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* Olympia breaks heat record with 99 on Sunday,
* Millions of Americans still furloughed, unsure when they will return to work,
* Trump considers granting pardon to whistleblower Edward Snowden!

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Yelm’s Kaysen Bravo, 10, Zaylee Bravo, 12, and Kayleigh Nielsen, 18, place an order in Long Beach, CA. McDonald’s. Credit: Chinook Observer

LOCAL, COUNTY, STATE AND NATIONAL NEWS

+ Olympia (99), Sea-Tac (98) and many cities broke heat records for August 16, 2020.

+ Sidewalk Improvements Turn Yelm Neighborhoods into Walkable Communities

+ Loss of football, fall sports could cost Huskies ‘up to $70 million.’ Here’s how to help

+ Record Arctic blazes may herald new ‘fire regime’ decades sooner than anticipated

+ The Olympian editorial board: Schools struggle to find ways to educate kids when COVID-19 leaves no good choices

** CORONAVIRUS NEWS **

Fixing the Covid Food Disaster Can Slash Climate Emissions

Romney slams Trump administration over U.S. coronavirus death toll — ‘There’s no way to spin that’

Jared Kushner says some people ‘play politics with the pandemic’ but not Trump

Pandemic denial: Why some people can’t accept Covid-19’s realities

‘It’s nerve-racking’ — Millions of Americans are still furloughed and unsure when they will return to work

A flood of job losses looms as airline industry struggles in pandemic

** TRUMP’S PRESIDENCY **

Trump says he will look ‘very strongly’ at granting pardon to whistleblower Edward Snowden

Newsweek apologizes for op-ed questioning Harris eligibility

Four ways to get around Trump’s attempts to sabotage the election

Newsweek apologizes for op-ed questioning Harris eligibility

The media was far less likely to let birtherism attacks slide this time

Trump’s decision to block coronavirus aid to hard-hit states will cost 4 million jobs: analysis

Trump Admin Defining the Word ‘Habitat’ in Sneaky New Effort to Trash Endangered Species Act

TeleTracking Technologies, Firm Running [Trump Admin’s.] Coronavirus Database, Refuses to Answer Senators’ Questions [Ed. note: Is this a surprise? What else does Trump want hidden?]

Two sites that amplify hoaxes given special treatment at Trump’s briefings despite restrictions [Representatives of the Gateway Pundit and Epoch Times join conservative cable network One America News (OAN) at Trump’s Press Briefings.]

Senate panel told Justice Dept. of suspicions over Trump family members’ Russia testimony

The GOP and QAnon, By Frank Figliuzzi, former FBI assistant director for counterintelligence and NBC News/MSNBC analyst

The rise of QAnon: ‘Within a couple clicks, people go down these very bad paths’

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