Thursday’s new record topped the 2,783 cases reported just two days earlier by the Florida Department of Health, which had been the third record-setting total in less than a week. There have been 85,926 coronavirus cases reported in Florida since the outbreak began and 3,061 deaths. The state reported 43 additional COVID-19 deaths Thursday. Gov. Ron DeSantis said after Tuesday’s record high that he had no plans to pull-back on reopening efforts that he launched in May and since expanded. USA Today

Trump says China may have intentionally spread the virus . . . President Trump claimed China may have spread coronavirus intentionally, called COVID-19 testing 'overrated' and explained his beef with mask-wearing in a new interview with The Wall Street Journal. 'There's a chance it was intentional,' Trump said of the coronavirus spread that started in Wuhan and traveled around the globe earlier this year.  Without providing any evidence, the president speculated China may have had economic motivations letting the virus escape. 'Correct, they're saying, man, we're a mess. The United States is killing us. Don't forget, my economy during the last year and a half was blowing them away. And the reason is the tariffs,' Trump told The Journal. Daily Mail

California orders wearing of masks indoors . . . California on Thursday started requiring people throughout the state to wear masks in most indoor settings and outdoors when distancing isn’t possible as the coronavirus continues to spread. “Science shows that face coverings and masks work,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a statement about the new order. “They are critical to keeping those who are around you safe, keeping businesses open and restarting our economy.” States including Michigan, New York, Maine, Delaware and Maryland already have statewide mask orders in place. New York Post

Barbershops leading the reopening . . . There was a lot we couldn’t agree on in this pandemic, but one thing that united us was our hair. 

With barbers and salons shuttered, manes grew into unruly tangles, chronicled under hashtags like #coronahairdontcare. Heads were shaved. Long-forgotten mullets returned. Shades of gray sprouted while we all hunkered down at home. As the U.S. begins to emerge from the Covid-19 lockdown, a trip to the stylist, among the first businesses to reopen in many areas, will be at the top of to-do lists for Americans desperate for a haircut and some social contact. Bloomberg

Republicans worry Biden invisibility paying off . . . Joe Biden hasn’t held a press conference in 77 days but Democrats aren’t feeling much pressure to put the presumptive nominee front and center at the moment. Biden has, for the most part, kept a low profile. Over that time, Biden has built up a healthy lead in the polls and emerged as the heavy favorite for now to be the next president. The Trump campaign is desperate to draw Biden into the fray, believing the gaffe-prone former vice president would make some potentially game-changing mistakes during unscripted moments in the public eye. Most Democrats believe Trump is imploding. The Hill

Could be first person in modern history to successfully be elected by not campaigning. Then, assuming his mental decline continues, he will be the first president in modern history not to govern either.

When adjusted to reflect Sweden's population of over 10 million, the country's total number of cases currently sits at 5,334 — dangerously close to numbers in the U.S., which currently leads the world in total coronavirus cases and deaths. Newsweek

Europe working with US to revamp WHO . . . Europeans are working with the United States on plans to overhaul the World Health Organization, a top health official for a European country said, signalling that Europe shares some of the concerns that led Washington to say it would quit. The European health official, who spoke on condition of anonymity while discussing initiatives that are not public, said Britain, France, Germany and Italy were discussing WHO reforms with the United States at the technical level. The aim, the official said, was to ensure WHO’s independence, an apparent reference to allegations that the body was too close to China during its initial response to the coronavirus crisis early this year. Reuters

Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy called for white Christians to repent for racism Sunday after his company suffered vandalism in about a dozen of the chain’s restaurants over the past week. Cathy, the son of Chick-fil-A founder S. Truett Cathy, spoke in a roundtable discussion with Passion City founder Louie Giglio and Christian rapper Lecrae. He said whites should not condemn the behavior of destroying others’ property. Instead, he said, they should have empathy for the underlying frustration. “My plea would be for the white people, rather than point fingers at that kind of criminal effort, would be to see the level of frustration and exasperation and almost the sense of hopelessness that exists on some of those activists within the African-American community,” he said. Breitbart

Kids ratting each other out on social media . . . Over the past few weeks, as the Black Lives Matter movement has grown following outrage over the killing of George Floyd, high school students have leveraged every social media platform to call out their peers for racist behavior. Students have repurposed large meme accounts, set up Google Docs and anonymous pages on Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter, and wielded their personal followings to hold friends and classmates accountable for behavior they deem unacceptable.

“People will post videos of people saying the N-word, or videos where they’re being racist or using derogatory words and stuff like that, and they go viral,” said Sophia Gianotti, 16, a sophomore at Whitesboro High School in Whitesboro, N.Y., where a teacher was recently criticized for stating that “all lives matter” in a virtual school event. He later apolotigized. New York Times

Say one dumb thing and the Maoist Red Youth Brigades will destroy your life.

Atlanta cops afraid to do their job . . . The Southeast regional director of the International Brotherhood Of Police Officers Vincent Champion criticized the legal prosecution Thursday that has charged former Atlanta police officer Garrett Rolfe with murder. "We believe that the officer has not been given his due process. We believe this is nothing more but a political move by the district attorney,” Vincent Champion told Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” Champion said he has never seen anyone charged with murder “without a full investigation.” “The police officers are definitely scared … they are afraid to do their job at this point, not because they are afraid of how to do it. They’ve been trained to do that. They know what they’re doing,” Champion said. Daily Caller

New York City police may strike July 4 . . . A pair of flyers making their rounds among NYPD officers are encouraging them to call out sick July 4th — as retribution for police reform and a perceived anti-cop climate following the outrage over high-profile police killings of unarmed black men across the country, multiple cops told The Post.

One message calls for the strike to kick off at 3 p.m. July 4. “NYPD cops will strike on July 4th to let the city have their independence without cops,” the message, which is being passed among cops via text, according to sources. New York Post

Jimmy Kimmel taking the summer off . . . Jimmy Kimmel is taking a lengthy summer break from the late-night hosting gig he has had for nearly 18 years. Kimmel announced Thursday that he will be stepping away from “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” starting July 6 and his departure will last all the way through September when he hosts The Emmys. The show will be taken over by a variety of guest hosts while Kimmel steps back to spend time with his family. “There’s nothing wrong, I’m healthy, my family’s healthy, I just need a couple of months off,” Kimmel said, reassuring fans. New York Post

Who says it's going to be a bad summer?

when a 19-year-old California woman learned early this week when she woke up to an unproved attack after falling asleep in her backyard. Her only defense was a laptop. The black bear, local to the San Gabriel Mountains area, scratched the woman’s legs and arms before biting her. Once the attack began, “the only thing she could do is to grab her laptop and start hitting the bear with it,” Capt. Patrick Foy of the California Fish and Wildlife Department told ABC7. “That managed to break the bear loose and she ran inside.” Fox News