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| Happy Tuesday, Daily Briefing readers! |
| Today, primary elections are still happening, shoppers will protest with their wallets for Blackout Day and a Beatles star celebrates his birthday. |
| It's N'dea, let's dive right in. |
What to know about Tuesday's elections in Delaware, New Jersey 🗳️ |
| Delaware will host a presidential primary on Tuesday — the first time Joe Biden's name will appear on the ballot as a viable Democratic nominee for president in his home state. In the two prior presidential primary elections Biden ran in, he dropped out before Delaware voters could vote for him as the nominee. Additionally, Democrat-turned-Republican Rep. Jeff Van Drew will face a fight on both sides in his bid to retain his New Jersey seat. And once-presidential candidate Cory Booker is facing a primary challenge against a little-known opponent, Lawrence Hamm. Hamm, a progressive, is the founder and chairman of the People's Organization for Progress, which works for social, racial, and economic justice. |
Seeing misinformation on social media? Let us fact check that for you ✔️ |
| Debate surrounding the effectiveness of mask-wearing has only continued as COVID-19 cases spike, prompting more false claims about their usage on social media. |
| A recent post on Facebook shows a photo of a discharge document from a medical center that reads, "CDC does not recommend that people who are well wear a facemask to protect themselves from respiratory diseases, including COVID-19." |
| Our Fact Check Team rates the claim that discharge documents from a Texas medical center stated that the CDC does not recommend face mask coverings for those who are well as PARTLY FALSE. The document is authentic, according to the medical center that issued it. But it is false to claim the guidance is current. The CDC now widely recommends cloth masks in public settings. |
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Blackout Day encourages shoppers to buy only from Black-owned businesses 💰 |
| Americans have plans to send a message at the checkout counter on Tuesday. Designated as Blackout Day, the economic protest serves as a call to action and "day of solidarity in America where not one Black person in America spends a dollar," outside of businesses owned by Black people . Blackout Day comes in the wake of protests against police brutality and renewed attention to the nation's decades-long racial wealth gap. The Blackout Day movement began in 2015 to combat negative stereotypes. It spawned several spinoffs aimed at uplifting the Black community, drawing attention to systemic racism and the nation's racial wealth gap. |
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The latest headlines on Race in America |
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Johnny Depp's libel case goes to court ⚖️ |
| Johnny Depp's libel case against the British tabloid The Sun is scheduled to start at London's High Court on Tuesday. Depp is suing the newspaper's publisher and executive editor for an article that claims that he was violent and abusive toward his ex-wife, Amber Heard. The Sun's lawyers are attempting to get the case dismissed. In the most recent development on the case, a British judge ruled July 1 that Depp's libel case could proceed. Depp, 57, and Heard, 34, met on the set of the 2011 comedy "The Rum Diary" and married in Los Angeles in February 2015.They divorced in 2017. |
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More news everyone is talking about |
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Washington mandates mask wearing in businesses 😷 |
| As daily cases of COVID-19 have spiked in Washington, Gov. Jay Inslee is directing businesses to require and enforce mask wearing by all patrons starting Tuesday . The statewide order builds on a previous one from Inslee that, since June 8, has required workers to wear facial coverings unless they don't interact with others on the job. A June 26 order by the state secretary of health also mandates mask wearing by people 5 years and older in any indoor public setting and when outdoors and unable to maintain social distance. |
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Our coronavirus prognosis is 'really not good' |
| 📈Today's stats: The U.S. has seen almost 3 million confirmed cases and more than 130,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University data. Globally, there have been 11.5 million cases and more than 538,000 deaths. |
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Beatles rocker Ringo Starr turns 80 🎂 |
| Instead of the street party he's thrown every year in Los Angeles, Ringo Starr will be taking his birthday celebration online Tuesday . The event will be streamed on YouTube and Starr promises a lot of star power, including Jackson Browne, Elvis Costello, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Kenny Loggins, Michael McDonald, Keb Mo and Willie Nelson. He's also asking, as he does each year, for fans worldwide to stop what they're doing at noon on July 7 and flash the peace sign. Starr has been hunkering down at home due to the pandemic, only venturing out for brief dog walks on weekends. |
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In better news: This perfume is outta this world 🌌 |
| People have pledged over $300,000 to bring a NASA-developed fragrance that smells like outer space to the masses on Earth. |
| The scent was developed over a decade ago but was only used by NASA during astronaut field training, according to the product's Kickstarter page. Now, "through sheer determination, grit, a lot of luck and a couple of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, we got it out," the website said. |
| The Kickstarter campaign aims to raise enough money to manufacture the scent as a perfume called "Eau de Space." As of Tuesday, $368,033 has been raised. |
| In a video on the Kickstarter page, astronauts discuss the distinct smell of outer space. One compares it to the lingering gun powder scent at a shooting range. Another said space smells like a burned cookie. |
| The perfume can be ordered in bulk for learning institutions or it can be ordered in individual 4-ounce bottles if the team reaches its goal. The campaign closes on Aug. 17. |
 | | This perfume is supposed to really smell like outer space. | | Eau De Space | |
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