Good morning. 
Sunday in Whitewater will be rainy with a high of seventy-nine. Sunrise is 6:26 AM and sunset 7:18 PM, for 12h 52m 31s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 83.9% of its visible disk illuminated.
Today is the one thousand three hundred ninety-eighth day.
On this day in 1803, British scientist John Dalton begins using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements.
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Holmes Lybrand, Tara Subramaniam, and Kevin Liptak report In denying disrespect of soldiers, Trump cites call to Melania. There’s just one problem:
President Donald Trump has vehemently denied reports that he skipped a 2018 visit to a World War I memorial in France because he was concerned about his hair and considered the cemetery “filled with losers,” as the Atlantic first reported.
Trump told reporters Thursday that he “called home” to Melania Trump at the time and told her how upset he was about not being able to visit the cemetery. At the time, the White House said he had to cancel the visit because of bad weather.
Trump said: “I called home, I spoke to my wife and I said, ‘I hate this. I came here to go to that ceremony.’ And to the one that was the following day, which I did go to. I said I feel terribly. And that was the end of it.”
But Melania Trump was not at “home” — she was on the trip with the president and was also scheduled to visit the cemetery.
A readout from the first lady’s office at the time said, “Due to inclement weather, the First Lady and President were unable to visit the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery and Memorial in Belleau, France.”
That evening, Trump and Melania went to a dinner hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron.
Shane Harris and Ellen Nakashima report Russia is working to undermine confidence in voting by mail, DHS warns:
Russia is seeking “to undermine public trust in the electoral process” by spreading false claims that mail-in ballots are riddled with fraud and susceptible to manipulation, according to a new intelligence bulletin by the Department of Homeland Security.
Many of the claims made by Russian sources are identical to repeated, unsupported public statements aired by President Trump and Attorney General William P. Barr, who have said that mailed ballots aren’t trustworthy while warning of the potential for rampant fraud in November’s elections.
Homeland Security’s intelligence office has assessed that Russian actors “are likely to promote allegations of corruption, system failure, and foreign malign interference to sow distrust in Democratic institutions and election outcomes,” the bulletin states. Russia spreads these claims through a network of state-controlled media, proxy websites and social media trolls, it adds.
(Attorney General William Barr: translator of Russian propaganda into Trump talking points.)
Jacob Gursky and Samuel Woolley report How hate and misinformation go viral: A case study of a Trump retweet:
On Sunday night, President Donald Trump retweeted a video of a violent incident on a New York City subway platform. The video shows a Black man pushing a white woman into a train car and is captioned “Black Lives Matter / Antifa.” The problem? It is over a year old and has nothing to do with either Black Lives Matter or Antifa. It, in fact, shows the actions of a mentally ill man with no known ties to either group.