• Police are seen in a cloud from a smoke bomb during a protest to oppose the right wing group "The Patriot Prayer Movement," that was having a rally in downtown Portland, Oregon on September 10, 2017. Several hundred protesters descended in to downtown Portland to oppose the right-wing group. / AFP PHOTO / Natalie Behring (Photo credit should read NATALIE BEHRING/AFP via Getty Images)

    Police respond differently when it's a left-wing protest, study finds

    By Richard Allen Greene, CNN
    President Donald Trump's supporters were still rampaging through the US Capitol when the question arose: If these had been Black Lives Matter demonstrators instead of overwhelmingly White, militant Trump backers, how different would the police response have been?
  • Ultra-Orthodox Jews light a Lag BaOmer bonfire in Jerusalem's religious Mea Shearim neighbourhood amid an Israeli health ministry's order to maintain social distancing and to cancel all Lag BaOmer holiday celebrations, on May 11, 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. - The Jewish holiday of Lag BaOmer marks the anniversary of the death of Talmudic sage Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai approximately 1,900 years ago. (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP) (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP via Getty Images)

    Why some ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities defy social distancing

    By Richard Allen Greene, CNN
    The Israeli government knew to expect trouble on Tuesday night. It was Lag Ba-Omer, a Jewish holiday traditionally celebrated in Israel with mass gatherings around roaring bonfires. For the devout ultra-Orthodox community, it is an occasion for making a pilgrimage to Mt. Meron in the country's north, where the second-century Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai is buried.