Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
1. RUSSIA REGISTERS VIRUS VACCINE Vladimir Putin says that a coronavirus vaccine developed in his country has been registered for use and one of his daughters has already been inoculated, despite international skepticism.
2. ‘IT WAS A CASCADING EFFECT’ New York’s coronavirus death toll in nursing homes could be a major undercount because it includes only residents who died on nursing home property and not at hospitals, AP finds.
Protestors gather outside city hall for Monday's Seattle City Council budget committee voting, which includes potential Seattle Police Department cuts, on Monday, Aug. 10, 2020. (Erika SchultzThe Seattle Times via AP)
3. CORONAVIRUS HITTING ANTI-AIDS EFFORT HARD Across Africa and around the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the supply of antiretroviral drugs to many of the millions of people who take them, endangering their lives.
4. SEATTLE’S TOP COP STEPPING DOWN The move by Carmen Best, the city’s first Black police chief, was made public the same day the City Council approved reducing the department by as many as 100 officers through layoffs and attrition.
5. ANGELINA JOLIE SEEKS JUDICIAL CHANGE The “Changeling” actor asks that the private judge overseeing her divorce from Brad Pitt be disqualified because of insufficient disclosures of his business relationships with one of Pitt’s attorneys.