Tuesday News Executive Summary

Above the Fold

Political theater: Congressional Democrats kneel as they unveil Justice in Policing Act to rein in cops (The Daily Wire)
Economy entered recession in February, the National Bureau of Economic Research says, concluding a historic 128 consecutive months of growth (Washington Examiner)

Government & Politics

Joe Biden rejects calls to defund police departments, plans increased investment in “community policing” (National Review)
CBS deceptively edits William Barr interview, leaving out key details on violent riots and police oversight (The Federalist)
Fox News apologizes for preposterously showing graphic of stock-market gains following the deaths of black men (Time)
Aide says the New York Times’s claim that former President George W. Bush won’t support Trump is “completely made up” (The American Spectator)

The Latest on COVID-19

Asymptomatic spread of coronavirus is “very rare,” the ever-shifting World Health Organization says (CNBC)
The WHO just gave us another great reason to end the lockdowns right now (PJ Media)
Coronavirus may have been in China in early fall, satellite data suggests (ABC News)

Business & Economy

China May exports slip back into contraction, imports worst in four years (CNBC)
Pandemic accelerated decline in church funding and membership (Washington Examiner)
Why GDP metrics won’t tell us much about the post-COVID recovery (Mises Institute)

Culture & Heartland

Illiterate rioters deface monument honoring all-black regiment of Union Civil War soldiers (Disrn)
Virginia judge halts Governor Ralph Northam’s decision to remove Robert E. Lee statue (National Review)
Eighteen murders in 24 hours: Inside the most violent day in 60 years in Chicago, where the outrage mob wants to defund the police (Chicago Sun Times)
“It isn’t hate to speak the truth”: J.K. Rowling defies political correctness by criticizing “people who menstruate” orthodoxy (The Daily Signal)

Other Notables

If you want to know what disbanding the police looks like, look at Mexico (The Federalist)
Iran says it will execute man who allegedly provided U.S. with information on Qassem Soleimani (Fox News)

Closing Arguments

Policy: There are no good narratives on race (National Review)
Policy: Joe Biden’s bad foreign-policy ideas (American Enterprise Institute)
Humor: Utopia breaks out in Minneapolis after police replaced with Chick-fil-A workers (The Babylon Bee)

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