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August 26, 2020
August 25, 2020
Wisconsin Police Shoot Black Man in Back, Sparking Protests; Speakers Blast Democrats, Offer Dark View of U.S.; Opening Speakers Pitch Trump As Protector of America; Speakers Glossed over Trump's Coronavirus Failures; Pompeo to Address RNC While on Middle East Tour; Study: Hong Kong Man Became Infected with Virus Twice; Berlin Hospital: Russian Opposition Leader Poisoned; U.S. Gulf Coast Braces for Second Strong Storm in Days. Aired 4:30-5a ET
Speakers Blast Biden, Try to Appeal to Trump's Base; Nikki Haley Defends Trump's Foreign Policy; Speakers Share Personal Stories of the American Dream; Trump Meets with Coronavirus Frontline Workers; Sources: White House Considering Fast-Tracking Coronavirus Vaccine. Aired 4-4:30a ET
RNC Kicks Off Monday Night; Scary Picture Presented by Trump Loyalists; Trump's Prepared Excuse if He Lose; Cutting Corners Jeopardizes Efficacy and Safety; Second Night of Protest After Black Man Shot by Police; Couple Who Waved Guns at Protesters Support Trump; Mike Pompeo to Address RNC while Abroad; RNC Opening Speakers Blast Biden, Pitch to Trump's Base; Convention Follows Week of Bad News for Trump; U.S. Gulf Coast Braces for Second Strong Storm in Days; California Wildfires Hit Historic Levels and Still Growing. Aired 3-4a ET
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Professor Karen Swallow Prior Discusses Jerry Falwell Jr. Resigning From Liberty University Amid Sex Scandal; Wendell Harris, President, NAACP Waukesha, Wisconsin, Branch, Discusses Jacob Blake Shooting By Police & Protests; The Message From A Family That Lost Two Family Members To COVID-19. Aired 2:30-3p ET
U.S. Universities Find Spike in COVID-19 Cases; Second Night of Republican National Convention to Air Tonight; Breonna Taylor Protests in Louisville, Kentucky Continue for Fourth Day. Aired 2-2:30p ET
Interview With Former FBI Director James Comey; Hurricane Laura Gains Strength It As Barrels Towards Gulf Coast; Update On Coronavirus Responses Around The Country; Convention Highlights Bitter Divide Between Family Members. Aired 1:30-2p ET
Average Daily Cases Fall Nearly 21 Percent, Deaths Down Eight Percent; GOP Candidate Spread Conspiracies About Charlottesville, Pizzagate; GOP Paints Alternative Reality Of Trump's Record, Policies. Aired 1-1:30p ET
Colleges Try To Enforce Rules To Curb Cases On Campus; CNN Poll: 60 Percent Of Women In Battleground States Back Biden. Aired 12:30-1p ET
Trump Convention Paints Grim Picture Of Democrats' America; RNC Makes Appeal To Black Voters; Thirty-One States See Increasing COVID- 19 Positivity Rates; COVID-19 Indicators Decrease After Summer Surge; Father: Jacob Blake Paralyzed After Being Shot By Police. Aired 12- 12:30p ET
Trump & Allies Try to Rewrite History on RNC's 1st Night; Dr. Jesse Goodman Discusses Fauci Warning Against Premature Authorization of Vaccine; WSJ: Falwell Resigns as President of Liberty University. Aired 11:30a-12p ET
Study: Rates of Symptomatic Children with COVID Are Very Low; "Rolling Hot Spots" in Focus as Midwest Sees Uptick in Infections; Tropical Storm Laura Expected to Slam Gulf Coast as Hurricane; Protests Erupt after Police Shoot Black Man in Front of His Kids; NAACP President, Derrick Johnson, Discusses the Police Shooting of Jacob Blake. Aired 11-11:30a ET
Hurricane Laura Predicted to Strengthen to Category 3; Many Permanently Leaving New York City Following COVID-19; Jerry Falwell Jr. Withdraws Liberty University Resignation and Is Under Investigation. Aired 10:30-11a ET
Officials Warn of Troubling COVID-19 Signs across Heartland; Jacob Blake's Father Says, Police Shooting Paralyzed my Son; Melania Trump to Deliver RNC Speech Tonight. Aired 10-10:30a ET
Laura Now a Hurricane Heading For TX & Louisiana Coasts; Inside Chinese Lab Conducting Late-Stage Vaccine Trials; Chinese Biotech Company in Human Trials for Covid-19 Vaccine. Aired 9.30-10a ET
Dr. Anthony Fauci Warns Against Premature Authorization of Vaccine; Florida Judge Blocks State Order Requiring Schools to Reopen for In-Person Classes; GOP Makes Case for Trump, Paints Dark Picture Under Biden; Protests Across U.S. After Wisconsin Police Shoots a Black Man; Hurricane Laura Heads for Texas and Louisiana Coasts; Futures Up After China And U.S. Had Constructive Trade Talks. Aired 9- 9:30a ET
August 24, 2020
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August 22, 2020
August 21, 2020
Biden Accepts Democratic Nomination for U.S. President; Biden's Former Rival Speak on His Behalf at DNC Thursday; Trump's Fired Chief Strategist Charged with Fraud; New Zealand Prime Minister Pushes Back on Trump's Big Outbreak Claim; Democratic National Convention Highlights. Aired 4:30-5a ET
Joe Biden Accepts Democratic Nomination at Revamped DNC; Democrats Attempt to Energize Voters Ahead of Election; Putin Critic Alexey Navalny in Coma After Alleged Poisoning; Officials Fear Downward COVID-19 Case Trend Only Temporary; Studies Show Kids are More Affected that Previously Thought. Aired 4-4:30a ET
Joe Biden Ready to Face Trump; Trump Expected to Retaliate; Russian Critic Fighting for His Life; In-Person Learning Still Not Advisable; Biden Accepts Democratic Nomination For United States President; Military Veteran Backs Biden, Rips Trump; The USPS Crisis And The 2020 Election; Steve Bannon Charged With Fraud; U.S. Senators To Hear From Postmaster General DeJoy; WHO, Daily New COVID-19 Cases In Europe Rise To 26,000; Australian Quarantine Hotels Linked To Coronavirus Outbreak; California Wildfires Burning Thousands Of Acres. Aired 3-4a ET
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Steve Bannon Calls Arrest a "Political Hit Job" from the Left; Bannon Tells Friends He & Trump Speak from Time to Time; Skeptical Progressives React to Biden's Convention; Trump Says Democrats Held Darkest, Angriest, Gloomiest Convention in American History; CNN Special Report Examines Gender Equality in 2020 America; Lori Loughlin & Husband Sentenced in College Admissions Scandal. Aired 2:30-3p ET
Interview with Former CDC Director Tom Frieden; Interview with Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX); Steve Bannon Calls Charges Political Hit Job. Aired 2-2:30p ET
Interview with Miles Taylor, Former DHS Chief of Staff; Lawmakers Demand More Accurate County of N.Y. Nursing Home Deaths. Aired 1:30-2p ET
CDC Now Forecasts 195,000 U.S. COVID Deaths by September 12; Postmaster Denies He Changed USPS Policies over Election Mail; Pence Claims, We Dismiss Conspiracies, as Trump Peddles Conspiracies. Aired 1-1:30p ET
Postmaster General Grilled On Capitol Hill Over Service Changes; Trump Assails Mail-In Voting; Pence Questioned About QAnon Conspiracy Theorists. Aired 12:30-1p ET
College Campuses In At Least 19 States Reporting COVID-19 Cases; Georgia District Considers Hybrid Learning At Schools Hit Hard By COVID; CDC Group Projects 195,000 U.S. Coronavirus Deaths By September 12th; Joe Biden Calls For Unity, Urges Americans To Choose Hope Over Fear; Joe Biden Won't Hit Campaign Trial In A Traditional Way. Aired 12-12:30p ET
CDC Director Warns to Stay Vigilant as Cases Decrease; Pence Says Cases Were Declining Until Memorial Day; Pence: Suspending Travel from China "Bought Us Time"; White House Declares Teachers Essential Workers; Biden's Virtual Champaign Challenge; Lieutenant General Mandela Barnes (D-WI) Discusses Biden Campaign, Wisconsin Missing the Spotlight with Campaign Events in Delaware. Aired 11:30a-12p ET
Postmaster General Faces Grilling over Post Office Changes. Aired 11-11:30a ET
Postmaster General Faces Grilling Over Post Office Changes; USPS Chief: "Will Remain Independent" Despite Close Ties to Trump, RNC. Aired 10:30-11a ET.
Postmaster General Faces Questions About Post Office Changes. Aired 10-10:30a ET
Postmaster General Faces Grilling Over Post Office Changes; USPS Chief: "Will Remain Independent" Despite Close Ties to Trump, RNC. Aired 9:30-10a ET.
Postmaster General Faces Grilling on Capitol Hill. Aired 9- 9:30a ET
August 20, 2020
Soon, Trump Expected to Face Reporters after Steven Bannon Arrest; U.S. Official: Positive Trend Could Change if Americans "Aren't Careful"; Fauci Has Surgery for Vocal Cord Polyp; Dr. Birx Recommends Colleges Conduct "Surge Testing" for COVID-19; Colleges Struggle to Reopen as Clusters Pop Up on Campuses; Dr. Lee Norman, Secretary, Kansas Department of Health and Environment, Discuses Struggling Colleges, Surge Testing, Health Officials Investigating 5 COVID Clusters at Kansas Universities; Ex-Trump Adviser Steve Bannon Arrested; Trump Embraces Baseless QAnon Theory, Says Its Backers "Like Me". Aired 11-11:30a ET
Obama Talks up a Biden Presidency in Convention Speech; Gun Violence a Major Theme on Night Three of the Democratic Convention; Gabby Giffords Gives Emotional Speech on Gun Violence; Russian Opposition Leader Hospitalized, Poisoning Suspected; COVID-19 Cases Spike in Germany, France, Italy and Spain; Highlights from Democratic Vice President Nominee's Big Night. Aired 4:30-5a ET
Kamala Harris Makes History as Vice Presidential Nominee; Obama Delivers Scathing Rebuke of Trump; Democrats Contrast Biden's Character with Trumps; Kremlin Critic in Hospital After Suspected Poisoning; Some U.S. Universities Scrambling to Contain Outbreak; Fauci: Health Measures Needed Without Effective Vaccine. Aired 4-4:30a ET
Kamala Harris Makes History As Vice Presidential Nominee; Obama, No Single American Can Fix This Country Alone; Democrats Contrast Biden's Character With Trump's; New Evacuations As Lightning- Strikes Fires Ravage California; Australia's Quarantine Hotels Lead To Outbreak. Coronavirus Cases In Latin America And The Caribbean; Democrats in Unison; Kamala Harris Right to Become V.P.; Kremlin's Critic Hospitalized; In-Person Learning Not Advisable; Dr. Fauci Says Slowly but Surely. Aired 3-4a ET
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Los Angeles Shuts Off Power at Mansion that Hosted Big Parties; Reports Observe Crowds: Most Don't Follow Makes Rules; Russian Opposition Leader Alexey Navalny Hospitalized after Suspected Poisoning; GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy Tests Positive for Virus; Postmaster General to Appear Before Senate Republicans on Monday; Utah Students, Teachers Who Refuse Masks May Be Charged. Aired 2:30-3p ET
Florida Hearing Under Way to Determine School Reopenings; Steve Bannon to Appear in Court Soon; President Trump to Hold Scranton, PA Event Tonight. Aired 2-2:30p ET
Trump Praises Conspiracy Group Deemed a Terror Threat by FBI; Updates on Coronavirus Responses from Around the Country; Pedro Pierluisi, (PNP), Puerto Rico Gubernatorial Candidate, Discusses Former DHS Official's Claim Trump Wanted to Trade Puerto Rico for Greenland. Aired 1:30-2p ET
Every 60 Seconds, 1,300+ Americans Reported Dead over Past Day; Trump's Ex-Adviser Bannon Arrested on Built The Wall Fraud Charge; CNN Reports, Trump Hell-Bent on Making GOP Convention Different Than Democrats. Aired 1-1:30p ET
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