Covid Tests and Quarantines: Colleges Brace for an Uncertain Fall Big schools, from Syracuse University to the University of California, San Diego, that have connections to labs, health programs or medical schools say they are capable of processing large numbers of Covid tests in 24 to 48 hours. In a typical big-school plan, the University of California, Berkeley, will test all residential students within 24 hours of their arrival, for free, using either a standard nasal swab or a saliva test being developed by an internationally renowned genomics research lab on campus. Students will subsequently be sequestered for 7 to 10 days, leaving their single dorm rooms only to go (masked) to the bathroom or to pick up a meal from a central location in the building or outside, then retested.
Pelosi mandates masks in House chamber and hallways after Gohmert tests positive for Covid-19 "Members and staff will be required to wear masks at all times in the hall of the House," Pelosi announced from the House floor Wednesday afternoon. Lawmakers will be permitted to temporarily take off masks when they are speaking. Members and staff will not be allowed to enter if they don't wear masks. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris say Trump has left US 'in tatters' Media playback is unsupported on your device Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and running mate Kamala Harris have attacked "whining" President Donald Trump as an incompetent leader who has left the US "in tatters". The pair held their first campaign event together, a day after Mr Biden unveiled Ms Harris as his number two. President Trump hit back, saying Ms Harris had "dropped like a rock" in her own presidential bid.
Trump again attempts to stoke racial divisions in housing message Trumpeting his rollback of an Obama-era rule meant to combat segregation, Trump informed "all of the people living their Suburban Lifestyle Dream that you will no longer be bothered or financially hurt by having low income housing built in your neighborhood." "Your housing prices will go up based on the market, and crime will go down," Trump went on in his message posted to Twitter. "I have rescinded the Obama-Biden AFFH Rule. Enjoy!" Speaking in Texas later, Trump underscored his view that affordable housing has no place in American suburbs. "You know, the suburbs, people fight all of their lives to get into the suburbs and have a beautiful home.
Brazil death toll passes 105,000 – as it happened 12.38am BST00:38 We’ve launched a new blog at the link below – head there for the latest: 11.59pm BST23:59 Lindsey Graham campaign ad features image of opponent with digitally altered darker skin tone The campaign ad, uploaded to Graham's Facebook on July 23, includes an image of his Senate rival Jaime Harrison that was originally published in the New York Times. The version of the image in Graham's ad, however, shows Harrison surrounded by a dark, portrait-style background effect with a notably darker skin tone. "Hollywood continues to bankroll my opponent, raising tens of thousands in campaign cash to attack me -- but they fail to understand this simple fact: South Carolinians won't stand for Radical Leftists telling them how to think and how to vote," the Facebook post states. "Are you with me?" The Graham campaign told CNN an effect was used in creating the ad but pointed to past Facebook advertisements in which they said the same effect was used on Graham's face, and called the issues raised about it a "non-story." "The artistic effect used, the same one that was used on Senator Graham just two days before in a video, is a non-story.
New Zealand to delay election until October, citing coronavirus resurgence New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced early Monday that the country’s general election will be delayed until October, citing concerns over a resurgent coronavirus. The postponement of the September 19 election until October 17 comes despite New Zealand being one of the most successful countries to curb the pandemic. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern reacts during a press conference in Wellington, New Zealand, Friday, Aug. 14, 2020.
Remington Arms files for second bankruptcy in two years The company made the filing on Monday in the US Bankruptcy Court of the Northern District of Alabama. This is the second time in two years that the firearms manufacturer has filed for Chapter 11 — previously having filed in March 2018. Since then, Remington had a few setbacks.
Biden vows to end 'season of darkness' as he accepts the Democratic presidential nomination – as it happened 6.29am BST06:29 Key takeaways from the night That’s it from us tonight. The Guardian live blog will be back with more convention coverage next week, when Trump accepts the Republican nomination. Park Police chief says officers used 'tremendous restraint' removing Lafayette Square protesters In fact, acting Chief Gregory Monahan asserted that officers used "tremendous restraint" when removing the protesters. That incident in Lafayette Square, which came at the height of the Black Lives Matter demonstrations in the nation's capital, was viewed by some as an example of the overly aggressive policing the protest was critiquing in the wake of George Floyd's killing in Minneapolis. But Monahan said videos of the clash played in the hearing room did not capture the projectiles that had been thrown at officers earlier that day, nor the violence in the park over the last several days, which caused police leaders to order fortified fencing for the area.
Trump’s most powerful ally in undermining the election: William Barr As Donald Trump continues to sow doubt about the integrity of the US election, he has found a remarkably powerful ally in William Barr, the US attorney general, who has not only enthusiastically embraced the president’s claims but also spread misinformation on his own. Barr has falsely said foreign nations could print counterfeit ballots, something intelligence officials say there’s no evidence of and would be nearly impossible. After Trump encouraged North Carolina voters to vote twice, which is illegal, Barr declined to definitively say it was illegal, instead saying he wasn’t familiar with the laws in every state.
Obama warns that Trump's actions threaten US democracy But the extraordinary interventions Thursday of two presidents, whose legacies will be forever entwined, suddenly underscored how this election, in the words of the quadrennial cliché, will actually be the most important one of our lifetimes. Obama's eulogy was not just his most public intervention in the 2020 campaign or his most passionate denunciation yet of a successor whose highest priority is eradicating Obama's achievements at home and abroad. The speech, from the church where Martin Luther King Jr. once preached, also represented Obama's most raw, explicit and unrestrained unburdening about race on a prominent public stage of his entire political career. In his 2008 campaign, he powerfully spoke about racial prejudice while seeking to heal national wounds -- and save his campaign when pressed about his association with the controversial Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
Covid: White House aide tests positive as military leaders quarantine Image copyright Reuters Covid-19 is spreading further among those around US President Donald Trump, with White House adviser Stephen Miller and a top military official infected. Mr Miller, who has been self-isolating for the past five days, confirmed he had contracted coronavirus on Tuesday. Top US General Mark Milley and other military leaders are also quarantining after Coast Guard official Admiral Charles Ray tested positive. Other officials are self-isolating "out of an abundance of caution". In a statement, Mr Miller said he had been "testing negative every day" until Tuesday, adding that he was now in quarantine.
Donald Trump undermines his pandemic response with more misinformation and self-obsession He painted a misleading picture of a viral surge still raging across Southern and Western states that is showing new signs of spreading deeper into the heartland, saying large portions of the country were "corona-free." And he launched a stunning new pitch for hydroxychloroquine, the anti-malaria drug beloved by conservative media but that has not been shown in rigorous clinical trials to be an effective treatment for Covid-19. Given the trail of sickness and death that has unfolded in recent months, it was bizarre though not surprising that the President would return to the controversy over hydroxychloroquine. On Monday night, he retweeted videos describing hydroxychloroquine as a "cure" that meant Americans didn't need to wear masks.