The federal prison in Seagoville has the highest number of cases among inmates out of all the country’s federal prisons with 1,132 confirmed cases of COVID-19, as of Monday, July 20. At FMC Carswell, 509 inmates have tested positive for coronavirus and FCI Beaumont has reported 468 infected inmates, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. On Monday, the Bureau of Prisons said that a 51-year-old inmate at Carswell had died from COVID-19 after testing positive for the virus on June 30....

The president spoke from the lectern inside the U.S Capitol, once a symbol of liberty and freedom, which has been overshadowed by the Jan. 6 insurrection that took place just over a year earlier. This historic act of sedition imperiled America’s own democracy, when rioters stormed the building fighting to overturn Biden’s electoral victory and name Donald Trump as the legitimate leader. America’s words of caution against the backdrop of war in Europe are illusive....

Like The Book of Kells, Dublin’s ancient illuminated Gospel, the new Bible will likely draw pilgrims, this time to St. John’s pastoral campus, 70 miles northwest of Minneapolis. The $3 million St. John’s Bible (1,150 pages in seven volumes) will reflect its place and time: illuminations will show the flora and fauna of Minnesota and reflect latter-day attitudes on gender, science, interfaith dialogue and multiculturalism. “It’s wonderfully mad, an imitation of amedieval thing in a high-tech time,” says Paul F....

In its Wednesday report, the CBO said the federal debt is expected to rise sharply this year, to 98 percent of GDP. This is significantly higher than the 79 percent of GDP at the end of 2019 and the 35 percent in 2007, before the start of the 2008-2009 Great Recession. The CBO also projected the federal debt will exceed 100 percent in 2021, the first time this has happened in 70 years, and increase to 107 percent in 2023....

The staff member asked her if she had a jacket to “cover up” and was unpersuaded by Rowe’s protestations. She and her son were taken outside the aircraft and told that what she was wearing was too revealing. Rowe, who is a family doctor in Houston, Texas, then said she felt obliged to wrap a blanket around her waist for the flight. When she got home she tweeted about the incident which she said made her feel “humiliated....

Yet nothing prepared me for the horror of Little League baseball. Reports coming out of America’s heartland increasingly sound like Beirut in the ’70s. Every day, we read about some Little League parent beating up the umpire, beating up an opposing player, beating up another parent or beating up his own kid. Rather than address the central issue-that we’re horrible, horrible people-our response has been to pass laws. Some Little Leagues are now requiring parents to attend anger-management classes (apparently, yelling “Kill him, Billy!...

There have been some terrific reports of late on the subject of moving. One is by United Van Lines, a company that knows lots about where Americans are moving to and from. And two more reports are by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), an organization that knows a whole lot about why. But one man’s story that’s worth telling is emblematic of everything that went wrong in New Jersey over the past half-century....

Two members of the American Mozart Group—founded by former Marine Corps Colonel Andy Milburn and a play on the name of the infamous Russian mercenary Wagner Group—speaking from Ukraine that locals there are motivated but risk being overwhelmed without more Western weapons; particularly modern and long-range artillery systems. “It’s a bit of a slugfest,” explained Martin Wetterauer, a former Marine Corps colonel who spent time in the Joint Special Operations Command and served tours in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iraq, and Afghanistan in his more than 30-year military career....

While the Hamburg striker had netted a penalty in his side’s embarrassing DFB-Pokal defeat to third-division Osnabruck, Wood had not scored in the Bundesliga since March of last season – a span of 10 league games. He broke that duck on Friday, bagging his side’s second goal at Cologne, pouncing on a ball that came to him in the area and delivering a composed finish. Hamburg went on to win the contest 3-1, their second win in as many Bundesliga games....

Much maligned for his performances for the U.S. national team, Chandler has always seemed to put together better outings in the Bundesliga. And a run of form that began just before the league’s winter break may be the best of his career. Chandler assisted on Kevin-Prince Boateng’s opener for Eintracht Frankfurt against Borussia Monchengladbach on Friday. It was the winner in the 2-0 victory as Chandler went 90 minutes for the hosts on the left side....

The battle of American strikers didn't quite play out as hoped, with both forwards struggling to get involved in the action. Johannsson delivered the opening goal of the match on a first-half header. Agudelo never really got going as the target forward in the Utrecht attack, playing 74 minutes before being subbed out. The weekend was much better for European-based Americans than the last, with two other members of Jurgen Klinsmann's player pool joining Johannsson in the scoring column....

The latest consumer comfort survey by Morning Consult found little more than a third of U.S. adults (35 percent) were comfortable with going out to eat as of Friday last week. But when the same poll was conducted between June 9 and June 11, 41 percent of Americans said they would feel confident about eating out at a restaurant. Morning Consult pollsters found a similar decline in comfort with going to museums over the same period, with 25 percent of Americans saying they would be comfortable going to a museum today—a five-point fall on last month....

On Tuesday, Trump sent a letter to Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization, informing him that he was considering a permanent freeze of funding to the WHO. In the letter, Trump highlighted a number of grievances he had with WHO’s response to the novel coronavirus pandemic, including the fact Americans didn’t visit Wuhan, the Chinese city where SARS-CoV-2 originated. “Remarkably, the World Health Organization was silent when China denied the two American members of the team access to Wuhan entirely,” Trump wrote in the letter....

This question is becoming ever less academic and ever more pressing. For its part, just last week the Biden administration threatened “terrible consequences” should China strike. Given the increasing urgency of the matter, its outsize geopolitical significance and the way in which any such conflict involving America could escalate—with dramatic implications for our way of life—the American people deserve a genuine national conversation about Taiwan. Elevating the issue would manifestly be in America’s national interest: It would be expedient and simply the right thing to do....

Only 50 percent of adults think tech companies have a positive impact on society, compared with 71 percent just four years ago. The share of Americans who have a negative impression of tech companies has likewise risen, from 17 percent in 2015 to 33 percent today. The fight over big tech reached a flashpoint during the 2016 presidential campaign, when then-candidate Donald Trump raised grievances about his treatment by social media platforms....

Gallup’s poll surveyed 906 adults across the country between January 21 and February 2 with a 4 percent margin of error. It found that a plurality of 44 percent of respondents think Trump has made progress in combatting terrorism, despite bipartisan concerns that the president’s term was a boon for far-right extremism. Thirty-five percent of respondents believed America had gone backwards in combatting terrorism under Trump, while 20 percent thought the country had more or less stood still....

So far, the White House remains silent. “There has been no high-level contact,” Carlos Fernández de Cossío Domínguez, director of the Cuba Foreign Ministry’s General Division for the United States, told Newsweek. “The Biden administration has publicly stated that a policy review process towards Cuba is underway,” he added. “We do not know the true pace and scope of this process.” The review is one of many announced by U....

The president has long spoken of his desire for further measures to be passed but disagreements, largely over how much should be spent on such action, have seen a delay in securing a bipartisan agreement. The House has twice passed deals, the HEROES Act and then an updated version of this, since the CARES Act was signed more than six months ago—though these have been pushed against by GOP leadership in the Senate....

The investigators added that although they don’t know why the accident occurred, they’re studying the footage from the accident and that from another train that passed the same track an hour before, National Transportation Safety Board Vice Chairman Bruce Landsberg said. “We have experts that are studying the camera footage frame by frame to make sure that we see exactly what the engineer saw—or maybe didn’t see,” Landsberg said....