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New York Times - Michelle Goldberg: Trump Threatens to Turn Pandemic Schooling Into a Culture War The president might sabotage parents’ best hopes for getting their kids back to school. Two weeks ago, I asked Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, what a functioning Dep...

WaPo - George Conway: What Mary Trump’s book and the ‘Trump v. Vance’ case have in common ... Mary Trump’s ”Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man” tells a remarkable story, the broad strokes of which many already knew. Mary Trump offers a tale of what she c...

Cross-posting New York Times : Coronavirus Live Updates: The Surge in U.S. Cases Is Driven Largely by States That Reopened Early Florida breaks its record for deaths in a single day. The T.S.A. said more than a thousand of its employees had tested positive. The surge in the United States is being dr...

New York Times : Coronavirus Live Updates: The Surge in U.S. Cases Is Driven Largely by States That Reopened Early Florida breaks its record for deaths in a single day. The T.S.A. said more than a thousand of its employees had tested positive. The surge in the United States is being driven largely ...

WaPo : Trump the victim: President complains in private about the pandemic hurting himself ... Even those in Trump’s orbit are trying to nudge him toward a sunnier, less egocentric approach to the crises he is facing, fearing that his sullen demeanor could backfire politically. Among those internal...

KABC : Coronavirus: ER doctor says trend just beginning for Orange County as hospitalizations spike About 60% of the more than 6,000 hospital beds in Orange County are occupied. ORANGE COUNTY, Calif. (KABC) -- Orange County has seen a 9.4% increase in hospitalizations over the last 3 days. It's bee...

ABC News : Broad disapproval for Trump's handling of coronavirus, race relations: POLL Evaluation of Trump's oversight of the COVID-19 crisis reached a new low. President Donald Trump is facing broad disapproval for his management of the two major crises gripping the nation, with two-thirds of Amer...

People : Longtime Alabama Mayor Dies of Coronavirus as Cases Surge in State A longtime mayor in Alabama has died of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). He was 84. Billy Joe Driver, the mayor of Clanton, Alabama, was diagnosed with the contagious respiratory virus last month, CBS 42 reported. He died ...

Tampa Bay Times : Florida adds record 120 coronavirus deaths, 411 hospitalizations on Thursday The state also broke its record for hospitalizations by adding 411 over 24 hours. The previous high for new hospitalizations was an increase of 400 people, recorded in mid-May. Along with the 11-year-old ...

I've heard that copper is also effective against COVID. My friend who is a hospital designer says things like copper pipes, copper towel racks, copper-lined pans should make a comeback in hospitals and in daily life. I'm developing a little arthritis in my hand and he's talked me into ordering a pai...

WaPo : CDC feels pressure from Trump as rift grows over coronavirus response The June 28 email to the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was ominous: A senior adviser to a top Health and Human Services Department official accused the CDC of “undermining the President” by put...

CBS News : California, Florida and Texas report highest daily coronavirus death tolls The coronavirus crisis nationwide is not only deepening, it is growing more deadly. The country's three biggest states — California, Florida and Texas — are reporting their largest single-day death tolls since the...

Reuters : White House reporter tests positive for coronavirus: association WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A reporter who attended White House briefings this week has tested positive for the coronavirus, the White House Correspondents' Association said on Thursday, raising further concerns about the health ...

Sun Herald : Gov. Reeves issues COVID-19 mask mandates for 13 counties including 2 on MS Coast Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves is mandating masks and limiting social gatherings by early next week in Harrison, Jackson and 11 other counties with high spread of COVID-19, he said at his regular news confe...

Associated Press : The Latest: Virus hits Bolivian president, Venezuela’s No. 2 LA PAZ, Bolivia — The interim president of Bolivia and Venezuela’s No. 2 political leader have both announced they are infected with the coronavirus. Bolivian President Jeanine Áñez said Thursday that she strong and wil...

I'd like to know that, too.

We'll see what Bob has to say. ty, Bob

AndyinPA wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 09, 2020 7:08 pm

Is that legal?

This is a good roundup.

WaPo - Aaron Blake: Analysis | The plot thickens on Attorney General William Barr’s removal of a prosecutor who probed Trump

Law & Crime : Michael Cohen Taken Back to Prison Due to Planned Tell-All Book: Report The president’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen was taken back into federal custody on Thursday, his lawyer Jeffrey Levine confirmed to Reuters. Initial reports speculated that Cohen, who was photographed b...

Cross-posting NBC News : Coronavirus reported in over half of Latino meat, poultry workers in 21 states, CDC says Of nearly 10,000 coronavirus cases, more than half, 56 percent, were Hispanic workers, the data shows. ... The latest CDC data, published Tuesday, reinforces alarms raised as meat and ch...

NBC News : Coronavirus reported in over half of Latino meat, poultry workers in 21 states, CDC says Of nearly 10,000 coronavirus cases, more than half, 56 percent, were Hispanic workers, the data shows. ... The latest CDC data, published Tuesday, reinforces alarms raised as meat and chicken facilit...

Cross-posting HuffPo : Mitch McConnell May Skip The GOP Convention Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) suggested he’s not certain about attending next month’s Republican National Convention in Florida due to the coronavirus. “It’s a challenging situation and a number of my colleagues anno...

HuffPo : Mitch McConnell May Skip The GOP Convention Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) suggested he’s not certain about attending next month’s Republican National Convention in Florida due to the coronavirus. “It’s a challenging situation and a number of my colleagues announced that th...

Bloomberg : Ghislaine Maxwell Taps Broad Range of Legal Talent for Defense (Bloomberg) -- Ghislaine Maxwell tapped two former hard-hitting federal prosecutors and a Goldman Sachs Group Inc. analyst-turned-lawyer to defend her against child sex-trafficking charges tied to her former boyfriend Jeffre...

Cross-posting Daily Beast : Officials Terrified That Trump’s Jacksonville Convention Will Be ‘Another Tulsa’ Sam Newby was excited at first when the Republican National Convention decided to head to his city. But the Republican vice president of the Jacksonville City Council, who was hospitalized wi...