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MAIN News Archives for July 2020

07/31 -  How much does Trump's threat to delay the election matter?
07/31 -  Thursday night protest targets Asheville City Council, police funding
07/31 -  The year of dark magical thinking: Trump's petty revenge fantasies have killed thousands
07/31 -  How Jared Kushner’s secret testing plan "went poof into thin air"
07/30 -  Buncombe County inmate dies of 'apparent suicide' says Sheriff's Office
07/30 -  Senate GOP rejects pandemic food stamp aid while calling to double “three-martini lunch” deduction
07/30 -  Sinkhole develops in parking lot of Asheville restaurant
07/30 -  Trump suggests delaying election
07/29 -  Cruelty is the point: The NC GOP's war on the poor & unemployed
07/29 -  Buncombe County detainee dies after being found unresponsive
07/29 -  Trump tries "dominating" the streets — but his utter incompetence gets in the way
07/29 -  US officials: Russia behind spread of virus disinformation
07/28 -  NCGA passes Covid-related elections bill with “deceitful” ID provision
07/28 -  Trump changed tune about pandemic as aides said “our people” in red states are getting sick: report
07/28 -  Deputy shot in Haywood County, suspect killed; Asheville Highway closed
07/28 -  Republican senator deletes ad that made Jewish opponent’s nose bigger
07/27 -  Foreign interference in 2020 election is already rampant
07/27 -  Trump's national security adviser tests positive for coronavirus
07/27 -  Rise and fall of a mini-Trump: With Florida a global epicenter, Ron DeSantis can shut up now
07/27 -  Investigation underway after reports of shots fired in West Asheville
07/26 -  Water cannons to the head: police disperse anti-Netanyahu protesters against regulations
07/26 -  North Carolina ranks high when it comes to COVID-19 restrictions, one national study shows
07/26 -  America's national greatness myths are shattering. Can they survive? Should they?
07/26 -  Trump campaign manager says the polls are 'askew'
07/25 -  Study finds right-wingers finds masks 'shameful,' 'sign of weakness'
07/25 -  Trump in 'law and order' campaign to send federal agents to more U.S. cities
07/25 -  One person killed, one person injured in motorcycle crash on Blue Ridge Parkway
07/24 -  Kayleigh McEnany has a baffling explanation for why Trump offered well wishes to Ghislaine Maxwell
07/24 -  Trump cancels RNC in Jacksonville: ‘The timing of the event is not right’
07/24 -  Provider partnerships crucial to NC rural hospitals in NW mountains
07/24 -  Asheville City Schools listens to concerns of staff and parents, changes reopening plans
07/23 -  The first undeniable climate change deaths have occurred
07/23 -  Portland mayor tear gassed after speaking with protesters on presence of federal agents
07/23 -  Convicted murderer one of two arrested in Buncombe County in record-making drug bust
07/23 -  Support for Brexit is collapsing as poll finds big majority of British people want to be in the EU
07/22 -  Scaramucci: I 'absolutely believe' Trump tested multiple times per day
07/22 -  Polls show that the vast majority of white Catholics and evangelicals support Trump over Biden
07/22 -  Asheville mayor warns of layoffs if city doesn't get federal help
07/22 -  Gov. Cooper: "Refusal to wear a mask is selfish"
07/21 -  Zuckerberg slammed speculation that he and Trump have a deal allowing Trump free rein on the platform
07/21 -  Donald Trump's virus-whisperer: The tragic downfall of Dr. Deborah Birx
07/21 -  School districts face concerns from NC teachers over reopening plans
07/21 -  Weaverville man charged after passenger dies in crash
07/20 -  An eviction and foreclosure crisis is looming
07/20 -  NYU professor Scott Galloway predicts hundreds of universities will shutter, possibly for good, if they reopen in the fall
07/20 -  Authorities are searching for a missing swimmer at Lake James
07/20 -  Roger Stone can be tried again
07/20 -  Trump not ready to commit to election results if he loses
07/19 -  Emergency rooms swamped as virus spikes in southern, western states
07/19 -  Top US airlines plan to cut thousands of workers when CARES Act ban on layoffs expires
07/19 -  Portland protesters say federal police in unmarked vans are grabbing protesters off streets
07/19 -  APD investigating drive-by shooting on Tunnel Road
07/18 -  Why the Trump administration is donating ventilators to countries that don’t need them
07/18 -  Man charged with ethnic intimidation after incidents at 2 Asheville Walmart stores
07/18 -  The war on masks is another lost cause for the MAGA crowd
07/18 -  Civil rights legend Rep. John Lewis dead at 80
07/17 -  The economy is going to hit an iceberg in 10 days
07/17 -  Cooper: Some businesses must remain closed so schools can begin to reopen
07/17 -  Georgia Gov. Kemp sues Atlanta's mayor to stop her from requiring masks as COVID-19 cases skyrocket
07/17 -  Asheville hospital sees record number of COVID-19 patients
07/16 -  Suspect arrested after woman severely beaten, tossed into French Broad river last year
07/16 -  Biden leads, but many anticipate secret Trump vote
07/16 -  Warnings of possible cover-up in progress as Trump orders hospitals to stop sending coronavirus data to CDC
07/16 -  OK Gov. Stitt tests positive for COVID-19; recent photo shows him at Walmart without mask on
07/15 -  Cooper: NC schools can reopen with cautions and distancing, or take online approach
07/15 -  In historic move, Asheville approves reparations for Black residents
07/15 -  Jeff Sessions is projected to lose comeback bid for Alabama seat
07/15 -  Woman who yelled racial slurs in viral video dies after being struck by vehicle
07/14 -  Gov. Cooper to announce guidelines for re-opening schools Tuesday
07/14 -  Coronavirus cases soar by more than 1 million over 5 days
07/14 -  Woman in viral hate speech video struck by vehicle; investigation underway
07/14 -  Asheville City Council to vote on reparations
07/13 -  Roger Stone says he'll campaign for Trump
07/13 -  White House takes aim at Fauci as he disagrees with Trump on virus
07/13 -  EDC report shows Buncombe investment slowdown
07/13 -  South Carolina has third-worst COVID-19 outbreak in the world, data suggests
07/12 -  The Biden-Sanders climate-change policy pact: 8 key features
07/12 -  Trump's defiant help for Stone adds to tumult in Washington
07/12 -  Trump considered selling Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria, former acting Homeland Security chief says
07/12 -  Why Arizona is suffering the worst Covid-19 outbreak in the US
07/11 -  'The change we are witnessing right now is historic,' Asheville city councilman says
07/11 -  US coronavirus cases set record for third day in a row
07/11 -  Coronavirus sweeps summer camp, infects 82 campers, counselors and staff in Missouri
07/11 -  President Donald Trump commutes ally Roger Stone’s prison sentence
07/09 -  As Trump falls, the GOP might be on the verge of an internal war
07/09 -  CDC director says agency won't revise school reopening guidelines despite WH push
07/09 -  No injuries reported in tractor-trailer crash on I-240 in Asheville
07/09 -  Tough election math for Trump: his base is shrinking
07/08 -  Gov. Cooper vetoes bill that would have made death records secret
07/08 -  'Several' Yancey County Sheriff's Office employees test positive for COVID-19
07/08 -  'Sickening': Biden defends Duckworth after Trump camp, Tucker Carlson question her patriotism
07/08 -  The strangest and most upsetting details from Mary Trump's book
07/07 -  Trump says US schools must reopen in fall amid pandemic
07/07 -  Bolsonaro tests positive for coronavirus
07/07 -  Search resumes this morning for missing hikers along Blue Ridge Parkway
07/07 -  Susan Collins trails Democratic challenger after approval rating plummets by 31 points under Trump
07/06 -  Transylvania County Register of Deeds closed after employee tests positive for COVID-19
07/06 -  Dominion Energy and Duke Energy cancel the Atlantic Coast Pipeline
07/06 -  Trump has a plan to stay in the White House if he loses election, former senator says
07/06 -  Ghislaine Maxwell reportedly ready to work with FBI and name names
07/05 -  "Regression to the tail:" How to mitigate the coronavirus crisis
07/05 -  FDA commissioner declines to defend Trump's latest coronavirus boasts
07/05 -  UNC-Wilmington professor gets half-million dollar settlement with university
07/05 -  UPDATE: 2 dead, 8 injured in Upstate lounge shooting
07/04 -  NC coronavirus cases top 2000 per day for first time
07/04 -  Trump tries to drag America backward on a very different July 4th
07/04 -  Kimberly Guilfoyle, Trump Jr.’s girlfriend and top campaign official, tests positive for COVID-19
07/04 -  Bystander rescues mother, child after they capsize in Tuckasegee River
07/02 -  Oklahoma votes for Medicaid expansion over objection of Republican state leaders
07/02 -  US coronavirus cases rise by nearly 50,000 in biggest one-day spike of pandemic
07/02 -  Is this the moment that Facebook caves?
07/02 -  CDC says US has 'way too much virus' to control pandemic as cases surge across country