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Novelist Donald Ray Pollock On Factory Work And Finding Fiction Later In Life

Pollock worked in a paper mill and meatpacking plant for 32 years before becoming a writer. Netflix's film version of his novel, The Devil All the Time, drops Sept. 16. Originally broadcast in 2011.

A firefighter douses flames as they push towards homes during the Creek fire in the Cascadel Woods area of unincorporated Madera County, California on September 7, 2020.(JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Week In The News: Woodward Book, West Coast Wildfires, Coronavirus Updates

The news roundtable is here.

As COVID-19 Vaccine Trials Move At Warp Speed, Recruiting Black Volunteers Takes Time

Some pharmaceutical companies are well into the final phase of clinical trials for a coronavirus vaccine. But efforts to recruit patients from minority groups are just beginning.

In interviews with Bob Woodward in February and March, President Trump said he recognized the severity of the coronavirus — even though he publicly criticized the World Health Organization for not alerting him to the degree of threat.

Woodward Book Casts New Light On Trump's Fight With WHO

Revelations in Rage lead global health specialists to charge that Trump is scapegoating the World Health Organization.

<em>Collateral Damage: Britain, America, and Europe in the Age of Trump</em>, by Kim Darroch

Former British Ambassador To U.S. Reflects On Becoming Trump Persona Non Grata

When Kim Darroch described Donald Trump's White House as "inept" and "deeply dysfunctional," an international scandal ensued. He writes about the experience and his time in D.C. in Collateral Damage.

Penn State is reporting two students on the University Park campus have tested positive for COVID-19, according to its new COVID-19 Dashboard Friday.

UPDATE: Penn State’s New COVID-19 Dashboard Reports Two Positives On University Park Campus

Updated: Monday, August 24 at 2:20 p.m.Penn State is reporting two students on the University Park campus have tested positive for COVID-19, according to…

Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan said her office will be reviewing a 2011 police shooting of a Black man that was ruled an accident.

Massachusetts Prosecutor To Review 2011 Probe Into Shooting Of Black Man By Police

Eurie Stamps was killed during a drug raid at his home. Police were reportedly looking for his stepson and another man. Prosecutors said the shooting was accidental and the officer wasn't charged.

The two sets of footprints "are among the oldest tracks on Earth of shelled-egg-laying animals, such as reptiles, and the earliest evidence of vertebrate animals walking in sand dunes," paleontologist Stephen Rowland said.

Fallen Boulder Reveals 313 Million-Year-Old Fossil Footprints At Grand Canyon

The side-by-side tracks of two ancient animals have been called "by far the oldest vertebrate tracks in Grand Canyon."

Ballots are stored at the Franklin County Board of Elections in Columbus, Ohio, on April 28, the final day of that state's primary election. An NPR analysis finds that more than 500,000 absentee ballots were rejected in primaries this year.

More Than 550,000 Primary Absentee Ballots Rejected In 2020, Far Outpacing 2016

Tens of thousands of ballots have been rejected in key battleground states, where the outcome in November for the presidency and other races could be determined by a small number of votes.

A local resident stands next to a vineyard while watching the LNU Lightning Complex fire burning in nearby hills on August 20 in Healdsburg, Calif.

California Battalion Chief On The Challenge Of Fighting Wildfires During A Heat Wave

Firefighters have been battling hundreds of blazes sparked by thousands of lightning strikes. "It wouldn't matter if we had five times more firefighters," says the battalion chief for Sonoma County.

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