Good morning. 
Friday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of seventy-seven. Sunrise is 7:02 AM and sunset 6:20 PM, for 11h 17m 50s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 55.3% of its visible disk illuminated.
Today is the one thousand four hundred thirty-first day.
On this day in 1701, the Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook.
Recommended for reading in full —
Bill Chappell reports In Rare Step, Esteemed Medical Journal Urges Voters To Oust Trump:
The Trump administration has “taken a crisis and turned it into a tragedy” in its response to the COVID-19 pandemic, The New England Journal of Medicine says in a scathing editorial that essentially calls on American voters to throw the president out of office.
It is the first time the prestigious medical journal has taken a stance on a U.S. presidential election since it was founded in 1812.
“When it comes to the response to the largest public health crisis of our time, our current political leaders have demonstrated that they are dangerously incompetent,” reads the editorial signed by nearly three dozen of the journal’s editors. “We should not abet them and enable the deaths of thousands more Americans by allowing them to keep their jobs.”
The editors accuse Trump’s government of a massive public health failure — and of worsening the pandemic’s effects by prioritizing politics over sound medical guidance.
The piece, titled “Dying in a Leadership Vacuum” and published Wednesday, does not mention President Trump or his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, by name. But it refers to the Trump administration repeatedly, and its footnotes cite news articles about Trump insisting that coronavirus risks are overblown, pressuring federal scientists, and politicizing the search for treatments.
Chico Harlan and Michael Birnbaum report Nobel Peace Prize goes to World Food Program for efforts to combat hunger:
The World Food Program was awarded the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, a recognition of the critical work by the United Nations agency to battle hunger around the world, especially as the coronavirus pandemic has brought a global spike in poverty.
Announcing the prize in Oslo, Berit Reiss-Andersen, the chairwoman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, said the world was in danger of a food crisis of “inconceivable proportions.”
For decades, the Rome-based World Food Program has played a central role in dealing with people caught in conflict or fleeing for safety. But Reiss-Andersen also emphasized a symbolic aspect of the selection, describing WFP’s work as form of global cooperation that seemed in danger in an era of nationalism and rising mistrust.
“The need for international solidarity and multilateral cooperation is more conspicuous than ever,” Reiss-Andersen said.
Can the coldness of space be used to cool the Earth and combat climate change?: