Painting the red towns: covid-19 in America

Published: June 18, 2020, 10:02 a.m.

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Coronavirus cases are easing in Democrat-held jurisdictions and rising in Republican-held areas. What is behind the shift, and what will it mean for President Donald Trump? Ireland at last has a coalition-government plan\\u2014upending a nearly century-old rivalry in order to keep the Irish-nationalist party Sinn Fein out of power. And a nine-year-old hopes to become the world\\u2019s youngest-ever chess grandmaster.

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