento County, California, pleaded with voters to stop disinfecting their mail-in ballots. Read More

A much-publicized open letter endorsing herd immunity as a response to COVID-19 was found to have been signed by a number of homeopaths and fictitious medical professionals, including Dr. Johnny Bananas and another whose name was listed as the entire first verse of “Macarena.” Read More

“My mom coughing all around the house after trump tested positive,” wrote Kellyanne Conway’s 15-year-old daughter in a TikTok post. Read More

Ron DeSantis announced plans to legislatively guarantee college students’ right to party. Read More

The athleisure manufacturer Lululemon, which is valued at $45 billion, promoted a “resist capitalism” yoga workshop with programs on the relationship between violent colonialism and consumerism. Read More

Despite its surge in cases, South Dakota has begun using federal COVID-19 relief funds for a multimillion-dollar tourism campaign. Read More

Facebook said that it would halt all new political ads in the week before Election Day—but that it would not take down existing ads—in order to stop the spread of misinformation. Read More

The College Republicans United, a student group at Arizona State University, began raising funds for Kyle Rittenhouse’s defense, saying that he “does not deserve to have his entire life destroyed.” Read More

A team of special agents, members of the Coast Guard, and federal postal inspectors arrested former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon. Read More

“These ballots are all going to be lost. They’re going to be gone,” said President Trump, who requested a mail-in ballot for himself.“Absentee voting is great.” Read More

Police officers in Kansas were summoned to defuse a rod of dynamite that turned out to be a beef stick. Read More

British courts will not disclose evidence about two members of the “Beatles,” a cell of the Islamic State, to the Justice Department. Read More

It was reported that the police department in King City, California, had required all its officers to use handgun-mounted cameras. Read More

The Pentagon banned Confederate flags in a memo that neither included the word “ban” nor the word “Confederate.” Read More

Seattle’s police department said that at least 50 percent of its BIPOC police officers would be fired if the city followed through with efforts to defund it. Read More

It was revealed that a member of the East Baton Rouge Parish school board in Louisiana had been shopping online during a meeting about renaming Lee High School, which was named after Confederate general Robert E. Lee. Read More

The video game Fortnite removed police cars from its new season Read More

The Washington Redskins officially recognized Juneteenth. Read More

A Fairchild Swearingen C-26 flew in support of the Phoenix Police Department. Read More

In Austria, plans were announced to turn the house where Adolf Hitler was born into a police station. Read More

After being arrested by the police in Minneapolis, George Floyd, an unarmed, 46-year-old black man, was killed by a white officer, Derek Chauvin, who knelt on Floyd’s neck for eight minutes and 46 seconds while Floyd, handcuffed and facedown on the pavement, repeated the words “I can’t breathe” at… Read More

Saturn, an alligator who, according to legend, once belonged to Adolf Hitler, died in a Russian zoo. Read More

Donald Trump announced the development of a “super-duper missile.” Read More

The U.S. Space Force debuted its first recruitment video, featuring the slogan “Maybe your purpose on this planet isn’t on this planet.” Read More

A funeral home in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, was offering drive-through viewings. Read More

A “Reopen Wisconsin” protest in downtown Madison inadvertently shut down businesses that were still open. Read More

Last month was the first March since 2002 without a school shooting in the United States. Read More

“I think, if I may, it’s cool to work. Your neighbor, your brother-in-law, you know, the guy down the street, working has become cool again,” said White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow. Read More

The government of Malaysia instructed women not to be sarcastic with their husbands during the lockdown. Read More