A senior Trump management officer has COVID-19. Tensions between the United States and China are rising. And this would possibly be the beginning of the MLB goal.
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Late Rep. John Lewis returned to the nation’s capital on Monday for a definitive farewell to the other people and vital monuments for the longtime civil rights icon and legislator. On his way to Capitol Rotunda, Lewis’ hearse passed through the monument to Martin Luther King Jr., who was Lewis’ friend and mentor. He passed the Lincoln Memorial, where Lewis delivered the 1963 march over Washington. And he passed through Black Lives Matter Plaza, where Lewis made his last public appearance as the protests took place across the country following the death of George Floyd.
The coffin covered with The Flag of Lewis will rest on the east front of the Capitol so the public can pass and pay their respects. Early Monday, members of the circle of family members and lawmakers bid farewell through the Capitol roundabout. “John was respected and enjoyed on both sides of the aisle, on either side of the Capitol. We knew he worked on the side of the angels,” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. And now we know he’s with them.
Will a 72-hour season be enough for major league fans? Two games scheduled for Monday night were postponed after the Miami Marlins reported that at least 14 players and staff had tested positive for COVID-19. The Marlins postponed their first home game opposite Baltimore; and the Phillies, who welcomed the Marlins in Philadelphia this weekend, postponed at least one game against visitors to the New York Yankees. Commissioner Rob Manfred will now have to delay the 2020 season, postpone it until further notice, or expect the Marlins outbreak to be a remote case. The epidemic, especially at the start of the 60-game season, is baseball’s worst nightmare.
Senate Republicans on Monday launched a $1 trillion coronavirus relief program that includes some other stimulus check circular, more small business assistance, and cash in reopening schools. Almost immediately, he criticized conservative lawmakers for the wrong and costly already Democrats as a ridiculously delayed effort that did not meet the nation’s needs. Dubbed the HEALS Act, the law is expected to release serious negotiations with House Democrats who passed their own HEROES bill in May, which is expected to charge $3 trillion.
This pandemic is, in fact, the worst of all time.
The coronavirus pandemic is “through the maximum serious emergency” ever declared through the World Health Organization, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Monday. “The COVID-19 pandemic illustrates that fitness is not a praise for development, it is the basis of social, economic and political stability,” he said.
At least we’re on a vaccine.
The first U.S. giant-scale trial to verify a possible COVID-19 vaccine began Monday, with Moderna dosing participants in the Phase 3 exam of their mNR vaccine candidate opposed to COVID-19. Several vaccines manufactured through China and the British University of Oxford began checking this month, but none have proven effective in a giant population.
A senior Trump adviser has COVID-19
President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, Robert O’Brien, tested positive for COVID-19. “He has mild symptoms and has isolated himself and has worked from a safe place off site,” the White House said in a statement, saying there was no threat of exposure to the president or vice president. O’Brien is the top official in senior management to contract the virus.
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The United States closed a Chinese consulate in Houston, so China closed a U.S. consulate in Chengdu. Eye-for-eye closures mark a significant escalation of tensions between the two global powers, which erupted due to the pandemic, trade, human rights, Taiwan and Hong Kong. The State Department expressed its sadness at Monday’s closure of its facility in Chengdu and said the consulate “has been in the middle of our relations with other people in western China, adding Tibet, for 35 years.” A day earlier, China’s Foreign Ministry issued a protest alleging that U.S. movements violated the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations and China-U.S. Consular Convention.
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