Within hours of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, his administration took down the Spanish version of the official White House website.

A veteran Nebraska police officer was killed when his cruiser was struck by another vehicle after he made a traffic stop.

At other moments of epic loss, like the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Americans have pulled together to confront crisis and console survivors. Still, at half a million, the toll recorded by Johns Hopkins University is already greater than the population of Miami or Kansas City, Missouri. It is roughly equal to the number of Americans killed in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War combined. I so believed in him and my faith,” said Nancy Espinoza, whose husband, Antonio, was hospitalized with COVID-19 last month. “At one point, we had every gurney, every dressing table, every embalming table had somebody on it,” he said.