August 12, 2020 News Brief

The pick is in! Joe Biden has chosen Senator Kamala Harris of California to serve as his Vice Presidential nominee. She is the first Black woman, and the first person of Indian descent, to be nominated for national office by a major party.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-picking-harris-biden-makes-history-and-plays-it-safe/2020/08/11/d2b5ac00-dc16-11ea-b205-ff838e15a9a6_story.html

Russia announced it has approved a coronavirus vaccine without large-scale clinical trials or published data from smaller earlier trials. 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-vaccine-russia-coronavirus-development/

The Big Ten and the Pac-12, two major college sports conferences whose schools include Ohio State, Penn State and Oregon, have called off their football seasons for the fall.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/29640578/big-ten-pac-12-postpone-fall-college-football-need-know

QAnon conspiracy theorist Marjorie Taylor Greene won her runoff in the 14th Congressional District in Georgia to become the Republican nominee. Ilhan Omar beat her primary challenger in Minnesota.

New episode of The Nuanced Life out today!

https://www.pantsuitpoliticsshow.com/blog-tnl/2020/8/10/commemorating-careers-and-workplaces

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