NEWS OF THE DAY
From Across the Nation
1 Biden fundraising: Democratic presidential challenger Joe Biden outpaced President Trump’s campaign fundraising juggernaut in June and in the second quarter of this election year, continuing a stunning reversal of fortune from his threadbare primary campaign. The GOP still has considerably more cash to spend ahead of the Nov. 3 election, but Biden’s fundraising muscle suggests Democrats will have the resources to finance a strong operation across battleground states. Biden and the Democratic National Committee raised $141 million in June, bringing their secondquarter total to more than $282 million.
2 Whipping post: An 8foottall whipping post was removed from a Delaware county courthouse square this week after activists said the post was a reminder of racial discrimination. The post outside the Sussex County Courthouse in Georgetown was removed after an hour and a half of excavation and put in a storage unit with other historical artifacts, news outlets reported. The Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs said the post was used to bind and whip people publicly for committing crimes up until 1952.
3 Restraint death: Three former Michigan youth center staff members charged in the death of a Black teenager who was restrained after throwing a sandwich have been arraigned. Michael Mosley of Battle Creek and Heather McLogan of Kalamazoo turned themselves in Wednesday and appeared in Kalamazoo County District Court on involuntary manslaughter and seconddegree child abuse charges. A third former employee of Lakeside Academy in Kalamazoo, Zachary Solis of Lansing, was arraigned Tuesday after turning himself in. They were charged in the May 1 death of 16yearold Cornelius Fredericks. A doctor who performed the autopsy said Fredericks had been restrained on the ground, resulting in asphyxia.
4 Statue removed: Work crews have removed a second Confederate statue in Richmond, a monument to Navy officer and scientist Matthew Fontaine Maury. A crowd cheered Thursday morning as a crane pulled a statue of Maury from its base, a day after crews removed a statue of Gen. Stonewall Jackson on an order from Mayor Levar Stoney to remove all Confederate statues on city land. The Maury statue, unveiled in 1929, depicts Maury seated in a chair with a large globe above him. It was the last of five Confederate monuments erected on Richmond’s famed Monument Avenue. Maury, a leader in the fields of naval meteorology and navigation, headed the coast, harbor and river defenses for the Confederate Navy.
5 Herman Cain: The former Republican presidential candidate announced on Twitter on Thursday that he had been hospitalized with the coronavirus. Cain, the former chief executive of Godfather’s Pizza, was hospitalized Wednesday and Thursday and “was resting comfortably in an Atlantaarea hospital,” according to a statement posted on his Twitter account. Cain attended President Trump’s indoor rally in Tulsa, Okla., on June 20, where he posted photographs of himself on social media that showed him without a mask and surrounded by people in the arena.