Campaign Spending, Russian Hackers & Hawaii Reopens


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Oct 19 2020 49 mins   58
Spending in the 2020 presidential election is expected to reach a record-shattering $10.8 billion, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Britain and the United States condemned what they said were a litany of malicious cyberattacks orchestrated by Russian military intelligence, including attempts to disrupt next year’s Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo. President Donald Trump said the government’s top pandemic fighter, Dr. Anthony Fauci, is a “disaster” — and possibly an “idiot” — as he claimed that Americans are “tired of” Covid-19, even as the number of coronavirus cases continued spiking in much of the United States. Plus, Yelp is adding alerts to its review pages of businesses accused of “overtly racist actions,” and Hawaii reopens to tourists for the first time in seven months.