From me and Joan E Greve:
A New York Times correspondent expelled from Trump’s rally.
Gray had published photographs of the crowd in the past at the demonstration, many of which had been unmasked.
Donald Trump, addressing a crowd of unmasked supporters most commonly crowded in an airport hangar, has intensified racism.
In addition to a racist term for coronavirus and making his own promise to “protect” the suburbs, Trump criticized his opponent Joe Biden’s plan to admit more refugees, saying, “He promised to flood his state with refugees from terrorist spaces like Syria, Yemen. “
There is a giant population of Syrian and Yemeni Americans living in Michigan, many of whom in Dearbon, just 30 minutes from Freeland, where Trump is speaking.
Donald Trump is a demonstration in Michigan tonight.
As is standard practice amid the pandemic, Trump supporters once hunched in an airport hangar.
The Afghan government and Taliban will begin peace talks on Saturday, seeking success in a power-sharing agreement when U. S. troops leave the country after nearly two decades.
Negotiations to verify the end of the long civil war were agreed as part of a withdrawal agreement that the United States signed with the Taliban in February, but have been stagnant for months by the main points of the promised prisoner exchange.
After several massive liberations of Taliban fighters, the last stumbling block six rebel prisoners arrested for killing French, Australian and U. S. citizens. These governments had opposed the release of men, but agreed on a compromise that would put them under space arrest in Doha. On Thursday they were transported to Qatar and the start of the talks was announced.
The Taliban delegation is headed by the group’s deputy leader, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, who a decade ago imprisoned through the Pakistani government for trying to start peace talks with the Afghan government, which was liberated in 2018.
Cleric Mawlawi Abdul Hakim Haqqani will play a leading role in negotiations on behalf of the Taliban and is believed to weigh on fighters on the ground.
The Afghan government delegation is headed by Abdullah Abdullah, who for several years was the “executive director” of a national unity government led by President Ashraf Ghani. His team is a combination of government and opposition figures, with former intelligence leader Masoom Stanekzai as lead negotiator.
Any progress is likely to be slow, as either party tries to close the gap between the Taliban’s view of an Islamist regime and the democratic formula enshrined in the existing constitution.
A three-judge panel on Thursday banned the Trump administration from excluding undocumented immigrants from census totals used for the number of seats in Congress that each state gets.
Trump acted illegally in July when he ordered the Department of Commerce to produce knowledge that would allow him to exclude undocumented immigrants from the count, the panel said. Federal law makes it clear that only one source of knowledge, the general population census, can be used. To allocate all 435 seats in the U. S. House between states, the judges wrote. The 10-year census does not ask questions about the prestige of citizenship and by requesting a moment of open-air knowledge from the 10-year census, Trump violated the law.
“Congress has required the president to use an express set of figures, those produced through the 10-year census itself, for redistribution purposes,” the panel wrote. “By departing from this term, the presidential memorandum exceeds the president’s authority. “The three judges who issued the unanimous resolution were Federal District Judge Jesse Furman, a user appointed through Barack Obama, and Appellate Judges Peter Hall and Richard Wesley, appointed through George W. Bush.
The decision, which is likely to be appealed to the U. S. Supreme Court, is a primary legal victory for civil rights and immigration groups, as well as for nearly two dozen states and several cities that have defied the law. He long included immigrants, regardless of their legal status, in the distribution count and their exclusion understood as an undeniable effort to maintain the political strength of white Americans.
“This is a massive victory for the right to vote and for the rights of immigrants. President Trump once tried and was unable to militarize the census of immigrant communities,” said Dale Ho, director of the Electoral Rights Project at American Civil Liberties. Union, which helped to form some of the plaintiffs. ” The law is transparent: each and every user counts in the census. “
The resolution is the latest progression in an ongoing legal war on the 2020 census. The U. S. Supreme Court has blocked an effort to charge a citizenship factor to last year’s 10-year investigation, and demanding legal situations are being held to force the Trump administration to make decisions. higher is the deadline for counting Americans.
Unprecedented wildfires and hasty evacuations in Oregon have wreaked havoc on the state’s imprisoned population, with thousands now overcrowded in a single overcrowded criminal who is already a main hot spot in Covid-19.
A destructive, stretching chimney in Marion County led the state to evacuate 3 prisons on Tuesday, moving another 1450 people to the Oregon State Penitentiary (OSP) in Salem. Evacuees sleep on the ground and in emergency beds throughout the OCO, adding interior recreation. areas, program rooms and other amenities that are sometimes not used for housing.
OSP had more than 2,000 prisoners prior to evacuations and reported at least 143 infections to Covid-19. The government admits that overcrowded situations in facilities can simply spread the virus further. Activists are also involved in the effect of smoke. inmates with breathing problems.
Family members and supporters told the Guardian that disruption at the facility was already increasing, with other people crammed into makeshift dormitories, some struggling to breathe from the smoke, prisoners facing long waits for food, fighting, and ongoing confusion and chaos.
The Los Angeles Times Joe Biden as president, noting that “nothing less than the suitability of our constitutional democracy is at stake. “
The newspaper has backed Democratic nominees in all recent elections: Obama in 2008 and Clinton in 2016. California is a reliable blue state.
But this year, the Times editorial committee writes, “presidential elections confront the electorate with the top selection they have faced in decades, and for many, in their lives: between a divisive, authoritarian-trend holder and an experienced patriot who not only brings five decades of experience, capacity, and commitment to American values, but also ambitious concepts in times of national crisis.
Approval continued: “The contrast between Donald Trump and Joe Biden is so stark that we feel compelled to announce our approval of the HasArray Democratic nominee. . . before applicants watch televised debates. “
“It is that all that will be said at the debate level will bridge the cavernous aptitude hole between the two candidates,” the council said.
Beyond being the viable option for Trump in this election cycle, the board praised Biden’s equivalent temperament and willingness to adopt progressive goals for reforming police, environmental policy, and health care.
Read the approval here.
By Lauren Gambino and David Smith in Washington and Joanna Walters in New York:
Biden called Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic “almost criminal” after the in-book revelations that the U. S. president admitted in early February that the disease was “fatal” but intentionally downplayed.
As Covid-19’s death toll approaches 200,000 in the United States, the highest in the world, Biden exculpated his opponent in the November election for how he failed to cope with his presidency’s defining crisis in an early and complete manner.
“He waved the white flag,” Biden told CNN’s Jake Tapper in an interview that is expected to be fully broadcast Thursday afternoon. “He’s gone. He didn’t do anything, think about it! And it’s almost criminal. “
Bob Woodward’s new book, Rage, whose highlights were revealed Wednesday in his Washington Post newspaper, features 18 interviews with Trump from the expiration of 2019 through early summer 2020, covering the onset and peak of the pandemic in the United States. Interviews were recorded and therefore Trump should be denied.
Woodward, a veteran journalist who helped break the Watergate scandal in the 1970s that nevertheless overthrew President Richard Nixon, shows that in early February this year, when the first infections in the United States emerged, Trump knew the extent of death. threat of coronavirus. .
And the president had been informed that it was an airborne illness, and much more deadly than the flu, but deliberately deceived the public in deciding to “minimize,” claiming it was low when it wasn’t and predicting that the virus would “disappear. “At the same time, he recognized Woodward that “it’s a fatal thing. “
On February 7, he told Woodward on a phone call: “It’s going through the air. It’s harder than touch. You don’t have to touch things. Truth? But the air, you just breathe the air and that’s how it happened. “So it’s a very delicate question. This is a very sensitive subject. It’s also more fatal even than its exhausting flu. “
Biden said Donald Trump “doesn’t seem to have what constitutes national security. “In an interview with CNN, the Democratic presidential candidate commented on the revelations in Bob Woodward’s upcoming book.
Biden expressed fear that Trump would reveal the lifestyles of a nuclear weapons formula classified in talks with Woodward. “This is the guy who said maybe the way to deal with a hurricane is to drop a nuclear bomb on them. I mean, seriously, he said it. ” Biden said. “I mean, God, or you know, the challenge with the War of Independence that they didn’t have enough airports. I mean, it’s just — it’s beyond my comprehension. “
At a roundtable, Kamala Harris also condemned Trump for his “recklessness over the life, fitness, and well-being” of Americans, after Woodward reported that Trump had minimized the severity of the coronavirus threat.
“There are so many reasons why Joe Biden is elected president of the United States. And if the reasons don’t help you perceive why, in fact, you do,” Harris said.
That’s all from me today. My West Coast colleague, Maanvi Singh, will be back on the blog for a few hours.
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Less than 8 weeks before the November 3 election, Trump crusade attorneys urge federal sentencing in Las Vegas to block a new state law and prevent ballots from being mailed to the entire active Nevada electorate amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The crusade argues in documents filed this week in an effort to keep his trial alive, which is hurt by state law passed in July through the Democratic-led legislature because it forces Republicans to divert resources to “educate the Nevada electorate about those changes. “”and inspire them to keep voting.
Trump’s crusade argues that sending ballots to nearly 1. 7 million active nevada voters will obstruct Republicans’ ability to elect candidates “because the law” will confuse “their electorate and” create an incentive “to stay away from the polls. “
Postcards will be sent in the coming weeks, The Associated Press writes.
The 16-page U. S. District Court filed a reaction to Nevada Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske’s move last month to dismiss the lawsuit filed through the Trump campaign, the Republican National Committee, and state Republicans.
Cegavske, also a Republican, opposed the law as unavailable before its passage. The trial targeted her as the most sensible election official in the state.
Attorney General Aaron Ford’s office, a Democrat, is protecting justice.
Nevada argues that the Crusade of Trump and Republicans have the legal capacity to take the case to court and have explained how they would be harmed.
The state also argues that Republicans do not make their “nebulous argument that (state law) increases the likelihood of voter fraud. “
The Democratic National Committee and state Democrats seek to subscrib to the lawsuit, and lawyers from across the country have applied to participate.
Read The Guardian’s Fight to Vote series here.
At his press conference in the White House a few moments ago, Trump stated that he had spent much of the more than 24 hours watching Fox News.
“I watch some programs, ” said the president. ” I look at Liz MacDonald, she’s fantastic. Fox Company. Vi Lou Dobbs last night. Sean Hannity last night, Tucker last night, Laura. I saw ” Fox
Admission was notable as we contemplated the fact that another 1,206 Americans died of coronavirus, according to Johns Hopkins University.
Trump also said last night (in an interview with Fox News) that he would not read Bob Woodward’s new e-book because “I don’t have time. “
Trump concluded his press convention after answering a few questions, adding one from a conservative Newsmax worker who did not deal with the coronavirus pandemic.
When asked why he had spoken to Bob Woodward 18 times about his new book, Trump replied, “I did it out of curiosity. “The president wondered if, like Woodward, who is best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning paintings exposing the Watergate scandal, he “could write well. “
Despite the growing number of coronavirus deaths in the country, Trump has sent a positive message that the crisis is coming to an end in the United States. “We’re getting to the last corner,” Trump said.
By comparison, Dr. Anthony Fauci said earlier in the day: “We have to snuggle up and cross this fall and this winter, because it may not be easy. “
Trump also insisted that Woodward had released recordings of his previous conversations if he was concerned, echoing the journalist’s recent criticism.
The president said, “If Bob Woodward has any idea that what I said was wrong, immediately, immediately after I said it, he will move on to the government by the way to be prepared and let them know.
A Washington Post reporter replied, “Bob Woodward is the president. “
Trump has tried to deflect duty to emerging coronavirus deaths in the country by blaming China for the pandemic, but the president has expressed confidence that the United States is in the final stretch of its crisis.
“We’re getting to the last corner and a lot of things are happening,” Trump said.
The president boasted of his administration’s “phenomenal work” to respond to the pandemic, even though the death toll in the United States is much higher than in any other country.
Trump also continued to insist that he minimized the pandemic because he sought to motivate calm in the country.
The president said, “I don’t need to jump back and forth and start screaming, “Death!Dead!”
Trump denied the mendacity to other Americans about the severity of the coronavirus, while admitting to Bob Woodward that he deliberately minimized the pandemic.
When Jonathan Karl of ABC News was asked about his comments, Trump lashed out at reporter for asking a “terrible question. “
“I didn’t lie, ” said Trump.
But the president told Woodward in February that the coronavirus was “fatal” and was air-streaming because it publicly minimized the risk of the virus.
During his white space press conference, Trump launched a political attack on Democratic candidate Joe Biden.
The president said Biden is “perfectly happy” to endanger Americans’ lives for political purposes.
But it was Trump who told Bob Woodward in March that he was intentionally seeking to minimize the coronavirus pandemic.
Trump said the U. S. is “turning the corner” in the coronavirus crisis, even as the death toll in the country continues to rise to around 200,000.
According to Johns Hopkins University, at least 191536 Americans have already died of the virus.
The president also favorably compared America’s reaction to the coronavirus to that of European countries, even though the United States continues to far outperigh its European allies in terms of deaths.