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ELECTION 2020-THE LATEST
The Latest: Cory Booker wins N.J. Democratic Senate primary
WASHINGTON (AP) — Cory Booker has won New Jersey's Democratic Senate primary. The incumbent Booker had faced Lawrence Hamm, who was running on Bernie Sanders' “Not Me. Us.” slogan. Booker arrived in the Senate in 2013 after serving as mayor of Newark. He also ran for president in 2020, ending his campaign in January after struggling to raise the type of money required to support a White House bid. His campaign’s message of unity and love failed to resonate in a political era marked by chaos and anxiety.
VIRUS OUTBREAK-TEXAS
Texas passes 10,000 confirmed new virus cases in single day
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas has surpassed 10,000 new coronavirus cases in a single day for the first time as a resurgence of the outbreak rages across the U.S. The record high of 10,028 confirmed cases Tuesday follows Republican Gov. Greg Abbott decision to mandate masks in much of the state and to close bars, retreating from what had been one of America’s fastest reopenings. New York and Florida are the only other states to have reported more than 10,000 confirmed new cases in a single day. Texas surged past 8,000 hospitalizations for the first time over the Fourth of July weekend, a more than quadruple increase in the past month.
AP-US-JEFFREY-EPSTEIN-ASSOCIATE
July 14 bail hearing date set for Epstein's ex-girlfriend
NEW YORK (AP) — A judge has set a July 14 date for an arraignment and bail hearing for Jeffrey Epstein's ex-girlfriend on charges she recruited girls for him to sexually abuse. Judge Alison J. Nathan on Tuesday said Ghislaine Maxwell will appear by video for an initial appearance in Manhattan federal court next week. The 58-year-old British socialite was arrested last week at a $1 million estate she bought months ago in New Hampshire. Her lawyer did not return a message seeking comment. Prosecutors say they plan to ask that Maxwell be kept incarcerated pending trial on the grounds that she has the money, the overseas connections and the incentive to flee. Maxwell has repeatedly denied engaging in abuse.
TEEN RESTRAINT-DEATH
Video shows facility staff restraining Black teen who died
Surveillance video shows at least seven men restraining a Black teenager who later died at a youth facility in Michigan. The footage released to reporters Tuesday shows several of the men appearing to pull on and hold down 16-year-old Cornelius Fredericks’ arms and legs while others sit or lay atop him because he threw a sandwich in the cafeteria. Authorities have said Fredericks went into cardiac arrest April 29 while being restrained. He died two days later. Detroit-area attorney Geoffrey Fieger represents Fredericks’ estate in a civil lawsuit that says the boy screamed “I can’t breathe” as he was restrained.
MARY TRUMP BOOK
Mary Trump's book offers scathing portrayal of president
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump's niece offers a scathing portrayal of her uncle in a new book. Mary Trump blames a toxic family for raising a narcissistic, damaged man who poses an immediate danger to the public. She writes in “Too Much and Never Enough, How My Family Created The World’s Most Dangerous Man” that Trump is a compulsive liar whose reelection “would be the end of American Democracy.” In the book, Mary Trump makes several revelations, including alleging that the president paid a friend to take a college admissions test in his place. Mary Trump is the daughter of Trump's elder brother, Fred Trump Jr., who died in 1981.
AP-US-VIRUS-OUTBREAK-MISSISSIPPI-GOVERNOR
At least 8 Mississippi lawmakers test positive for COVID-19
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The state health officer in Mississippi says at least eight of the state's lawmakers have tested positive for the new coronavirus. Dr. Thomas Dobbs says Tuesday that there are also 11 other suspected cases of the virus among lawmakers and Capitol employees. Among those who have said they have COVID-19 are Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann and House Speaker Philip Gunn. They are the top officers in the Legislature. Republican Gov. Tate Reeves says his own coronavirus test came back negative. Lawmakers were at the Capitol most of June and on July 1 to finish their annual session. Many did not wear masks.
RACIAL INJUSTICE-INDIANA ATTACK
FBI investigating reported assault on Black Indiana man
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The FBI says it’s investigating the reported assault of a Black man by a group of white men at a southern Indiana lake. Vauhxx Booker says the men pinned him against a tree, shouted racial slurs and one of them threatened to “get a noose” at Monroe Lake near Bloomington over the July Fourth weekend. Much of the assault was captured on cellphone video. Booker's attorney, Katherine Liell, says the FBI is questioning witnesses and that charging decisions could be made soon. Booker says he "just wanted to have a good time with some friends.”
VIRUS OUTBREAK-VETERANS
US government launches campaign to reduce high suicide rates
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government is launching a national campaign aimed at reducing high suicide rates, particularly among veterans. Its message to the public during the coronavirus pandemic is to reach out to others, talk openly about mental health and acknowledge daily stresses in people’s lives. Known as REACH, the campaign is the core part of a $53 million, two-year effort announced by President Donald Trump to reduce suicide. Starting Wednesday, digital ads will hit the internet with the key message that “suicide is preventable." The goal is to spur action not only by the government but also by businesses, schools and nonprofits to overcome the stigma of discussing mental health.
AP-US-ELECTION-2020-BIDEN
Biden wants US to produce more of its own pandemic supplies
WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden is promising to shift production of medical equipment and other key pandemic-fighting products “back to U.S. soil,” creating jobs and bolstering a domestic supply chain he says has been exposed as inadequate and vulnerable by the coronavirus outbreak. The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee’s campaign released a plan Tuesday to reinforce stockpiles of a “range of critical products on which the U.S. is dangerously dependent on foreign suppliers” like China and Russia. That includes medical equipment and pharmaceuticals. It also includes energy and grid resilience technologies, semiconductors and key electronics as well as telecommunications infrastructure and raw materials. Biden's camp hasn't said how much his plan would cost.
TALIBAN BOUNTIES
US general skeptical that bounties led to troops' deaths
WASHINGTON (AP) — The top U.S. general for the Middle East says the intelligence suggesting that Russia may have paid Taliban militants to kill American troops in Afghanistan was worrisome, but he is not convinced that any bounties resulted in U.S. military deaths. Gen. Frank McKenzie, the head of U.S. Central command said in a telephone interview with a small group of reporters, that the U.S. did not increase force protection measures in Afghanistan as a result of the information. He asked his intelligence staff to dig into the matter more.
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