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Saudi Arabia's public prosecutor said that, based on information from Turkish investigators, journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed in a planned operation in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, the Washington Post reports.
Why it matters: This is yet another narrative swerve from the Saudis about what exactly happened to Khashoggi as officials first claimed that he left the consulate before stating that he had been inadvertently killed in a fistfight.
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Four former directors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention blasted the Trump administration's "repeated efforts to subvert" agency guidelines related to reopening schools, accusing the White House in a scathing Washington Post op-ed of undermining science with "partisan potshots."
Why it matters: The directors, Tom Frieden, Jeffrey Koplan and David Satcher and acting head Richard Besser, served in parts of the Obama, Bush and Clinton administrations. They said they "cannot recall over our collective tenure a single time when political pressure led to a change in the interpretation of scientific evidence."
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A new visa guideline issued last week would strip international students in the U.S. of their student visa if their college classes are online-only amid the pandemic.
Why it matters: More than 360,000 Chinese students are enrolled at U.S. colleges. Many of them could be forced to return to China if the rule change is implemented.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told CNN on Tuesday she would "absolutely" be willing to forgo the House's August recess to reach a deal for another relief package to help the country battle the health and economic crises caused by the coronavirus.
The big picture: Pelosi indicated the package would earmark money for coronavirus testing and contact tracing, as well as assistance for state and local governments whose budgets are in dire financial straits due to revenue shortfalls caused by the recession.