The North Carolina State Senate has voted along party lines this week to ban wearing masks in public. Seventy years ago some states passed anti-mask laws as a response to the Ku Klux Klan, whose ...

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State legislators and law enforcement are reinstating dormant laws that criminalize mask-wearing to penalize pro-Palestinian protesters who conceal their faces, raising concerns among covid-cautious ...