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Tuesday, September 29, 2020

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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President Donald Trump speaks Monday about coronavirus testing during an event in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington.

Ethics experts see national security concern in Trump's debt

Revelations that President Donald Trump is personally liable for more than $400 million in debt are casting a shadow over his presidency that ethics experts say raises national security concerns he could be manipulated to sway U.S. policy by organizations or individuals he's indebted to.
Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron addresses the media following the return of a grand jury investigation into the death of Breonna Taylor, in Frankfort, Kentucky. Of the three Louisville Metro police officers being investigated, one was indicted.

Kentucky attorney general agrees to release grand jury tapes in Breonna Taylor case

Kentucky's attorney general has agreed to release the recordings of the secret grand jury proceeding that considered charges against three officers involved in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor.
Medical staff holds swabs Monday for rapid COVID-19 tests at a high school in Rome. While hospitalizations and intensive care admissions are slightly rising, Italy has so far managed to keep its coronavirus infections per 100,000 people far lower than France, Spain or Britain, which earlier this week were forced to impose new restrictions to avoid a second pandemic wave.

WHO, partners roll out faster COVID tests for poorer nations

The World Health Organization announced Monday that it and leading partners have agreed to a plan to roll out 120 million rapid-diagnostic tests for the coronavirus to help lower- and middle-income countries make up ground in a testing gap with richer countries -- even if it's not fully funded yet.
Maddison Washington, 11, stands at her bedroom mirror as she gets ready for her virtual graduation from her Brooklyn middle school, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. After being delayed twice, hundreds of thousands of elementary school students are heading back to classrooms Tuesday as New York City enters a high-stakes phase of resuming in-person learning during the coronavirus pandemic.

New York City elementary schools reopen in big back-to-school test

Hundreds of thousands of elementary school students are heading back to classrooms Tuesday as New York City enters a high-stakes stage of resuming in-person learning during the coronavirus pandemic, which is keeping students at home in many other big U.S. school systems.
Head mortician Jordi Fernandez prepares a coffin before placing the body of a COVID-19 victim in an underground parking garage turned into a morgue at the Collserola funeral home in Barcelona. The worldwide death toll from the coronavirus eclipsed 1 million, nine months into a crisis that has devastated the global economy, tested world leaders’ resolve, pitted science against politics and forced multitudes to change the way they live, learn and work.
Worldwide grief: Death toll from coronavirus tops 1 million
Now, 8 1/2 months after an infection doctors had never seen before claimed its first victims in China, the pandemic's confirmed death toll has eclipsed 1 million, according to a count by Johns Hopkins University.
Mock debaters stand onstage Monday as preparations take place for the first Presidential debate in the Sheila and Eric Samson Pavilion in Cleveland. The first debate between President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden is scheduled to take place Tuesday.
5 questions heading into Trump and Biden's first debate. Watch live at dailyherald.com tonight.
President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, will meet on the debate stage for the first time Tuesday night in Cleveland. You can watch live coverage here starting at 5 p.m., with the candidates taking the stage at 8 p.m.
U.S. Ambassador to China Terry Branstad speaks during an interview at the U.S. embassy in Beijing on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020. The departing U.S. ambassador on Tuesday defended a tough approach to China that has riled relations between the world's two largest economies, saying the Trump administration has made progress on trade and that he hopes it will extend to other areas. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
AP Interview: US ambassador defends tough approach to China
The departing U.S. ambassador in Beijing is defending a tough approach to China that has riled relations between the world's two largest economies
FILE - In this Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019, file photo, Amnesty International India employees work at their headquarters in Bangalore, India. The Human rights watchdog said on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020, that it was halting its operation in India, citing reprisals from the government and the freezing of its bank accounts. Its announcement comes at a time amid growing concerns over the state of free speech in India where critics accuse Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist government of increasingly brandishing laws to silence human rights activists, intellectuals, filmmakers, students and journalists. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi, File)
Amnesty Int'l halts India operations, citing gov't reprisals
Human rights watchdog Amnesty International says it is halting its operation in India, citing reprisals from the government and the freezing of its bank accounts by Indian authorities
In this photo made available from the twitter account of UAE Vice President and Prime Minister and ruler of Dubai, Emirati officials brief Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum about a possible moon mission, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Sheikh Mohammed made the announcement Tuesday on Twitter that his country plans to send an unmanned spacecraft to the moon in 2024. (Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Twitter account via AP)
United Arab Emirates to launch spacecraft to moon in 2024
A top official in the United Arab Emirates says his country plans to send an unmanned spacecraft to the moon in 2024
FILE - In this Thursday, May 28, 2020 file photo, children swing in a playground at Leopold park during the partial lifting of coronavirus, COVID-19, lockdown regulations in Brussels. The European Union's external auditor said Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020 that child poverty has reached worrying levels across the world's largest economy, and has become an unacceptable situation likely to worsen during the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)
Child poverty likely to increase in EU amid virus pandemic
The European Union's external auditor says child poverty has reached worrying levels across the world's largest trading bloc and is likely to get worse during the coronavirus pandemic
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his wife Susan visit the Jewish Museum in the northern city of Thessaloniki, Greece, Monday, Sept. 28, 2020. Pompeo said Monday the United States will use its diplomatic and military influence in the region to try to ease a volatile dispute between NATO allies Greece and Turkey over energy rights in the eastern Mediterranean. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos, Pool)
Pompeo voices support for talks between Greece, Turkey
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has expressed support for talks between Greece and Turkey, NATO allies whose relations have deteriorated sharply to the point where both had warships facing off in the Mediterranean
Dutch students chat in the kitchen of their shared house in Leiden, Netherlands on Friday, Sept. 25, 2020. The coronavirus pandemic is hitting students hard in Leiden, the Netherlands' oldest university city. With the virus casting a long shadow over education here and around the world, most lectures are online and the vibrant social life has been reined in to slow the spread of the pandemic. (AP Photo/Mike Corder)
Dutch students work hard to keep virus out of shared houses
The pandemic is hitting students hard in Leiden, the Netherlands' oldest university city
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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The Daily Herald Archives, Assignment # 58,438, Scott Sanders photo: Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne honors Space shuttle astronauts John W. Young and Robert Crippen during a parade to honor them in May of 1981. The two astronauts, America’s first space shuttle pilots, also met with some of the City’s top high school students at the Museum of Science and Industry.
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Glenbrook North sophomore Sonia Thakkar played the harp for a virtual live concert to entertain and relieve the stress of front line health care workers. She also raised over $3,000 to obtain quality PPE kits for front line workers in India.
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Associated Press Mourners hug beside the names of the deceased Jesus Sanchez and Marianne MacFarlane at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, Friday, Sept. 11, 2020, in New York. Americans commemorated 9/11 with tributes that have been altered by coronavirus precautions and woven into the presidential campaign. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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