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Is Boris Johnson taking notes from President Trump?https://trib.al/8pNhpwD 

Colombia has reopened its borders and resumed international flights after closing the border to international visitors for five months. U.S. citizens, despite being unwelcome in some parts of the world, will be allowed to enter.https://trib.al/2ip7B0K 

The family of David McAtee, Kentucky restaurateur who was shot and killed in June by cops and the National Guard during protests, filed a wrongful death lawsuit, just over 48 hours after the man’s nephew was shot and killed in virtually the same spothttps://trib.al/iNLbadQ 

White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow told reporters that the United States had “regained control of the virus,” both in cases and fatalities, even as the death toll nears 200,000https://trib.al/kce000i 

Bill Crews, a public affairs aide at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, plans to retire after The Daily Beast reported on extensive derogatory comments he made towards the agency and its director, Dr. Faucihttps://trib.al/z6QmzKF 

"This could very well be the last free and fair election of our lifetime. Assuming it’s even free and fair," @mollyjongfast warns as America slips deeper into the abysshttps://trib.al/AJxeFUd 

BREAKING: An NYPD officer was arrested by federal authorities who say the cop has been secretly working as an agent of the Chinese government for the past six yearshttps://trib.al/mxOK8IT 

In simpler times, red carpets could be pretty predictable. That’s not how things go anymore. Last night’s #Emmys marked a new era of red carpet dressing for the remote age.https://trib.al/8kFXhb7 

Viktor Orban, the hardline nationalist, anti-LGBT, anti-Muslim prime minister of Hungary, has taken the highly unusual step of endorsing the sitting U.S. president for a 2nd termhttps://trib.al/u5tWUag 

Happy Monday! Get your lunch in the microwave and get into today's #beastxword.https://trib.al/pSJR66K 

Trump successfully bullied ex-Special Counsel Robert Mueller, according to one of Mueller’s senior lawyers on the Russia investigationhttps://trib.al/hZCLoJj 

In case you didn't know, Henry Ford was one of the most prominent anti-Semites of his dayhttps://trib.al/hGISWa5 

"Mental illnesses—both actual and perceived—have long been used to villainize the Other; central to this tactic is the exploitation of myths that people with mental illnesses are inherently dangerous..."https://trib.al/E06BFku 

EXCLUSIVE: “A Notorious COVID Troll Actually Works for Dr. Fauci”https://twitter.com/i/moments/1308085323499536385 …

Crews declined an interview with The Beast and did not respond to a written list of questions. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, where he works, also did not respond. Read more:https://trib.al/JsoGz2l 

In other words, a civil servant paid to promote sound science is undercutting measures to contain the pandemic. He’s contributing to the disinformation campaign that his superiors at the NIH say is hampering the government’s ability to control the virus.https://trib.al/JsoGz2l 

Crews claims the fight against COVID-19 is part of an anti-Trump conspiracy and intimated that those waging it should be executed: “If there were justice...we’d send and [sic] few dozen of these fascists to the gallows...”https://trib.al/JsoGz2l 

Through our research, we determined that the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases public affairs specialist William Crews, is behind a series of shocking posts in which he called Fauci a “mask Nazi” and the COVID response a “fraud.”https://trib.al/JsoGz2l