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John Bazemore / Associated Press While Atlanta Braves star Freddie Freeman remained isolated during his recovery from COVID-19 in early July, his mind was focused less on returning to baseball and more on returning to everyday life. Freeman, 30, spoke to the media in Atlanta on Saturday and shared details …

Since June 5 (1,127), Polk has seen a whopping 678% increase in cases, rising by 7,645 after Governor Ron DeSantis expanded the state’s reopening process. To put that in perspective, in the same 41-day span, Florida cases have skyrocketed by 265,753, or a 332% increase. This content is provided free …

A health worker explains to a man how to lie down to collect a swab sample during the coronavirus disease screening test (COVID-19), at a test drive site in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, July 17 2020. REUTERS / Jose Luis González (Reuters) – The World Health Organization reported a record increase …

Photographic illustration of Slate. Photo by Spencer Platt / Getty Images. As protests over racial inequality and police violence have characterized much of this summer, so have debates about how we speak and write about those issues. In a recent episode of Lexical ValleyJohn McWhorter explored two themes of linguistic …

Four years after Ryan Gosling jazz returned to our hearts La La Land, the hunk returns: According to Deadline, Gosling will lead Joe and Anthony Russo’s adaptation of the spy novel Mark Greaney The gray man. Chris Evans will be a co-star. The film will be Netflix’s most financially ambitious …