Michigan’s Former Republican Gov. Rick Snyder: Trump Is a Bully, Vote for Biden – Daily Beast
Michigan’s Former Republican Gov. Rick Snyder: Trump Is a Bully, Vote for Biden – Daily Beast
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States should prepare for COVID-19 vaccinations by November 1, CDC says – CBS News
States should prepare for COVID-19 vaccinations by November 1, CDC says – CBS News

The Centers for Disease Control has urged governors to be prepared for the distribution of a coronavirus vaccine by November 1, which is two days before Election Day. 

CDC Director Robert Redfield sent the letter dated August 27 to governors, informing them that the government is contracting with the company McKesson to distribute the vaccine to local health departments and doctors’ offices and asked them to expedite any applications for distribution facilities requested by the company. CBS News has obtained a copy of the letter, first reported by McClatchy news service.

“CDC urgently requests your assistance in expediting applications for these distribution facilities and, if necessary asks that you consider waiving requirements that would prevent these facilities from becoming fully operational by November 1, 2020,” the letter reads. “The requirements you may be asked to waive in order to expedite vaccine distribution will not compromise the safety or integrity of the products being distributed.” 

Mr. Trump has floated the possibility that a vaccine could ready for distribution by the election or soon after, although most medical experts do not expect widespread vaccinations until 2021.

“I’m optimistic that it’ll be probably around that date. I believe we’ll have the vaccine before the end of the year, certainly, but around that date, yes, I think so,” Mr. Trump said in early August. 

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, also described a scenario under which a vaccine might be ready earlier than initially expected. In an interview with Kaiser Health News published Tuesday, he said if clinical trials for COVID-19 vaccines produce results that are overwhelmingly positive, scientists would have a “moral obligation” to stop the trial early and offer the vaccine to all participants in the study, speeding up the process to make it more widely available. That decision would be made by a Data and Safety Monitoring Board, which is composed of research experts who review data from clinical trials.

Polling shows many Americans are skeptical of a potential coronavirus vaccine. A recent CBS News poll shows only 30% say they would get one “as soon as possible.” Many more, half of the country, say they would consider it, but would first “wait to see” what happened to others.

Melissa Quinn contributed to this report.

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Why Joe Kennedy’s Senate campaign flopped – POLITICO
Why Joe Kennedy’s Senate campaign flopped – POLITICO

“I’ve spent the last weeks and months on the roads across our commonwealth in cities like Lowell, and in Chelsea and in Gloucester. In neighborhoods like East Boston,” Kennedy said. “And not one person in those cities, not one, has asked me why I am running for the Senate. The only thing they ask: What can you do to make this better, and when I need you, will you be there?”

He lost every precinct in East Boston Tuesday.

Kennedy’s failure to lay out a rationale for taking on Markey wasn’t the sole cause of his defeat. Rather, it was symptomatic of a campaign that was too confident, for too long — it didn’t think the usual rules applied, or that the 74-year-old Markey had enough fight in him to fend off one of the Democratic Party’s brightest young stars.

“There was a really strong reason for running. I don’t think they were ever able to articulate it. That’s the problem,” said political consultant Doug Rubin, who supported Kennedy. “I’ve always felt that the best campaigns are the ones with the right candidate at the right moment. I actually thought Joe was the right candidate for this moment, and for whatever reason, they were never able to win that argument and frame the race that way.”

The outcome was a far cry from last summer, when the consensus in Massachusetts political circles was that Kennedy would be so formidable that Markey ought to retire to avoid an embarrassing defeat. Polls showed Kennedy with a double-digit lead, and the running joke was that Markey was more likely to be seen at a Starbucks in suburban Washington than a Dunkin’ Donuts near his home in Malden.

Kennedy built his campaign on the promise that he would show up in Massachusetts, as opposed to his opponent, who spent too much time in Washington. The scion of the state’s iconic political dynasty would win by assembling a coalition of voters of color who didn’t always vote — similar to how Rep. Ayanna Pressley upset a veteran Massachusetts incumbent two years earlier, former Congressman Michael Capuano.

His candidacy was designed around the idea that a vote for Kennedy was an investment in his seemingly limitless political future, while Markey was already on his way out the door.

What Kennedy didn’t envision was the way Markey would reinvent himself as a darling of the progressive left over the course of the year, harnessing the energy of young voters and climate activists.

Sitting on a sizable lead in the polls for much of the race, Kennedy’s campaign was reluctant to go negative on Markey. That gave the low-key incumbent, who lived in the shadow of more prominent Bay State Democrats like Elizabeth Warren and John Kerry, the chance to define himself on his own terms.

His signature look became Nike sneakers and an oversized green jacket straight out of an Urban Outfitters ad campaign. (Markey wore the sneakers with his suit when he declared victory on Tuesday night.)

More important, Markey stepped into the political vacuum created by the departures of Warren and Sen. Bernie Sanders from the presidential primary. Progressives were devastated by the collapse of the two campaigns, which came just before the coronavirus pandemic hit Massachusetts, leaving a cohort of newly unemployed presidential campaign staffers and volunteers — and young high school and college activists — stuck at home with time on their hands. They turned their attention to Markey.

“Here is my #1 hot take as a newly-free Warren staffer: THE F—— CO-AUTHOR OF THE GODDAMN GREEN NEW DEAL MIGHT LOSE HIS SEAT IN THE SENATE TO A MODERATE AND YOU’RE ALL JUST SLEEPING ON IT,” tweeted Emma Friend, a staffer on Warren’s presidential campaign. Markey raised $57,000 off the viral post, and he hired Friend to the campaign a month later. Dozens of Markey fan accounts began to pop up on Twitter.

As young activists churned out pro-Markey memes and videos, he brought them into the fold as digital fellows. It helped that Markey won endorsements from New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, his partner on the Green New Deal, and the Sunrise Movement. The Markey campaign spent almost half a million dollars airing an ad that only featured AOC, and not Markey, in the weeks leading up to the primary.

“Markey and his campaign were very eager to fight that fight with us. We got in early, making it an issues-focused, policy-centered campaign which was mostly centered around Markey’s leadership on the Green New Deal and climate crisis,” said Evan Weber, co-founder of the Sunrise Movement. “We also did a lot of work to rile up young people and the youths and progressives.”

As Markey’s popularity grew, so did frustration within the Kennedy campaign.

In Kennedy’s eyes, Markey’s new image didn’t square with his record, which was more in line with Joe Biden than Sanders or Warren. Kennedy often pointed to Markey’s support of the 1994 crime bill and the Iraq War on the debate stage, but that didn’t matter to Markey’s energetic online base.

“The Markey campaign did a masterful job convincing voters Ed is someone he is not,” one Democratic strategist with Massachusetts ties said after the primary results were tallied.

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First Thing: Trump encourages voter fraud and threatens to cut funding to Democrat-led cities – The Guardian
First Thing: Trump encourages voter fraud and threatens to cut funding to Democrat-led cities – The Guardian

Good morning. Donald Trump suggested on Wednesday that people in North Carolina should vote twice in the November election, casting ballots both in person and by mail, despite this being a crime. When asked about the security of mail-in votes in an interview with WECT-TV, Trump said: “Let them send it in and let them go vote. And if the system is as good as they say it is then obviously they won’t be able to vote” in person.

His remarkable suggestion came after he signed an equally extraordinary memo threatening to cut funding for Democrat-led cities, which Trump accused of being “lawless zones”. However, legal experts have warned it is likely to be relatively ineffective, as Congress determines funding and agencies can’t restrict it “willy-nilly”, and any reductions in funding are unlikely to hold up against legal challenges.

  • Health officials have been told to expect limited coronavirus vaccine doses by November, amid concerns that Trump may push for the release of a vaccine before adequate testing has been completed, to ensure it is available by the 2020 election.

  • ‘Get off Twitter’: Democratic rival Joe Biden told to Trump to spend less time tweeting, and more time ensuring schools reopened safely during the coronavirus pandemic. In a speech yesterday from his Delaware home, Biden asked: “Mr President, where are you? Where are you? Why aren’t you working on this?”

Police used a ‘spit hood’ on a Black man who died of asphyxiation


Police officers were called by Prude’s family who told them he had left the house and was experiencing mental health problems. Photograph: Adrian Kraus/AP

An African American man died of asphyxiation after police put a hood over his head and pressed his head into the pavement for two minutes while he was naked and experiencing mental health problems, according to videos and records released by his family.

Daniel Prude was placed in a “spit hood”, a device intended to protect officers from saliva, in late March, and died seven days later after being removed from life support. Prude’s death came to public attention for the first time yesterday, when his family held a news conference and released police body camera video and written reports obtained through a public records request.

  • Attorney general William Bar denied racism in policing, saying: “I think there are some situations when statistics would suggest they are treated differently, but I don’t think that’s necessarily racism.” He also said that foreign countries could interfere with the US election if mail-in voting was used, but could not offer evidence for either claim.

World leaders are demanding answers from Russia over novichok poisoning


 Angela Merkel: ‘unequivocal proof’ Alexei Navalny was poisoned with novichok – video

World leaders have condemned the attack on the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and demanded answers from the Kremlin, after tests revealed he had been poisoned with a nerve agent from the novichok family. Joe Biden described the incident as an “outrageous and brazen attempt on Mr Navalny’s life” and noted that Trump had not yet personally condemned the attack, despite a statement being issued from the White House. The poisoning has heightened tensions between Russia and the west.

Navalny remains in a coma in a German hospital, where he was moved for treatment soon after the attack, and the Kremlin has said it does not intend to investigate the poisoning.

California is preparing for ‘exceptionally dangerous’ temperatures this weekend


An aerial image of the remnants of Jim and Leonore Wilson’s house 10 days after it burned down during the LNU Lightning Complex fire, taken on 29 August in Napa, CA. Photograph: Hardy Wilson/The Guardian

Record temperatures of up to 115F are expected across California this weekend, increasing the risk of wildfires and worsening already-poor air quality. Residents are currently required to stay indoors because of smoke from wildfires in the state, and officials have warned of risks of power outages as more Californians use air conditioning.

The National Weather Service office in San Diego said the heatwave was “an exceptionally dangerous event, especially considering the holiday weekend and the ongoing pandemic”.

  • ‘A place where life was lived and learned’: Returning to his family home, built by his father and grandfather, after the wildfires devastated the building, Hardy Wilson couldn’t recognise anything except an old shotgun. But, the family say, they won’t abandon it.

In other news …


 Nancy Pelosi says she was ‘set up’ in hair salon mask dispute – video

  • House speaker Nancy Pelosi has alleged she was the victim of a ‘set-up’ after being photographed in a San Francisco hair salon without a face covering, breaking the city’s lockdown regulations.

  • Italy’s former prime minister has tested positive for coronavirus after spending time with the owner of a nightclub where an outbreak occurred. Silvio Berlusconi is 83, but is said to be asymptomatic.

  • A French journalist who infiltrated the country’s police force has described a culture of racism and violence in the organisation. In one incident, Valentin Gendrot claims he was forced to help falsify evidence against a young man who had been beaten by an officer.

  • A cargo ship with 43 crew and nearly 6,000 cattle sank off Japan, a survivor has said. Sareno Edvarodo was rescued late on Wednesday after Japanese navy P-3C surveillance aircraft spotted him wearing a life vest and waving while in the water.

Great reads


Nurta Mohamed, 13, sits inside her mother’s makeshift shelter after she ran away from a suspected forced marriage at the Alafuuto camp for internally displaced persons in the Garasbaaley district of Mogadishu, Somalia, on 14 August. Photograph: Feisal Omar/Reuters

‘A race against time’: The campaign against child marriage in Somalia

According to government figures, 34% of Somali girls are married before their 18th birthday, and 16% before they reach 15. With a new bill proposing that children as young as 10 can be married, Moulid Hujale talks to victims and human rights campaigners about the race to end child marriage.

Covid in Cuba – in pictures

Havana has been plunged into a strict 15-day lockdown in an attempt to eradicate coronavirus in the city. A curfew has been imposed and most shops are unable to sell to people from outside of their immediate neighbourhood. This compilation of photographs captures life in Havana during the lockdown.

Opinion: In California, we need leadership

Dana Frank had to quarantine for two weeks just as the blazes began, sealed into her home alone to protect her from the smoke. In this piece, Frank tells of the impact of understaffing, coronavirus, and the climate crisis on the California wildfires surrounding her, as she calls for greater leadership.


We need government, and government not in service to institutionalised racism and elite greed. How do we channel those mutual aid networks, and the vast need for a government that serves all the people, into a better future?

Last Thing: Astronomers hear biggest cosmic event since big bang – and it was ‘just a thud’


An illustration of how the black holes may have collided. Photograph: AP

Astronomers have heard the largest cosmic event since the big bang, which occurred when two black holes crashed and created a new one. The collision happened around 7 bn years ago but has only just been detected because it occurred so far away, and made a new black hole in a size never seen before. Despite its intergalactic significance, the bang wasn’t much to witness on earth. “It just sounds like a thud,” said one member of the discovery team.

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CNN’s Don Lemon calls out Pelosi over salon trip, knocks ‘set-up’ claim – Fox News
CNN’s Don Lemon calls out Pelosi over salon trip, knocks ‘set-up’ claim – Fox News
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San Francisco hair salon owner in feud with Nancy Pelosi talks to Tucker

Erica Kious denies Nancy Pelosi’s claim that she was set up after video surfaces of the House speaker’s maskless visit.

CNN anchor Don Lemon offered a rare scolding of a Democrat, this time House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., over her controversial visit to a San Francisco hair salon in violation of state and local coronavirus ordinances.

In security footage obtained by Fox News and timestamped Monday at 3:08 p.m. PT, the California political powerhouse is seen walking through ESalonSF with wet hair, and without a mask. During an appearance on MSNBC that night, Pelosi criticized President Trump for giving his Republican National Convention acceptance speech before a live audience on the South Lawn at the White House.

On Wednesday, the top Democratic lawmaker accused the salon of “setting her up” and called on the struggling business to apologize to her.

Lemon seemed to question Pelosi’s story and asked his viewers “shouldn’t she know better?”

NBC MEDIA REPORTER HAMMERED FOR DISMISSING CONTROVERSY OVER PELOSI SALON TRIP

“This far into the pandemic this House Speaker should know what is safe and what isn’t,” Lemon said. “We should all know. It’s our responsibility.”

The liberal anchor continued, “Instead of claiming a set-up, it would have been just as easy for the speaker to say, ‘You know what, I messed up. I should have worn a mask indoors.'”

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During an exclusive interview with Fox News Tuesday, salon owner Erica Kious cast Pelosi’s visit as part of a double standard.

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“It was a slap in the face that she went in, you know, that she feels that she can just go and get her stuff done while no one else can go in, and I can’t work,” Kious told Fox News, adding that she “can’t believe” the speaker didn’t have a mask on. (From the footage, it appears Pelosi had some kind of covering around her neck.)

“We’re supposed to look up to this woman, right?” Kious said. “It is just disturbing.”

Fox News’ Brooke Singman contributed to this report. 

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‘We’ve got to heal’: Joe Biden heads to Kenosha facing political balancing act – USA TODAY
‘We’ve got to heal’: Joe Biden heads to Kenosha facing political balancing act – USA TODAY

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Biden leads Trump, but margin tightening in latest presidential race polls – Fox News
Biden leads Trump, but margin tightening in latest presidential race polls – Fox News
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Margin tightening in latest presidential race polls as Biden leads

A look at two national polls showing Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden holding an upper-single-digit lead over President Trump.

Four new national polls conducted nearly entirely after last week’s Republican National Convention indicate Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden holding an upper-single-digit lead over President Trump.

But an average of all national surveys in the White House race shows a slight narrowing in the showdown between the former vice president and the Republican incumbent.

According to a USA TODAY/Suffolk University poll released Wednesday, Biden tops Trump 50-43% among registered voters nationwide. The former vice president‘s seven-point advantage is down from a 12-point lead he held in the previous USA TODAY/Suffolk University survey, which was conducted in June. The new poll was conducted Aug. 28-31, entirely after the GOP convention.

BIDEN TOPS TRUMP IN NEW POLL IN BATTLEGROUND PENNSYLVANIA, BUT LEAD SHRINKS

If the election were held today, a Grinnell College national poll also released on Wednesday shows Biden ahead of Trump 49%-41% among likely voters nationwide. The survey was conducted Aug. 26-30 – both during and after the Republican confab – by Selzer and Company.

A new Quinnipac University national poll indicates Biden topping Trump by a 10-point 52%-42% margin among likely voters.

That’s down from a 15 point lead that Biden held among registered voters in Quinnipiac’s previous national survey, which was in the field in early July.

The new poll was conducted Aug. 28-31, entirely after the GOP convention.

And a new CNN/SSRS poll conducted August 28-Sept. 1, entirely after the Republican confab, showed Biden with a 51%-43% lead over the president among registered voters nationwide.

Biden’s margin was actually up from a 4-point edge he held in CNN’s previous survey, wihich was conducted in mid-August, ahead of the start of the Democratic convention.

An average of all the most recent national polls in the Biden-Trump race compiled by Real Clear Politics indicates Biden up by 7.5 points (49.7%-42.2%). That’s a slight decrease from the 7.8 point lead Biden held in the Real Clear Politics average (50-1%-42.3%) on Aug. 24, at the start of the GOP convention.

But the race for the White House is not based on the national popular vote. If it were, 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton would be the president right now. Instead, the presidential election is a battle for the states and their electoral votes.

According to the latest polling, Biden retains the edge in most of the key general election battleground states, but his advantage is narrowing.

BIDEN SHATTERS RECORD: HAULS IN $364.5 MILLION IN FUNDRAISING LAST MONTH

In Florida, the largest of the key swing states, Biden holds a 3.7-point edge over Trump, according to an average of the latest surveys in the state compiled by Real Clear Politics. Biden’s up by 2.6 points in Wisconsin, 4.7 points in Pennsylvania, 3.5 points in Wisconsin, 2.2 points in Arizona, and 5.3 points in Minnesota. The president holds a 1-point edge in North Carolina and 1.3 points in Georgia.

Four years ago on this date, Clinton held a 4.2-point advantage over Trump. The race tightened and Clinton ended up topping Trump in the national popular vote by 2%. But Trump narrowly edged Clinton in the key battlegrounds of Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, flipping all four from blue to red, to capture the White House.

Suffolk University political research center director David Paleologos told Fox News that – with two months until Election Day but some early voting and absentee voting getting underway this month – “nationally, the race is closing with so many unknowns yet to be determined like a COVID vaccine, racial protests and the state of the economy. Seven key states could determine this outcome.”

According to the new Grinnell College survey, Biden tops Trump 56%-34% among women and 64%-31% among suburban women. With an eye to female and suburban voters, the president the past two weeks has repeatedly highlighted his law and order approach to the unrest and outbreaks of violence amid nationwide protests over police brutality against minorities and racial injustice.

THE LATEST FROM FOX NEWS ON THE 2020 BIDEN-TRUMP CLASH

Biden also holds wide advantages among nonwhite voters and those who live in large metropolitan areas.

“Beyond the overall eight-point advantage, this poll shows some areas of underlying strength for the former Vice President,” pollster J. Ann Selzer highlighted. “Mr. Biden holds a wide lead with moderates 55-33%, who are a plurality of the electorate; he benefits from a 10-point lead among independents who do not lean toward any political party, 44-34%.”

The poll shows that the president holds a better than 2-to-1 advantage among white men without a college degree (64-31%) and is ahead with white women without a college degree (52-43%). Trump also dominates with rural voters (58-36%) and evangelicals (63-27%).

Fifty percent of likely voters questioned in the Quinnipiac national poll said having Trump at president makes them feel less safe, with 35% saying it makes them feel more safe. But a 42%-40% margin, those surveyed said having Biden as president would make them feel more safe than less safe.

“While the president has been pushing the issue of safety to the center of the presidential campaign, it raises the question: Who most has your back, the current administration, or the challengers? As racial strife, a seemingly endless pandemic, and an economy on life support unnerve Americans, voters foresee a more reliable lifeline in the Biden Harris ticket,” Quinnipiac University polling analyst Tim Malloy spotlighted.

The USA Today/Suffolk survey points to significant skepticism about whether the presidential election results can be trusted. If their candidate loses, roughly one in four voters questioned say they aren’t prepared to accept the outcome as fair and accurate.

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After months of the president claiming that voting by mail will lead to fraud and a rigged election, the poll finds that 83% of Republicans say they are at least somewhat concerned that mail-in voting will lead to voter fraud. Only a third of Democrats share those concerns.

Fifty-six percent of Republicans say they’ll vote in person on Election Day, compared to 26% among Democrats. The poll indicates that Democrats are more than twice as likely than Republicans to vote by absentee ballot or mail.

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Live updates: CDC asks states to prepare to distribute coronavirus vaccine as soon as Nov. 1 – The Washington Post
Live updates: CDC asks states to prepare to distribute coronavirus vaccine as soon as Nov. 1 – The Washington Post

At least 97,632 coronavirus infections have been reported among health-care workers in Mexico, according to Amnesty. The organization notes that Mexico is among the only countries keeping an anonymized tally of health care worker fatalities, which also contains information about the workers’ ages, gender and job role. That transparency, while commendable, “may also go some way to explaining the disturbing figures from Mexico relative to other countries,” the report states.

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Salon owner denies setting up Pelosi and says her business is done after receiving death threats – Daily Mail
Salon owner denies setting up Pelosi and says her business is done after receiving death threats – Daily Mail

The owner of the salon where Nancy Pelosi was filmed getting a blow dry without a mask in defiance of COVID lockdown rules has denied setting the Democrat up. 

Erica Kious, the owner of the e Salon SF, told Tucker Carlson she has received death threats in the wake of exposing the House Speaker’s trip to her business on Monday.

She said: ‘[Pelosi] had called the stylist, or her assistant did, and had made the appointment so the appointment was already booked so there was no way I could have set that up. 

‘And I’ve had a camera system in there for five years, I mean I didn’t go in there and turn cameras on as soon as she walked in and set her up so that’s absolutely false.’ 

Speaker Pelosi said Wednesday that she fell for a ‘set up’ by the salon and added the salon owes her an apology. 

San Francisco beauty parlors weren’t supposed to open until September 1, the day after the speaker had her treatment. Additionally, the California Department of Public Health requires face masks to be worn in public indoor places.

Erica Kious, right, the owner of the e Salon SF, told Tucker Carlson, left, she has received death threats in the wake of exposing the House Speaker’s trip to her business on Monday

Speaker Pelosi said ‘there’s more’ to the situation and it ‘was clearly a set up’

Speaking Wednesday Kious added: ‘For the past six months, we are pretty much done. We have lost at least 60 per cent of our clients, I’ve lost the majority of my staff. So six months is a long time to be closed down. 

‘Just to see her come in, especially her not wearing a mask, that’s what really got to me. This isn’t political, it’s the fact she came in and didn’t have a mask on.

‘If she is in there comfortably then why are we shut down?’ 

Kious, who rents out chairs to different stylists, said since the release of the footage Tuesday evening she has received threats to burn down her salon. 

The eSalon in San Francisco where the speaker had her hair washed and blown dry

Fox News broke the story Tuesday that the House speaker had infuriated a salon owner for getting her hair done inside by one of the stylists who’s an independent contractor 

Pelosi held a press conference in San Francisco on Wednesday to address her controversial visit after a report from Fox News revealed she had visited the e Salon SF in her district on Monday for a wash and blow-out.

She was seen on the salon’s security footage walking around without a mask, an image that went viral on social media and resulted in her getting mocked by many people, including President Donald Trump.

‘I take responsibility for trusting the word of a neighborhood salon I’ve been to over the years many times, and when they said we’re able to accommodate people, one person at a time, and that we can set up that time, I trusted that. As it turns out, it was a setup,’ she said. 

‘It was a set up, and I take responsibility for falling for a setup,’ she added. 

Trump tweeted: ‘Crazy Nancy Pelosi is being decimated for having a beauty parlor opened, when all others are closed, and for not wearing a Mask–despite constantly lecturing everyone else. 

‘We will almost certainly take back the House, and send Nancy packing!’

‘The Beauty Parlor owner must really dislike Crazy Nancy Pelosi. Turning her in, on tape, is a really big deal,’ Trump added. ‘She probably treats him like she treats everyone else…And she strongly supported a Kennedy who just lost in, of all places, Massachusetts!’ 

Speaker Pelosi, wearing a face mask, arrives at a press conference in San Francisco to address footage of her getting a wash and blow dry at a salon while maskless

But Pelosi threatened there could be more to the situation than the camera revealed.

‘There’s more to this that I’m not going to ask to the motivation for a salon to say to me, ‘Yes, come in’ and then they go for me. It was clearly a set up,’ she said. 

‘I think that this salon owes me an apology, for setting me up,’ she added. 

And she said she wasn’t wearing a face mask because she just had her hair washed, asking the reporters questioning her if they wore a face mask when washing their hair.

‘I just had my hair washed. I don’t wear a mask when I’m washing my hair. Do you wear a mask when you’re washing your hair? I always wear a mask,’ she said. ‘And that picture is when I just came out of the bowl.’ 

 New restrictions in San Francisco allow hair salons to operate outdoors, but certain procedures – such as shampooing, color and chemical treatments – are still not allowed.  

Ian Smith fought to keep his New Jersey gym open after Gov. Phil Murphy shuttered non essential businesses there. He told The Washington Examiner: ‘This is not about public health. It’s about control and power.  

‘These people think they are above the law. These people need to be put in their place. They are out of control. They think that they are rulers. They forget that they are elected public servants. Things need to change, and now.’  

Smith Salon owner Wendy Diaz told Fox News: ‘I just found it so hypocritical because we have been told that if we open prior to us being able to open in Lodi, that we would get our license revoked. It was pretty much pure shock.’ 

Shayana Flick, who owns ReWAXation, added: ‘To see Nancy Pelosi getting her hair done indoors was absolutely a slap in the face to every single person in our personal care industry throughout California that has been struggling and fighting to work inside for the last six months.

‘Not only that, it was a slap in the face to every single small business owner in our industry that has been forced to close down businesses for good over the last six months because of the arbitrary guidelines put in place by the California elected officials.’  

Ian Smith, pictured,  fought to keep his New Jersey gym open after Gov. Phil Murphy shuttered non essential businesses there. He told The Washington Examiner : ‘This is not about public health. It’s about control and power’

Shayana Flick, who owns ReWAXation, added: ‘To see Nancy Pelosi getting her hair done indoors was absolutely a slap in the face to every single person in our personal care industry throughout California that has been struggling and fighting to work inside for the last six months’

Pelosi’s office hinted there was more to the story than originally appeared when the footage from inside the salon was revealed on Fox News.  

Her Deputy Chief of Staff Drew Hammill said in a statement Tuesday that ‘the speaker always wears a mask and complies with local COVID requirements.’ 

He added that the speaker followed the rules as they were presented to her by the stylist.

‘This business offered for the speaker to come in on Monday and told her they were allowed by the city to have one customer at a time in the business,’ Hammill told Fox News. ‘The speaker complies with the rules as presented to her by this establishment.’ 

Her staff told CNN that the speaker has a regular stylist who typically goes to Pelosi’s house to do her hair. But that person was not available on Monday so referred Pelosi’s staff to a stylist at eSalon because it is where Pelosi’s regular stylist used to work. 

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Family calls for officers’ arrest in the death of a Black man after they knelt on him – CNN
Family calls for officers’ arrest in the death of a Black man after they knelt on him – CNN

Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what’s happening in the world as it unfolds.

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Grainy video shows Dijon Kizzee running from Los Angeles deputies. He was killed ‘in cold blood,’ attorney Ben Crump says. – USA TODAY
Grainy video shows Dijon Kizzee running from Los Angeles deputies. He was killed ‘in cold blood,’ attorney Ben Crump says. – USA TODAY

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Biden tops Trump in Pennsylvania, but lead shrinks: poll – Fox News
Biden tops Trump in Pennsylvania, but lead shrinks: poll – Fox News
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Poll numbers tighten for Biden and Trump as mail-in ballots begin to go out

Biden returns to the campaign trail; DNC war room spokesperson Lily Adams reacts.

A new poll in the crucial general election battleground state of Pennsylvania indicates that Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden remains ahead of President Trump – but that his advantage is narrowing.

The public opinion survey indicates that the president’s full-court press on law and order in recent weeks may be one reason the race is tightening in Pennsylvania.

The Monmouth University public opinion survey conducted Aug. 28-31 – entirely after last week’s Republican National Convention – shows the former vice president topping the Republican incumbent 49%-45% among registered voters in the Keystone State, with 3% backing other candidates and 4% undecided.

Biden’s advantage is within the survey’s margin of error.

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The race tightens even further among the smaller pool of voters likely to cast a ballot in the general election. A model based on a somewhat higher level of turnout than the 2016 election puts the former vice president over Trump 49%-46%. But a model reflecting lower likely voter turnout has the race virtually tied, with Biden at 48% and the president at 47%.

That’s a shift from the last Monmouth University poll in Pennsylvania – which was conducted in early July. In the earlier survey, Biden enjoyed a 12-point lead among registered voters and a 7-10 point lead in the two likely voters models.

The new poll also indicates Biden with a 48%-46% favorable/unfavorable rating among Pennsylvania voters – with Trump underwater with a 44%-51% favorable/unfavorable rating.

“This is really a game of inches. The Trump campaign is looking to peel off a little bit of Biden support here and a little bit there. It may be working, despite the fact that Pennsylvania voters personally like the Democrat more, although this gap has narrowed,” highlighted Monmouth University Polling Institute director Patrick Murray.

An average of all the latest polls in Pennsylvania conducted by Real Clear Politics puts Biden ahead of Trump by 4.7 points. That’s down from a 6-point lead Biden enjoyed at the beginning of August.

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The poll indicates that a small, but important, portion of the electorate agrees with the message amplified by the president that the American suburbs are under threat amid nationwide protests over police brutality against minorities and racial injustice. According to the survey, Biden maintains a solid 59%-35% lead among women, but he’s lost ground among men. They prefer Trump by 56%-37%, compared with a much closer 47%-45% in early July.

And the president’s increased his support in 10 swing counties where the vote margins were the closest in the 2016 election. Biden’s 19-point lead from six weeks ago now stands at a 2-point edge for Trump.

With an eye to suburban voters, the president the past two weeks has repeatedly highlighted his law and order approach to the unrest and outbreaks of violence amid nationwide protests over police brutality against minorities and racial injustice.

“The Republican convention attempted to sow some seeds of doubt among core Democratic blocs, especially young and urban voters. It looks like they may have had a small amount of success with that, at least for now,” Murray noted.

Pennsylvania – along with Michigan and Wisconsin – had been carried by the Democrats in presidential elections for a quarter century. But Trump narrowly edged 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in all three states four years ago, helping him win the White House.

Biden – who was born and spent his first 10 years in Scranton, Pa., before moving to Delaware – retains strong ties to the Keystone State. He’s held several campaign events in Pennsylvania the past two months, including a speech Monday in Pittsburgh.

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The Monmouth University used live telephone operators to question 400 registered voters in Pennsylvania. The survey’s overall sampling error is plus or minus 4.9 percentage points.

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Pelosi claims hair salon scandal was a ‘set-up’ – POLITICO
Pelosi claims hair salon scandal was a ‘set-up’ – POLITICO

“So I take responsibility for falling for a set-up.”

Pelosi also said the salon owed her an apology, The San Francisco Chronicle reported.

Pelosi’s stylist, Jonathan DeNardo, backed up the speaker’s claim that she was set up by the salon’s owners. In a letter Wednesday night, DeNardo’s legal team said Erica Kious, who owns the salon Pelosi visited, had expressed anger toward Pelosi, accusing her of forcing her to curtail her business due to the pandemic (the letter acknowledges that Pelosi had no hand in San Francisco’s coronavirus shutdown measures).

DeNardo’s lawyer claimed Kious had already been running her salon prior to Pelosi’s visit. DeNardo also claimed he called Kious and said he would not have gone through with the appointment without Kious’ approval.

“The fact that Ms. Kious is now objecting to Speaker Pelosi’s presence at eSalon, and from a simple surface-level review of Ms. Kious’ political leanings, it appears Ms. Kious is furthering a set-up of Speaker Pelosi for her own vain aspirations,” the letter said.

Kious did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment. She did not answer a phone number listed under her name and website, and her voicemail was full.

Fox News first reported Pelosi’s hair appointment, including security footage of the congresswoman without a mask covering her face. A hair stylist wearing a mask follows close behind her. The video was reportedly recorded Monday. San Francisco hair salons and barber shops reopened for business outdoors only on Tuesday.

Earlier on Wednesday, Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill defended the speaker’s salon visit and said she “complied with the rules as presented to her by this establishment.”

“The Speaker always wears a mask and complies with local COVID requirements,” Hammill said in a statement to POLITICO. “This business offered for the Speaker to come in on Monday and told her they were allowed by the city to have one customer at a time in the business.”

Hammill also told POLITICO that the speaker’s stylist normally comes to her home but was unavailable the day of this appointment. Pelosi contacted the San Francisco salon based on a referral.

Still, President Donald Trump and his allies used the incident to pile onto Pelosi in a spate of derisive tweets.

“Crazy Nancy Pelosi is being decimated for having a beauty parlor opened, when all others are closed, and for not wearing a Mask — despite constantly lecturing everyone else,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “We will almost certainly take back the House, and send Nancy packing!”

The taunts follow a conservative line of attack against Pelosi as out of touch with the struggles of working Americans. Pelosi was the subject of a Trump attack ad after she participated in a talk show segment displaying a cache of ice cream in the early days of coronavirus quarantine.

In another tweet Wednesday, Trump used the video to again mock Pelosi for Massachusetts Rep. Joe Kennedy’s failed Democratic primary challenge to Sen. Ed Markey.

“The Beauty Parlor owner must really dislike Crazy Nancy Pelosi. Turning her in, on tape, is a really big deal. She probably treats him like she treats everyone else,” Trump wrote. “And she strongly supported a Kennedy who just lost in, of all places, Massachusetts!”

Trump also retweeted a version of the video shared online by his reelection campaign, as well as a message arguing that if “Nancy Pelosi can get her hair done in person — you can vote in person.”

Meanwhile, Fox News host Sean Hannity derided the speaker in a tweet as “PAMPERED PELOSI,” and White House chief of staff Mark Meadows invoked the salon visit during an interview Wednesday morning on “Fox & Friends.”

Meadows, who is at an impasse with Pelosi in talks for a new round of coronavirus relief, accused her of hypocrisy and said the incident was representative of “typical Washington, D.C.”

“Whether it’s in San Francisco with her going into a salon or in the privacy of a negotiating room, it’s time that she get serious about helping the American people,” he said.

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Fauci predicts ‘safe and effective’ coronavirus vaccine by end of year – NBC News
Fauci predicts ‘safe and effective’ coronavirus vaccine by end of year – NBC News

Dr. Anthony Fauci predicts that a coronavirus vaccine will be developed by the end of 2020.

“I believe that by the time we get to the end of this calendar year that we will feel comfortable that we do have a safe and effective vaccine,” Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said on NBC’s “TODAY” on Wednesday.

He added that in a number of vaccine trials, there is “enough data that you would really feel comfortable it was safe and effective for the American public.”

Fauci also warned about the upcoming flu season compounding the coronavirus pandemic. To help avoid that, he said the U.S. should focus hard now on reducing the spread of the virus.

“What I’d really like to see is a full court press to get us way down as a baseline, so that when you get these cases in the fall, they won’t surge up,” he said.

In that vein, Fauci said people should be cautious over the coming Labor Day weekend.

“We have seen after Fourth of July, we saw after Memorial Day, a surge in cases. Wear a mask. Keep social distancing. Avoid crowds,” he advised. “You can avoid those kind of surges. You don’t want to be someone who’s propagating the outbreak. You want to be part of the solution, not part of the problem.”

Addressing coronavirus outbreaks at several universities after students returned to campus, Fauci urged school officials not to send people who test positive home.

“Keep them at the university in a place that’s sequestered enough from the other students. But don’t have them go home because they could be spreading it in their home state,” Fauci said.

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Joe and Jill Biden will visit Kenosha tomorrow for a ‘community meeting to heal’ – Daily Mail
Joe and Jill Biden will visit Kenosha tomorrow for a ‘community meeting to heal’ – Daily Mail

Joe and Jill Biden will meet Jacob Blake’s family when they visit Kenosha on Thursday in contrast to Donald Trump – and hold meeting about ‘healing’

  • Democratic nominee Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden will travel to Kenosha, Wiscsonsin on Thursday 
  • The former vice president will ‘hold a community meeting in Kenosha to bring together Americans to heal and address the challenges we face’ 
  • Biden had hinted Monday in Pittsburgh that he was mulling a trip to Wisconsin in the aftermath of the police shooting of Jacob Blake 
  • President Donald Trump traveled to Kenosha on Tuesday to survey damage and meet with law enforcement 
  • There, he called rioters ‘domestic terrorists’ and referred to police who have killed black Americans as ‘bad apples,’ or suggesting they ‘choked’  

By Nikki Schwab, Senior U.s. Political Reporter For Dailymail.com and Shawn Cohen In Kenosha, Wisconsin, For Dailymail.com

Published: 11:17 EDT, 2 September 2020 | Updated: 17:57 EDT, 2 September 2020

Democratic nominee Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden will travel to Kenosha, Wisconsin on Thursday, two days after President Donald Trump made the trip. 

Unlike Trump, they will meet the family of Jacob Blake, the black man whose shooting by police sparked protests and violence in the city and nationwide.

The Biden campaign said that the former vice president will ‘hold a community meeting in Kenosha to bring together Americans to heal and address the challenges we face.’ Afterward, both Joe and Jill Biden will make a ‘local stop,’ which is understood to be the visit with the Blake family.

Biden had hinted on Monday after delivering a speech in Pittsburgh that he was considering going to the  Wisconsin city, where the police shooting of Jacob Blake a week and a half ago has led to protests, riots and unrest.  

‘Biden’s contacted the family,’ said Justin Blake, Blake’s uncle. ‘They’ve had a phone conversation with my brother. We want someone in the White House that will unite the whole country.

Joe Biden will visit Kenosha, Wisconsin on Thursday for a ‘community meeting.’ During his trip to Pittsburgh on Monday he hinted a trip to Wisconsin was in the works 

President Trump visited Kenosha on Tuesday where he surveyed riot damage and held a roundtable with law enforcement and local officials 

‘We believe Biden is trying to unite all Americans. I’m grateful to be able to meet him. I’m going to demand from him what we demand from anyone else – that there be legislation and laws protecting African Americans’ safety and well being and that we have economic opportunity to build up our own communities.’

‘We appreciate the manner and approach his campaign are taking,’ he continued.

Trump during his own visit to Kenosha on Tuesday did not meet with the Blake family, nor utter the paralyzed black man’s name. 

Instead he toured property damage and held a roundtable discussion with law enforcement and local officials. 

There, he called rioters ‘domestic terrorists’ and suggested that white police officers who shoot or kill unarmed black people ‘choked’ or are ‘bad apples,’ refusing to believe there’s a systemic problem between law enforcement and America’s black community.   

‘The vast and overwhelming majority of police officers are honorable, courageous and devoted public servants,’ Trump said. 

‘They’re incredible, yet many politicians ignore their sacrifice and ignore the African-American, Hispanic-American victims,’ the president continued, speaking of crime victims of color, not those who have been unarmed and shot by officers, which have inspired weeks of Black Lives Matter protests.

When asked specifically about Blake being shot Trump responded, ‘I feel terrible for anybody who goes through that.’ He added that it’s a ‘complicated subject.’ 

Vouching for police officers Trump explained, ‘you have people who choke.’    

‘And if they make a wrong decision one way or the other, they’re either dead or they’re in big trouble,’ Trump continued. ‘And people have to understand that. They choke sometimes. And it’s a very tough situation.’ 

The president suggested that the police involved in the shootings and killings of unarmed black people amounted to some ‘bad apples.’ 

Trump pooh-poohed a reporter’s question about whether he believed systemic racism existed, which has been the main theme of the Black Lives Matter movement. 

‘You just keep getting back to the opposite subject,’ Trump said. ‘We should talk about the kind of violence we’ve seen in Portland and here and other places, it’s tremendous violence.’ 

‘This is what this is all about,’ Trump said.  

He laughed off the idea that most of the Black Lives Matter protests have been peaceable, pointing to the rubble he had just observed.  

‘I keep hearing about peaceful protests … and then I come to an area like this and the town is burned down,’ Trump said, sassing at reporters in the room for covering the protests like that. ‘By and large this is not peaceful protesting,’ he later added.   

State and local officials had asked Trump not to come to Kenosha, in case his appearance sparked more confrontations – but Wisconsin is a key swing state in the November presidential election. 


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Covid-19 Live Updates and Tracker – The New York Times
Covid-19 Live Updates and Tracker – The New York Times

Greece reported the first case of the coronavirus in the Moria camp for migrants on the Aegean island of Lesbos. The migration ministry said the facility would be locked down for two weeks as health inspectors tested other residents.

Living conditions at the camp have been decried by human rights groups as it hosts nearly 12,000 people, four times its capacity of 3,000. The patient is a 40-year-old man from Somalia who left after securing refugee status but “returned illegally to Moria and had been living in a tent outside the camp’s perimeter,” the ministry said.

In other news around the world:

  • Direct international flights to Beijing, the capital of China, will gradually resume, officials said Wednesday, with service from Thailand, Cambodia, Pakistan, Greece, Denmark, Austria, Sweden and Canada.

  • At the Vatican, Pope Francis welcomed his first general public audience since the pandemic struck more than six months ago. St. Peter’s Basilica had been closed to visitors since mid-March as the virus exacted a heavy toll on Italy. Francis said that it was “beautiful” to encounter people “face to face and not screen to screen,” referring to his virtual audiences.

  • Hungary reported a daily record on Wednesday, with 365 new cases. The country, which has had relatively few cases — 6,257, according to a New York Times database — has barred most foreign travelers and is making returning citizens isolate themselves.

  • After mass demonstrations in Berlin last weekend against the government of Germany’s coronavirus regulations, the city decided to require masks at large protests. Now, organizers say they’re planning a large event, timed for the 30th anniversary of German reunification on Oct. 3, at Lake Constance in the south.

  • Also in Germany, the state of Saxony will allow 8,500 fans — one-fifth of the stadium’s capacity — to attend a soccer match between RB Leipzig and Mainz 05 on Sept. 20. The country’s top league shut down in March, but restarted to finish its season without fans present; RB Leipzig persuaded local and state authorities that it could limit the risk of infection if it kept the crowd small, required masks and sold no alcohol.

  • After nearly three decades of economic growth, Australia officially fell into recession after its economy shrank 7 percent in the second quarter, the government said on Wednesday. The drop in quarterly G.D.P. is the largest since record-keeping began in 1959.

Reporting was contributed by Trip Gabriel, Michael Gold, Anemona Hartocollis, Sheila Kaplan, Thomas Kaplan, Juliana Kim, Niki Kitsantonis, Isabella Kwai, Ron Lieber, Benjamin Novak, Richard C. Paddock, Tariq Panja, Gaia Pianigiani, Roni Caryn Rabin, Matt Richtel, Campbell Robertson, Christopher F. Schuetze, Michael D. Shear, Dera Menra Sijabat, Daniel E. Slotnik, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Eileen Sullivan, Jim Tankersley, Katie Thomas, Neil Vigdor, Mark Walker, Allyson Waller, Katherine J. Wu, Noah Weiland and Elaine Yu.

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Poll: Biden holds narrowed 7-point lead over Trump post-conventions – POLITICO
Poll: Biden holds narrowed 7-point lead over Trump post-conventions – POLITICO

Another national poll released Wednesday by Grinnell College and conducted by Selzer & Co. showed Biden with a similar, high single-digit lead. Just less than half of likely voters surveyed, 49 percent, backed Biden and 41 percent supported Trump — an 8-point edge for Biden.

The latest polling results come after the conclusion of Republicans’ nominating convention last week, when Trump excoriated Biden as beholden to the “radical left” wing of the Democratic Party and warned that the “American way of life” would be destroyed were he not reelected.

Biden’s campaign aides have insisted in recent days that they expected a tightening of the race as the general election campaign enters its final stretch, pointing to the political polarization of the country’s electorate.

The USA Today/Suffolk University poll was conducted Aug. 28-31, surveying 1,000 registered voters. The margin of sampling error is plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.

The Grinnell-Selzer poll was conducted Aug. 26-30, surveying 827 likely voters. The margin of sampling error is plus or minus 3.4 percentage points.

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Fauci predicts ‘safe and effective’ coronavirus vaccine by end of year – NBC News
Fauci predicts ‘safe and effective’ coronavirus vaccine by end of year – NBC News

Dr. Anthony Fauci predicts that a coronavirus vaccine will be developed by the end of 2020.

“I believe that by the time we get to the end of this calendar year that we will feel comfortable that we do have a safe and effective vaccine,” Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said on NBC’s “TODAY” on Wednesday.

He added that in a number of vaccine trials, there is “enough data that you would really feel comfortable it was safe and effective for the American public.”

Fauci also warned about the upcoming flu season compounding the coronavirus pandemic. To help avoid that, he said the U.S. should focus hard now on reducing the spread of the virus.

“What I’d really like to see is a full court press to get us way down as a baseline, so that when you get these cases in the fall, they won’t surge up,” he said.

In that vein, Fauci said people should be cautious over the coming Labor Day weekend.

“We have seen after Fourth of July, we saw after Memorial Day, a surge in cases. Wear a mask. Keep social distancing. Avoid crowds,” he advised. “You can avoid those kind of surges. You don’t want to be someone who’s propagating the outbreak. You want to be part of the solution, not part of the problem.”

Addressing coronavirus outbreaks at several universities after students returned to campus, Fauci urged school officials not to send people who test positive home.

“Keep them at the university in a place that’s sequestered enough from the other students. But don’t have them go home because they could be spreading it in their home state,” Fauci said.

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Chief of staff Meadows slams Pelosi’s unmasked salon visit as ‘typical Washington’ – Fox News
Chief of staff Meadows slams Pelosi’s unmasked salon visit as ‘typical Washington’ – Fox News
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Meadows: Rioters trying to instill fear into everyday Americans’ lives

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., needs to get serious about negotiating for coronavirus relief, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows told “Fox & Friends” Wednesday.

Pelosi was caught on camera Monday visiting a shuttered San Francisco hair salon for a wash and blow-out, despite local ordinances keeping salons closed since March, which the owner called a “slap in the face.”

PELOSI USED SHUTTERED SAN FRANCISCO HAIR SALON FOR BLOW-OUT, OWNER CALLS IT ‘SLAP IN THE FACE’

“This is typical Washington, D.C.,” Meadows said. “They get on national TV. They preach to the American people that it should be one way and, yet, in private, when the cameras are not rolling and in this case, I guess the cameras were rolling, it shows a very different story.

“It’s the same thing whether it’s in San Francisco with her going into a salon or in the privacy of a negotiating room, it’s time that she get serious about helping the American people.”

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President Trump is the only one who has acted in the last four weeks to help Americans, Meadows said, referring to his executive orders signed in August providing Americans financial relief.

“We invite her back to the table to hopefully help the American people,” he said.

PELOSI ANNOUNCES CORONAVIRUS MASKS WILL BE REQUIRED IN HOUSE CHAMBER

Trump supports a stimulus check, enhanced unemployment, money for education, and small businesses, Meadows said, but Pelosi continues to stand in the way of a relief bill.

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Meadows also doubled down on Trump’s characterization of organized rioters as “domestic terrorists”

“Whether you see it here or as the president was talking about in Kenosha, Wisconsin, this is a president that has been very clear. He’s going to do two things. Make sure our communities are safe and that we have a secure future.”

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Biden and Trump Unveil Dueling Law-and-Order Ads as Both Eye Swing States – The New York Times
Biden and Trump Unveil Dueling Law-and-Order Ads as Both Eye Swing States – The New York Times

Pennsylvania is seen as crucial by both candidates. On the same day that Mr. Biden delivered his speech at the Democratic National Convention, Mr. Trump traveled to Scranton, Pa., where Mr. Biden grew up, for his own event. And Mr. Biden chose to go to Pittsburgh to deliver his speech on Monday rebuking and responding to Mr. Trump’s attempts to redirect the 2020 contest away from the virus and toward law and order.

A presentation on Wednesday by Priorities USA, a leading Democratic super PAC, showed Pennsylvania as the tipping point state of the 2020 race. The group showed findings from a private poll of battleground states that showed Mr. Biden with a wide lead on handling race relations but knotted in a virtual tie on the issue of policing and law enforcement.

Guy Cecil, the chairman of Priorities USA, who had previously predicted a tightening of the polls as the election neared, described the 2020 race as “just structurally close.”

“I don’t think this has to do with Kenosha,” he said. “I think it has to do with the fact that we’re two months before the election.”

In the new ad, Mr. Biden casts himself as a unifying figure who would seek to “lower the temperature” of the national debate and bring the country together. The spot ends with Mr. Biden, who is Catholic, quoting the former pope, John Paul II: “Be not afraid.”

The Biden campaign said the ad would air nationally on cable television and in local markets in nine battleground states: Arizona, Florida, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

His speech in Pittsburgh and the advertising campaign are part of Mr. Biden’s response to a Republican convention last week in which the G.O.P. tried repeatedly to twist the former vice president’s record on crime and policing, with Mr. Trump himself often amplifying the misleading claims on Twitter.

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Novichok Nerve Agent Used To Poison Alexei Navalny, Germany Says – NPR
Novichok Nerve Agent Used To Poison Alexei Navalny, Germany Says – NPR

Alexei Navalny was poisoned by a rare nerve agent developed in Russia, German officials say. Navalny, a leading critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, is being treated in Berlin’s Charité hospital, seen here behind the Reichstag.

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Alexei Navalny was poisoned by a rare nerve agent developed in Russia, German officials say. Navalny, a leading critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, is being treated in Berlin’s Charité hospital, seen here behind the Reichstag.

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Updated at 2 p.m. ET

Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a variant of Novichok, a Soviet-era nerve agent, according to tests carried out by a German military laboratory. A German government spokesman said the evidence is “without a doubt.”

Navalny “is the victim of a crime that intended to silence him,” German Chancellor Angela Merkel said during a news conference Wednesday about the findings. The crime, she said, was an “attempted murder.”

Novichok is the same nerve agent used to poison former KGB spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, in a 2018 attack in Britain that Western nations have blamed on Moscow.

The Novichok group of nerve agents was “developed in a top-secret laboratory in Moscow and was once a closely held secret of the Russian government,” as NPR’s Geoff Brumfiel has reported. The name means “newcomer” in Russian — the chemical weapons were developed in the last years of the Cold War in a bid to create agents that were both lethal and difficult to detect.

Steffen Seibert, a spokesman for Merkel, said that Germany condemns the attack on Navalny in the strongest possible terms and urges the Russian government to explain what happened.

Navalny, 44, is one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most prominent critics and has investigated well-placed officials over potential instances of corruption and abuse of office.

He fell ill on a commercial flight to Moscow from the Siberian city of Tomsk on Aug. 20, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing. Navalny’s spokesperson, Kira Yarmysh, said she saw him drink one thing: a cup of tea at the airport in Tomsk.

Two days later, the activist and politician was airlifted from Siberia to the Charité hospital in Berlin. Navalny remains in a medically induced coma, but in a recent update, German doctors said his condition is stable and that his life is not in danger.

When Navalny was being treated in Siberia, doctors claimed there were no traces of poison in his system. They said he was suffering from a blood sugar imbalance.

Russian officials have called for caution in discussing what happened to Navalny, dismissing “premature and unsubstantiated accusations” about the presence of poison in his system.

Putin’s press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, said last week that the Kremlin did not see any grounds to launch a criminal probe into Navalny’s condition despite German doctors’ initial findings he had been poisoned. But one day later, Putin “expressed interest in a thorough and impartial investigation of all the circumstances of the incident,” the Kremlin said.

Now that Germany announced it has identified the poison, Peskov said Russia is ready for a full exchange of information about the case – but he reiterated that before Navalny left for Germany, an analysis in Siberia had found no toxic substances, according to the state-run Tass media outlet. Peskov also said the Kremlin cannot fully respond to the new allegations until German authorities share their data.

Merkel’s office said the government is hoping Navalny will make a full recovery.

Navalny “continues to be treated in an intensive care unit and remains on a ventilator,” the Charité hospital said Wednesday. “Recovery is likely to be lengthy. It is still too early to gauge the long-term effects which may arise in relation to this severe poisoning.”

Germany will notify the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons about the nerve agent’s use, Merkel said. She added that Germany will also inform NATO and the European Union about the new allegations against Russia and that the organizations will discuss “an appropriate and joint reaction.”

Both Sergei and Yulia Skripal survived the March 2018 attack in Salisbury, England, and the U.K. charged two Russian men with the crime. Then-Prime Minister Theresa May said that the U.K.’s security and intelligence agencies determined the men were “officers from the Russian military intelligence service, also known as the GRU.”

Four months after the Skripals were poisoned in Salisbury, two local residents came into contact with Novichok, and one of them later died. U.K. authorities have said the two likely were exposed to the nerve agent that had been discarded after the March attack.

The Russian government has denied involvement in the Salisbury poisonings.

Esme Nicholson contributed to this report for NPR.

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