Kenosha in crisis. Lost in a second night of unrest after the police shooting of a Black man north of the Illinois-Wisconsin border: Several buildings burned to the ground, including the Department of Corrections.
■ The father of victim Jacob Blake, who grew up in Evanston, reports Blake was shot eight times and has been paralyzed from the waist down.
■ Why cops at the scene didn’t have body cams to convey their perspective on the incident.
‘Something is dangerously wrong.’ A Sun-Times editorial sounds an alarm about the de-incarceration movement: “Some people charged with murder have been going home on electronic monitoring.”
■ Chicago’s police department has welcomed 81 new officers.
■ Chicago police arrested 13 people during a peaceful protest against the presence of cops in public schools.
Suburbs’ slide. With pandemic positivity results on the rise, Illinois is tightening pandemic restrictions on south suburban bars, restaurants, party buses and casinos.
■ The Illinois High School Association says it won’t hold statewide tournaments this fall.
■ The University of Alabama reports more than 500 coronavirus cases in a week.
■ The Conversation: What reports that a man was reinfected with COVID-19 mean for immunity.
■ If a vaccine materializes, the U.S. isn’t ready to produce doses for all Americans.
‘Extreme fear porn.’ That’s one veteran Republican presidential campaign operative’s assessment of the Republican convention’s Day One …
■ … which delivered what HuffPost describes as a dark “airing of grievances” …
■ … but which also offered an upbeat assessment of President Trump’s leadership.
■ Politico’s Shia Kapos says the best speeches came from South Carolinians Sen. Tim Scott and former UN ambassador Nikki Haley. (Cartoon: Keith J. Taylor.)
■ Poynter’s Tom Jones: “Portraying Trump as a president for people of color was one of the themes of the night.”
■ Ohio Republican Congressman Jim Jordan praised Trump for “something most Americans never get to see: How much he truly cares about people,” and Stephen Colbert agreed: “That is true. No matter who you are, Black or white, rich or poor, you never get to see Donald Trump care about people.”
‘A dizzying array of misleading claims.’ The Associated Press’ fact-check finds the president and other Republicans distorted facts galore Monday.
■ PolitiFact: Trump addressed delegates yesterday, “veering from the political norms … and often, the facts.”
■ Part of his pitch: Up to five Supreme Court seats are on the line in this election.
■ Not unlike the president himself, the party has announced it won’t adopt a platform of principles.
■ Satire from The Onion: “RNC Features Tribute From Family Members Of Americans Who Will Die If Trump Wins Second Term.”
Republicans bailing. Ex-Gov. Jim Edgar says he’ll vote for Joe Biden.
■ Trump’s convicted lawyer, Michael Cohen, says he’ll attack Trump in ads for a Democratic group.
Falwell from grace. Developing coverage: Embroiled in a sex scandal, evangelical Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. offered his resignation but then reversed course, leaving his fate unclear. (Update, 4:58 p.m.: He says he has indeed quit.)
■ A former pool attendant who became Falwell’s business partner says he had a seven-year affair with Falwell and his wife—engaging in sex with her as Falwell, a prominent Trump supporter, looked on.
■ The Washington Post’s developing coverage of the story quickly abandoned an arch choice of words: “A series of personal scandals came to an abrupt head.”
Like ‘punching Jell-O.’ Illinois Congressman Mike Quigley found yesterday’s House testimony from Postmaster General Louis DeJoy unsatisfying.
■ ABC News: DeJoy doubled down on plans to remove mail-sorting machines, then wavered.
The show that ‘forever changed TV.’ Critic Aaron Barnhart looks back to 1992 and “the one person who, more than anyone else, saw the future of politics … was very funny.”
■ Trevor Noah explains how remote production of The Daily Show evolved as his awareness of the pandemic progressed, in Variety’s words, “from initial dismissiveness to dawning horror.”
■ A new three-hour primetime national newscast launches from Chicago next week, with the modest goal of just telling viewers “what’s going on.”
■ The West Wing cast plans a reunion show on stage this fall—to encourage people to vote.
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