As the general election campaign begins, former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden hit the trail, slamming President Donald Trump for allegedly instigating violence in several U.S. cities. The Democratic nominee said the Republican failed to stem the coronavirus pandemic, inflamed racial tensions and crashed the economy. Biden’s speech, from a former Pittsburgh steel mill, comes after a week in which two protesters against police violence were killed in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and a member of a far-right group was killed in Portland, Oregon. Biden also condemned rioting and looting that followed some protests in Kenosha after police there shot an unarmed Black man seven times in the back. Trump “long ago forfeited any moral leadership in this country,” Biden said. “He can’t stop the violence—because for years he has fomented it.” Trump is planning a trip to Kenosha this week. —David E. Rovella

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Warren Buffett, with more than $146 billion of cash on hand, has been struggling to find attractively priced assets in the U.S. Now, he’s looking abroad.

The world’s largest asset managers are rejecting a Trump administration plan to make it harder to invest your 401(k) in green companies. And despite increasingly cheaper renewable energy, a new study shows the majority of power companies continue to prioritize burning fossil fuels or simply maintaining the status quo.

The record-setting advance in U.S. stocks, seen by some as disconnected from economic reality, is fueling readings of investor bliss. Citigroup’s panic/euphoria model, which tracks metrics from options trading to short sales and newsletter bullishness, is having its longest run of extreme optimism since the dot-com era. 

America’s real-estate meccas aren’t what they used to be. The pandemic has people flocking to Vermont, Idaho, Oregon and South Carolina. Meanwhile, folks have been leaving New York and New Jersey, both of which suffered grievous loss of life earlier this year. Those residents moved to Florida, Texas and other Sunbelt states between March and July, states which have since become the focus of the outbreak in America. U.S. coronavirus cases just topped 6 million. And while America continues to lead the world when it comes to infections and deaths, India is fast becoming the new global epicenter. Here is the latest on the pandemic.

The world is hurtling toward an unprecedented hunger crisis. As many as 132 million more people than previously projected could go hungry in 2020. The pandemic is upending food supply chains, crippling economies and eroding consumer purchasing power. Some projections show that by the end of the year, Covid-19 will cause more people to die each day from hunger than from virus infections.

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy promised to submit information to Congress about his cuts to U.S. Postal Service capacity in the run up to the Nov. 3 election, which will likely witness millions of mail-in ballots. But DeJoy, a Trump megadonor and the subject of multiple investigations and lawsuits for allegedly seeking to suppress voting, has not complied and may face a subpoena. 

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• Elon Musk is now richer than Mark Zuckerberg.
• Indian and Chinese troops clash again at the Himalayan border.
• New Jersey governor mulls new tax on high-volume traders.
• Amazon just got clearance to start flying a drone airline.
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Why The Fight Over Statues Will Never End

For many around the world and especially in America, removing statues that honor historical figures has become a flashpoint in the reckoning over racial injustice. Many view these aesthetic representations of men like Robert E. Lee or Christopher Columbus as honoring a racist traitor and a mass-murderer, while some see them as reminders of tradition or national pride. The practice of destroying symbols of bygone eras, called “iconoclasm,” can be traced back to the ancient Egyptians. The fight over today’s statues, in other words, is as old as history itself. 

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