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resident sends condolences after Beirut blast, embassy damaged (Update 3)

Aug. 4 - President Nicos Anastasiades expressed his condolences to Lebanon on Tuesday night after a large explosion in Beirut also shook Cyprus, with many people on the island reporting they felt the blast.

In a message to the people of Lebanon on Twitter, Anastasiades said: “We wish and pray for the speedy recovery of the injured ones.”

He also gave his condolences to all the families of the people that died in the Beirut explosion.

“We stand ready to provide any assistance deemed necessary.”

https://cyprus-mail.com/2020/08/04/beirut-blast-felt-throughout-cyprus/

Massive explosion rips through Lebanese capital Beirut - BBC News
Aug 5, 2020

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Donald Trump rails against the 'continuation of the witch hunt' as Manhattan DA reveals he is probing the Trump Organization for 'insurance and bank fraud' and 'pattern of financial misconduct'

Aug. 4 - President Donald Trump railed against a 'witch hunt' Monday after New York prosecutors seeking his tax returns told a federal court his family company is being probed for alleged fraud.

Trump addressed the case at a White House press briefing after a rambling introduction where he said the coronavirus would 'soon be very much under control.'

He then got asked about the court push, where prosecutors indicated their probes are going well beyond a hush-payment scheme to porn star Stormy Daniels and into complex financial matters related to the company started by Trump's father and overseen by him until he was elected in 2016.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8589009/Prosecutor-seeking-Trumps-taxes-cites-probe-business.html

Trump claims bank fraud investigation is 'continuation of witch hunt'
Manhattan district attorney is seeking eight years of president's tax returns

Aug 4 - President Donald Trump has dismissed a Manhattan prosecutor's bank fraud investigation into his businesses as "just a continuation of the witch hunt", claiming Democrats and intelligence holdovers from the Obama administration have been after him for years.

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https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/02/weather/isaias-tropical-storm-florida-forecast-wxc/index.html

Tropical Storm Isaias to ride Florida's east coast, bringing high winds and heavy rain

Aug. 3 - (CNN)Florida began to feel the effects Sunday of a powerful storm inching in the state's direction, with forecasters warning it could reach hurricane strength by the time it makes expected landfall near the South Carolina-North Carolina border on Tuesday.

Tropical Storm Isaias was located about 65 miles southeast of Cape Canaveral as of 5 p.m. ET Sunday with maximum sustained winds of 70 mph.

The National Hurricane Center issued a hurricane watch Sunday evening for parts of the Carolina coast from north of Charleston, South Carolina, to north of Wilmington, North Carolina. It said hurricane conditions were possible in the area Monday night and early Tuesday.

Watch Live: Track Tropical Storm Isaias As It Moves Toward Florida | NBC News
Aug 1, 2020

President Donald J. Trump Approves North Carolina Emergency Declaration

Aug. 2. - Today, President Donald J. Trump declared that an emergency exists in the State of North Carolina and ordered Federal assistance to supplement State, tribal, and local response efforts due to the emergency conditions resulting from Hurricane Isaias beginning on July 31, 2020, and continuing.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/president-donald-j-trump-approves-north-carolina-emergency-declaration-080220/#:~:text=Today%2C%20President%20Donald%20J.%20Trump,31%2C%202020%2C%20and%20continuing.

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'We're not close': Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and Trump officials fail to agree on a coronavirus stimulus deal that could send $3,400 to desperate American families - and decide to restart talks on MONDAY

Democrats Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer met Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows at the Capitol
But the leaders failed to reach a deal to pump more money into the U.S. economy to ease the coronavirus' heavy toll

Aug 2 - The top Democrats in Congress are not close to a deal with the White House to pump more money into the U.S. economy to ease the coronavirus' heavy toll, both sides said on Saturday, after an essential lifeline for millions of unemployed Americans expired.

U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer had met with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows for three hours at the Capitol on Saturday morning.

But they failed to make a deal and will now meet again on Monday, Schumer said - but their staff will meet tomorrow.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8583097/Congressional-Democrats-White-House-set-Saturday-talks-coronavirus-bill.html

Aug. 1, 2020

Steve Mnuchin and Mark Meadows on Coronavirus Relief Legislation

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Trump says mail voting is bad, but absentee voting is good. His lawyers admit they’re the same thing
"The terms ‘mail-in’ and ‘absentee’ are used interchangeably" to describe the same thing, his lawyers said in court

Aug 1 - President Donald Trump on Thursday tried to draw a distinction between "mail voting" and "absentee voting," but his own lawyers acknowledged in court documents the two are the same thing.

Trump suggested delaying the election on Thursday amid plummeting poll numbers and the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, which has killed more than 150,000 people and caused the largest GDP drop in U.S. history. Trump has no power to postpone the election, and the idea was roundly rejected by Republican lawmakers. At the same time, many members of the GOP have expressed similar concerns about mail-in voting as the president.

"With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history," Trump claimed without evidence.

Some states have long used all-mail elections. There have been more than 250 million ballots cast by mail in the last 20 years, and only 143 prosecutions related to mail ballot fraud, or a rate of about 0.00006%.

Trump later reiterated that he opposed "mail-in-voting" but "totally" supports "absentee voting," even though they are the same thing. Trump and many of his aides have repeatedly voted by mail themselves....   more

Trump Renews Attacks On Mail-In Voting Despite No Evidence It Leads To Fraud | NBC Nightly News
Aug 1, 2020