{"id":156812,"date":"2020-08-17T15:56:25","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T13:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/08\/17\/us-politics-virtual-democratic-convention-to-start-amid-coronavirus-crisis-live-updates\/"},"modified":"2020-08-17T15:56:25","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T13:56:25","slug":"us-politics-virtual-democratic-convention-to-start-amid-coronavirus-crisis-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=156812","title":{"rendered":"US politics: virtual Democratic convention to start amid coronavirus crisis \u2013 live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pelosi recalls House early to fight postal service election \u2018sabotage\u2019Sanders says Trump\u2019s attacks on mail-in voting a \u2018crisis for democracy\u2019Virtual Democratic convention to kick off with emphasis on unitySign up to our First Thing newsletter 2.56pm BST Donald Trump\u2019s administration approved oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge this morning. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt told the WSJ the administration\u2019s approval of an oil leasing program would allow auctions to begin \u201cright around the end of the year.\u201d 2.28pm BST Donald Trump called into Fox News this morning. He discussed things including the postal service, foreign relations and the death of his brother. Trump said he was going to make the post office \u201cgreat again,\u201d but did not identify how he would do that. Instead, he spoke about Amazon and how they use the postal system to send products they sell. He did not announce plans to address his concerns about Amazon, either. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2020\/aug\/17\/us-politics-joe-biden-democratic-national-convention-dnc-usps-donald-trump-coronanvirus-covid-19-live-updates\" target=\"_blank\">US politics: virtual Democratic convention to start amid coronavirus crisis \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pelosi recalls House early to fight postal service election \u2018sabotage\u2019Sanders says Trump\u2019s attacks on mail-in voting a \u2018crisis for democracy\u2019Virtual Democratic convention to kick off with emphasis on unitySign up to our First Thing newsletter 2.56pm BST Donald Trump\u2019s administration approved oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}