2020
- Joe Biden calls for more funding for police. [Link]
- Susan Rice is emerging as a top choice for Biden’s vice president. [Link]
- Iowa restores voting rights to felons who have completed their sentence. [Link]
US News
- Senator Rand Paul introduces a bill that will have federal education money follow the student and not directly fund public schools. [Link]
- Additional police bodycam footage of George Floyd’s arrest was leaked. The video is of the minutes leading up to the police crushing Floyd to death. [Link]
- New York will set up checkpoints around the city to enforce a mandatory quarantine for people out of state. You could be fined $10,000 for violating the quarantine.[Link]
Foreign PolicyÂ
- Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the US and Russia made progress in arms control talks. However, Pompeo said he continues to hope China will join negotiations. China’s involvement is a poison pill as its nuclear arsenal is significantly smaller than the US or Russia’s nuclear arsenal. [Link]
- The US is pushing for the UN to hold a vote on extending the arms embargo on Iran. The vote is likely to fail. [Link]
- The US sanctioned an adviser to Zimbabwe’s president. [Link]
China
- US intelligence and military officers are paranoid that a direct hotline to China will be abused to deceive the US. [Link]
- The US sends its highest-level official to Taiwan in decades. [Link]
Lebanon
- Rania Khalek and Jamal Ghosn report on the aftermath of the bombing in Beirut. [Link]
Kashmir
- India has kept a tight lockdown in Kashmir as the region marks one year since New Delhi announced it had stripped away Kashmir’s autonomy. [Link]
