Twitter humiliated by brazen hack of celebrity accounts, as NSA claims Russia’s Cozy Bear is snooping at Covid vaccine labs--in Terre Haute, another all-night vigil leads to execution as SCOTUS ignores that Wesley Purkey has Alzheimer’s
--The Court also allowed Florida to keep some ex-felons from voting
--“Justice” Dept. effort to silence Michael Cohen is unconstitutional
--NYPD has new rules that compromise press freedom
--in NYC, unsolved shootings raise questions of police slow down
--in comment that more white people are killed by cops, Trump contradicted his Law’n’Order memes, comments Malaiki Jabali
--Berkeley moves forward with some cuts to police budget, and plan to take armed cops off traffic enforcement
--correspondent Jonah Lehto reports that Seattle protests continue, with new occupied camp Seattle Protest Report.7.16.20
--NY Times rates Covid treatment prospects: Remdesivir good, hydroxychloroquine bad
--Novovax got $1.6 billion to develop its first vaccine, with help from friends of the Gates Foundation
--our daily Covid-19 update, prepared by Linda Lewis, here are reliable sites for Covid data:
(1) Probably best known tracking site is the Johns Hopkins University of Medicine's COVID-19 Dashboard. The Dashboard provides information on cases, deaths, testing and trends.
Other trackers include the following:
(2) STAT News' "Covid-19 Tracker" that publishes numbers and graphs for countries, states and counties showing rolling averages, rates of infections and deaths per 100,000 people.
LINK: https://www.statnews.com/feature/coronavirus/covid-19-tracker/?utm_campaign=cv_landing
(3) The New York Times' "Latest Map and Case Count" groups results according to whether new cases are increasing, decreasing, or staying the same.
LINK: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html
(4) CIDRAP 's list of COVID-19 Maps & Visuals includes more sources of national and worldwide cases
(5) The Atlantic's COVID Tracking Project
The website has a banner headline that reads, "The public deserves the most complete data available about COVID-19 in the US. No official source is providing it, so we are." The website prominently mentions a new "The COVID Racial Data Tracker . . . a collaboration between the COVID Tracking Project and the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research."
--tax evader Apple wins $15 billion relief from Eurozone regulators who challenged Irish tax dodges
--Missouri GOP Sen. Josh Hawley joins his Republican governor and Trump in interfering in prosecutor’s investigation of couple who brandished guns at protesters
--Trump and Ivanka publicly promote Goya products, and she’s breaking the law
--at MintPress, Riva Enteen makes provocative argument: Dump the Democrats
--NY Times goes deep in report that tries to explain Colin Powell’s false claims in UN speech just before invasion of Iraq