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Capital Journal |
Good morning from the WSJ Washington bureau. |
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Trump's Day: President Trump and the first lady visit the Saint John Paul II National Shrine this morning. Later, the president signs an executive order to advance international religious freedom. Primaries: Seven states and Washington, D.C., hold primaries. In the district, a nighttime curfew begins at 7 p.m., but there's an exception for voters. |
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| Police officers held a perimeter during a protest near the White House on Sunday evening in response to the killing of George Floyd a week ago. PHOTO: ALEX WONG/GETTY IMAGES |
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History shows that when the shocks pile up, one atop the other, Americans can reach a tipping point. Gerald F. Seib asks whether that is happening now, as protests and looting spread across America in the wake of the brutal police killing of a black man, George Floyd. |
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“My guess is that we are seeing a situation that is of the deep and lasting variety.” | — Ron Chernow, historian |
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Latest Numbers 6,289,259 cases world-wide and 376,077 deaths. 1,811,277 cases in the U.S. and 105,147 deaths. Source: Johns Hopkins University, as of 7:30 a.m. ET. |
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| ▶️ VIDEO: New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo fears protests could imperil coronavirus efforts; voting by mail faces a big test as seven states hold primaries; Starbucks pares back its operations. WSJ’s Jason Bellini has the latest on the pandemic. Photo: Angela Weiss/AFP |
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The U.S. economy could take the better part of a decade to fullyrecover from the pandemic, the Congressional Bucdget Office said. |
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The first major federal effort to measure the deadly impact of the virus in nursing homes found around 26,000 deaths, which likely falls short of showing the full toll on some of the most vulnerable Americans. |
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s absence from the Kansas Senate race sets up a brutal primary fight among other Republicans and raises hopes among Democrats of flipping the seat in November, reports Lindsay Wise. All the Republicans in the GOP field have been outraised by Democrat Barbara Bollier, a state senator and former Republican. |
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A swelling backlog and extended wait times to become a U.S. citizen, compounded by a slowdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, threaten to leave hundreds of thousands of potential voters on the sidelines of the November election, report Michelle Hackman and Eliza Collins. |
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| Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, leaves a federal courthouse after a hearing in June 2019. PHOTO: PATRICK SEMANSKY/ASSOCIATED PRESS |
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The federal judge overseeing the criminal case against Michael Flynn urged an appeals court Monday to let him first consider the government’s motion to dismiss the case and rule before taking it up, reports Aruna Viswanatha. U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan said the Justice Department’s decision to drop the case after Mr. Flynn pleaded guilty raised uncommon questions that he needed time to consider. |
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The Supreme Court unanimously rejected a challenge to the federal financial rescue plan for Puerto Rico’s territorial government, finding that the board Congress created to resolve the island’s debt crisis meets constitutional standards, reports Jess Bravin. The court extended the hunt for tainted cash from Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme, refusing to shield foreign investors from having to return $3 billion they collected before his arrest. |
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A former staffer on Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign filed a new challenge against his use of nondisclosure agreements, asking a New York state court to rule in a lawsuit that the agreements aren’t enforceable, reports Byron Tau. NDAs are growing common on campaigns. |
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60.5% | The Census Bureau reported Monday that it had reached its target to get at least 60.5% of households to respond to the 2020 census. |
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A new poll shows a big divide between races on the two big issues of the day, the coronavirus and trust in police. (Axios) With his photo op at St. John's Episcopal Church Monday, President Trump chose optics over substance in dealing with the violence in the streets. (The Bulwark) For the United Kingdom, the threat of a no-deal exit from the European Union is back. (Bloomberg News) |
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