House Speaker Mike Johnson, when asked about Democrats calling for ICE agents to unmask, said they are the same "people who mandated mask wearing for years in America." ...

Bills introduced in Congress to ban protesters from wearing masks have stalled or failed. But some states have such bans, many enacted decades ago in response to the Ku Klux Klan.

A key model that guides the White House and other decision makers are projecting not as many coronavirus-related deaths, and one scientist believes mask wearing might be the reason.