State Department lifts international travel advisory. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine tests positive for COVID-19. It's Thursday's news.
The State Department lifted its advisory warning Americans not to travel abroad. A New York attorney seeks to end the NRA. And another governor tested positive for COVID-19.
But first, we're not in Florida anymore: Idaho police got a call about an alligator and couldn't believe it. Then they got there.
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US drops its global 'Do Not Travel' advisory
You read that right: The U.S. State Department lifted its advisory on avoiding international travel, an alert that had been in place since the pandemic heated up in March. The agency said Thursday that lifting the global health advisory, issued at the highest alert level – level 4 – March 19, was done in coordination with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But don't book a journey abroad too soon: There are still advisories galore for individual countries because of COVID-19. Similarly, the CDC still recommends against nonessential travel.
Before he was supposed to greet President Donald Trump during his visit to Ohio, Gov. Mike DeWine tested positive for the coronavirus. DeWine, 73, took a COVID-19 test as part of the protocol to meet the president. Thankfully, his office says he has no symptoms. DeWine, who plans to quarantine at his home for 14 days, took some of the earliest aggressive action to combat the spread of COVID-19. He was one of the first governors to close bars, restaurants and wineries in March. Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt announced he had the disease several weeks ago.
Gov. Mike DeWine speaks at a press conference about coronavirus on March 11 at the Ohio Statehouse.
NY attorney general sues to shut down NRA, alleging fraud
The leaders of the National Rifle Association were accused Thursday of participating in massive fraud that skimmed at least $64 million from the gun rights group to finance lavish lifestyles, according to a lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James, who seeks to shut down the organization. The civil action, which names longtime NRA chief Wayne LaPierre and three other executives, details an array of alleged wrongdoing that severely weakened the nearly 150-year-old organization. The NRA, which quickly filed a countersuit, cast the move as a politically motivated, "premeditated attack on our organization and the Second Amendment freedoms it fights to defend."
75 years ago, US ushered in the nuclear weapons era
The most powerful weapon to be used against other humans was detonated by the United States in Japan 75 years ago. On Aug. 6, 1945, an American B-29 aircraft named Enola Gay dropped a 9,700-pound uranium bomb nicknamed "Little Boy" over Hiroshima in the closing days of World War II. The death toll was immense: As many as 140,000 people died from the blast. Days later, the U.S. dropped another atomic bomb on Nagasaki, putting Japan on the brink of surrender. The atomic bombings effectively ended WWII, but they have since served as a brutal lesson about the dangers of nuclear warfare.
'War games' predict we're in for a rocky election day
A "war games" exercise on the Trump vs. Biden race looked ahead to the post-election period. Its finding? Brace for a mess. A team of experts role-played the aftermath of the presidential election to get an idea of what could happen after Nov. 3. It wasn't pretty: Each scenario except for a Biden landslide win ended in violent protests and a constitutional crisis. On top of that, the team found a substantial risk of legal battles and a contested outcome. Not to mention: We most likely won't know who wins the election right away: "The winner may not, and we assess likely will not, be known on 'election night' as officials count mail-in ballots," the report said.
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