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- Governors around the country are imposing new mask rules to try to curtail the increase in cases—except in Georgia, where Gov. Brian Kemp has banned cities and counties in his state from requiring people to wear masks in public places.
- Amidst flagging poll numbers, Donald Trump has replaced his campaign manager Brad Parscale with longtime aide Bill Stepien.
- Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, a Republican, describes how Trump was completely useless in helping his state deal with the pandemic—instead, he relied on his immigrant wife to coordinate with the South Korean government to help Maryland get coronavirus testing.
- Overdose deaths have continued to rise in the U.S.
- Former conspiracy theorists talked to Vice about what changed their minds.
- Misinformation is still flourishing on Facebook: ProPublica reports that "nearly half of all top-performing posts that mentioned voting by mail were false or misleading."
- Hackers breached the Twitter accounts of Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Kanye West, Bill Gates, Elon Musk and more, prompting Twitter to shutdown verified users' ability to tweet for a few hours on Wednesday.
- The moon is not as old as it looks—according to new research, it's 85 million years younger than current estimates suggest.
- The pandemic has not made life easy for buskers, especially those carrying 900 pound pianos with them.
- And finally, a sighting of the extremely rare puppy-shark:
Published Jul 16, 2020
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