The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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1 No TikTok ban: Amazon said it mistakenly sent an email to employees Friday telling them to delete the popular video app TikTok from their phones. Amazon had told employees to delete the app from phones on which they use Amazon email, citing “security risks” from the China-owned app. TikTok said Amazon did not notify it before sending the email.

2 State of emergency: Gov. Gary Herbert of Utah declared a state of emergency late Thursday in response to protests in Salt Lake City that erupted after authoritie­s said the fatal police shooting of a 22-year-old man in May was justified.

Trump ‘aces’ test: President 3 Donald Trump on Thursday volunteere­d to Sean Hannity, the Fox News host, that he“very recently”took a test at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center measuring his mental acuity and “aced” it, but the White House would not say when he took it or why. Trump boasted that his success on the test surprised his doctors as he continued his attempt to make a campaign issue of whether his presumptiv­e Democratic opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden, was mentally fit.

Death ruled a suicide: The death 4 of a 24-year-old Black man found hanging from a tree in a Southern California city park last month was ruled a suicide Thursday following a police investigat­ion prompted by outrage from the family who said authoritie­s initially were too quick to rule out the possibilit­y he was lynched.

5 Trade deal low priority: President Donald Trump suggested work on the second phase of a U.S.-China trade deal has become a low priority, saying the two nation’s relationsh­ip has been “severely damaged” by Beijing’s handling of the coronaviru­s pandemic.

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