President Trump kicked off his Thanksgiving break from Mar-A-Lago by addressing LaVar Ball on Twitter. POTUS told the "poor man's version of Don King" that his son, UCLA basketball star LiAngelo Ball, would have remained in China for 5 to 10 years on a shoplifting charge without Trump's intervention.
Go deeper: How LaVar Ball used Trump's playbook to conquer sports media.
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Joe Biden's campaign released a three-part plan Tuesday to rebuild U.S. supply chains in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, and it's centered around the idea that the country is more vulnerable to global disruptions in spite of President Trump's "America First" rhetoric.
Why it matters: Biden is proposing a way to make sure the U.S. doesn't rely on other countries for personal protective equipment (PPE) and other related medical supplies. That's another way of acknowledging that we're not getting over this health crisis anytime soon.
NYPD officers watch a George Floyd protest in Manhattan on June 6. Photo: Scott Heins/Getty Images
Nationwide Black Lives Matter protests sparked by George Floyd's killing have put new pressure on states and cities to scale back the force that officers can use on civilians.
Why it matters: Police reforms of this scale have not taken place in response to the Black Lives Matter movement since its inception in 2013, after George Zimmerman's acquittal for shooting Trayvon Martin, an unarmed Black teenager.
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