California sets a grim record of more than two million acres burned, with several weeks remaining in the middle of fire season. / USA Today One backpacking party’s frightening story of escaping the Creek Fire. / Twitter In Los Angeles, a pyrotechnic device that was part of a gender-reveal party
Russian “malign influence actors” have targeted the absentee voting process by spreading disinformation since at least March. / ABC News The former Assistant Secretary for counterterrorism and threat prevention at Homeland Security says President Trump’s encouragement of white-supremacist terrorism is a significant threat. / The New York Times A new
Major European drug companies GSK and Sanofi say they're starting clinical trials of their coronavirus vaccine. / BBC News How a fast vaccine approval might play out, if all goes well—and some warning signs that a science-based process is being skipped. / STAT Since the start of the
Spain enters a second wave of the coronavirus—spreading at eight times the rate in Italy, 10 times the pace in Germany. / The New York Times The White House says it won’t join a global vaccine effort in part because the WHO is involved. / The Washington Post Scientists maintain
Around 145,000 fewer Americans would have died if the US had done an average job of fighting COVID-19. / The New York Times See also: Sorting the COVID-19 death data to try and ascertain how many people have died as a result of the outbreak. / Nature According to
The Justice Department secretly took steps in 2017 to keep investigators from completing an examination of President Trump’s personal and business ties to Russia. / The New York Times A man was killed in Portland on Saturday after clashes between a caravan of Trump supporters and counterprotesters. / The Associated Press
Interviews with unemployed Americans going without federal funds find rage toward Trump and the Republicans for the lapse. / The Washington Post Reporter Kevin Roose put together a Twitter feed that tracks each day’s 10 top-performing posts by Facebook pages in the United States. All of them are alt-
Making landfall early yesterday morning, Hurricane Laura pummeled parts of Louisiana, leaving six people dead. / CNN Japan's Shinzo Abe, the country's longest serving prime minister, is resigning due to poor health. / Reuters Trump's speech last night at the Republican National Convention echoed the speech
Half a million residents have been told to leave parts of Texas and Louisiana as Hurricane Laura made landfall overnight. / BBC News New Covid-19 testing guidelines, crafted at the White House, alarm public health experts. / STAT Usain Bolt tests positive just days after a party where he danced with
The first documented COVID-19 reinfection has been reported. The patient had a new immune response, but was asymptomatic. / Science Nigeria becomes the last African country to be declared free from wild polio. / BBC News Medical experts say the FDA "grossly misrepresented" its stat that blood plasma reduces
