Tuesday's Headlines: Coronavirus cases are surging in Midwest states
After months of favor, Birx raises Trump's ire with grim coronavirus assessment; Chad Wolf emerges as Trump's favorite DHS chief; Tulsa protesters use race massacre 'tombstones' to defend a Black Lives Matter mural ; After racist, sexist comment on Facebook, small-town Virginia mayor under siege; Two Black moms took their kids to the Mall. Secret Service officers confronted them with guns, they said.; Trump is resurrecting the census's horrific history; Trump as troll in chief is the lesser evil; The myth of unemployment benefits depressing work; The financial relief plan shows the woeful state of unemployment insurance; Park Police at work: Shooting an unarmed man. Clubbing protesters. Resisting body cameras.; The White, European Jesus of Western imagination is fiction; Isaias charges into the Carolinas, poised to sweep up East Coast; Prosecutor says Trump's bid to shield tax returns is a delay campaign; Trump says Treasury should collect 'very substantial' portion of TikTok sale to U.S. firm
The increase is occurring in states with previously low infection rates. Experts also see worrying trends emerging in major Midwest and East Coast cities.
By Anne Gearan, John Wagner and Jacqueline Dupree ●Read more »
Top White House coronavirus coordinator Deborah Birx previously lost support within swaths of the scientific and medical community for seeming to minimize the virus and to enable the president's overly rosy view of the pandemic.
By Ashley Parker, Josh Dawsey and Yasmeen Abutaleb ●Read more »
Previously overshadowed at the Department of Homeland Security by more bombastic political appointees, Wolf has become a close Trump ally and the face of the president's police crackdown on protesters.
Tulsa officials had ordered the mural's removal after receiving a request by a pro-police group seeking permission to paint a "Blue Lives Matter" mural on another city street.
The storm made landfall near Ocean Isle Beach, N.C., on Monday night. Observed wind gusts topped 90 mph in coastal North Carolina southeast of Wilmington.
The Manhattan District Attorney's Office said in a court filing Monday that the efforts could serve to provide him with the immunity from prosecution that the Supreme Court has rejected.
It was unclear under what authority President Trump, who has said he wants TikTok to cease U.S. operations if it is not sold to a U.S.-based company, could demand such a payment.
By Jeff Stein, Rachel Lerman, Jay Greene and Jeanne Whalen ●Read more »
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