DBON - September 21, 2020

TOPICS & SOURCES:

A federal judge has issued an injunction against President Trump’s executive order banning the Chinese social media app WeChat from operating in the United States after midnight on Sunday. (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/20/business/economy/court-wechat-ban.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage)

A Canadian national suspected of having mailed an envelope containing ricin to the White House addressed to President Trump was arrested on Sunday while trying to enter the United States border into Buffalo from Canada. (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/20/us/politics/ricin-white-house-trump.html)

Fifty-six former prime ministers, presidents, foreign and defense ministers from 20 NATO countries, released an open letter Sunday imploring current leaders to join the “Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons”, the pact negotiated in 2017 that is now just six ratifications shy of the 50 needed to take effect. (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/20/world/treaty-nuclear-arms-united-nations.html)

European leaders have warned the US that its claim to have the authority to re-impose sweeping UN-mandated sanctions on Iran has no effect in law, setting up a major legal clash that could lead to Washington imposing sanctions on its European allies. (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/20/iran-says-us-move-to-reimpose-snapback-sanctions-is-a-false-claim)

Cuba, a police state with a strong public health care system, was able to quickly control the coronavirus. The pandemic, and the recession that followed, pushed the government to announce that, after years of promises, it would make good on a series of economic reforms intended to stimulate the private sector. (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/20/world/americas/cuba-economy.html)

Protesters turned out in major cities worldwide this weekend to demonstrate frustrations over returning coronavirus lockdown measures, even as cases spike and the global death toll approaches 1 million. (https://www.foxnews.com/world/coronavirus-lockdown-restrictions-london-germany-spain)

In Belarus, Sunday's protest had about 2,000 demonstrators, mostly women, marching through the streets of Minsk. (https://www.foxnews.com/world/belarus-protest-opposition-leader-detained)

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer joined forces in Brooklyn on Sunday night to call for a national mobilization against confirming a replacement for the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg before Inauguration Day. (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-21/ocasio-cortez-schumer-team-up-to-fight-trump-supreme-court-pick?sref=Ig8525Pv)

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is locking down key votes from Republican senators in his bid to fill the Supreme Court vacancy. (https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/20/mcconnell-supreme-court-votes-murkowski-alexander-418910)

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