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TOKYO (AP) — The postponed Tokyo Olympics have again reached the one-year-to-go mark. But the celebration is small this time with more questions than answers about how the Olympics can happen in a pandemic. A poll by Japan's Kyodo news agency showed just under 25% favored holding the Olympics next year. About 70% said they should be postponed or canceled. The results match many recent surveys of the Japanese public. Local organizers and the International Olympic Committee have given few details about how the games will be pulled off. They have said that no events will be cut and that 11,000 Olympic and 4,400 Paralympians will compete.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden has said during a virtual town hall that President Donald Trump was the country's “first” racist president. The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee’s comment came Wednesday in response to a questioner mentioning the president referring to the coronavirus as the “China virus." Biden said, "We’ve had racists, and they’ve existed. They’ve tried to get elected president. He’s the first one that has.” But many presidents — including the nation’s first, George Washington — owned slaves. Trump responded by saying that he'd done more for Black Americans than any other president, with the possible exception of Abraham Lincoln.
BOSTON (AP) — A new poll finds very few Americans think schools should return to normal operations this fall, even as President Donald Trump pushes for a full reopening. The poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that only about 1 in 10 Americans say daycare centers, preschools and K-12 schools should start the school year like any other. Most think mask requirements and other safety measures are necessary to restart in-person instruction, and roughly 3 in 10 say that teaching kids in classrooms shouldn’t happen at all. Trump said Wednesday that he would be “comfortable” with his son Barron and grandchildren attending school in person.
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a Colorado man charged with strangling an 11-year-old California girl in 1973 has died at an Orange County hospital. The Sheriff's Department says James Neal of Monument, Colorado, died Wednesday at a hospital where he'd been taken in May for an undisclosed illness. The department says Neal didn't show any symptoms of the coronavirus. Neal pleaded not guilty in March to killing Linda O’Keefe in Newport Beach. Neal left the state after the killing, but he was arrested in February. Investigators identified Neal as a suspect using genealogical DNA.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The former Minneapolis police officer charged with murder in the death of George Floyd now faces multiple felony counts of tax evasion. Derek Chauvin and his wife, Kellie May Chauvin, were both charged Wednesday with multiple counts for allegedly underreporting their income to the state of Minnesota from 2014 through 2019 and for failing to file state tax returns in 2016, 2017 and 2018. Some of the unreported income includes more than $95,000 prosecutors say Chauvin received for off-duty security work. Prosecutors say the Chauvins underreported their income by more than $460,000 and owe tens of thousands of dollars to the state. Online records don't show if the Chauvins have attorneys to comment on the tax case.
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