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Scotland announces local lockdowns and quarantine for arrivals from Greece

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Household gatherings banned in three Greater Glasgow areas and travellers from Greece to self-isolate from Thursday

The Scottish government has announced a ban on household gatherings in three local authorities in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde area for the next two weeks and has imposed quarantine restrictions on people coming from Greece to Scotland from Thursday.

Nicola Sturgeon said the localised restrictions, which come into force at midnight on Tuesday and would affect an estimated 800,000 people, apply to those living in West Dunbartonshire, Glasgow and East Renfrewshire, where infection rates have risen in recent days.

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Kanye West’s Campaign Is Filled to the Brim With GOP Operatives

In court documents filed Friday in a lawsuit for ballot access in Wisconsin, the 43-year-old rapper listed his mailing address as that of the top Republican law firm Holtzman Vogel Josefiak Torchinsky. Jill Holtzman Vogel, a state senator in Virginia who was the GOP nominee for lieutenant governor in 2017, is the firm’s managing partner.

Vogel, best known nationally for her proposed legislation to effectively mandate transvaginal ultrasounds for any woman seeking an abortion, is the former chief counsel of the Republican National Committee.

one of the electors pledged to support West’s campaign, Tracy Barkalow, not only had a “Trump 2020” cover photo but also shared racially inflammatory right-wing content on his Facebook page, including a photo labeled “White Lives Matter.”

West’s campaign strategist, veteran Republican operative Gregg Keller, tweeted his support last weekend of an effort to raise money for the legal defense of Kyle Rittenhouse, the white 17-year-old accused of murdering two people in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last week.

Source: Kanye West’s Campaign Is Filled to the Brim With GOP Operatives

Fire department refutes Trump claim: ‘WE ARE NOT ABLAZE IN PORTLAND’

The fire department of Portland, Ore., is refuting claims from President Trump that “the entire city is ablaze all the time” amid ongoing protests.

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The fire department of Portland, Ore., is refuting claims from President Trump that “the entire city is ablaze all the time” amid ongoing protests.Trump has repeatedly taken aim at P…

Florida lifting ban on nursing home visits

The task force recommended that no more than two family members, wearing protective gear including masks, be allowed to visit residents at a time. Facilities would also need to go 14 days without any new cases of COVID-19 among staff or residents to allow the visits

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Florida will lift a ban on nursing home visits that had been in place since March to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said Tuesday. DeSantis …

UAE-Israel deal has guarantee that annexation not happening, UAE official – The Jerusalem Post

Putting a stop to Israeli plans to extend its sovereignty to parts of Judea and Samaria was a precondition of normalization, United Arab Emirates Foreign Ministry Director of Policy Planning Jamal al-Musharakh said on Tuesday. “One of the prerequisites of the commencing of bilateral relations was the halting of annexation,” al-Musharakh said, and the UAE has “assurances from key leaders in the US and Israel” on the matter.

Source: UAE-Israel deal has guarantee that annexation not happening, UAE official – The Jerusalem Post