If Your Time is short Bills introduced in Congress since 2018 banning protesters from wearing masks have stalled or failed. Many states have decades-old mask bans designed to thwart the Ku Klux Klan.

Murray however cautioned the data is incomplete on whether mask wearing is an effective replacement for social distancing. “That is where we don’t have an exact answer,” Murray said.

Mask-wearing overall in American life took another hit during the COVID-19 pandemic, when many Trump supporters scoffed at notions that protective masks would insulate people from the deadly virus ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s push to restrict wearing facemasks in public is encountering stiff resistance from her fellow Democrats as they negotiate a new state budget, lawmakers and officials ...

Cellphone video on social media shows officers placing the woman in wrist restraints. The woman can be heard saying, "I am being arrested for wearing a mask." Sign up for our Newsletters ...

An Asian woman wearing a mask was attacked by two men and called "diseased" in a subway station in New York City's Chinatown, according to the New York Police Department (NYPD).

Murray however cautioned the data is incomplete on whether mask wearing is an effective replacement for social distancing. “That is where we don’t have an exact answer,” Murray said.