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In Portland, Man Is Fatally Shot in Another Night of Unrest “One person was killed Saturday in Portland, Ore., amid unrest that rocked the city after police said a caravan of Trump supporters took to the streets and clashed with protesters.”
Intelligence Office to Stop Briefing Congress on Election Security “The federal office that oversees U.S. intelligence agencies informed Congress that it would no longer provide in-person briefings about security threats to the 2020 presidential election, suggesting that it was worried about lawmakers leaking sensitive classified materials.”
Covid-19 Cases Top 25 Million World-Wide “The U.S. recorded 47,161 new cases Saturday, the sixth straight day of increasing daily tallies.”
Trump lavishes praise on his supporters amid protest clashes “Shooting deaths in Oregon and Wisconsin raise the specter that the nation’s summer of unrest has entered a new phase.”
Biden accuses Trump of ‘recklessly encouraging violence’ in response to Portland shooting “The president let loose roughly 90 tweets and retweets attacking Democratic officials and defending aggressive actions by his supporters in Portland.”
Dueling narratives fuel opposing views of Kenosha protest shooting
WHAT I’M READING + WATCHING + LISTENING TO
🎧 LISTEN: Trump's Pitch and Two Visions for AmericaMike Bender dissects the case Republicans made for Trump's re-election and Emily Stephenson explains where the campaigns go from here.
Facebook executive made internal postings over several years detailing her support for the now ruling Hindu nationalist party and disparaging its main rival
The Justice Department secretly took steps in 2017 to keep investigators from completing an examination of President Trump’s decades-long personal and business ties to Russia
THE COMMENT
“Do you get the sense that fighting on screen helped him fight in life? To somehow summon a superhero mind-set? How did he keep focus through the fuzz of chemo-brain? How did he build muscle and avoid infection? How did he keep it all secret? The fact that his illness was held so tight tells me that he was surrounded with a posse of people who cared deeply for him. This is not the kind of information that normally holds in Hollywood because he would have needed special riders and dispensation that allowed for treatments and perhaps even rest.” - Michele L. Norris
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