Hurricane Laura: Louisiana faces high winds as storm moves deeper inland – live

Record-breaking hurricane made landfall with 150mph windsPence claims US would be unsafe under Biden in dark speechKenosha police officer who shot Jacob Blake named 1,187 new coronavirus deaths and 44,877 new cases reported yesterdaySign up for our First Thing newsletter 2.47pm BST Presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner has belittled protests and boycotts by NBA players in the aftermath of the Jacob Blake shooting by suggesting that the protests amount to a retreat into luxury on the part of the players.Kushner on the NBA protests: “They have the luxury of taking a night off from work, most Americans don’t have the financial luxury to do that.” He hopes they’ll look for concrete solutions #RNCwithPOLITICO pic.twitter.com/ZAVC62XBOhNaomi Osaka, one of the world’s top tennis players and the female athlete with the highest single-year earnings of all time, by Forbes’ estimation, announced Wednesday evening she would sit out the semifinals of the Western & Southern Open tournament the following day to protest the shooting of Jacob Blake and other victims of police brutality.I think that Jared and Ivanka are very fortunate that they have the financial position where they’re able to use taxpayers’ money to fund their many vacations from the WH jobs they’re not qualified to hold. https://t.co/SMm7PZe3Oc https://t.co/JRWuVCAi6V 2.29pm BST As Hurricane Laura roared towards the southern US coast, the Republican national convention unleashed Hurricane Liar.There were lies aplenty at the last convention in Cleveland four years ago but, in those innocent days, reporters were still reluctant to call a lie a lie. Donald Trump blew that up on his first day in office when he and his officials claimed his inauguration crowd was bigger than Barack Obama’s. Related: Republican convention delivers whirlwind of lies great and small Continue reading…
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