MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (May 12, 2020) — Monmouth College's annual Commencement ceremony will not be what its graduating seniors envisioned when they matriculated on the Wallace Hall Plaza in August of 2016.

MANKATO, MINNESOTA (May 12, 2020) — Minnesota State University, Mankato awarded 2,367 degrees to 2,294 students at the end of the spring 2020 semester, with this spring's graduates celebrated through a special website that launched Saturday, May 9, the day on which the University's three traditional graduation ceremonies were scheduled but cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

WASHINGTON DC (May 12, 2020) — During COVID-19, the US Food and Drug Administration will continue to utilize and implement additional alternative inspection-tools and approaches while postponing domestic and foreign routine-surveillance inspections. This will continue as local, national, and international conditions warrant, with the exception of certain mission-critical inspections.

One laudable side effect of the COVID-19 panic is a nationwide effort to promote "vote by mail" as a universal alternative to standing in line at polling places. One reason that effort is laudable is that it would likely decrease vote-fraud. Yes, I said "decrease." And Republicans were saying the same thing until recently.