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Why Do the Last Votes Counted Skew Democratic?

Explaining the “blue shift” in results that Trump will call fraudulent.

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Trump Says Person Shot By Secret Service Outside White House Grounds

A COVID-19 briefing was delayed when Trump was escorted from the room and informed that Secret Service shot a suspect outside the White House fencing.
Destructive Derecho Tears Through Midwest, Heading Toward Chicago

The windstorm has already caused power outages for 430,000 in the region as it heads toward a city reeling from a night of unrest.
Trump’s Stimulus Orders Create Legal and Administrative Chaos

Student loan payment suspensions aside, Trump’s orders mostly depend on actions by others that could make thwart his scheme, even without litigation.
More Than 100 People Arrested After Downtown Chicago Looting

The Magnificent Mile turned chaotic Sunday night after a police shooting on the city’s South Side hours earlier.
Please Throw Away Your Onions

The humble staple ingredient has been linked to a massive salmonella outbreak.
Instagram Is a Wicked, Tempting Mistress

The president of Liberty University has stepped down after posting a regrettable vacation selfie.
McDonald’s Is Suing Its Former CEO

Steve Easterbrook allegedly lied and destroyed evidence about relationships with employees.
Antonio Banderas Has Worst Birthday Ever, Tests Positive for COVID-19

“I would like to add that I feel relatively good, just a little more tired than usual.”
Hong Kong’s Media Crackdown Has Begun in Earnest

A pro-democracy newspaper owner was arrested for colluding with a foreign power, a charge that could mean life in prison.
What We Know About Trump’s New ‘Executive Orders’

The president’s power grab is more likely to deliver a constitutional crisis than economic relief during the pandemic.
Rachael Ray Safe After New York House Fire

“The house is unfortunately damaged and we don’t yet know to what extent,” her rep told outlets.
U.S. Surpasses 5 Million COVID-19 Cases

And there’s still no adequate federal response to slow the spread of the summer outbreak.
Could USPS Leadership Overhaul Be Part of Trump’s Push to Impair Mail-in Voting?

Changes at the top of the Postal Service appear to be part of Trump’s effort to undermine the agency ahead of an election reliant on mail-in voting.
9 COVID Cases Reported at High School Whose Packed Halls Went Viral

At least six students and three teachers at Georgia’s North Paulding High School have tested positive for coronavirus.
Simon Cowell Breaks His Back From Electric Bike Crash

He had to undergo emergency surgery.
Yes, Trump Actually Did Want to Be Added to Mount Rushmore

A White House aide reportedly looked into the process for adding another president’s face to the monument.
Zoë Kravitz Calls Out Hulu for Lack of Shows Starring Women of Color

“At least Hulu has a ton of other shows starring women of color we can watch. Oh wait.”
TikTok Is Reportedly Suing the Trump Administration

Try making a dance challenge out of this.
U.S. Intelligence Says Republicans Are Working With Russia to Reelect Trump

The collusion is happening in plain sight.
Georgia NAACP Head Asks Matt Lieberman to Drop Senate Bid

Lieberman’s self-published 2018 novel is allegedly loaded with “racist tropes.”

6:34 P.M. Trump Says Person Shot by Secret Service Outside White House A COVID-19 briefing was delayed when Trump was escorted from the room and informed that Secret Service shot a person outside the White House fencing.
5:45 P.M. Destructive Derecho Tears Through Midwest Toward Chicago The windstorm has already caused power outages for 430,000 in the region as it heads toward a city reeling from a night of unrest.
5:44 P.M. Why Do the Last Votes Counted Skew Democratic? The “blue shift” in results that Trump will call fraudulent likely comes from provisional ballots and late Democratic voting by mail.
1:43 P.M. Trump Stimulus Orders Create Legal and Administrative Chaos Student-loan-payment suspensions aside, Trump’s orders mostly depend on actions by others that could thwart his scheme, even without litigation.
12:42 P.M. More Than 100 People Arrested After Downtown Chicago Looting The Magnificent Mile turned chaotic Sunday night after a police shooting on the city’s South Side hours earlier.
12:31 P.M. ‘Working Class’ Conservatism Doesn’t Work Without Unions Self-styled “populist” Republicans — who oppose pro-labor policies — are just Reaganites in different clothes.
10:09 A.M. If Uber Eats Isn’t Profitable Now, When Can It Be? Huge growth is based on charging customers less for delivery than drivers get paid to provide it.
10:07 A.M. Hong Kong’s Media Crackdown Has Begun in Earnest A pro-democracy newspaper owner was arrested for colluding with a foreign power, a charge that could mean life in prison.
7:00 A.M. The Senate Is America’s Most Structurally Racist Institution Why is massive overrepresentation for white America still acceptable in 2020?
Aug. 9, 2020 What We Know About Trump’s New ‘Executive Orders’ The president’s power grab is more likely to deliver a constitutional crisis than economic relief during the pandemic.
Aug. 9, 2020 U.S. Surpasses 5 Million COVID-19 Cases And there’s still no adequate federal response to slow the spread of the summer outbreak.
Aug. 9, 2020 USPS Leadership in Disarray as Trump Blasts Mail-in Voting Changes at the top of the Postal Service appear to be part of Trump’s effort to undermine the agency ahead of an election reliant on mail-in voting.
Aug. 9, 2020 The Good (But Not Great) News on T-Cells and Herd Immunity Two areas of research offer tentative hope that meaningful natural protection from COVID-19 may come sooner than expected.
Aug. 8, 2020 Yes, Trump Actually Did Want to Be Added to Mount Rushmore A White House aide reportedly looked into the process for adding another president’s face to the monument.
Aug. 8, 2020 Bill de Blasio Is Using New York’s Murder Rate to Demagogue The mayor doesn’t know why murder rates have risen in the city. But he’s using them for political purposes anyway.
Aug. 8, 2020 U.S. Intelligence: GOP Is Accepting Russian Help for Trump The collusion is happening in plain sight.
Aug. 8, 2020 How the Final Stretch of Biden’s VP Search Is Playing Out It’s been an abnormal, increasingly contentious process, but the wait is finally almost over.
Aug. 7, 2020 Georgia NAACP Head Asks Matt Lieberman to Drop Senate Bid Lieberman’s self-published 2018 novel is allegedly loaded with “racist tropes.”
Aug. 7, 2020 Cuomo Says New York Schools Can Reopen, But Hurdles Remain School districts have the green light. Whether they move forward with in-person learning is still an open question.
Aug. 7, 2020 Democrats Struggle to Feature Stars at Shrunken Convention With no live audience and reduced media coverage, and no incumbent president to soak up attention, Democrats will have to be careful about who speaks.

9:09 P.M. Accused Scammers Downsize to $9.5 Million Mansion Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli reportedly bought themselves a more modest estate ahead of their sentencing hearing.
7:55 P.M. Everything We Know About the Killing of George Floyd Newly released body cam footage suggests the officers involved adopted an aggressive stance from the outset.
6:32 P.M. Let Me Live Vicariously Through These Whales Two belugas are thrilled to return to the sea after a long, involuntary stint in captivity.
5:35 P.M. Let Megan Thee Stallion Teach You a Perfect Cat Eye In her first-ever beauty vlog.
5:30 P.M. What Will a Second Lockdown Look Like? Some cities and countries that have reopened businesses and schools have had to close again after COVID-19 outbreaks. Will that happen here?
12:21 P.M. Katherine Schwarzenegger and Chris Pratt Had a Baby The couple announced the birth of their daughter on Instagram.
11:38 A.M. Instagram Is a Wicked, Tempting Mistress The president of Liberty University has stepped down after posting a regrettable vacation selfie.
10:54 A.M. Beware of Onions A multistate salmonella outbreak has infected at least 640 people.
10:00 A.M. The True Cost of Being a Black Teacher Even at a school that yearns for racial equity, I constantly feel like this profession is a path to nowhere.
8:00 A.M. I Think About Colin Farrell Salsa Dancing a Lot It wasn’t a night at the club that made me regret never learning to dance — it was his sultry scene in Miami Vice.
8:00 A.M. When Becky Yells at You An excerpt from Shayla Lawson’s new book, This Is Major, about working alongside a white woman with a massive inferiority complex.
Aug. 9, 2020 Madame Clairevoyant: Horoscopes for the Week of August 10 Uranus goes retrograde this week. Here’s how to cope.
Aug. 9, 2020 The Woman Taking Weed Gummies to Get in the Mood This week’s sex diary.
Aug. 9, 2020 9 COVID Cases at High School Whose Packed Halls Went Viral At least six students and three teachers at Georgia’s North Paulding High School have tested positive for the coronavirus.
Aug. 9, 2020 Is Trump Really Banning TikTok? He issued an executive order banning the app from operating in the U.S., unless its Chinese-owned parent company sells it off.
Aug. 9, 2020 Yet Another Woman Is Suing Harvey Weinstein for Rape In a newly filed lawsuit, another Jane Doe says Weinstein repeatedly sexually assaulted her during meetings about her career.
Aug. 9, 2020 The U.S. Is Now Reporting Over 5 Million Coronavirus Cases July saw over 1.9 million new COVID-19 infections, more than twice the number of cases recorded in any other month.
Aug. 7, 2020 What If We Stopped Listening to Beauty Influencers? Shea Couleé and Teddy Quinlivan are the faces of a democratic new beauty app.
Aug. 7, 2020 Beautiful Objects for a Good Cause The Brooklyn-based brand Mociun has solicited pieces from 20 other companies for a charitable auction.
Aug. 7, 2020 Did a Teen Kill His Neighbor to Become ‘TikTok Famous’? The 18-year-old claims he was acting in self-defense when he stabbed his neighbor. The neighbor’s family says otherwise.

8:42 P.M. Packed Crowd Turns Up for Smash Mouth Concert Despite COVID Hey now.
7:33 P.M. Kelly Clarkson Steps Into Simon Cowell’s AGT Shoes This Week Filling in as guest judge after Cowell broke his back in an electric bike accident.
6:30 P.M. The 30 Best Movies for Kids on Hulu Free Willy, Antz, Abominable, and more.
6:20 P.M. Is Dave Chappelle Shooting Another Netflix Special? His recent shows, which feature Louis C.K. and others, are definitely being taped.
5:36 P.M. Behind the Fantasy of the 1997 Movie Cop Land “It was about a world in which everyone’s so tribalized and traumatized,” says director James Mangold, “no one has the emotional space to exist.”
5:12 P.M. Zac Efron to Play Man or Baby in Three Men and a Baby Reboot Could go either way, really.
5:05 P.M. Unaired 2018 Black-ish Episode About Trump Is Now on Hulu It was originally scrapped by ABC due to “creative differences.”
4:58 P.M. Patrick From SpongeBob, a Born Star, Gets Late-Night Show Move over, Elmo.
4:55 P.M. In Lovecraft Country, Monsters Past and Present Converge A present-tense correction of science fiction’s racist past, the new HBO series is what academics would call a “rich text.”
3:45 P.M. Spread the Word, Turds: The MacGruber TV Show Debuts in 2021 Peacock has ordered eight half-hour episodes of the series.
3:25 P.M. The Saved By the Bell Reboot Teaser Is Corny As Hell Coming soon to NBCU’s Peacock.
2:48 P.M. Harry Styles Gets First No. 1 Hit With ‘Watermelon Sugar’ Thanks to National Watermelon Day, among other factors.
2:29 P.M. Alt and Straight TikTok Both Agree on Rapper Ppcocaine Here’s how not one, not two, but three ppcocaine songs went viral on TikTok at the same time.
2:20 P.M. Selena Gomez and David Henrie Conjure Up a Reunion Gomez is an executive producer of his new movie.
2:15 P.M. Here Are All the Movies Scheduled to Hit Theaters in 2020 An ever-evolving guide to the year’s major theatrical release dates.
2:05 P.M. Porsha Hasn’t Talked to the White Housewives About Activism “Even though we’ve been in quarantine, I’ve been busy as hell!”
1:56 P.M. Judd Apatow to Direct Two-Part George Carlin Documentary Coming to HBO sometime in the future.
1:24 P.M. Robert Pattinson Couldn’t Outsmart Christopher Nolan “I said I had a family emergency.”
1:23 P.M. What is Tenet About, Anyway? A few theories about Christopher Nolan’s upcoming movie, which is definitely not about time travel.
1:20 P.M. Umbrella Academy’s Ritu Arya Didn’t Know That Lila Twist The breakout new addition thought she was auditioning for a single-episode role, not one of season two’s biggest cliffhangers.

12:59 P.M. Hit Thai Restaurant Uncle Boons Will Close Permanently It was easily one of New York’s most popular restaurants of the last decade.
11:17 A.M. McDonald’s Is Suing Its Former CEO Steve Easterbrook allegedly lied and destroyed evidence about relationships with employees.
10:48 A.M. Please Throw Away Your Onions The humble staple ingredient has been linked to a massive salmonella outbreak.
9:30 A.M. Can a 12-Year-Old Convince You to Go Vegan? A delightful conversation with chef Omari McQueen.
Aug. 9, 2020 Five Bon Appétit Stars Have Exited the Test Kitchen All say Condé Nast Entertainment is failing to make meaningful change to the way it does business.
Aug. 7, 2020 Ziwe’s Grub Street Diet “I was like, ‘Oh, these guys have meat with everything — let me get on that wave right quick.’”
Aug. 6, 2020 The Joy of Sourcing I craved adventure. I found preserved lemons.
Aug. 5, 2020 How a Restaurant Leaves New York For three months, I lived my dream. Then COVID-19 arrived.
Aug. 4, 2020 A New Sandwich Shop Is Obsessed with Cutlets “The fast-casual category populated by brands like Sweetgreen, Dig Inn, and Dos Toros hasn’t been heroized yet.”
Aug. 4, 2020 Which Negroni To Go Is Right for You? The Underground Gourmet taste-tests a representative sampling from our Campari-drenched delivery zone.
Aug. 3, 2020 Trader Joe’s Won’t Change Its ‘Racist’ Product Names The grocer released a new statement contradicting its first response to an online petition criticizing branding like Trader Ming’s.
Aug. 3, 2020 We (Still) Need to Talk About Abuse in Restaurants As businesses reopen, we must discuss the industry’s pervasive sexism and rampant harassment.
Aug. 3, 2020 Dale DeGroff Is Optimistic About the Future of Bars A new book and some old stories from the man who brought us drinks as we know them.
Aug. 3, 2020 To Placate Cuomo, Botanica Bar Adds Fancy Pizza to Its Menu For years, the dive bar’s customers got by on peanuts.
July 31, 2020 Author Molly Wizenberg’s Grub Street Diet “Our first green bean had appeared, and there I was, squatting down in my bathrobe in the dark.”
July 30, 2020 What Is Going on With Trump’s Pizza Tweet? A very quick explainer.
July 30, 2020 Keith McNally Is Closing Another Restaurant Au revoir, Augustine.
July 30, 2020 Would You Subscribe to a Restaurant? A bold proposal to rethink the way we pay for food — and it comes from Panera?
July 29, 2020 Can the No-Tipping Movement Survive? Tip-free restaurants are more equitable and better for customers, but they’re in danger of disappearing.
July 29, 2020 What We Know About the Trader Joe’s Anti-Mask Assault One employee was sent to the hospital, according to someone who witnessed the attack.

6:41 P.M. The Best Investment Apps for Beginners, According to Experts The days of picking up a phone and shouting “Buy 1,000 shares of IBM!” are a thing of the past.
5:50 P.M. The Best Face Masks for Every Situation From a trip to the grocery store to a four-hour flight.
5:17 P.M. 49 Gifts for Every Type of Girlfriend From a silk eye mask to a robot vacuum.
5:00 P.M. The Best 8th-Wedding-Anniversary Gifts This year, the bronze goes to your No. 1.
1:30 P.M. The Best Third Wedding Anniversary Gifts It’s the year for leather gifts, like duffel bags and mid-century sofas.
1:11 P.M. The Cheapest We’ve Ever Seen This Kid-Friendly Tablet This kid-friendly tablet computer is on sale for $80, which means you save 36 percent, the cheapest we’ve ever seen it.
12:40 P.M. 12 Things On Sale You’ll Want to Buy: From Vans to Levi’s Including a Wi-Fi-powered instant pot and our favorite straight-leg denim.
12:40 P.M. The Best Face Masks for Running Outside We found ones that are actually breathable.
10:00 A.M. The Most Comfy Shoes, According to People Who Stand All Day That means hairdressers, protesters, and essential workers.
7:36 A.M. The Strategist’s First-Ever Celebrity Auction Including Hari Nef’s Gucci gown, Leon Bridges’s 22-kt gold shades, and Pepa’s “Push It”–themed snowboard.
7:31 A.M. Catch a Vibe in Tommy Chong’s ‘Magical’ Sweatshirt “I’ve reached a point in my life where I’m heavily connected to the spiritual world, and this sweatshirt gives a really strong vibe.”
7:30 A.M. See Pee-wee’s Playhouse With Todd Oldham’s Wayne White Book “Wayne White is an artist behind Pee-wee’s Playhouse. Anyone who watched the show will be electrified by the photos in this book.”
7:29 A.M. Impress Your Guests With Todd Oldham’s Charley Harper Book “All four editions of the book sold out almost immediately. Charley and I signed every edition; these ended up being the last he signed in his life.”
7:28 A.M. Invest in a Thakoon Blazer (Thakoon Says It’ll Last Forever) “I could’ve donated a sequin jacket or dress, but they’re just showpieces. Nowadays, you want to invest in something that you’ll live in.”
7:26 A.M. Dress for Success in Two of Suze Orman’s Leather Jackets “The orange Escada Sport jacket was my favorite for years. I can’t tell you how many times I wore it on QVC or other shows.”
7:25 A.M. Kick Around in Saweetie’s Custom Air Force 1’s “I was obsessed with the sneakers growing up — Nelly had a song out in the early 2000s called ‘Air Force Ones’ — and I had to have a pair.”
7:23 A.M. Ride On Sandra ‘Pepa’ Denton’s ‘Push It’–Themed Snowboard “The board hung in the rec room of my house, amongst all of my awards, for nearly 20 years.”
7:21 A.M. Carry The Vuitton Bag Roxane Gay Put Her Engagement Ring In “When I was using this, I was using it every day.”
7:19 A.M. Drown Out Noise With Roxane Gay’s Favorite (Pink) Headphones “The color is really beautiful — pink is my favorite — and also makes the headphones nicer to look at.”
7:16 A.M. Spin Phoebe Bridgers’s Early Version Vinyl “I know my mom would love to have these test pressings of Punisher and Stranger in the Alps.”

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