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Barack Obama will join German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on May 25 for a discussion titled "Being Involved in Democracy: Taking on Responsibility Locally and Globally" as part of the Kirchentag, the German Protestant Church's biennial conference, per the AP.
Schedule check: President Trump will be at a NATO leaders' summit in Brussels on the same day. Mark your calendars — that's going to be a fun day.
The three biggest anti-Joe Biden storylines in right-wing media over the last year have either fizzled or are getting less online traction than they used to, according to data from NewsWhip provided exclusively to Axios.
Why it matters: This dynamic has rendered a formidable media ecosystem less effective in boosting President Trump as we move into the heart of the 2020 campaign.
A cluster of states in the Midwest are seeing more of their coronavirus tests coming back positive — potentially an early indicator of a growing outbreak.
The state of play: A high positive rate means that a higher share of those getting tested are sick. That could be because there are more sick people, or because a state isn't doing enough testing.
Joe Biden delivering a speech in Delaware in July. Photo: Mark Makela/Getty Images
Joe Biden explained on Twitter Thursday night what he "meant" by earlier comments suggesting that "the African American community is a monolith."
What they're saying: "Unlike the African-American community, with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community with incredibly different attitudes about different things," Biden remarked in an interview hosted by the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and the National Association for Black Journalists, Politico reports.