At-home coronavirus tests on the way . . . Companies are starting to roll out tests that can diagnose coronavirus infections at home, offering people who are seeking to return to work a potentially safer, more accessible option to check their health. Yet experts worry about the accuracy of the results generated by the at-home tests, costs that insurers often don’t cover and other factors that could limit use. At-home tests are the next wave of coronavirus diagnostics, following tests given by doctors at offices and hospitals. Some of the newest ones use a person’s saliva to detect an infection. All of the tests, whether done at home or not, must be sent to a lab for analysis. Wall Street Journal

 

Trump scales back meetings with Fauci . . . When asked on Monday if he and Trump often discussed the progress toward a vaccine for coronavirus, Fauci bluntly answered, “No.” “We used to have task force meetings every single day, including Saturday and Sunday, and about 75% of the time after the task force meeting we’d meet with the president,” Fauci said. "So I was meeting with him four times a week back, a month or so ago. “But as you probably noticed, the task force meetings have not occurred as often lately. And certainly my meetings with the president have been dramatically decreased.” New York Daily News

 

South Korea: Transmission from packages unlikely . . . More than 117 cases of COVID-19 have been linked to the warehouse near Seoul owned by e-commerce giant Coupang facility. No cases have been related to deliveries and South Korean health officials have played down the chance of infection from packages. While infection from touching surfaces of boxes or bubble wraps couriered by an infected logistics centre worker would be concerning, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said transmission in this manner was unlikely. “There has been no precedent of a global transmission so far from delivered packages,” Vice Health Minister Kim Gang-lip told a briefing. Reuters

 

Tucker Carlson rips Kushner for undermining Trump's instincts . . . Fox News host Tucker Carlson blasted White House adviser Jared Kushner as one of those responsible for subverting President Donald Trump’s “instincts” on key issues that affect his presidency. Commenting on the ongoing protests, riots and general lawlessness taking place in the wake of the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis last week, Carlson used part of Monday night’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight” opening monologue to take aim at “key advisers,” including Kushner, who don’t understand the “gravity of the moment.” Daily Caller

 

Trump to governors: "Most of you are weak" . . . President Donald Trump is telling the nation’s governors that most of them are “weak” and calling for tougher crackdowns on violence as protests rage across the nation. Trump is speaking to governors on a video teleconference with law enforcement and national security officials.

He’s telling them they “have to get much tougher” amid nationwide protests and criticizing their responses, saying: “Most of you are weak.” And he’s chastising them for failing to use the National Guard more aggressively, saying they’re making themselves “look like fools.” Whte House Dossier

 

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Biden says Floyd death exposes nation's "systemic racism" . . . Joseph R. Biden said Friday that the death of George Floyd is a reminder of how the “original sin of this country still stains our nation today” and demands the nation rally behind the black community.

Mr. Biden said Mr. Trump is stoking division and “encouraging violence” at a time when elected leaders should be emphasizing unity and bringing people together to “root out systemic racism.”’ “It is time for us to take a hard look at the uncomfortable truths,” Mr. Biden said. “It is time for us to face that deep open wound we have in this nation.”

“We need justice for George Floyd,” he said. Washington Times

 

Biden's dumb idea: Police should shoot potential killers in the leg . . . Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden said Monday police should be trained to shoot at the legs of assailants, which police training experts decry as impractical and dangerous. 

 

Obama praises protests but says they should be peaceful and vote Democratic . . . President Obama wrote an article for Medium saying that protesters were ovewhelmingly peaceful and are expressing legitimate grievances. Only, of course, his solution is to give them more of the same liberal policies that have been failing them for half a century. And yes, I agree with him. It’s time for protestors to head to the ballot box. But what is he talking about? The local officials are all Democrats. So he must mean it’s time to finally start electing conservatives to run these cities, where conditions for African Americans are at their worst. White House Dossier

 

Fifty two percent of Americans say Trump is a racist . . . A poll found 52 per cent of U.S. adults believe the president is a racist, while another 37 per cent of those polled said he was not. Eleven per cent answered that they didn't know. Americans were divided by political party and race on how they viewed Trump. Democrats, like Sen. Ed Markey, who referred to the president as a 'racist' and 'scum' Monday on Twitter, were most likely to believe he's a racist. Of the Democrats surveyed, 86 per cent believed Trump is a racist, while just 6 per cent did not. Only 13 per cent of Republicans believed Trump is a racist, while 80 per cent said he's not. Daily Mail

 

America's enemies seize on protests . . . Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif on Monday compared the neck-to-knee technique used to kill George Floyd to the U.S. use sanctions against Iran.  Without referencing China’s well-documented discrimination against Uighurs and other minorities or the use of police force against protesters in Hong Kong over the past year, the Chinese government condemned the “serious problems” of police brutality and said “racial discrimination against minorities is a social ill in the United States." The Russian foreign ministry, meanwhile, took the chance Sunday to lecture the U.S. on media freedom after news outlets reported being targeted by police in the course of their work covering the protests in various cities. Russia and China are also flooding social media with online propaganda targeting the ongoing unrest and violence in the United States. Politico

 

Let is Xi: Former Beatles manager promotes Chinese dictator . . . The Beatles manager who orchestrated the ill-advised wedding between John Lennon and Yoko Ono is now the Chinese government's pointman to build ties between Beijing and American journalists and officials. Peter Brown, who managed the world-famous band until its disbandment in 1970, now uses his public relations skills to advance the interests of the Chinese regime. Brown, through his firm BLJ Worldwide, has arranged dozens of American reporters to visit China on all-expenses-paid trips and placed pro-Chinese op-eds in top U.S. outlets. Washington Free Beacon

 

US economy faces ten-year recovery . . . The U.S. economy could take the better part of a decade to fully recover from the coronavirus pandemic and related shutdowns, a U.S. budget agency said, as a series of surveys pointed to continuing weakness in global manufacturing. The Congressional Budget Office, a nonpartisan legislative agency, said the sharp contraction triggered by the coronavirus caused it to mark down its 2020-30 forecast for U.S. economic output by a cumulative $7.9 trillion, or 3% of gross domestic product, relative to its January projections. GDP isn’t expected to catch up to the previously forecast level until the fourth quarter of 2029, the CBO added. The roughly $3.3 trillion in stimulus programs enacted by Congress since March will only “partially mitigate the deterioration in economic conditions,” the CBO said. Wall Street Journal

 

Former NBA star JR Smith beats the crap out of rioter . . . NBA star J.R. Smith beat the living daylights out of a man who allegedly smashed his car window during the wild protests in L.A. The 6'6", 225-pounder unleashed a barrage of violent kicks on the man -- landing several times in the head. When the guy finally stands up on his feet, Smith delivered a final punishing overhand right to the guy's dome. Finally, some of J.R.'s friends step in and the other guy scurries off in a hurry. TMZ

 

Calif. loquor store ownder defends business with AR-15  . . A California liquor store owner said he stood in front of his business in Santa Monica armed with an AR-15 to discourage looters.

The looting in Santa Monica came amid nationwide unrest sparked by the death of George Floyd, a black Minneapolis man who died last week after a white police officer held his knee on Floyd’s neck for more than eight minutes. The owner of the liquor store, who only identified as Joe, told CBSLA he and his friends stood in front of the business with guns to discourage potential looters. “It was a good thing I had my customers and friends by my side, because it was pretty scary,” Joe told the station. Fox News

 

Nebraska bar ownder who killed rioter will not be charged . . . A Nebraska bar owner who shot and killed a George Floyd protester will not be charged because he acted in self-defense, authorities said Monday. Prosecutors said Jake Gardner, the owner of The Hive bar in Omaha, ended up on his back during a confrontation with a group of protesters Saturday when he fired and struck 22-year-old James Scurlock. Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine said Scurlock initially jumped on Gardner’s back and began choking him after the bar owner fired off two warning shots. New York Post

 

Protestors and vigilantes face off in Philly . . . Tensions flared in a Philadelphia neighborhood on Monday between George Floyd protesters and bat-wielding vigilantes, according to a report.

Dozens of white men carrying bats, hammers and shovels got into an hours-long stand-off with a crowd of mostly younger Fishtown residents protesting police brutality.“Leave us alone!” one of the protesters yelled. “We live here and they’re making us feel unsafe!” The men claimed they were out to protect their neighborhood in the event of riots or looting, and traded gibes with the protesters. New York Post

 

Californian man caught eatiner relative . . . 

A Richmond city resident was arrested on suspicion of murdering a relative, multiple law enforcement sources said, and authorities reportedly caught him eating her body. The man, whose name was not released, was arrested on suspicion of murder Monday afternoon. Police have not released the victim’s name. The victim was a woman who was related to the suspect, police said.

According to multiple law enforcement sources, police responded to a Richmond residence after a report of a disturbance. The officers caught the man in the act of cannibalizing the victim and took him into custody, police said. The Mercury News