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MenuSee More Speed ReadsFormer Vice President Joe Biden is still looking good in key swing states across the country.In May, a from a British consulting firm Redfield &amp; Wilton Strategies put Biden ahead of President Trump in six states Trump won in 2016: Arizona, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. shows Biden still has a lead in all of those states, and even widened it in three of them.While Biden had 4 percent lead over Trump in Arizona, a 2 point lead in Florida, and an 8 point lead in Michigan , he has an 8, 7, and 12 percent lead, respectively, in those states as of July. Biden maintained his 10-point lead in Wisconsin over the past two months. Meanwhile Biden lost traction in North Carolina, where he had a 45-43 lead over Trump in May but has a 43-42 lead as of July, and Pennsylvania, where his margin fell from 48-39 to 48-41.Redfield &amp; Wilton surveyed anywhere from 742 to 1,121 registered voters in each of the states, with larger populations corresponding to larger sample sizes. The polls were conducted from July 19-24.After reviewing the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell announced on Thursday that he will not file any charges of murder or manslaughter against Darren Wilson, the former police officer who fatally shot Brown.Bell took office in January 2019, and said he decided to reexamine the case after requests from the Brown family and community. Brown, an 18-year-old Black man, was shot by Wilson, who is white, following a scuffle. The incident sparked days of protests and unrest in Ferguson. A grand jury later declined to indict Wilson, who claimed he shot Brown in self-defense."The question for this office was a simple one: Could we prove beyond a reasonable doubt that when Darren Wilson shot Michael Brown he committed murder or manslaughter under Missouri law?" Bell said. "After an independent and in-depth review of the evidence, we cannot prove that he did." Still, he added, "our investigation does not exonerate Darren Wilson."Bell's office spent five months reviewing forensic reports, witness statements, and other pieces of evidence, and because there is no statute of limitations on filing murder charges and Wilson was never charged and tried, double jeopardy was not an issue,President Trump on Thursday evening claimed that if more people are able to vote by mail, it could take "years" to find out the winner of the 2020 presidential election.On Thursday morning, Trump of postponing the election rather than letting more people vote by mail amid the pandemic. Under the Constitution, Congress has the power to set the date for voting, and Trump's idea was quickly including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).During a press conference later in the day, Trump tried to create doubt over how states will distribute mail-in ballots. "You're sending out hundreds of millions of universal mail-in ballots, hundreds of millions," he said. "Where are they going, who are they being sent to? It's common sense."Trump, said he wants to know the results on election night and have newscasters "say the projected winner or the winner of the election. I don't want to see that take place in a week after Nov. 3, or a month, or frankly, with litigation and everything else that could happen, years, or you never even know who won the election."Pretty much every business suffered in 2020's second financial quarter. Well, except Facebook.The COVID-19 pandemic had a on the U.S. GDP, pushing it down 9.5 percent from the first quarter and 32.9 percent from the year before. But Facebook's revenue still grew 11 percent from Q1 to Q2, beating economists' expectations, .Facebook's 11 percent revenue growth is the smallest quarterly growth it has seen since it became a public company. Previously, its first quarter growth of 18 percent was its smallest. But on average, analysts only expected Facebook's revenue to grow to $17.3 billion in Q2, making its $18.6 billion reality a win, . Facebook's profit growth of $5.18 billion also meant shareholders made out well with a $1.80 gain per share, beating estimates of $1.39.The growth came even though Facebook started facing a in July. Coca-Cola, Starbucks, Unilever, and other huge companies stopped buying ads on Facebook and other social media sites over their failure to appropriately combat hate speech on their platforms.Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared before Congress on Wednesday for an anti-trust hearing, where he faced questions about how the company's digital ad model contributed to the decline of local news, and also , for some reason.A few lucky artists are about to put everyone else's quarantine productivity to shame by winning an MTV Video Music Award entirely from home.MTV on Thursday for this year's Video Music Awards, which will still be held next month amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Clearly, though, the show will be taking place in quite an unusual year, as evident by the nominations themselves. MTV this time around of best quarantine performance and best music video from home.The first (and hopefully last) ever nominees in the former category are Chloe &amp; Halle, CNCO, DJ D-Nice, John Legend, Lady Gaga, and Post Malone, while in the latter category, the nominees are 5 Seconds of Summer for "Wildflower," Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber for "Stuck with U," blink-182 for "Happy Days," Drake for "Toosie Slide," John Legend for "Bigger Love," and twenty one pilots for "Level of Concern," .Gaga and Grande lead the nominations with nine each, while Billie Eilish and The Weeknd both picked up six nominations and Taylor Swift got five, . Check out the .The 2020 MTV Video Music Awards are set to take place at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, as New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) , although there will be either a limited or no audience, and it will feature "performances from various iconic locations throughout Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, The Bronx, and Staten Island," . The show is set for Aug. 30.Former President Barack Obama is getting behind the end of the filibuster.Obama delved into politics during his eulogy for the late Rep. John Lewis on Thursday, calling on lawmakers to expand voting rights as a way of honoring the civil rights icon."You want to honor John?" Obama said. "Let's honor him by revitalizing the law that he was willing to die for."Obama specifically called for ensuring "every American is automatically registered to vote, including former inmates," adding polling places, expanding early voting, making Election Day a national holiday, ending partisan gerrymandering, and guaranteeing "equal representation in our government" to citizens of Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico. And he backed the idea of eliminating the Senate filibuster if it's necessary to accomplish these goals."If all this takes eliminating the filibuster, another Jim Crow relic, in order to secure the God given rights of every American, then that's what we should do," Obama said.During his eulogy, Obama also blasted "our federal government" for "sending agents to use tear-gas and batons against peaceful demonstrators" and slammed "those in power" who are trying to "discourage people from voting" and "even undermining the Postal Service."In John Lewis eulogy, Obama calls for making Election Day a federal holiday, giving equal representation to citizens in Washington, D.C. &amp; Puerto Rico, ending partisan gerrymandering, and eliminating the filibuster if it interferes with Americans' rights— CBS News (@CBSNews)President Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen will have a lot more freedom as he remains on house arrest.Cohen, serving a three-year sentence, was from prison to house arrest in May due to coronavirus concerns, but was in early July. He has since been released again, and scored another win Thursday when the U.S. government to block him from publishing a tell-all book about Trump.Cohen was sent back to prison in early July after he was spotted dining out during the COVID-19 pandemic, with the government saying he had violated the terms of his release. Cohen then , contending the government was retaliating against him for writing a book about Trump to be released before Election Day. U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein ruled in Cohen's favor last week and ordered him to return to home confinement.Still, a condition in Cohen's home confinement agreement barred him from using social media, talking to the media, appearing on TV, and publishing his book. The Justice Department and Bureau of Prisons decided to drop that provision in a Thursday filing, saying "a specific provision" regarding Cohen’s “contact with the media is not necessary." The government will no longer question Hellerstein's release ruling, it also said.Cohen pleaded guilty to charges of tax fraud, campaign finance violations, and lying to Congress in 2018, all in connection to hush money payments made to women who alleged affairs with Trump.Herman Cain, the former pizza mogul and brief frontrunner in the 2012 Republican presidential primary, . It is not known for sure where he contracted the virus, but he came down with symptoms after attending President Trump's campaign rally in Tulsa on June 20, and posted a picture online of himself there in a group of people without masks.Here’s just a few of the at tonight’s rally! Having a fantastic time!— Herman Cain (@THEHermanCain)In other news, Bill Montgomery, the 80-year-old co-founder of the conservative student group Turning Point USA, has also . It has not been reported where he might have come down with the virus, but the other founder of TPUSA, Charlie Kirk, has about the pandemic in general and masks in particular. , he stated he refuses to wear a mask, and suggested that doing so might make you sicker. The official TPUSA Twitter account mocking mask-wearing after Montgomery's death.The whole conservative movement has been trying to this pandemic from the start. The resulting collateral damage now includes several prominent figures in their own ranks. But even that might not be enough to convince them to shift direction — 66-year-old Rep. Louis Gohmert (R-Tex.) recently tested positive, but he that it might have been from wearing a mask.2020 The Week Publications Inc., All rights reserved.

MenuSee More Speed ReadsFormer Vice President Joe Biden is still looking good in key swing states across the country.In May, a from a British consulting firm Redfield &amp; Wilton Strategies put Biden ahead of President Trump in six states Trump won in 2016: Arizona, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. shows Biden still has a lead in all of those states, and even widened it in three of them.While Biden had 4 percent lead over Trump in Arizona, a 2 point lead in Florida, and an 8 point lead in Michigan , he has an 8, 7, and 12 percent lead, respectively, in those...

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