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Bill Kelly: COVID-19 fatigue is spreading, and that’s a problem

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Increasingly lax compliance with guidelines is understandable, but we need to remember that we have not defeated this deadly virus and a vaccine is many months away, Bill Kelly says.

Young people are trying to save the US election amid dire poll worker shortages

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Young Americans are volunteering to work at polling stations as elderly and retired people have dropped out amid the pandemic

Ahead of the 2016 election, Maya Patel, then a student at the University of Texas at Austin, registered 250 students to vote. But after seeing first-hand the hours-long lines voters were forced to navigate before casting their ballots, she knew there was more work to do. Two years later, she worked to install an additional polling location on the campus just in time for the midterm elections.

Now Patel is getting ready to be a poll worker in November. Why? Well, because it’s fun, and more importantly, she said, there’s a dire poll worker shortage around the country that could threaten the presidential election.

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Trump wants to convince Americans they are safer under him. They aren’t | Moustafa Bayoumi

Our physical safety is threatened. Our individual and public health is in jeopardy. Our employment prospects have substantially diminished.

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As a nation and as individuals, we are at considerably more risk than we were in 2016

Forty years ago, during the only presidential debate of 1980, Republican candidate Ronald Reagan asked the American people what became perhaps the defining question of that election: are you better off than you were four years ago?” Simple and straightforward, the question seemed to move beyond the drama of politics and to resonate with the electorate on an immediate and personal level. Now, as we head into the final stretch of the 2020 election, it’s time to pose to the American people another question that ought to be equally as consequential: Are you safer today than you were four years ago?

The honest answer, for just about everyone in this country, must certainly be no. As a nation and as individuals, we are at considerably more risk than we were in 2016. Our physical safety is threatened. Our individual and public health is in jeopardy. Our employment prospects have substantially diminished.

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Voice of America journalists condemn Trump-backed boss over ‘spy’ remarks

When incompetence is the guide to hiring by Trump “Some of the most prominent journalists at Voice of America have accused its new Trump-appointed chief executive of McCarthyism and putting reporters at risk by purging staff and suggesting that being a journalist is “a great cover for a spy”.

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  • Staff letter says CEO Michael Pack is putting reporters at risk
  • Pack suggested being a journalist was ‘a great cover for a spy’

Some of the most prominent journalists at Voice of America have accused its new Trump-appointed chief executive of McCarthyism and putting reporters at risk by purging staff and suggesting that being a journalist is “a great cover for a spy”.

Related: Trump administration steps up efforts to turn broadcasters into propaganda outlets

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