Good morning. 
Tuesday in Whitewater will be partly cloudy with a high of eighty-four. Sunrise is 5:15 AM and sunset 8:35 PM, for 15h 20m 00s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 21.1% of its visible disk illuminated.
Today is the one thousand three hundred sixteenth day.
Whitewater’s Common Council meets at 6:30 PM via audiovisual conferencing.
On this day in 1858, Lincoln delivers his House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois.
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Paul Farhi and Elahe Izadi report Top Voice of America editors resign amid strife with White House, arrival of new Trump-appointed director:
The top two editors at Voice of America resigned Monday amid White House criticism of the government-funded but editorially independent news agency and as a new overseer loyal to President Trump was about to take office.
It wasn’t immediately clear why VOA Director Amanda Bennett and Deputy Director Sandy Sugawara submitted their resignations. In a memo to staff on Monday, they jointly wrote, “It is time for us to leave,” but cited no specific reason other than the arrival of Michael Pack, a Trump appointee who will head the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees VOA. Pack is an ally of Stephen K. Bannon, Trump’s former chief strategist.
They added, “As the Senate-confirmed C.E.O., he has the right to replace us with his own VOA leadership.”
Their departure comes amid concerns within the agency that the Trump administration is seeking to exert greater control over what and how VOA reports.
Michael O’Hanlon writes Why cutting American forces in Germany will harm this alliance:
The 35,000 American troops in Germany would be reduced by 10,000, as some would come home and some would possibly head to Poland. While there is nothing wrong with increasing the modest United States military presence in Poland, this must not be at the expense of a strong foothold in Germany, where American forces stood in the hundreds of thousands amid the Cold War and have been reduced in the last few decades.
American forces in Germany are mostly Army and Air Force units. They include an armored brigade and a fighter wing, then logistics, supports, and headquarters capabilities that facilitate any massive reinforcements that could be needed to defend the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in war. If there were a crisis in the Baltic region, the United States would be unlikely to send most of its forces directly to Estonia, Latvia, or Lithuania. These small exposed countries have only a few major ports and airfields between them, and are all dangerously close to Russian firepower.
Sarah Owermohle reports FDA ends emergency use of hydroxychloroquine for coronavirus:
The Food and Drug Administration on Monday withdrew emergency use authorizations for two coronavirus treatments that President Donald Trump promoted despite concerns about their safety and effectiveness.
The agency revoked the authorizations for hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine after a request from Gary Disbrow, acting director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority.
After reviewing new information from large clinical trials the agency now believes that the suggested dosing regimens “are unlikely to produce an antiviral effect,” FDA chief scientist Denise Hinton said in a letter announcing the decision.
Critics have accused the agency of caving to political pressure when it authorized use of hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine in hospitalized Covid-19 patients in late March despite thin evidence.
Kathy Sullivan, the First Person to Walk in Space and Reach Ocean’s Deepest Point: