President Trump told voters at the event in Philadelphia at the National Constitution Center that the previous administration would have taken years to produce a vaccine for the pandemic. “Could be three weeks, four weeks,” he told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. “We think we have it.” Washington Times

However, Palestinian officials have denounced the so-called Abraham Accords as a stab in the back by fellow Arab nations. Washington Examiner

Hollywood director Apatow: China has bought Hollywoods' silence . . . Director Judd Apatow told MSNBC on Tuesday that China has "bought" the silence of Hollywood. "Instead of us doing business with China and that leading to China becoming more free, what has happened is a place like China has bought our silence with their money," Apatow said. "They have just completely shut down critical content about human-rights abuses in China." Apatow is an award-winning director famous for his role in creating smash comedy hits such as Superbad, Talladega Nights, Anchorman, and Step Brothers. Washington Free Beacon

BLM founder said capitalism must be abolished . . . Capitalism must be abolished in order for black lives to matter, Alicia Garza, a co-founder of Black Lives Matter, said at a conference in 2015. Black Lives Matter has experienced a resurgence of support in 2020 following the May 25 death of George Floyd. Celebrities and large corporations have poured millions of dollars into Black Lives Matter Global Network — BLM’s national arm — and other organizations that support defunding the police. “It’s not possible for a world to emerge where black lives matter if it’s under capitalism,” Garza said in 2015 at the left-wing convention Left Forum. “And it’s not possible to abolish capitalism without a struggle against national oppression and gender oppression,” she added. Daily Caller

Baltimore murder suspects protected by sanctuary laws . . . Two illegal immigrants suspected in two MS-13 gang-related killings in Baltimore had been in police custody before but set free in defiance of deportation requests from ICE, allowing them to be out on the streets at the time of the slayings, the federal agency said Tuesday. Two teenage girls were killed in the May and June attacks. Two other teens suffered stab wounds. Six people have been charged, and at least three of them are illegal immigrants who reached the U.S. during the Central American migrant surge in 2016. Washington Times

Louisville agrees to $12 million settlement in Breonna Taylor shooting . . . The city of Louisville has agreed to pay Breonna Taylor's family a record-breaking $12 million in a wrongful death lawsuit as the slain black EMT's mother continued calls for the officers involved to be charged. The settlement, which brings an end to the wrongful death lawsuit that Taylor's mother Tamika Palmer filed against the city and its police department back in April, is the largest amount the city has ever paid. At a press conference on Tuesday announcing the settlement, Taylor's mother pushed for charges against the officers involved in the shooting. Daily Mail

Young people in New York know little about the Holocaust . . . Nearly 20 percent of Millennials and Gen Z in New York believe the Jews caused the Holocaust, according to a new survey released on Wednesday. The findings come from the first ever 50-state survey on the Holocaust knowledge of American Millennials and Gen Z, which was commissioned by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. For instance, although there were more than 40,000 camps and ghettos during World War II, 58 percent of respondents in New York cannot name a single one. Additionally, 60 percent of respondents in New York do not know that six million Jews were killed during the Holocaust. New York Post

STAN is 40 feet long and 13 feet high, Christie’s said. He is also notable for two fused vertebrae scientists have identified in his neck, suggesting the dinosaur broke his neck and survived during his lifetime. “The clue is in the name, the Tyrannosaurus rex,” Hyslop said. “He is the tyrant lizard king.” Reuters

Kosher crisis hits as rabbis forced to inspect Chinese plants virtually . . . In an ordinary year, Rabbi David Moskowitz would have spent the weeks before Rosh Hashanah, the holiday that celebrates the start of the Jewish New Year, working in China. For more than a decade, the native of New York’s Rockland County has run Shatz Kosher Services, which verifies that ingredients made in Chinese factories don’t contain pork or otherwise violate Jewish dietary laws. Late summer is usually a busy season, with companies gearing up to make products for Passover the following spring. Rosh Hashanah starts on Sept. 18, but Moskowitz hasn’t been to China in months. The Chinese government closed its borders to most foreigners early in the Covid-19 pandemic, and the 53-year-old is in Ashdod, an Israeli city about 20 miles south of Tel Aviv. From there, he tries to do his job via videoconferences linked to cameras at Chinese factories showing him everything from the office to the factory floor to the warehouse. Bloomberg

Kosher food is made in China? Oy vey.