Infotheque Intl.

Amid two crises – the pandemic and the national reckoning sparked by the killing of George Floyd – there have been anguished calls for Americans to come together across lines of race and partisanship. Change would come, a USA Today contributor wrote, only “when we become sensitized to the distress of our neighbors.”

Bridging America's divides requires a willingness to work together without becoming friends first The advocates of friendship as a way to solve America's partisan divide are wrong. There are more effective ways to tackle intractable political problems.

It looks by the pics at least much better in terms of physical distancing and facemask usage as at the last big holiday weekend when beaches been packed like cans of sardines. A dangerous heat wave was baking swaths of the western United States through the weekend, and many locations in California registered record-high temperatures on Sunday.

Beachgoers seek relief as heat wave bakes California | Reuters Video A dangerous heat wave was baking swaths of the western United States through the weekend, and many locations in California registered record-high temperatures on Sunday. Libby Hogan reports.