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Trump doesn’t win the ratings game
A protest over racial justice in Washington attracted thousands of people
There seems to have been a lot of improvement in USPS
In Chicago, postal staff say the back mail is so superior in some services that the staff has some space to walk. In Albuquerque, New Mexico, mail managers tell NBC News that priority mail is several days a week on average.
And in Tacoma, Washington, several postal employees said the new assignments meant that many mail trucks had to leave five minutes in advance, completely empty.
A week after Postmaster Louis DeJoy announced that he temporarily postponed adjustments to the U.S. Postal Service, NBC News met with 8 postal union representatives nationwide, all of whom expressed considerations and provided examples of persistent delays in mail delivery. They said the recent removal of cargo charges of postal sorting machines and uncompromising new operating rules for trucks and postmen have exacerbated the slowdown.
“I’ve never noticed anything like this,” said Keith Richardson, president of the American Postal Workers Union of Chicago, Local 1, and a veteran position that worked for 28 years as a mail processing employee.
Several hundred more people piled up in Charlotte for the RNC. The video showed that many participants had no mask and did not stray socially.
Two participants and two members who ran for the Republican National Convention in Charlotte tested positive for coronavirus, local fitness officials said Friday.
Mecklenburg County officials said the other four people were remote and that the people they had contacted had been alerted. The Department of Health did not say if any had shown symptoms of the virus.
Abe’s term ends in September 2021. Stay until a new leader is elected.
Japan’s longest-serving Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, said Friday that he intended to resign because a chronic fitness challenge had resurfaced. He told reporters it was “heartbreaking” to leave so many of his goals unfinished.
Abe has had ulcerative colitis since he was a teenager and said the disease was controlled by a remedy. Concerns about Abe’s fitness began this summer and grew this month when he visited a Tokyo hospital two weeks in a row for unspecified checks. He is now undergoing a new remedy that requires intravenous injections, he said. While there is some improvement, there is no guarantee that it will cure his condition and therefore made the decision to retire after the remedy on Monday, he said.
“It’s heartbreaking to have to give up my homework before achieving my goals,” Abe said Friday, mentioning his failure to solve the challenge of Japanese abducted years ago through North Korea and a territorial dispute with Russia.
He claimed that his fitness challenge was under control until the beginning of the year, but that he had relapsed in June in an annual review.
The video shows police escorting Paul and his wife through a crowd of shouting protesters. It doesn’t look like the Pauls were beaten or hurt.
Friday morning, Senator Rand Paul (Republican for Kentucky) said he “attacked through an angry mob” as he and his wife walked through the White House following President Trump’s final speech at the Republican National Convention.
“I was attacked through a mob of more than a hundred people, a block from the White House,” Paul tweeted, thanking the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department for “literally saving our lives.”
A video uploaded to Twitter viastander showed Paul and his wife, Kelley Paul, escorted by police to a crowd of protesters after the occasions at the White House.
Some officials can be heard shouting “again” at the crowd of protesters as they shouted for the senator to “say her name,” a non-unusual chorus of protesters about the police killing of Breonna Taylor in the state of Kentucky at Paul’s home.
An image of the RNC’s last day scenario
Trump’s most sensitive advisers have argued that the riots that erupted along with nonviolent protests opposed to racial injustice would crystallize Trump’s electorate’s “surveillance” program. Democrats, defied the president’s team, have failed for decades to resolve the unrest that ravaged the country throughout the summer.
“We are proposing political solutions,” White House senior adviser Jared Kushner said Thursday. “The other one complains a lot.”
Biden responded that the Trump team was cynically employing the riots to bolster their own campaign. He has accused Trump of fueling racial discord over his own political aspirations in his presidency.
Trump “sees it as a political advantage,” Biden told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell on Thursday afternoon. “It’s the same guy, when other people came from Charlottesville and killed a young woman, spat on hate and her veins swelled up, dressed in swastikas… he says there are other very smart people on both sides. helps to keep pouring gas into the fire. He cheers him up.”
“This is your America, ” said Biden.
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Biden receives a set of Republican recommendations
Groups of former pre-edidatus George W. Bush, the late Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) And Senator Mitt Romney (R-Utah) has become the last Republicans to ally with Joe Biden about Trump.
In separate letters released Thursday, nearly two dozen Bush students, more than a hundred McCain students and more than 30 Romney students announced their support for Biden, and teams expressed alarm over Trump’s career.
Notable names in Bush’s letter come with former Trade Secretary Carlos Gutierrez and former Treasury Secretary Rosario Marín.
“The avalanche of insults and vulgarities we have witnessed in recent years will have to stop,” his letter says. “Our young people are after us. If we use misogyny and racism as political tactics, we are complicit in utterly normalizing irrelevant behavior. That’s not what we are as a nation.”