https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/uncomfortable-data-biden-slams-trumps-covid-response-33-deaths-are

As Democrats and their presidential nominee Joe Biden gear up to attack the president's response to COVID-19, they must grapple with a harsh reality: a third of all U.S. coronavirus deaths occurred in just three states controlled exclusively by Democrats.

Biden has sharply criticized Trump's handling of the pandemic since the first case was confirmed in the U.S. in late January. The Democratic presidential candidate claimed last week that Trump has allowed the disease to ravage the country and kill more than 170,000 citizens.

Biden's assessment is only partly factual. The U.S. has indeed recorded the highest total number of COVID-19 deaths in the world, but adjusted for population the nation falls to number 10, behind numerous countries in Europe and South America, including the United Kingdsom and Spain.

Perhaps more notably, more than a third of the American deaths Biden cited have occurred in the Democrat-run states of New York, New Jersey and California

According to the data-gathering website Worldometers, 33% of deaths in the U.S.—just under 61,000—come from three Democratic states: New York, New Jersey and California. All three are headed by Democratic governors, and the statehouses of all three are controlled entirely by Democratic politicians.

https://www.newsmax.com/us/testing-cases-johns-hopkins/2020/08/24/id/983662/

The number of new coronavirus cases in the U.S. has decreased to the lowest level in more than two months, The Wall Street Journal reports.

According to data by Johns Hopkins University, the U.S. logged 34,567 new cases on Sunday. That marked the ninth straight day with fewer than 50,000 new cases in the country, according to the Journal.

The lowest number of cases reported prior to Sunday was back on June 22 when the country had 30,536 new cases. The number of new cases reported Sunday was also less than the 44,572 cases reported on Saturday.

https://www.ntd.com/police-three-officers-shot-in-maryland-were-ambushed_499026.html

Three Maryland police officers were “ambushed” and shot while responding to a 911 call on Sunday, officials said.

Prince George’s County police were responding to a report of a home invasion in Hyattsville at 6:30 p.m., said Interim Police Chief Hector Velez.

“Within minutes they arrived at the scene, and within seconds they came under gunfire,” Velez told reporters. “They were ambushed.”

Two men were taken into custody after officers returned fire, Velez said. The three injured police officers are expected to recover.

At 6:35 pm Sunday, we responded to a call in the 1300 block of Capital View Terrace. 3 of our officers who arrived in the area were shot. They were rushed for treatment. We returned fire. 2 males are in custody. They were not struck. We will update soon.

Authorities told The Associated Press that two of the three officers shot were “saved” by their bulletproof vests. One was struck in the chest and the other was hit in the back, while another was shot in the foot.

PANIC !!! Bring in the Jews

https://www.jta.org/quick-reads/5-progressive-jewish-groups-join-new-initiative-to-defeat-trump-and-far-right-extremism

JTA) — Calling for a “united front against (President Donald) Trump and far-right extremism,” eight leading racial justice organizations and five progressive Jewish groups have teamed for a new initiative against racism and anti-Semitism.

“Far-right extremists in government, media, law enforcement, business, and militia groups have spent the past four years escalating the violence and harm they enact on our communities,” according to a statement on the homepage of the United Against Hate website. “They have murdered Jews, Muslims, Black folks, Latinx people. They have tried to ban us, deport us, cage us, blame us for the inequality and injustice they profit from, scapegoat.”

United Against Hate, which launched publicly on Friday, is in coordination with the IfNotNow movement’s new campaign, Jews Fighting for Our Future, a Jewish youth campaign “to defeat the right in November,” according to its homepage.

The organizations involved in the new initiative include Dream Defenders, the Movement for Black Lives, Mijente, MPower Change, United We Dream, Emgage, the Arab American Institute, and People’s Collective for Justice and Liberation, in partnership with IfNotNow, The Jewish Vote, Bend the Arc: Jewish Action, Never Again Action and JVP Action.

“We all see that the same extremists and white nationalists who hurt communities of color also hurt Jews — and we know that our communities aren’t mutually exclusive,” said Rachel Gilmer, co-director of Dream Defenders. “We all have to pick a side, and Dream Defenders is proud to make it clear where we stand: with Black people, with immigrants, with Palestinians, with Muslims, with Jews, with everyone fighting back against white supremacy.”

Linda Sarsour, who has been embroiled in multiple controversies over her activism related to Israel, including statements seen as crossing the line into anti-Semitism, is executive director of one of the groups in the coalition, MPower Change. Joe Biden has disavowed Sarsour, a backer of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel, as are some of the groups in the United Against Hate initiative.

On Tuesday, the new coalition will hold a virtual panel discussion on anti-Semitism and racism.