Good morning. 
Saturday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of forty-three. Sunrise is 7:20 AM and sunset 5:56 PM, for 10h 36m 10s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 59.7% of its visible disk illuminated.
Today is the one thousand four hundred forty-sixth day.
On this day in 1590, John White, the governor of the second Roanoke Colony, returns to England after an unsuccessful search for the ‘lost’ colonists.
Recommended for reading in full —
Mary Spicuzza and Molly Beck report Wisconsin Republicans have been facing an outbreak among lawmakers and aides. But they don’t want to talk about it:
Wisconsin Republican lawmakers and top GOP aides have been facing a coronavirus outbreak in recent weeks following a series of in-person events, including a retirement party for a longtime Capitol staffer, a dozen sources told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
But Republican leaders would not disclose how many or which lawmakers have contracted COVID-19, nor would they answer questions about contact tracing efforts — including whether anyone worked at the state Capitol after they were exposed to the virus.
Those affected by the COVID-19 outbreak include Jenny Toftness, chief of staff for Speaker Robin Vos, who got sick after attending the retirement party in September.
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It’s unclear whether those who were infected notified any Capitol authorities, who could alert others who work in the statehouse.
“We are not aware of any reports from either legislators or legislative staff,” Britt Cudaback, spokeswoman for Gov. Tony Evers, said in an email in response to questions about COVID-19 policies of the Department of Administration, which oversees the Capitol.
Roger Sollenberger reports Trump Organization renewed the TrumpTowerMoscow.com domain name — this year:
The Trump Organization reregistered the domain name TrumpTowerMoscow.com this June, internet records show, suggesting that contrary to President Trump’s claims, the company has not necessarily abandoned its pursuit of the lucrative real estate deal that figured prominently in multiple investigations into his connections with Russia.
The Trump Organization has re-upped the domain every year of his presidency. This year it renewed its ownership on June 9, under a company called DTTM Operations, which Trump’s financial disclosures show manages more than 100 company trademarks. DTTM Operations appears now to have registered a total of more than 3,000 domains, according to a whois search, including renewals for TrumpRussia.com, TrumpTowerLondon.com and DonaldTrumpSucks.com — 2,000 more than reported in 2017.
The domain was first reported in early July 2017, about two months before the Washington Post’s bombshell report that during the 2016 presidential campaign, the Trump Organization had tried to strike a deal with Russian developers to build the luxury hotel and condo tower. A series of BuzzFeed News reports starting the next year illustrated the significant progress the project had made and the extent of Donald Trump’s involvement.
Initially envisioned as the tallest building in Europe, Trump Tower Moscow was spearheaded on the Trump side by Sater and former Trump attorney Michael Cohen, and included the personal involvement of Ivanka Trump. But even with a Russian developer on board, the project needed the blessing of government officials to get off the ground, a responsibility that fell to Cohen.
At one point the company proposed awarding Russian President Vladimir Putin the $50 million penthouse suite for free, a quid pro quo for the green light to break ground, and which had Trump’s approval.
(While most domain renewals are routine, a renewal of this domain is extraordinary – it shows the Trump Organization is willing to persist in visible conflicts of interest even after widespread ethical criticism. Shameless, truly.)
SpaceX Starship SN8 gets its nose cone:
SpaceX attached the nose cone to the Starship SN8 prototype at their Boca Chica, Texas facility on Oct. 22, 2020. They are prepping the rocket for an uncrewed 9 mile (15 km) hop.