Navigating that first pandemic kiss.
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TOP STORIES
Thursday, June 25
INFECTION RATE SET TO SURGE PAST EARLY PEAK New coronavirus cases reported each day in the U.S. are reaching levels unseen since the initial height of the pandemic as states lift restrictions and people ditch social distancing measures. New cases have topped 30,000 each day this week and are on track to surpass mid-April's record peak. Infections began to decline last month under restrictive lockdowns, but the economy suffered and President Donald Trump began goading followers to protest the restrictions and go back to work. [HuffPost]
FEDS SET TO CUT TESTING FUNDS AS CASES SOAR COVID-19 testing centers across five states are set to lose federal funding next week after the Trump administration decided not to extend the program that established them. As a result, testing sites across Colorado (1), Illinois (2), New Jersey (2), Pennsylvania (1) and Texas (7) will likely close if those states are unable to replace the funding. Assistant Secretary for Health Brett Giroir said the program that originally funded 41 such sites across 48 states would end next week. [HuffPost]
DOZENS OF SECRET SERVICE AGENTS TOLD TO QUARANTINE AFTER TULSA RALLY Dozens of Secret Service agents have been instructed to self-quarantine after two agents who attended Trump’s rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday tested positive for the coronavirus. The Secret Service told agents who worked at the Tulsa campaign event to stay home for 14 days. The Secret Service field office in Tulsa also reportedly arranged for a testing session at a hospital to determine if local agents contracted the virus while working during the event. [HuffPost] |
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DOJ WHISTLEBLOWERS: BARR IS TRUMP'S HACK Justice Department attorneys offered damning congressional testimony about Attorney General William Barr’s political interference in the department’s work involving Trump’s allies and Barr’s own ideological interests. Aaron Zelinsky, who served as a prosecutor on the special counsel team led by Robert Mueller and was later detailed to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia as he worked on the case against former Trump associate Roger Stone, told members of the House Judiciary Committee that it was clear there was political interference in Stone’s sentencing process. [HuffPost]
OAKLAND SCHOOL BOARD VOTES TO ELIMINATE ITS POLICE DEPARTMENT The school board in Oakland, California, unanimously voted to dismantle the school district’s police department — the latest to cut ties with law enforcement amid nationwide anti-racism protests. All seven board members voted in favor of the “George Floyd Resolution to Eliminate the Oakland School Police Department.” Oakland Unified School District has its own police department, with over 120 officers and other personnel. [HuffPost]
APPEALS COURT ORDERS JUDGE TO DROP FLYNN CASE A federal appeals court, in a 2-1 decision, moved to force a federal judge to dismiss a criminal case against former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn, who has twice admitted his guilt. William Barr's Justice Department moved to dismiss the case against Trump associate Flynn, who has admitted to lying to the FBI about his communications with the Russian government. Judge Neomi Rao of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, a Trump appointee who formerly served in the Trump administration, wrote the majority opinion. [HuffPost] |
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WHAT'S BREWING
TRUMP NOTCHES HIS 200TH LIFETIME FEDERAL JUDGE Senate Republicans confirmed Trump’s 200th lifetime federal judge, a number higher than any president has confirmed in a first term in decades. Zero of his judges at the highest levels ― on the nation’s appeals courts and the Supreme Court ― have been Black. And it’s the first time in four decades that there isn’t a single appeals court vacancy left nationwide. The president hit the milestone as Republicans voted to put Cory Wilson onto the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit. [HuffPost]
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION WILL BE ALMOST ENTIRELY VIRTUAL The Democratic convention in Milwaukee Aug. 17 to Aug. 20 will be almost entirely virtual, using live broadcasts and online streaming. Joe Biden plans to accept the presidential nomination in person, but it remains to be seen whether there will be a significant in-person audience to see it. The Democratic National Committee said in a statement that official business, including the official vote to nominate Biden, will take place virtually, with delegates being asked not to travel to Milwaukee. [AP]
CROWD TEARS DOWN STATUES AT WISCONSIN STATE CAPITOL Crowds outside the Wisconsin State Capitol tore down two statues and attacked a state senator amid protests following the arrest of a Black man who was at a restaurant with a megaphone and a baseball bat. Video released by Madison police shows the man talking through the megaphone Tuesday while walking near the restaurant’s outdoor patio. He goes inside and says he’s “disturbing” the restaurant. The unrest followed weeks of mostly peaceful protests of the death of George Floyd. [AP]
WOMAN WHO PRAISED KKK APOLOGIZES The Missouri woman who went viral for waving a Confederate flag, praising the Ku Klux Klan and vowing to teach hate to her grandchildren while at a Black Lives Matter protest in Branson is apologizing. “I’m so, so sorry,” Kathy Jenkins told Ozarks First. “I mean, if it would help for me to stand with Black Lives Matter, I absolutely would do that.” Jenkins said she “blacked out” during the event and doesn’t remember what she said as anti-racism protesters gathered outside a store that sells Confederate merchandise. [HuffPost]
FACIAL RECOGNITION FAIL LED TO FIRST KNOWN WRONGFUL ARREST A botched facial recognition match led to the first known wrongful arrest in the United States based on the increasingly used technology, civil liberties activists alleged in a complaint to Detroit police. Robert Williams spent over a day in custody in January after face recognition software matched his driver’s license photo to surveillance video of someone shoplifting, the ACLU said in the complaint. In a video shared by ACLU, Williams says officers released him after acknowledging “the computer” must have been wrong. [AP] |
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