Evening Briefing

Covid-19 cases continue to climb in many U.S. states, threatening recent efforts to relax restrictions and revive businesses after months of lockdowns. Texas, Florida, Arizona, North Carolina, Oregon and others reported record numbers of new infections on Sunday. Companies meanwhile are still struggling to acquire the protective gear employees need to safely return to work. A vaccine (if one is ever discovered) is at best many months away. But even then, early iterations may not stop people from catching the virus or potentially passing it on. With no proven treatment on the market, U.S. regulators revoked emergency authorization for one disproven treatment—malaria drugs touted by President Donald Trump that may be dangerous. Here’s the latest. —Josh Petri

Here are today’s top stories

A divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled that federal law protects gay and transgender workers from job discrimination in a landmark decision.

The United Nations’ top human rights authority will hold a debate about racism and police brutality in the U.S., as protests all over the world continue. An autopsy released Sunday determined the death of Rayshard Brooks—a black man who was shot twice in the back by a white Atlanta police officer—was a homicide. Bloomberg is following the story here.

Much of the upheaval around U.S. criminal justice has focused on policing violence and killings of unarmed African Americans. But what also stands out to the rest of the world is the massive American incarceration complex. As of 2016, the U.S. prison and jail population was the biggest in the world, both in absolute terms and relative to population.

PG&E Corp. on Tuesday will plead guilty 84 separate times to involuntary manslaughter after its equipment sparked the largest wildfire in California history.

Former Vice President Joe Biden has transformed virtual fundraisers into a money machine. The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee pulled in $16 million from small donors in April, more than three times the $4.9 million Trump raised in small amounts for the month. Here's the latest on the campaign.

Trump has been trying to shift public attention away from his months of delays and mistakes in fighting the coronavirus by trying to paint China as a friend of Biden. It turns out that Beijing wants four more years of Trump.

Carlos Ghosn always said he was set up. Now there’s some evidence to support his claim. The campaign by top Nissan executives to dethrone one of the most celebrated leaders in the automotive industry started almost a year before Ghosn’s arrest in late 2018 for alleged financial misconduct.

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Virus Disinfectants Worry Health Experts

Businesses across the U.S. have begun intensive Covid-19 disinfection regimens, exposing returning workers and consumers to some chemicals that are largely untested for human health, a development that’s alarming health and environmental safety experts. Cleaning companies are selecting disinfectants from hundreds on List N, the month-old compendium of products approved by the Environmental Protection Agency to kill the novel coronavirus. Those chemicals have passed tests to show they’re effective against the pathogen, but that doesn’t mean they're considered safe for humans.

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