Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.
Good evening. Here’s the latest.1. The reckoning over racial justice continues to ripple across the country. Thousands gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington for a protest aiming to recall the 1963 March on Washington and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Attendees were screened for fevers, and masks and hand-sanitizing stations were ubiquitous. The N. B. A. and its players’ union announced a plan to use arenas as election polling places as part of a deal to resume the playoffs on Saturday, two days after players staged a dramatic work stoppage in response to the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wis. Mr. Blake, a Black man who was shot by a white police officer last weekend, had been shackled to his hospital bed because of a warrant against him for criminal charges from July, the Kenosha police said on Friday. Mr. Blake’s lawyer said he would no longer be shackled in his bed after reaching an agreement with the Kenosha district attorney 2. Two public relations advisers at the Food and Drug Administration were removed after President Trump and the head of the agency exaggerated the proven benefits of a blood plasma treatment for Covid-19. Mr. Trump and Dr. Stephen Hahn had falsely said that the blood treatment sharply lowered mortality rates. One of the consultants had advised Dr. Hahn to correct his assessment. Scientists were taken aback by the way the administration had framed its data. Above, a plasma donor in Seattle in April. Clusters of infection have emerged across the U. S. Some drew more public attention than others. The Times collected data on more than 500,000 cases of the coronavirus and told the story of some of these lesser-known clusters — month by month.3. India’s coronavirus outbreak is now the fastest-growing in the world, reporting more than 75,000 new infections per day. Crowded cities, lockdown fatigue and a lack of contact tracing have spread the virus to every corner of the sprawling country, home to 1.3 billion people. Health experts say the virus reproduction rate is ticking up as more state governments, desperate to stimulate an ailing economy, are loosening lockdown restrictions. Above, a testing center in Jammu. In other international developments: 4. An extensive fact check of President Trump shows that he is distorting both Joe Biden’s record and his own ahead of the election. For four days, the Republican National Convention constructed a false image of an America beyond the pandemic, one where Mr.
