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Scientific American backs Biden with first presidential endorsement in 175-year history

Scientific American, the oldest continuously published U.S. magazine, offered its first presidential endorsement on Tuesday, backing Democratic nominee Joe Biden.”Scientific American has never endorsed a presidenti…
Police break up party violating coronavirus codes thrown by YouTube stars at Jersey Shore home
Dumb and dumber have competition.

Police on Monday night broke up a party at a rental home best known as the setting for MTV’s “Jersey Shore.”Officers said hundreds of people attended the gathering, violating state health codes a…
Sunny Hostin slams ‘misogynistic, racist, homophobic’ Joe Rogan after his offer to moderate debate

“The View” co-host Sunny Hostin is slamming popular podcast host Joe Rogan as “misogynistic, racist [and] homophobic,” saying his past comments about race and transgender people disqualify him from moderating a presidenti…
Coronavirus death toll linked to wedding in Maine grows to 7 | TheHill
The coronavirus death toll linked to an indoor August wedding in Maine has reached at least seven fatalities, state officials said Tuesday.
The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention announced that the wedding and its reception in Millinocket, Maine are now connected to 176 confirmed cases of COVID-19, agency spokesperson Robert Long said in a statement.
Maine public health officials have traced outbreaks in the state back to the wedding, including at York County Jail and a Madison rehabilitation center, after one staff member from each attended the wedding.
A total of 80 cases have been confirmed at the building that houses the York County Jail. Thirty-nine people tested positive at the Maplecrest Rehabilitation and Living Center in Madison including 24 residents and 15 staff members.
Six of the seven documented deaths connected to the wedding have occurred at the rehabilitation center. None of the seven people who have died attended the wedding or reception, Long said.
Source: Coronavirus death toll linked to wedding in Maine grows to 7 | TheHill
The coronavirus has killed at least 121 young people in the U.S., mostly minorities, CDC says
- Covid-19 has killed at least 121 people below the age of 21 across the U.S., nearly two-thirds of whom were Black and Hispanic people, a new study published Tuesday by the CDC said.
- The study comes days after reports surfaced alleging that Trump administration officials were interfering with the CDC’s process for publishing such studies.
- About half of the deaths were among people between the ages of 18 and 21.
Source: The coronavirus has killed at least 121 young people in the U.S., mostly minorities, CDC says
Simone Biles Stands in Solidarity With Olympic Runner Semenya Caster After Controversial Ruling: ‘This Is Wrong on So Many Levels’

Real recognizes real, and greatness knows who it holds company with. It’s no surprise, then, that champion gymnast Simone Biles was among those offering full-throated support to South African track star Caster Semenya, who lost an appeal last week to be able to compete as she was born.
While touting US troops, Trump ad shows Russian-made fighter jets (Trump ad makers as genius as their boss?)
A digital ad released by a fundraising arm of the Trump campaign on Sept. 11 calling on people to “support our troops” uses a stock photo of Russian-made fighter jets and weapons. The ad, which was made by the Trump Make America Great Again Committee, features silhouettes of three soldiers walking as a fighter jet flies over them. The ad first appeared on Sept. 8 and ran until Sept. 12.
Ruslan Pukhov, director of the Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies in Moscow, confirmed to Politico that the planes are MiG-29s — utilized by Russia since the Cold War — and also that one of the soldiers in the Republican ad appears to be carrying an AK-74 assault rifle.
Source: While touting US troops, Trump ad shows Russian-made fighter jets
Boris Johnson’s Brexit has always been a swindle. Now Ireland will pay the price | Rafael Behr
Boorish Boris screwed up now everyone but him has to pay?

Reneging on an international treaty shows the prime minister cares more about a Eurosceptic fantasy than the Good Friday agreement
There are cases in history of national leaders being coerced into treaties. Yet only Boris Johnson claims to have signed an international agreement by mistake. In the prime minister’s telling, the UK was bamboozled into a substandard Brexit deal last year. Events were moving “at pace”; the politics were “challenging”; European rules were smuggled into the small print. So parliament must pass a law disagreeing with the agreement. To fix the deal, the deal must be broken.
Related: Boris Johnson’s push for no deal will harm the country and his party | Polly Toynbee
A ‘Crossroads’ for Humanity: Earth’s Biodiversity Is Still Collapsing
New pandemics in the works if we do not change how we don’t live in nature.

Countries have made insufficient progress on international goals designed to halt a catastrophic slide, a new report found.
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