(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good evening. Here’s the latest. 1. Miami rolled back business openings after a 10-fold increase in the daily number of new coronavirus cases in just a few weeks. The mayor of Miami-Dade County banned dining at restaurants, effective Wednesday, and …
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LOS ANGELES — A federal appeals court on Monday struck down President Trump’s policy that barred most migrants from seeking asylum in the United States if they had passed through another country, concluding that the government did “virtually nothing” to make sure that another country is “a safe option” for …
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TORONTO — He sent his regrets. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau confirmed on Monday he won’t attend a meeting in Washington this week with President Donald Trump and President Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico. The meeting was meant to celebrate the official start of the new trade deal between the …
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When did America start losing its war against the coronavirus? How did we find ourselves international pariahs, not even allowed to travel to Europe? I’d suggest that the turning point was way back on April 17, the day that Donald Trump tweeted “LIBERATE MINNESOTA,” followed by “LIBERATE MICHIGAN” and “LIBERATE …
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In the complaint and in a subsequent interview, Mr. Aguiar, the lawyer, laid out a series of alleged violations that he said precipitated the young woman’s death. The police, the lawsuit claimed, relied on stale intelligence. The search warrant for Ms. Taylor’s home said the drug dealer, Jamarcus Glover, was …
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Rory Lancman, the chairman of the City Council’s committee on the justice system, and the sponsor of the chokehold bill, said the police were grasping at everything they could to fight systemic changes from the outside. Chokeholds are already banned by the department, he noted, and the Council law has …
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Quarterback Patrick Mahomes, one of the N.F.L.’s biggest stars, has signed a 10-year contract extension with the Kansas City Chiefs, according to a person familiar with the terms of the deal who was not authorized to speak for the team. The big payday, worth up to half a billion dollars, …
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a request from the Trump administration to allow construction of parts of the Keystone XL oil pipeline that had been blocked by a federal judge in Montana. But the court temporarily revived a permit program that would let other oil and gas …
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And don’t say it’s because the Electoral College protects us from being dominated by the big cities like New York and Los Angeles. That argument, the most popular anti-popular-vote one currently in circulation, relies on distortions of both history and statistics. There were no big cities as we think of …
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“The deadly Covid-19 pandemic, the unrest triggered by George Floyd’s murder, escalating poverty, broiling summer heat and a flood of illegal guns have created a toxic mix of despair in our city, and we must address it,” Darrell L. Clarke, the City Council president, said in a statement on Monday. …
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