It’s the Christian thing to do? [AP]
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Democratic National Convention Schedule: Who’s Speaking and How to Watch
THE FEED
statues
Donald Trump Leans In
inequality
Congress Is Hanging Single Parents Out to Dry
2020 elections
The ‘Tough on Crime’ Ticket
postal service
Americans Must Defend the Postal Service Like Our Democracy Depends on It
the national circus
Frank Rich: Against Harris, Trump Tries to Run the Birther Playbook
coronavirus
Everything We Do and Don’t Know About New York’s Reopening Plan
When a drone gets flipped (by) the bird
In a rare case of nature taking on a manmade machine and winning, a bald eagle attacked and destroyed a government drone that was flying above Lake Michigan on an environmental monitoring mission.
The Phantom 4 Pro Advanced quodcopter drone was about 162ft in the sky when it is thought the bird of prey attacked – possibly mistaking the flying machine for a rival bird or tasty snack. The drone had one of its propellors torn off and spiraled from the skies, sinking to the bottom of the lake.
“The attack could have been a territorial squabble with the electronic foe, or just a hungry eagle,” the state Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy in a statement.
the top line
Coronavirus Will Kill Lots of Shopping Malls
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Most Republican Convention Speeches Will Be Delivered From D.C.
The president is expected to visit his brother in the hospital later today
Robert Trump, the younger brother of President Donald Trump, has been hospitalized in New York, sources told ABC News, a development confirmed by the White House.
The details of his condition remain unknown though he is described by several sources as “very ill.”
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany confirmed the hospitalization to ABC News, adding that the president and his brother “have a very good relationship” and that the president would be providing more details later.
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All the Juicy Details About Joe Biden’s Vice Presidential Selection Process
Three and a half years in, Trump is still finding new norms to shatter
President Trump on Thursday confirmed to the The Post he intends to give his Republican National Convention speech from the White House lawn, defying critics who said the location was inappropriate.
… “I’ll probably be giving my speech at the White House because it is a great place. It’s a place that makes me feel good, it makes the country feel good,” Trump told the Post, saying it would also be easiest for law enforcement and the Secret Service.
“We’d do it possibly outside on one of the lawns, we have various lawns, so we could have it outside in terms of the China virus,” he continued, referring to social distancing guidelines amid the coronavirus pandemic.
“We could have quite a group of people. It’s very big, a very big lawn. We could have a big group of people,” he said when asked if he’d formally accept the Republican nomination for president with a crowd of supporters.
life after warming
What Climate Alarm Has Already Achieved
the grub street diet
Zohran Kwame Mamdani Lives Off New York’s Street Food
All
usps
Trump Requests Mail-in Ballot As He Condemns Voting by Mail
Trump won’t be thrilled with the newest Trump book
Michael Cohen: “From golden showers in a sex club in Vegas, to tax fraud, to deals with corrupt officials from the former Soviet Union, to catch and kill conspiracies to silence Trump’s clandestine lovers, I wasn’t just a witness to the president’s rise—I was [a]… participant.”
—@kylegriffin1
coronavirus
CDC Reports COVID-19 Is Eroding Many Americans’ Mental Health
birtherism
Trump Revives Racist Birther Conspiracy for Kamala Harris
labor
Bill de Blasio Is Picking a Fight He Might Not Be Able to Win
vision 2020
How Trump Is Trying to Ensure an Early Election Night Lead
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Supreme Court Lets Rhode Island Relax Voting by Mail Requirements
foreign interests
UAE Strikes Peace Deal With Israel, Sells Out Palestinians
coronavirus stimulus
Stimulus Talks Likely Dead Until September
covid-19
The Coronavirus Was Found on Frozen Chicken Wings
vision 2020
Trump Admits He’s Starving the Postal Service to Sabotage Voting by Mail
the economy
As Big Business Feasts on Cheap Credit, Small Firms Starve
Steep personnel cuts could be coming to NYC municipal employees
“If you’re going to keep cutting and keep cutting, it has to at some point reach personnel. It’s just pure logic of budgets, and it’s very sad logic. I don’t like it one bit, and I want to avert this at all costs. So that 22,000 number is painfully real,” he said.
De Blasio has been hoping for a multi-billion dollar federal aid package to bail out the city after the coronavirus pandemic decimated its bottom line. But he acknowledged Wednesday that “appears to be dead now.”
This qualifies as good news now
U.S. jobless claims come in at 963,000. First week in months they’ve been below a million. @BloombergRadio
—@nhageradio
pandemic prescriptions
The European Cities Using the Pandemic As a Cure for Airbnb
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