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Paris Knife Attack Injures Two Near Charlie Hebdo’s Former Office “Two people were seriously wounded in a knife attack near the former offices of Charlie Hebdo that prosecutors are investigating as a possible terrorist act, more than five years after gunmen opened fire in the satirical magazine’s newsroom.”
U.S. Coronavirus Cases Near Seven Million “Newly reported U.S. coronavirus cases rose, bringing total U..S. infections over the long-running pandemic to nearly seven million, as House Democrats prepared a new aid package and another vaccine entered final-stage trials.”
President Again Declines to Say He Will Accept Election Result
Google, Twitter and Facebook CEOs Threatened With Subpoena “A GOP-led Senate committee scheduled an Oct. 1 vote to subpoena testimony about tech companies’ legal immunity. Democrats call the move election-year intimidation.”
Powerful Cardinal Resigns Amid Financial Scandal “The move by Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu came without explanation and amounted to a surprise escalation of an affair that has overshadowed that Holy See for the last year.”
Judge Says 2020 Census Must Continue for Another Month “A federal judge in California has stopped the 2020 census from finishing at the end of September and ordered the once-a-decade head count of every U.S. resident to continue for another month through the end of October, saying a shortened schedule likely would produce inaccurate results.”
WHAT I’M READING + WATCHING + LISTENING TO
🎧 LISTEN: A State Prepares for Election DayAn interview with the chief elections official in North Carolina about how the state is preparing for an election in a pandemic.
THE COMMENT
“Washington insiders have long considered Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to be a shameless and cynical operator. But the Kentucky Republican’s actions over the past four years have so radicalized the Supreme Court selection process that Democrats will surely respond to McConnell’s extreme partisanship once back in power. During Trump’s presidency, “the world’s greatest deliberative body” has been reduced to a crude vote-counting chamber; this new legislative reality means Democrats would need only 50 senators and one president to pack the Supreme Court in 2021. Expect that to happen, since McConnell’s callous response to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death will speed the GOP toward a permanent minority status.” - Joe Scarborough
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