Here is your end-of-the-day recap

As we all amble into the weekend (if you’re still paying attention to things like “time” and “days” at this stage of sheltering in place) let’s take a look at some of the top stories of the late afternoon.

• California governor Gavin Newsom signed two executive orders to facilitate mail-in voting for the 2020 election after Donald Trump sought to discourage it by defunding the Postal Service.
• New Jersey governor Phil Murphy also announced an executive order making it easier to vote by mail.
• Elizabeth Warren demanded a probe of the recently-appointed Trump-allied postmaster.
• Maxine Waters held a press conference at the main US Post office in Los Angeles to bring attention to Trump’s actions against the USPS.
• Joe Biden called the USPS situation “bizarre”.
• Kanye West may appear on the ballot in Iowa after a swathe of petitions was delivered there today.
• Washington congresswoman Pramila Jayapal endorsed new Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris in a Los Angles Times op-ed.
• Trump held a little rally in New Jersey of police officers.
• The US Department of Defense has established a new task force to investigate UFOs.

In other news, the Pentagon announced Friday it has established a UFO task force to “improve its understanding” of “unidentified aerial phenomena”.

“The mission of the task force is to detect, analyze and catalog UAPs that could potentially pose a threat to U.S. national security,” the department of defense said in a statement.

The governor of New Jersey announced on Friday the majority of its 2020 election would be carried out by mail

Governor Phil Murphy, a Democrat, is the latest to announce plans to move as much voting as possible to mail-in ballots to address the spread of Covid-19.

He said during a news conference that he will sign an executive order calling for all registered voters to get a ballot beginning Oct. 5 along with a prepaid return envelope.

Though he did not cite him by name, he made clear in the press conference the move is in response to Donald Trump attempting to starve the Postal Service of cash to purposely hinder mail-in voting.

The postal service, the governor said, was “being turned into a political football” by people who don’t believe in getting people to turn out to vote.

Donald Trump spoke to a group of several dozen police officers at a ‘Cops for Trump’ rally Friday evening at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey.

He spoke of his brother Robert, whom he visited in the hospital earlier in the day, telling the police “he respected you.” Robert Trump is in the hospital with a “serious” condition, the White House has confirmed.

Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani also spoke at the event, targeting newly-announced Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris, calling her a “bully” and a “horrible person.”

Giuliani also for some reason announced that he interviewed one African American man who said Trump was good.

Joe Biden has commented on the Post Office drama of the week, calling the removal of post boxes due to lack of funding “bizarre” at a fundraiser on Friday.

The USPS announced late Friday it would stop removing collection boxes after backlash.

“We are suspending the removal of collection boxes at this time,” the agency said in a statement. “All postings on collection boxes will be removed, as we will no longer be pulling any boxes.”

A binder full of petitions to put Kanye West’s name on the ballot in the 2020 presidential elections was submitted in Iowa on Friday, making it the latest state to potentially include the rapper-turned-candidate in its elections.

West is already on the ballot in Colorado, Oklahoma, and Vermont. Petitions were also recently submitted to add his name in Wisconsin.

Journalist Ben Jacobs discovered the petitions in Iowa were submitted by a Republican operative there. He also found West is registered as a Republican voter in Wyoming.

Republicans are reportedly working to support West’s campaign in hopes it will split the Democratic vote and aid Donald Trump’s chances of winning.

There is speculation West is actively working with Trump as he met with the president’s son in law Jared Kushner and reportedly talks to him daily. The rapper’s wife Kim Kardashian West has met with Trump in the White House in the past to advocate for the release of prisoners.

Backlash around the postal service continues: representative Maxine Waters reportedly will hold a presser at the Los Angeles post office at 4pm PST today, to bring attention to the new USPS rules from the Trump administration and their effects on postal operations.

Elizabeth Warren has also demanded action surrounding Trump’s USPS actions. She called for a probe of new Trump-appointed postmaster Louis DeJoy and promised to use “every in the toolbox to stop Trump & DeJoy from sabotaging the USPS”.

The Washington congresswoman Pramila Jayapal endorsed new Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris in a Los Angles Times op-ed on Friday.

Jayapal highlighted Harris’s immigrant background and their shared South Asian heritage and said Harris is uniquely equipped to take on Donald Trump’s racist rhetoric. From the piece:

Sen. Harris’ nomination offers a clear contrast to a xenophobic president who has attacked immigrants and asylum seekers and the very idea of immigration at every turn, issuing a Muslim ban, separating families, caging children and even threatening student visa programs that allowed Sen. Harris’ mother and me to come to America in the first place.

Jayapal said that in 2016 when she became the first South Asian American woman to be elected to the House, Harris became the first South Asian American woman to be elected to the Senate. Together they represent just two of 79 women of color to ever have served in Congress.

This op-ed comes as Trump recently targeted Harris with racist birther theories. The president, who first gained momentum in politics with a racist campaign claiming Barack Obama was not born in the US, said in a press conference on Thursday that he “heard she doesn’t meet the requirements” to be vice president.

Jayapal does not comment on that specific controversy in her op-ed, but cites the immigrant experience as an asset.

“Immigrants and the children of immigrants are resilient,” Jayapal wrote. “We push boulders up mountains and succeed because we have to. And that’s the kind of leadership we need.”

The former Missouri senator Claire McCaskill weighed in on Donald Trump’s post office drama in a tweet on Friday, calling him a “liar” who is “trying to steal an election in broad daylight”.

Her tweet came in response to a report that showed Trump had met with the new postmaster general, Louis DeJoy, last week despite saying he had not spoken to the new official.

Trump has named DeJoy, a North Carolina ally and Republican National Convention fundraiser, to the helm of the Postal Service. The action has many concerned Trump will leverage this ally’s new position to block funds from the postal service, which Trump has advocated for to suppress mail-in voting.

The California governor, Gavin Newsom, announced on Friday two executive orders that would “jump start” the state’s mail-in ballot process.

The orders include the provision of safe voting sites and drop off sites for ballots, in addition to an extension of 17 days to collect ballots.

They came in direct response to Donald Trump’s statements that he refuses to provide additional funding to the US Post Office ahead of November elections that will rely largely on mail-in ballots in an effort to suppress votes.

Kari Paul here in Oakland, California, blogging for you over the next few hours. Stay tuned for more news.

Are California schools prepared for virtual learning?

The start of the school year is a time of anticipation, anxiety and energy. This year, as 97% percent of school California’s school districts begin the fall semester online, that anticipation has been multiplied exponentially, California school chief Tony Thurmond said today.

Thurmond joined governor Gavin Newsom and education expert Linda Darling-Hammond at today’s presser to give a rundown of how educators across the start are preparing for a new school year after having months to reflect on the shortcomings of the virtual learning rollout last spring.

Chief among concerns is how to close the digital divide that’s meant even access to computers and devices — a gap that remains, despite ongoing efforts of school districts and nonprofits to get tech into the hands of every student. Thurmond faulted a worldwide run on technology for backlogs that have stalled efforts to deliver devices to students.

Roughly 7,000 students in Oakland this week lacked equipment and hotspots when the school year began earlier this week. Education advocates across the state continue to worry that low-income students will be left behind as the pandemic continues.

Darling-Hammond said plans are afoot to deliver instruction to students with disabilities and others who aren’t well-served by online teaching. Even though school districts that find themselves on the state’s watchlist — areas that face troubling rates of infections — are typically not allowed to hold in-person classes, they may still be able to offer in-person services for vulnerable students assuming they move in accordance with county health guidelines and work in very small groups.

The announcements come as infections and hospitalizations appear to have ticked down after a month of record-setting case numbers and death tolls. But school districts also move forward as Covid cases among children surges, challenging the assumption that children are unlikely to catch and spread the virus.

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Marge Simpson has words for Trump advisor

Marge Simpson. Yes, the fictional character from the decades-running TV sitcom The Simpsons has something to say to Donald Trump and his campaign, excoriating senior legal advisor Jenna Ellis, who tweeted likening California senator Kamala Harris’ voice to hers, a racist and sexist trope that invokes the common, “angry Black woman” stereotype.

“As an ordinary suburban housewife, I feel a little disrespected. I teach my children not to name call Jenna. I was going to say I’m pissed off, but I’m afraid they’d bleep it.

Meghan Markle talks voting rights to mark women’s suffrage

Meghan Markle highlighted voting rights as an issue she is particularly passionate about during a conversation Friday at the 19th Represents, a summit to commemorate the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in the US.

“I think it’s often challenging for men and women alike, but certainly for people to remember just how hard it was to get the right to vote. And to be really aware of not taking that for granted,” she said in an interview with Emily Ramshaw, CEO and co-founder of 19th News, a news organization.

Noting her husband has never been able to vote, Marke added: “I think it’s such an interesting thing to say the right to vote is not a privilege, it is a right in and of itself. But I really do hope what you’re able to encourage...women understand that their voices are needed now more than ever.”

Markle, who repeatedly referred to voting rights as an issue she was passionate about, said she looked forward to using her voice in ways she hasn’t been able to in the past.

Why is Guyana co-nominating a Trump appointee for the IDB?

That’s what other countries in Latin America and the Caribbean want to know. Guyana co-nominated White House adviser Mauricio Claver-Carone, the son of Cuban immigrants who had already been nominated by Donald Trump to lead the IDB - Latin America’s main development bank. Claver-Carone told Reuters that Guyana’s move reflected growing support for his candidacy.

But critics note no one from outside the Latin American and Caribbean region has lead the bank in its 60 year history, and Claver-Carone’s appointment could complicate diplomacy should the president lose reelection in November.

Opponents also note the suspicious timing. Guyana only began production of an estimated 8 billion barrels of oil and natural gas in recent years after discovering a massive reserve just off its Caribbean coast in 2017. The estimate grew from 6 billion in January.

With the potential to be the largest oil producer in the Western Hemisphere, it has been in the middle of a resource grab by American oil companies.

Argentina, Mexico, Costa Rica and Chile, as well as the European Union’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, want to delay the 12 September vote, expressing concerns about having someone from outside the region lead the bank for the first time in six decades.

California ends ban on high capacity gun magazines

A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals throws out California’s ban on high-capacity ammunition magazines, saying the law violates the Second Amendment’s protection of the right to bear firearms. Judge Kenneth Lee wrote for the panel’s majority that “even well-intentioned laws must pass constitutional muster”.

From the AP:

[The ban] strikes at the core of the Second Amendment — the right to armed self-defense.”

[Lee also] noted that California passed the law “in the wake of heart-wrenching and highly publicized mass shootings,” but said that isn’t enough to justify a ban whose scope “is so sweeping that half of all magazines in America are now unlawful to own in California.”

Trump campaign rolls out events during DNC week

Is the GOP trolling the Democrats’ revised national convention? Ahead of kick-off next week, Republicans unveiled three new stops on its on the campaign trail for Donald Trump, including key battleground states like Arizona, Minnesota and Wisconsin - where parts of the Democratic National Convention are still set to take place.

So where’s the president headed?

• Mankato, Minnesota
• Oshkosh, Wisconsin
• Yuma, Arizona

We’re waiting for the president to begin a press briefing at the White House.

There could be many topics to hand for Donald Trump after another tumultuous week in Washington politics.

Also, Trump is later expected to visit his brother Robert Trump, who was taken to hospital in New York this morning, though no details are publicly known of his illness or condition.

One issue we expect Trump to address is the report this morning that a former FBI lawyer will plead guilty to falsifying a document as part of a deal with prosecutors conducting their own criminal inquiry of the Russia investigation, according to three people familiar with the case, as the New York Times scoop reported.

Keeping in mind, however, this paragraph:

The Justice Department’s independent inspector general, Michael E. Horowitz, has found that law enforcement officials had sufficient reason to open the Russia investigation, known inside the F.B.I. as Crossfire Hurricane, and found no evidence that they acted with political bias.

That doesn’t mean there were mistakes along the way but a “witch hunt” it was not. The investigation actually began in the summer of 2016 into allegations that Trump and his election campaign were colluding with the Kremlin to get Trump into the White House, with the Russians actively interfering to achieve that aim.

There are growing fears over the handling of November’s US presidential election after the postal service warned that the rules in a key battleground state could result in millions of votes left uncounted, my colleague Oliver Milman writes.

A record number of Americans are expected to vote via the postal service because of concerns over in-person voting during the coronavirus pandemic, which has so far claimed more than 160,000 US lives.

But in a letter to Pennsylvania’s top official overseeing elections, the US Postal Service (USPS) warned that a one-week turnaround for mail-in ballots may not be possible.

Pennsylvania is a key swing state won by Donald Trump by less than 1% in 2016, and it could play a pivotal role again in 2020. Voters are able to request a mailed ballot up to seven days before the election, but ballots returned after election day cannot be counted.

In its letter, the USPS said its delivery capabilities will struggle to meet this rule, which “creates a risk that ballots requested near the deadline under state law will not be returned by mail in time to be counted under your laws as we understand them.”

Pennsylvania officials have asked the state’s supreme court to allow mail-in ballots to be counted up to three days after the election, as long as they are postmarked before election day.

Back in 2016 and 2017, a petition was started urging Barack Obama to pardon Snowden.

The campaign, organized by the American Civil Liberties Union, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, included a petition been signed by technologists, law professors and celebrities. At a news conference in 2016, Snowden appeared by remote video link, thanking the organizers and arguing that his fate will have a broader impact.

“If we are to sustain a free society through the next century, we must ensure that whistle-blowers can act again, and safely, as a check on future abuses of power,” Mr. Snowden said. If he is sentenced to a long prison term, he added, people in the future who have information that the public needs to know will be afraid to come forward,” he said at the time, the New York Times reported (paywall warning).

The Pardon Snowden petition reached a million signatures in 2017 and was delivered to the White House. At the time the organizing campaign groups argued that Snowden’s revelations triggered efforts across the U.S. government to limit or end several of the NSA’s domestic surveillance programs, as well as triggering a national dialogue on privacy and pushing technology companies to increase their use of encryption, Forbes reported (another paywall warning).

Signatories included lawyers, politicians, technologists, civil rights advocates, artists, cryptographers and more.

Of course Edward Snowden has neither been able to return to the US nor been pardoned.

Here’s a link to the Guardian’s Today in Focus podcast episode “Snowden, life after leaking”.

Here’s a reminder of what Barack Obama’s attorney general Eric Holder said about Edward Snowden in 2016, via a CNN report at the time.

Former US Attorney General Eric Holder says Edward Snowden performed a “public service” by triggering a debate over surveillance techniques - but still must pay a penalty for illegally leaking a trove of classified intelligence documents.

“We can certainly argue about the way in which Snowden did what he did, but I think that he actually performed a public service by raising the debate that we engaged in and by the changes that we made,” Holder told David Axelrod on “The Axe Files,” a podcast produced by CNN and the University of Chicago Institute of Politics.

“Now I would say that doing what he did -- and the way he did it -- was inappropriate and illegal,” Holder added.

Donald Trump did an interview with the New York Post that was published yesterday, in which he said he thinks a “lot of people” think Edward Snowden is “not being treated fairly”.

Trump’s comments reflect a remarkable softening in his views about the man he once deemed a “traitor” worthy of execution, the Post reports.

This is quite the tangle because the president is not a fan of rebel Republican congressman Thomas Massie, who tweeted earlier today urging the president to pardon Snowden.

Trump has called Massie a “third rate Grandstander” and “a disaster for America, and for the Great State of Kentucky!”, for trying to obstruct legislation.

Snowden, meanwhile, is the American whistleblower who copied and leaked highly classified information from the National Security Agency in 2013 when he was a subcontractor. He revealed the news covertly to the Guardian at the time, then did interviews with this outlet after he fled to Hong Kong, before retreating to Moscow to avoid any extradition to the US.

The NY Post writes:

Trump polled his aides on Thursday about whether he should let anti-surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden return to the US from Russia without going to prison, saying he was open to it.

“There are a lot of people that think that he is not being treated fairly. I mean, I hear that,” Trump told The Post in an exclusive interview in the Oval Office, before soliciting views from his staff.

Trump commented on Snowden for the first time as president after accusing former President Barack Obama of spying on his 2016 campaign.....

...Republican lawmakers and the Justice Department’s inspector general recently highlighted misuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and the secret FISA court to surveil former Trump adviser Carter Page.

“Snowden is one of the people they talk about. They talk about numerous people, but he is certainly one of the people that they do talk about,” Trump said on Thursday, before turning to his aides. “I guess the DOJ is looking to extradite him right now? … It’s certainly something I could look at. Many people are on his side, I will say that. I don’t know him, never met him. But many people are on his side.”

The president then asked his staff: “How do you feel about that, Snowden? Haven’t heard the name in a long time.”

After polling the room, Trump added: “I’ve heard it both ways. From traitor to he’s being you know persecuted. I’ve heard it both ways.”

Snowden’s legal team has tried in vain to negotiate a prison-free return to the US for the former National Security Agency contractor, who exposed that the FISA court was secretly approving the dragnet collection of domestic call records.

Before taking office, Trump tweeted at least 45 times denouncing Snowden as a traitor and calling for his execution.

Meanwhile, take a look back at the Guardian’s “NSA files” coverage.

CBS This Morning have run a segment on how the #WeHaveHerBack campaign is fighting against the sexism and misogyny that Kamala Harris is already facing during her run for VP.

They spoke to gender equality activist Cecile Richards about the campaign and the excitement she feels around having a woman on the ticket in 2020.

You can watch it here:

And that should be it from me today, I’m handing over to Joanna Walters shortly, and I will see you next week…

The family of a coronavirus victim are to sue Verizon, where he worked, for what they say is its failure to protect Alfred Salvatore as he continued to work for the company during the pandemic.

Alfred Salvatore, a 47-year-old service technician at Verizon for over 20 years in Chester, Pennsylvania, died from coronavirus on 24 April, after repeatedly sounding the alarm over the lack of getting any protections from Covid-19 from his employer.

His wife, Natalie Salvatore, has now filed a fatal claim petition against Verizon with the Pennsylvania department of labor and industry. As a service technician, Salvatore was considered an essential worker, and continued working through the pandemic.

“He was constantly telling me he put in several complaints to his immediate supervisor and even above them, that when he went to his hub there was no hand sanitizer, there was no disinfectant spray, there was nothing to take with him to do his job. Communications were considered essential work, but I’m still confused why he wasn’t given any kind of PPE” said Natalie.

Verizon is requesting the fatal claim petition be dismissed or disallowed.

Read more here: Family sues Verizon after worker who ‘wasn’t given any PPE’ dies of Covid-19

I’m not entirely convinced it will swing any votes, but Katy Perry has just endorsed Kamala Harris to her Twitter and Instagram fans, with a combined follower count of no less than 212 million. Perry writes:

I’ve had the privilege of getting to know Harris over the years and Joe Biden choosing her as his running mate is already a testament to his decision making: Kamala is exactly the kind of leader WITH experience we desperately need right now. She’s the type of person willing to put in the WORK to make our country better. Less than 3 months until Election Day. LET’S DO THIS YA’LL

Donald Trump has been whipping up a frenzy as ever with his morning Twitter storm. He’s been retweeting alt-right conspiracy theorist Mike Cernovich, and agreeing with actor James Wood that in November’s election Trump is the only defender in a last stand for the country.

He’s also retweeted the right wing Daily Caller’s Chuck Ross talking about “a Barr-Durham October Surprise”. This is the concern that some of Biden’s supporters have expressed that the Connecticut’s US Attorney’s investigation into the origins of the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation, will opt to release findings in Trump’s favour just prior to the election.

Shirish Dáte, the reporter who yesterday asked the president if he regrets “all the lying”, has responded straight to that point this morning.

I am as guilty as anyone of tending to just focus on Donald Trump and Joe Biden in the race for the White House, but this morning we’ve got a great interview with Howie Hawkins, the Green party nominee for president.

He argues that “with Trump collapsing, and Biden not being very progressive” it could be a year when the Green Party can increase their vote share to as much as 5%.

It is an ambitious target for a party hampered by the view that many on the left have, which is that a vote for anybody other than the Democratic Party effectively helps hand the White House back to Donald Trump. That’s one of the reasons why as well as championing the Green New Deal, the party backs election reform.

Read it here: ‘A big victory would be 5%’: Green party’s Howie Hawkins eyes progress

One of the things that the Washington Post editorial board criticised Donald Trump for was his threats to defund the USPS, making it harder for the country to vote by mail for November’s election.

CNN have a report this morning on the Pennsylvania election officials seeking to extend the deadlines for receiving mail-in ballots, citing the slowdown in mail.

Pennsylvania officials said Thursday that they are willing to count mail-in ballots up to three days after the November general election, provided they are mailed by November 3, a significant change in a key swing state.

“Ballots mailed by voters on or before 8:00 p.m. on Election Day will be counted if they are otherwise valid and received by the county boards of election on or before the third day following the election,” the Department of State said in a court filing Thursday.

They’ve made the move after the USPS indicated that it could not guarantee the timely delivery of ballots in the general election under the current state deadlines. The time frame now given by the service for the ballots arriving – two-to-five days – is longer now than it was for Pennsylvania’s primary. The move comes as CNN also reports that the USPS plans to remove hundreds of high-volume mail-processing machines from facilities across the country.

Republicans are likely to oppose the decision, one which could have a significant impact on the dynamics of election night. Pennsylvania is a state that Trump carried in 2016, but recent polls place Biden between 4 and 9 points ahead of his rival there. If it becomes close, and the state can’t be called for several days while mail-in ballots arrive and are counted, that could leave Pennsylvania’s 20 electoral college votes seemingly in the balance for some time after 3 November.

Read it here: CNN – Pennsylvania election officials seek to extend deadline for receiving mail-in ballots, citing slowdown in mail

The Washington Post editorial board came out with some extremely strong words last night about the conduct of the president running up to November’s election. In a piece titled “Trump’s campaign to discredit the election is deeply dishonest and dangerous” they write:

A decent, democratic president, genuinely concerned with honest elections and his people’s fundamental right to vote, would be touting improvements and offering assistance to make sure they continue through November. A desperate, demagogic president, behind in the polls, would sow confusion and conspiracy theories, trying to delegitimize in advance any result other than a victory for him. That is what Mr. Trump is doing.

Read it here: Washington Post – Trump’s campaign to discredit the election is deeply dishonest and dangerous

The failure to agree on a package to continue economic stimulus measures during the coronavirus pandemic is beginning to have an effect in the real world away from Capitol Hill. Millions of Americans will be left with lower unemployment insurance for at least a few more weeks as the Senate doesn’t reconvene until after 8 September.

While the new unemployment insurance claims dipped under a million of the first time in 20 weeks yesterday, there’s no doubt the number of jobs out there are shrinking, and there’s bad news from the aviation industry this morning. Employment in the sector had already fallen from around 512,000 workers in March to about 380,000 in June, but now major US airlines have warned they will lay off tens of thousands of workers in October when the Cares Act payroll support program for the industry expires.

Michael Sainato has more for us here: Major US airlines to lay off thousands of workers as Covid-19 support expires

There’s another looming issue as coronavirus support is withdrawn – America’s water supply. Millions of families in America risk losing running water over unpaid bills as moratoriums on shutoffs expire across the country. At least 115 local moratoriums on water disconnections, including the statewide orders in Indiana and Ohio, have already expired.

Nina Lakhani reports for us: Millions in US face losing water supply as coronavirus moratoriums end

Good morning and welcome to today’s coverage of US politics and the ongoing coronavirus crisis. This was one of the key moments from yesterday’s press conference, when Shirish Dáte asked President Donald Trump to his face: “Do you regret all your lying?”

Here’s where we are up to and what we might expect to see today

• 1,187 new coronavirus deaths and 53,213 new cases were reported in the US yesterday. The total number of confirmed Covid-19 cases among Americans since the pandemic started rose to over 5,250,000
• Donald Trump admitted he opposed additional funding for the United States Postal Service in order to undermine mail-in voting. He also revived racist birther conspiracy theories, targeting VP pick Kamala Harris
• Joe Biden and Harris announced that they are calling for a nationwide mask mandate, asking every governor to require residents to wear masks in public to slow the spread of coronavirus
• Oregon State Police pulled out the troopers who had been helping to police the nightly Black Lives Matter demonstrations in Portland
• The Senate adjourned with no coronavirus stimulus package in sight. It will be out of session now until after 8 September
• A US-brokered historic peace deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates was yesterday’s biggest surprise. The UAE becomes the third Arab country to establish full diplomatic ties with Israel. The move has already been denounced today by Iran and Turkey
• Today Donald Trump delivers remarks at the City of New York Police Benevolent Association. Jill Biden is campaigning for her husband at a seniors for Biden event

You can get in touch with me at martin.belam@theguardian.com