Good morning. 
Tuesday in Whitewater will see mostly cloudy skies, scattered showers, and a high of seventy-six. Sunrise is 6:21 AM and sunset 7:27 PM, for 13h 06m 36s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 99.4% of its visible disk illuminated.
Today is the one thousand three hundred ninety-third day.
Whitewater’s Common Council meets tonight via audiovisual conferencing at 6:30 PM.
On this day in 1939, Nazi Germany and Slovakia invade Poland, beginning the European phase of World War II.
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Dana Milbank writes Cornered, Trump tries to foment a race war:
Trump botched the coronavirus pandemic, bungled the economic recovery and flubbed the handling of civil rights demonstrations. Members of his own family denounce him.
He faces a seemingly insurmountable deficit against challenger Joe Biden.
And so the president is trying to provoke a race war on the streets of America.
“We’ve arrived at a moment in this campaign,” Biden said during a visit to a rehabilitated Pittsburgh steel mill Monday, that “we all knew . . . we’d get to — the moment when Donald Trump would be so desperate, he’d do anything to hold on to power.”
After violence claimed lives on both sides of the divide between racial-justice demonstrators and Trump supporters in recent days, Biden said Trump “fans the flames” of violence. “He can’t stop the violence because, for years, he’s fomented it.”
Biden quoted from departing Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway’s acknowledgment that “the more chaos and anarchy and vandalism and violence reigns, the better it is” for the president. Said Biden: “He’s rooting for chaos and violence.”
Dan Friedman reports Disgraced Republican Financier Accused of Secretly Lobbying for China:
On May 25, 2017, Elliott Broidy texted Rick Gates with a message for Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Broidy, a top fundraiser for Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee, said that China would be willing to increase its cooperation with US law enforcement if the Justice Department deported Guo Wengui, a wealthy Chinese dissident living in New York.
“Mine is legitimate back channel,” Broidy wrote to Gates, a former top Trump campaign aide who Broidy had hired as a consultant. Broidy did not mention that he was in the process of receiving millions of dollars from a shady Malaysian businessman who had sought his help convincing the US government to extradite Guo.
These details were included in an extraordinary August 17 court filing alleging that a cadre of Republican power brokers and fundraisers tried to persuade the Trump administration to hand over Guo to China. In the filing, federal prosecutors say that Broidy broke a law requiring people acting in the United States as agents for foreign principals to register with the Justice Department.
Ryan McCarthy and Jack Gillum report Hundreds of Thousands of Nursing Home Residents May Not Be Able to Vote in November Because of the Pandemic:
This year, what stumped [Walter] Hutchins, despite all his resourcefulness, was how he was going to exercise his basic constitutional right to vote during a pandemic. The Davis Community nursing home in Wilmington, North Carolina, where Hutchins has lived for two years, has barred visitors since March. Margaret, still in the retirement community nearby, can’t help him, nor can their four kids and eight grandchildren.
Neither can the nursing home staff. A 2013 state law prohibits staff at hospitals, clinics, nursing homes and rest homes from helping residents with their ballots. Some North Carolina counties, including New Hanover, where Wilmington is located, send teams into nursing homes to assist voters or bring them to polling places, but the threat of the coronavirus has limited that service as well.