Demonstrations in the U.S. have spread far beyond major cities to where organizers say they are needed most: suburbs and small towns. It's one of the most striking aspects of the current protests against racial injustice and police violence. Compared with previous ones, they're everywhere. At least 1,500 distinct events have occurred since George Floyd was killed on May 25, and while it's challenging to generalize, Bloomberg CityLab has found some shared commonalities. They're often led by first-time organizers in their teens and 20s, often women, who have adapted the traditional models of urban-style political demonstrations to suburban sprawl or rural areas. And they've done so at incredible speeds by leveraging social media.—Josh Petri Bloomberg is mapping the pandemic globally and across America. For the latest news, sign up for our Covid-19 podcast and daily newsletter. Here are today's top storiesDemocratic nominee Joe Biden commemorated Juneteenth on Friday by reiterating his commitment to fighting racial inequities, seeking to strike a contrast with President Donald Trump, who had no official events on his schedule to mark the holiday, despite claiming earlier in the week that he made Juneteenth famous—an assertion Biden called "preposterous." Trump can go ahead with plans for a campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday, after the state Supreme Court rejected a plea by residents who said holding the event at a 19,000-seat arena posed too big a risk of spreading the coronavirus in a state where cases are skyrocketing. It will be the first large indoor public event since the country all but shut down in mid-March, and scientists worry the rally will end up being a test case for a superspreader event. The rally was intended to reinvigorate both Trump's re-election effort and the candidate himself. But instead, it has led to new scrutiny of the president's handling of both the pandemic and the nation's divisive racial inequities. The sharp resurgence of Covid-19 in Sunbelt states is prompting a new spate of face-mask mandates as governments try to curb the pandemic without reverting to lockdowns that wrought havoc on their economies. In some cases, the orders have reinforced the politicization of public-health measures, with President Trump and top administration officials mostly refusing to wear face masks in public. But with infections hitting record levels, Democratic mayors in some Republican-run states are demanding face coverings—and some governors are going along. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends wearing a cloth mask or face covering where social distancing is difficult or impossible to curb transmission of the virus. It's not just local governments that are struggling with mask policies. American Airlines on Thursday removed a conservative activist from a flight because he wouldn't wear one. AMC Entertainment sparked outrage when it announced its decision not to require patrons to wear masks when its cinemas reopen next month, before reversing that decision on Friday. More than six months into the pandemic, one thing is clear: The virus is winning. The head of the World Health Organization warned of "a new and dangerous phase" as a record 150,000 cases were reported on Thursday. Globally, there have been more than 8.5 million confirmed cases of the virus and over 457,000 have died. Here's the latest. Wall Street is getting ready to go back to the office as New York City enters the second phase of reopening on Monday. But keeping the workplace virus-free isn't going to be cheap. What you'll need to know tomorrow What you'll want to read tonightThere was a lot we couldn't agree on in this pandemic, but one thing that united us was our hair. With barbers and salons shuttered, manes grew into unruly tangles, chronicled under hashtags like #coronahairdontcare. Heads were shaved. Long-forgotten mullets returned. Shades of gray sprouted while we all hunkered down at home. As the U.S. begins to emerge from the Covid-19 lockdown, a trip to the stylist, among the first businesses to reopen in many areas, will be at the top of to-do lists for Americans desperate for a haircut and some social contact. That will make the return to barbers and salons a test case—a mirror on how society has changed as we try getting back to our daily affairs in the shadow of a virus we can't cure or prevent.  Like Bloomberg's Evening Briefing? Subscribe to Bloomberg All Access and get much, much more. You'll receive our unmatched global news coverage and two in-depth daily newsletters, The Bloomberg Open and The Bloomberg Close. Maps reveal and shape the space around us. 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