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A FEDERAL JUDGE IN OREGON DENYING A REQUEST BY THREE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS IN THAT STATE TO REOPEN. THE SCHOOLS ARGUING THAT DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR KATE BROWN'S CORONAVIRUS RESTRICTION DISCRIMINATE AGAINST CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS......OREGONLIVE
"vehemently opposed"
That's what US Attorney General William Barr has to say about the notion of a pardon for former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden. Last weekend President Trump floated the notion of pardoning Snowden who fled to Russia to avoid prosecution in the United States for revealing classified documents about NSA spying on Americans and others around the world......NEW YORK POST
The sentencing today for actress Lori Loughlin and her husband Mossimo Gianulli in the "college admissions bribe scandal". She sentenced to two months and he to five months by a federal judge in Boston......ASSOCIATED PRESS TV ONE NEW ZEALAND
California wildfires rapidly expanding today with Governor Gavin Newsom looking for help from as far away as Canada and Australia to battle the blazes.....ABC 7 SAN FRANCISCO
AND CALIFORNIA'S GOVERNOR GAVIN NEWSOM REPORTED TO BE TAKING HIS FULL SALARY AFTER MAKING A PROMISE TO CUT HIS PAY TEN PERCENT WHEN HE ORDERED STATE WORKERS PAY TO BE CUT TEN PERCENT......ABC 7 SAN FRANCISCO
France, Germany and the UK joining China and Russia in opposing a US move at the UN Security Council to restore sanctions against Iran under the JCPOA nuclear agreement of former President Barack Obama that President Trump withdrew from......WALL STREET JOURNAL
AN AIR AMBULANCE FROM GERMANY PICKING UP THE SERIOUSLY ILL RUSSIAN OPPOSITION LEADER ALEXEI NAVALNY TODAY. NAVALNY SAID TO BE IN A COMA WITH SUSPICION THAT HE WAS POISONED.......BBC NEWS.......AFTER DEBATE AMONG RUSSIAN AND GERMAN DOCTORS DURING THE DAY IT HAS BEEN DECIDED THAT NAVALNY WILL BE TAKEN TO GERMANY FOR TREATMENT......BBC NEWS....LATE TONIGHT NAVALNY WAS ON HIS WAY TO GERMANY
A former US special forces captain arrested and charged with spying for Russia today. The Justice Department says that Peter Debbins traveled to Russia and met with Russian intelligence agents. Debbins is accused of passing secret information to Russia over a period of more than 10 years......TASS
US sanctions imposed on six Syrians Thursday including government officials and military unit commanders.......AL JAZEERA QATAR STORY
The state of Michigan reaching a 600 million dollar settlement with those affected by problems in the City of Flint's water system from 2014 to 2016........BBC NEWS
A suspect in last Sunday night's attack that left a man bloody and unconscious on a Portland, Oregon street turned himself in. 25-year old Marquise Love being held on charges of felony assault, coercion and rioting with bail set at 260-thousand dollars.......OREGONLIVE
In the race for US Senate in Maine the Republican incumbent Susan Collins won't say if she's voting for Donald Trump in November and President Trump has not endorsed her, but former Republican President George W. Bush is offering his endorsement.....DAILY MAIL UK
The Centers for Disease Control issuing new guidelines for schools to deal with COVID-19 today urging limited shut downs of schools rather than long term closures if there are infections on a campus.....CNN......CDC Director Robert Redfield also saying that he expects US coronavirus death numbers to decline next week....MASSLIVE
CORONAVIRUS STATS ACROSS THE USA TODAY FROM WORLDOMETERS SHOWING SOME 50,455 NEW CASES WITH THE LEADING STATES BEING CALIFORNIA WITH 6,539, TEXAS WITH 5,753 AND FLORIDA WITH 4,684. SOME OF THE OTHER STATES INCLUDE ILLINOIS WITH 2,293, OKLAHOMA WITH 1,077 AND OHIO WITH 1,069.
The coronavirus story from the BBC News blog......BBC NEWS CORONAVIRUS BLOG 8/21/2020
In other news...........
Belarus opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya says that protests should continue in the aftermath of a presidential election she says was rigged against her by incumbent President Alexander Lukashenko. Lukashenko has vowed to crush opposition protests in the country.......BBC NEWS
Turkey's president claiming a major gas discovery in the Black Sea off his country's northern coast. The claim by Recep Tayyip Erdogan comes amidst tensions with Greece over Turkish energy exploration in the Mediterranean Sea off Turkey's southern coast. Some experts believe the claim is exaggerated.......ASSOCIATED PRESS-TIMES OF ISRAEL
And that's the way it really is Friday August 21st, 2020, another day in the Dictatorship of COVID-19.
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