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from BBC News (UK)
'My Nigerian great-grandfather sold slaves'
Amid the global debate about race relations, colonialism and slavery, some of the Europeans and Americans who made their fortunes in trading human beings have seen their legacies reassessed, their statues toppled and their names removed from public buildings. Nigerian journalist and novelist Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani writes that one of her ancestors sold slaves, but argues that he should not be judged by today's standards or values.
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from CNBC
TV Network in Englewood Cliffs, NJ
President Trump won’t agree to accept 2020 election results as Biden leads in polls — ‘I have to see’
President Donald Trump declined in an interview that aired Sunday to say he would accept the results of the 2020 election, adding that he will “have to see” and claiming without evidence that mail-in voting will “rig the election.” During the interview, Wallace debuted the results of Fox News’ latest national poll, which showed the presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden leading Trump by 8%.
“First of all, I’m not losing because those are fake polls,” Trump said. “They were fake in 2016 and now they’re even more fake.”
President Trump won’t agree to accept 2020 election results as Biden leads in polls — ‘I have to see’
President Donald Trump declined in an interview that aired Sunday to say he would accept the results of the 2020 election, adding that he will “have to see” and claiming without evidence that mail-in voting will “rig the election.” During the interview, Wallace debuted the results of Fox News’ latest national poll, which showed the presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden leading Trump by 8%.
“First of all, I’m not losing because those are fake polls,” Trump said. “They were fake in 2016 and now they’re even more fake.”
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from CNN
This is the last week of $600 unemployment benefits
The end is near for the $600 federal lifeline for millions of unemployed Americans -- even though the economy is still far from recovered from the coronavirus pandemic and new layoffs are being announced regularly. ... Jobless Americans will still get state unemployment benefits, but the sunset of the Congress' $600 enhancement -- part of the $2 trillion economic aid package passed in March -- will leave more than 25 million people thousands of dollars poorer each month. And it will expose more of the real pain of mass unemployment, just as many states are reimposing shutdowns. ... Congressional lawmakers are beginning to work this week on the next economic stimulus package. But it's unlikely they'll agree on -- much less approve -- the next step to help unemployed Americans before the payments lapse. The provision was controversial from the start, mainly because the $600 boost, when added to state benefits, is more than what two-thirds of workers made on the job, according to an estimate from University of Chicago researchers. But lawmakers approved it in late March as part of a historic expansion of the nation's unemployment program at a time when health officials didn't want people out looking for work. The flat $600 payment was much easier for state agencies -- which were already struggling as a flood of claims overwhelmed their antiquated technology -- to implement. Congress approved the boost for only four months, thinking that the economy would bounce back quickly once the coronavirus was vanquished and businesses reopened. For a while, that seemed to be the case -- with employers hiring more than 7 million workers in May and June after shedding an unprecedented 20.5 million jobs in April.
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Biden, at Muslim voters summit, says ‘I wish we taught more in our schools about the Islamic faith’
Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden spoke to a summit of Muslim voters Monday, telling them he wished U.S. schools taught more about Islam. "I wish we taught more in our schools about the Islamic faith. I wish we talked about all the great confessional faiths. It's one of the great confessional faiths," Biden said Monday at the “Million Muslim Votes” summit hosted by Emgage Action. Emgage Action, the country’s largest Muslim American PAC, endorsed Biden in April after endorsing Bernie Sanders during the Democratic primary.
from Fox News (& affiliates)
Biden, at Muslim voters summit, says ‘I wish we taught more in our schools about the Islamic faith’
Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden spoke to a summit of Muslim voters Monday, telling them he wished U.S. schools taught more about Islam. "I wish we taught more in our schools about the Islamic faith. I wish we talked about all the great confessional faiths. It's one of the great confessional faiths," Biden said Monday at the “Million Muslim Votes” summit hosted by Emgage Action. Emgage Action, the country’s largest Muslim American PAC, endorsed Biden in April after endorsing Bernie Sanders during the Democratic primary.
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from KING 5 (NBC)
Broadcasting & Media Production Company in Seattle, Washington
On Friday, the Washington State Department of Health (DOH) released its latest statewide coronavirus situation report, which painted an alarming picture of trends in transmissions and hospitalizations, particularly in eastern Washington. The report found that the spread of COVID-19 continues to accelerate across most of Washington state as of the start of July. The estimated number of new people each COVID-19 patient will infect is still well above one in both eastern and western Washington, with the exception of Yakima County. Health guidelines say the goal for a reproductive number is below one, which would mean the number of people getting coronavirus is declining. The level of daily new cases is higher than the state’s previous peak in March, the DOH said. When the virus first made its way through Washington, infection rates were the most common in those who were elderly with compromised immune systems. Now, both eastern and western Washington areas are seeing increasing rates among those in the 20-39-year-old age range.
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from KXLY 4 News (ABC Spokane)
White House chief of staff says stimulus negotiations will start ‘in earnest’ on Monday
White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said Sunday that the administration has been engaged in discussions on the next stimulus bill for the past week, but negotiations will start “in earnest” Monday on Capitol Hill.
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from New York Post
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED, Newspaper in New York
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED, Newspaper in New York
We immigrants know the America-bashers are ridiculously wrong
By Karol Markowicz: On the day my mother and I became citizens and said the Pledge of Allegiance in a room full of new Americans, there were few dry eyes in the house. Don’t end our patriotic displays because an influential fringe has decided they are somehow evil. We are in a difficult moment in our nation’s history. But if an immigrant family — arriving in a new country in the tumultuous late 1970s — could believe in the goodness of America and have hope for a better day, so could we all. America’s best days are ahead, if we remember what made us great in the first place.
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from NPR (& affiliates)
Nonprofit Broadcasting & Media Production Company
Your 'Doomscrolling' Breeds Anxiety. Here's How To Stop The Cycle
So many of us do it: You get into bed, turn off the lights, and look at your phone to check Twitter one more time. You see that coronavirus infections are up. Maybe your kids can't go back to school. The economy is cratering. Still, you incessantly scroll though bottomless doom-and-gloom news for hours as you sink into a pool of despair. This self-destructive behavior has become so common that a new word for it has entered our lexicon: "doomscrolling." The recent onslaught of dystopian stories related to the coronavirus pandemic, combined with stay-at-home orders, have enabled our penchant for binging on bad news. But the habit is eroding our mental health, experts say.
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Japan's sinking exports raise risks of prolonged economic downturn at home and overseas
Japan’s exports plunged at a double-digit pace for the fourth month in a row in June, backing signs the coronavirus crisis has knocked the economy into its worst postwar recession and raising the spectre of a longer and more painful global downturn.
Equity markets rebound on EU fund optimism; gold edges higher
Global equity markets rebounded on Monday on optimism the European Union would approve a recovery fund to help revive regional economies hit by the coronavirus, but worries about the pandemic’s economic and human toll pushed gold prices higher.
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Your 'Doomscrolling' Breeds Anxiety. Here's How To Stop The Cycle
So many of us do it: You get into bed, turn off the lights, and look at your phone to check Twitter one more time. You see that coronavirus infections are up. Maybe your kids can't go back to school. The economy is cratering. Still, you incessantly scroll though bottomless doom-and-gloom news for hours as you sink into a pool of despair. This self-destructive behavior has become so common that a new word for it has entered our lexicon: "doomscrolling." The recent onslaught of dystopian stories related to the coronavirus pandemic, combined with stay-at-home orders, have enabled our penchant for binging on bad news. But the habit is eroding our mental health, experts say.
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from Reuters
International news agency headquartered in London, UK
Japan's sinking exports raise risks of prolonged economic downturn at home and overseas
Japan’s exports plunged at a double-digit pace for the fourth month in a row in June, backing signs the coronavirus crisis has knocked the economy into its worst postwar recession and raising the spectre of a longer and more painful global downturn.
Equity markets rebound on EU fund optimism; gold edges higher
Global equity markets rebounded on Monday on optimism the European Union would approve a recovery fund to help revive regional economies hit by the coronavirus, but worries about the pandemic’s economic and human toll pushed gold prices higher.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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Overlooked Washington State elected offices on primary ballot 2020– who are these people?
In Washington State, there are a variety of state-wide offices which are elected on Presidential election years, and which generally operate in obscurity the rest of the time. Yet, it is still important to have good, or at least marginally decent people elected to these positions. Even if you already know who your governor choice is (I posted this article for an overview on that race), and you might even have made a decision in the Lt. Governor and Attorney General race, it is likely you (and your family and friends) may not know who to choose for the other often overlooked state wide elected races. Specifically, the Insurance Commissioner, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Commissioner of Public Lands, and State Auditor are all covered in this article. My bias tends to be towards more conservative, good government types who run real campaigns, and my analysis reflects this bias.
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from We the Governed
Overlooked Washington State elected offices on primary ballot 2020– who are these people?
In Washington State, there are a variety of state-wide offices which are elected on Presidential election years, and which generally operate in obscurity the rest of the time. Yet, it is still important to have good, or at least marginally decent people elected to these positions. Even if you already know who your governor choice is (I posted this article for an overview on that race), and you might even have made a decision in the Lt. Governor and Attorney General race, it is likely you (and your family and friends) may not know who to choose for the other often overlooked state wide elected races. Specifically, the Insurance Commissioner, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Commissioner of Public Lands, and State Auditor are all covered in this article. My bias tends to be towards more conservative, good government types who run real campaigns, and my analysis reflects this bias.
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