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U.S., Poland sign defense cooperation deal

‘It’s nerve racking’ — Millions of Americans are still furloughed and unsure when they will return to work

Durham hints at more charges to come

Dr. Fauci says he plans to vote in-person for November election

Masks, surgical gowns, testing supplies on FDA shortage list

Sweltering heat is shattering records, triggering power outages across California

NYPD Union endorses Trump

Graham: Clinesmith guilty pleasure would be front-page news if he’d done this to Hillary ... He knows where the bodies are buried


CDC’ chief of staff, deputy chief of staff  jointly depart

US-China trade deal review postponed as China ramps up farm, energy purchases

Former Obama speechwriter mocks notion that Kamala is a moderate

Turkey claims Greece attacked research vessel ... EU urges Turkey to ‘de-escalate’ tensions

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‘The President was not really encouraging’: What Obama really thought about Biden

Americans keep buying stuff despite pandemic — retail sales rise for third straight month

Oman supports UAE-Israel peace agreement

Watch: Rioters tear down George Washington statue at L.A. city hall

Trump requests mail-in ballot for Florida primary

Uber and Lyft’s threats to suspend service in California over workers may backfire

Minneapolis tells business owners they can’t rebuild until paying 2020 property taxes in full

Retail sales rise to pre-pandemic level

Trump assails, misrepresents Biden on mask mandate in partisan White House briefing

Coronavirus updates: Consumer spending cools off, California tops 600,000 cases

President Trump to deliver RNC speech from White House lawn

Gov. Cuomo: Trump’s executive orders ‘laughable’

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Pelosi says election threats from Russia and China are not equal

Trump signs orders aimed at extending some pandemic relief after Congress fails to reach a deal

Centrist Democrats pose a significant roadblock to Biden’s radical climate plans

Poll: Majority of Americans are not wearing masks outdoors

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine again tests negative for coronavirus

U.S. tops 5 million coronavirus cases as outbreak threatens America’s Midwest

National Security Advisor O’Brian issues warning to Americans about Chinese espionage

Gallup: 35% of Americans would not get a coronavirus vaccine

Kudlow: Trump’s executive order will stop evictions

Nearly 80% of credit card holders say they’re concerned about making minimum payments

Trump suspends student loan payments through December 31

Report: Gretchen Whitmer met with Biden in Delaware

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Reader Contribution

On a Zoom call this morning a classmate had to break out early for another virtual meeting with Dr. Fauci. The following is his promised report of what transpired. We thank Rick for this first-hand info:

Per my promise to share the Fauci call and the college's latest communication to students:

Fauci had personal/professional links with all the half dozen Dartmouth Drs who asked questions ... - Main takeaways (answers to questions):

1. Microbal world will continue to interact with human world so this will not be the last pandemic - it is unusual in that it is demographically broad (unlike HIV), not subtle - and has shut the world down.

2. Masks are critical but rejected by the young who don't take the virus seriously and by politics.

3. Opening schools needs to use national guidelines and experiences but ultimately be based on local situations eg low incidence of virus ok to open, high no, teachers protected like others at high risk eg  masks/face shields ok.

4. All ages seem to get infected at about the same rate - 40% of carriers are asymptomatic - young are now becoming more worrisome as carriers as they are showing a higher load of the virus in their nasal passages than adults. (Grandkids have always been little petri dishes...)

5. There are 165 vaccines in development world wide, 127 are in various stages of testing; the speed with which these are being developed is because of the ability with new technologies to rapidly process, grow and analyze the virus once samples came from China - allowed getting to phase one in 3 months versus 18 months previously; some of the stage 1 tests have produced responses as good as getting the disease, so should get some final results in about 3 months.

Cheers -

Rick

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Supreme Court rejects Nevada church plea to allow larger congregations

Here comes one of the newsiest and most critical weeks of the summer for markets

NYC homeless encampments grows after de Blasio’s suppressed crackdown

Cuccinelli: Fed agents could sue Pelosi for libel

Cuomo, then Schumer accuse DHS officials of possible criminal activity

U.S. coronavirus deaths top 1,000 for four straight days

Rep. Swalwell: FBI spied on Trump — and they were right to do so

Pro-life Democrats urge party to drop embrace of abortion

House passes massive spending bill in bid to thwart election year shutdown

Hurricane Hanna heads for Texas coast as state struggles with coronavirus outbreak

CDC says schools should reopen in fall

Big supermarkets refuse to enforce mandatory mask law

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Trump stares down a ticking economic time bomb

Twitter says 130 people were targeted in hack that hijacked accounts of Elon Musk, Joe Biden

SCOTUS declines to reinstate votes of nearly 1 million Florida felons

All-time low coronavirus approval rating hurting Trump in swing states

Georgia governor sues to stop Atlanta mask mandate

Wall Street banks are in no rush to bring employees back to the office

White House divided over next phase of stimulus

Poll: Joe Biden leading President Trump in Texas

Democrats use Inspector General’s report to renew calls for Medicare chief’s ouster

European leaders gather for crunch talks on massive coronavirus fund

Report: Lincoln Project paid $2 million to firms owned by founders

Feinstein proposes halting Covid aid for states without masks mandates

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Schiff: Supporters of rule of law ‘nauseated’ at Trump letting Roger Stone go free

Florida reports more than 15,000 new coronavirus cases, shattering record

Coronavirus expert predicts Americans will be wearing masks ‘for several years’

Mitt Romney on Trump commuting Stone’s sentence: ‘Historic corruption’

HHS testing chief: We do expect deaths to go up

Election officials fear voting changes will confuse voters in November

Trump, Pence both have higher favorability ratings than Congressional leaders

Rifle seized from St. Louis couple who defended home with guns

Iran blames errors for [Ukrainian] jet shoot down

Mueller speaks out on Stone clemency: ‘He remains a convicted felon, and rightly so’

Portland is a war zone: Driver shoots his way out of danger as rioters surrounded car

PA Democrat calls to remove Gettysburg‘s Confederate statues

Today’s Poser

Gov. Andrew Cuomo

What do you do when two “scientists” offer diametrically opposing advice on things like wearing coronavirus masks, “social distancing” or re-opening our economy?

My take: Listen to your inner voice (if you are wrong, it is on you) ... and tell those petty tyrants, who might be telling you differently, to go have intercourse with themselves.

Quotable Quote

“Real men wear masks.” — Nancy Pelosi

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‘There’s no discipline to his strategy’: Trump is undermining his own campaign

Amazon to buy self-driving technology company Zoox

Biden campaign won’t say if he supports removing statues of Washington, Grant, Roosevelt and Jesus

Glasgow: Stabbing rampage at asylum seeker hostel ...  Report: 3 dead, police wounded, suspect dead

Trump says push for less coronavirus testing was sarcasm

Texas rolls back it’s reopening a day after pausing plans, as coronavirus cases rise

CBP chief says 95% of illegals being returned rather than detained

Biden vows to force Americans to wear masks in public

John Bolton: Boris Johnson ‘playing Trump like a fiddle‘

Coronavirus updates: Housing and jobs markets show signs of slowing recovery

Trump says BLM leader’s threat to ‘burn down this system,’ is ‘treason, sedition, insurrection’

Veepstakes: Kamala all in on defunding police

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Broken windows and Molotov cocktail: DOJ finds creative ways into local rioting cases

Manhattan U.S. Attorney Berman refuses to leave after Trump says SEC chief Clayton will replace him

One dead and another wounded from shooting in CHAZ/CHOP

Black Lives Matter co-founder: ‘Our goal is to get Trump out’

Fox News poll: Voters say campaign rallies are a bad idea

The stock market might be pricey, but it is nothing like the genuine market bubbles of the past

Rioters in California tear down statue of Francis Scott Key, composer of The Star Spangled Banner

Poll: 8-in-10 have ‘favorable’ view of people who wear masks

Trump rejects Fauci’s warning about football’s return

Judge denies Trump administration’s attempt to block John Bolton’s book

Iran unsuprisingly found to be engaging in secret nuclear work

Barr: I would have preferred grand jury, completed investigation in Brooks case

Obvious Truth

If it is quite rare (according to the WHO ... and contract tracing in multiple countries) that asymptomatic people can transmit COVID-19, then only symptomatic people need to self-isolate, wear masks and social distance ... see: NewsMax Story ... which was Dr. Fauci’s original position before his politics got the better of him.

This suggests that lockdowns were only valid until we learned this fact ... and asymptomatic people, whether infected or not, wearing masks and social distancing are just virtue signals.

Today’s Posers

Wouldn’t  it be some kind of Devine justice if many of the major-city rioters and looters (ANTIFAs?) came down with COVID-19 because they weren’t social distancing and often had shed their masks? 

And, if they don’t, wouldn’t this prove that most of the arbitrary restrictions imposed by the mayors of these (mostly liberal) cities were therefore proven unnecessary and capricious?

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Desperate and angry state leaders push back on Trump admin claims of mass mask shipments

Coronavirus live updates’ Pelosi signals disagreement on massive relief package

Doctor in Italy: We no longer help those over 60 ...

Virus rebels from France to Florida flout lockdown practices

Fauci plays down disagreement with Trump over possible treatment

Financing programs for businesses hit by coronavirus could amount to $4 trillion, Mnuchin says

[Coronavirus cases] Could peak in 30 days ...

Left to MSM: Stop airing Trump live: ‘You will get people killed’

De Blasio asks Trump to send military to New York

New York state has more coronavirus cases than France or South Korea, as infections soar to 15,168

LA gives up on containing ...

Trump admin: No plan for nat’l lockdown

Cowards

Spineless, sniveling ANTIFA mobsters in Portland, Oregon who thoughtlessly take away other citizen's freedoms as they dress in black and hide behind masks ... all while the police stand back ... see: Oregon Live Article. One hopes that these misguided souls soon regret this evil. And, if they have been paid for this malice, they are doubly cursed.