DBON - October 04, 2020

TOPICS & SOURCES: 

The White House offered conflicting messages about President Trump’s health on Saturday. By evening, the President released a four-minute video meant to reassure the nation. (NewYorkTimes.com) 

Minutes before the president tweeted his positive test, two Boeing E-6B Mercury planes took off from both US coasts. Pentagon officials were quick to dismiss speculation that the two planes were a show of strength and a warning to enemies not try to take advantage of the political turmoil. (The Telegraph.com) 

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un offered his sympathy and support on Friday to the president and first lady after each tested positive. (FoxNews.com) 

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott was sued on Thursday over plans to restrict the number of ballot drop-off boxes in the state just weeks ahead of the presidential election by several voting rights advocacy groups, including The League of Women Voters of Texas. (FoxNews.com) 

The U.S. Supreme Court said Friday it would review a 2016 Arizona law that prohibits anyone but a family member or caregiver from returning another person’s early ballot, or “ballot harvesting.” (FoxNews.com) 

More than 20 hours of audio recording of the grand jury inquiry into the police killing of Breonna Taylor were released on Friday following public pressure. They do not, however, include any statements or recommendations from prosecutors about what charges should be brought against the officers, as was expected. (Refinery29.com) 

 A 17-foot great white shark weighing an astounding 3,541 pounds was captured and tagged for research purposes Friday in the Northwest Atlantic by researchers with OCEARCH. Researchers named the shark Nukumi. (MiamiHerald.com) 

Archaeologists found Iron Age remains in a burial site and have concluded they belong to the ancient Tagar culture, a nomadic group of warriors that lived in modern-day Siberia. Two warriors, one male and  one female, as well as an infant and an elderly woman, were part of the four skeletons discovered in the burial ground. The 2,500-year-old grave was packed with daggers, knives, axes, bronze mirrors and a miniature comb made of an animal horn. (FoxNews.com) 

Half-dozen works by local artists that have been erected across the northern Iraqi city of Mosul since the Islamic State group lost control of it three years ago.  The grueling fight to recapture the city from the jihadists ravaged its infrastructure. (AFP.com) 

On Friday, the European Union imposed sanctions, travel bans and asset freezes, on Belarus' interior minister and the head of its electoral commission but spared President Alexander Lukashenko. Germany expects the European Union to impose new sanctions against Russia over the poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. (Reuters.com) 

The euro accounts for nearly half of sustainable capital market finances across the world,