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It's official: Human resources departments have become the latest front in the left's identity politics culture wars. Dr. Karlyn Borysenko, a liberal who was mugged by reality in February after she attended a Trump campaign rally in New Hampshire, first reported a few weeks ago that the City of Seattle was holding a training session on “Interrupting Internalized Racial Superiority and Whiteness:"

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President Donald Trump has withdrawn the United Stated from the United Nations-led World Health Organisation (WHO). The notification terminating U.S. involvement in the UN agency went out on Monday. The Trump administration had halted funding for the UN health body in April on the grounds of "severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of the coronavirus."

The U.S. Supreme Court issued two important religious liberty decisions today. Both were 7-2 decisions with Sotomayor and Ginsburg in dissent. The first and most high profile was Little Sisters of the Poor v. Pennsylvania, involving regulations allowing entities with religious or morality objections to the Obamacare contraceptive mandate. The lower courts ruled the regulations unlawful, but the Supreme Court reversed.

A federal district court ruled that the Dakota Access Pipeline, the oil route from North Dakota to Illinois that is a crucial component to the Trump administration's plans for energy, must be shut down pending an environmental review, and be emptied of oil by Aug. 5.
In a 24-page order, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg in Washington, D.C., wrote that he was “mindful of the disruption” that shutting down the pipeline would cause, but that it must be done within 30 days. Pipeline owner Energy Transfer plans to ask a court to halt the order and will seek an expedited appeal, spokeswoman Vicki Granado said.

China has threatened the United Kingdom with "consequences" if it were to ban the Chinese telecommunications company Huawei from the 5G roll-out, the next generation of wireless networks. Beijing's ambassador to the UK, Liu Xiaoming, warned Prime Boris Johnson that “you cannot have a golden era if you treat China as an enemy." Britain will "bear the consequences" for proposed blacklisting of the Chinese company from its critical telecommunications network, the Chinese envoy declared.

Mongolia has quarantined a region n bordering China after an outbreak of the bubonic plague, an infamous disease better known by many as the "Black Death" that killed millions in Europe through the Middle Ages.
Two suspected cases of the plague - which is linked to the consumption of marmot meat - have been identified, health experts announced on Wednesday.

Amid continuing civil unrest, social justice antics, and pandemic coverage, it may be hard to recall the Democratic Party's primary season and the impeachment process that occurred in the early months of this apocalyptic year.