July 13, 2020 News Brief

Deaths from the coronavirus are beginning to climb. They increased 70% over the weekend and Florida broke the record for new cases in a day with 15,000 cases reported on Sunday. Health care workers are raising alarms about the supply of PPE again. President Trump wore a mask for the first time in public. 

https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2020/07/12/florida-reports-15k-new-cases-smashing-national-record-1299981

Roger Stone was convicted for obstruction, witness tampering and false statements to Congress. He was to report for a 40 month sentence when the President commuted his sentence. Republican senators, Mitt Romney and Pat Toomey, criticized Trump’s decision to free Stone. “Unprecedented, historic corruption: an American president commutes the sentence of a person convicted by a jury of lying to shield that very president,” Romney wrote on Twitter on Saturday.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/us/politics/trump-roger-stone-clemency.html

China said it would bar entry to Sens. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) and State Department religious freedom ambassador Sam Brownback, because of their criticism of the regime's treatment of people of faith.

The Washington NFL team has announced that it will drop “Redskins” from its team name and logo.

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