Daily Bite of News - September 09, 2020

Wednesday, September 09, 2020

Topics:

According to the Transportation Security Administration, more people flew over the holiday weekend than any other time during the coronavirus pandemic. More than 3.2M passengers were screened from Friday to Monday.
US President Donald Trump will announce further troop withdrawals from Iraq and Afghanistan in the next few days.
At least three volunteers linked to Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny's team were taken ill on Tuesday after an attack on their office.
A Belarusian activist has been ejected from the eastern European country by security forces, according to a statement from the Belarusian Coordination Council. Olga Kovalkova, a confidant of the main Belarusian opposition candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, was removed from the country on Saturday night.
For the first time in a generation, Americans began spending more money at the supermarket than at places where someone else made the food. Grocers saw eight years of projected sales growth packed into one month.
The Justice Department moved on Tuesday to replace President Trump’s private legal team with government lawyers to defend him against a defamation lawsuit by the author E. Jean Carroll, who has accused him of raping her in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s.
Just weeks after helping to broker peace agreements between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), President Trump has been nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize once again by Christian Tybring-Gjedde, chairman of the Norwegian delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.
AstraZeneca said Tuesday it had paused global trials of its coronavirus vaccine because of an unexplained illness in one of the volunteers.
For months, Americans have been told not to worry about the costs of coronavirus tests, which are crucial to stopping the pandemic’s spread. But, Nationwide people have been hit with unexpected fees and denied claims related to coronavirus tests, from a few dollars to thousands.
Series of police chief resignations in major cities across the country over police reform.
Linden Cameron, a 13-year-old boy with Asperger syndrome, was seriously injured after being shot by a police officer in Salt Lake City on Friday night.
Europe's largest migrant camp, Moria, home to an estimated 13,000 people has been "completely destroyed" after massive fires broke out early Wednesday at the overcrowded site on Greece's Lesbos island.
Remarks by President Trump on Environmental Accomplishments for the People of Florida transcribed from the White House website.

Sources:

reuters.com
foxbusiness.com
foxnews.com
cnn.com
nytimes.com
whitehouse.gov

Music Used for Intro and Ending:

“Glimpse Horizon, Piano w/Cello” -  by Ian Calkins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K2xN5-_38Q