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- The New York Times reports in detail how the Trump administration's decision to foist the responsibility of the pandemic response onto individual states became "perhaps one of the greatest failures of presidential leadership in generations."
- Republican Senator from Florida Marco Rubio paid tribute to Congressman John Lewis’s memory by tweeting a photo of himself with a different Black politician, Congressman Elijah Cummings.
- Two Allentown, Pennsylvania police officers filmed kneeling on the neck of a man outside a hospital will not face charges.
- Emily Howell Warner, “the first permanent female pilot for a scheduled U.S. passenger airline,” died earlier this month at age 80.
- The Black Lives Matter street art in front of Trump Tower was vandalized for the third time in a week, and two women were taken into custody.
- A year after a fire nearly destroyed Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, French authorities are now investigating possible arson at Nantes Cathedral in northwestern France.
- Say what you will about 2020, but at least the year’s documentaries so far have been good.
- And finally, volume up to hear this seal purr and activate its laser beam:
