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“Growing Pains” actor Kirk Cameron hosted another caroling protest Tuesday night on a day when hospitals and public health officials pleaded with Southern Californians to avoid gatherings during what has been the worst stage of the coronavirus pandemic.

After months of grappling with a pandemic that has walloped New York’s Orthodox Jewish communities, prompting changes to holidays, mourning and prayers, new limits on worship and other activity in some areas are pushing tensions in some neighborhoods of Brooklyn to the boiling point. New restrictions in places where coronavirus cases are rising, including several Orthodox areas, led to street...

A prominent Orthodox Jewish organization based out of Queens and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn announced separate lawsuits to halt restrictions on religious gatherings put in place by the state of New York, just as a third day of protests over the new lockdown orders got underway in Brooklyn. Agudath Israel of America on Thursday asked for a temporary…

Around 100 people who rallied at the governor’s home said that limits are too strict in the Commonwealth.

Attorney General William Barr defended his office’s response to protests across the country as congressional Democrats accused him of protecting armed white protesters while attacking and arresting unarmed Black Lives Matter protesters.

Gov. Charlie Baker announces 50 new pop-up testing sites in Massachusetts, urging anyone who attended a protest or large gathering to get tested immediately.

A gym in Camden County, New Jersey, reopened for business on Monday against state orders to keep nonessential businesses closed.

Crowds gathered Saturday on the Cape and outside Governor Charlie Baker’s Swampscott home, calling on him to reopen Massachusetts now.