President Trump announced a peace agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates on Thursday. He continues to push to reopen schools this fall, while Joe Biden calls for a national masking mandate. CBSN political reporter Caitlin Huey-Burns and NPR White House correspondent Tamara Keith joined CBSN with the latest White House news.
At his press conference Wednesday, President Trump, as he usually does, asked for a consultation with Chanel Rion, the White House’s lead correspondent for the conservative Network One America News, who has sometimes replaced Fox News as the president’s favorite media outlet. Rion’s consultation had nothing to do with COVID-19 or the economic recovery Trump boasted about, but rather a difficult-to-understand website, antifa.com. I sought to point out some kind of situation.
Infectious disease specialists and U.S. vaccine scientists have sounded the alarm over Russia’s announcement that it will begin vaccinating its population that opposes coronavirus, precipitating mass production of an unproven vaccine. On Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that the government had approved the use of a COVID-19 vaccine, the first country to do so. “What did [the Russians] do?” Paul Offit, head of the infectious diseases department at Philadelphia Children’s Hospital and co-inventor of the rotavirus vaccine, said in an interview with Yahoo News.
A Salt Lake City police dog was ordered to attack an African-American boy who was on his knees with his hands in the air. Officers arrived at Jeffery Ryans’ home in April in Salt Lake City, Utah, after answering a call from someone who said they heard him arguing with his wife, according to the Daily Mail. Ryans faces domestic violence charges because his wife filed a protective order against him in December 2019, however, the 36-year-old man said he stayed home for weeks after his wife asked for the order to be lifted.
Three other people were killed in the Indian city of Bangalore after police fired fire on crowds protesting a supposedly blasphemous Facebook post. Crowds gathered outdoors at the home of a local politician whose father accused of making an “offensive” message about the Prophet Muhammad. They put cars in the chimney and attacked police officers who came to the site with stones, police told BBC Hindi.
As a brayly gay black woman, April Anderson said she is no stranger to discrimination. It was a disturbing slap in the mouth to Anderson and his wife and partner, Michelle. “We’re so used to being black lesbian women,” Anderson said.
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Satellite photographs recommend that recent north Korea floods may have damaged pumping stations connected to the country’s main nuclear facility, a US-based panel of experts said Thursday. Analysts from 38 North, a company that monitors North Korea, said ad satellite photographs from August 6-11 showed how vulnerable nuclear reactor cooling systems are at the Yongthrough Nuclear Science Research Center to excessive weather events. The Korean Peninsula has been affected by one of the longest rainy periods in recent history, with floods and landslides causing damage and deaths in North and South Korea.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp said Thursday that he dropped a lawsuit against the city of Atlanta in a dispute over the city’s requirement to wear a mask in public and other restrictions similar to the coronavirus pandemic. Kemp sued Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and the city council to prevent local restrictions from being implemented, even as the number of cases and hospitalizations in the state soared. The Republican governor argued that local governments cannot impose more or less restrictive measures than those on his state executive orders, which strongly suggested that other people wear masks but did not require them.
A clothing store on the Coast of Georgia apologizes for a dating policy that some consumers discriminate against. Civvies on Broughton in Savannah sparked a typhoon on social media this week after declaring that it would only rate white consumers with a $20 refundable payment to buy at the old clothing store, WJCL reported. However, the deposit, which was used to maintain a customer’s appointment space, was canceled for color customers.
President Trump returned to racist attacks on Joe Biden’s housing policy Wednesday, with a call to “the suburban housewife” that sounds a shocking off-position note in 2020. Last month, Trump announced that he affirmatively repealed the Obama era in favor of justice. The housing rule, which aimed to combat discrimination in housing by strengthening the implementation of the Fair Housing Act 1968.
Herman Cain, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee who died after collapsing COVID-19, continues to denounce Democratic politicians on social media two weeks after his death. “In case you think Biden’s candidacy is going to be crazy, Trump’s team released a new video,” it reads in the first message on Cain’s Twitter account since August 7 that shared the time of his funeral. The avalanche of political messages on her social media accounts are the paintings of Cain’s daughter, Dr. Melanie Cain Gallo.
Plexiglass shields, barriers and bubbles may become the norm for indoor food due to the coronavirus pandemic. Restaurants and other businesses have been sorting down barriers since March. But both experts and consumers ask whether protective measures are sufficient, as the virus can live on surfaces for up to 72 hours.
The slogan “Defund the police” was introduced in protests against the death of George Floyd on May 25. Merriam-Webster defines defund as “withdraw funds”. The Cambridge dictionary says it in clearer terms: “stop offering cash to pay for something.”
A guy from Virginia who boasted of his rank at the Ku Klux Klan was sentenced to six years in prison for driving his van into a crowd of protesters demonstrating against police violence. Court records show that Harry Rogers, 37, was convicted of six misdemeanors and still faces three other felony counts. Prosecutors said Rogers drove “recklessly” on the median of a road, then “walked towards the protesters, turned on the engine and entered the protesters.”
The United States has designated the Confucius Institute (CI), the Chinese government-led global education program, as a foreign propaganda mission. This comes at a time of China-U.S. deterioration. Relations. In delivering the decision, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called the Confucius Institute “an entity that promotes Beijing’s global propaganda and malicious influence crusade” in U.S. study rooms and campuses.
South Dakota officials said Wednesday that they plan to build a $400,000 security fence around the official governor’s apartment to Governor Kristi Noem.
French President Emmanuel Macron met Wednesday with the leaders of Russia and Iran and suggested that they cooperate with the rest of the foreign network to repair stability in Lebanon. While Iran and Russia are vital players in the region and have provided assistance to Lebanon since last week’s devastating explosion, none attended a foreign donor convention organized Sunday through France and the United Nations to help rebuild Beirut. Macron visited Beirut after the explosion and presented himself to the former French protectorate.
A teenage hostess at a Chilean restaurant in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, visited a hospital with minor injuries following an alleged attack through a consumer organization disappointed by coVID-19 seating restrictions. Kelsy Wallace, 17, said he attacked Sunday when he tried to enforce social estrangement policies from the place to eat and informed the women’s organization that they may not sit together, WAFB reported. My general manager and my other managers tell us that we can’t sit at a table of more than six because of the [virus] crown,” he told the news channel.
Marjorie Taylor Greene won Tuesday’s election for the Republican nomination in Georgia’s 14th Conservative Congress District, leading her to become the first open defender of the QAnon conspiracy theory in the House of Representatives. Greene declared victory on Twitter on Tuesday night, despite what he described as concerted attacks through “the Republican Party, the media and the radical left.” “Tonight, the other Georgians stood up and said we wouldn’t be intimidated or those lies,” Greene tweeted.
This little woman is me’: Kamala Harris attacks Biden with a non-public story about race The debate: Health care and CNN regulations are among the winners and losers of the Democratic debate Tuesday until Beau’s death in 2015, Harris had a penchant and friendship with the Delaware politician – and by extension his father Array , former Vice President Joe Biden, the alleged Democratic presidential nominee. Elder Biden approved him for the post of senator. Harris attended Beau’s funeral and praised the Delaware Circle of Relatives over the years.