Summary That’s all from me and my colleagues today. Here’s what we covered: Ruth Bader Ginsburg was hospitalized after she had a fever and chills, according to the Supreme Court. Ginsburg will receive antibiotic treatment for possible infection. Donald Trump said signed an executive order ending special status for Hong Kong, at a Rose Garden press conference. He also said he signed legislation sanctioning China for suppressing freedoms in Hong Kong, following a Chinese national security law that gives Beijing unprecedented power over Hong Kong. He spent most of the press conference criticizing Joe Biden, in what closely resembled a campaign speech. The Dakota Access Pipeline was allowed to continue pumping oil after an appellate court issued a stay on a lower court order requiring that the pipeline stop operations by August 5. Trump responded to a question on the police killing of George Floyd by saying more white Americans are killed by police. Asked in a CBS News interview why black Americans are “still dying at the hands of law enforcement in this country,” Trump replied, “So are white people. ... More people, by the way. More white people.” White Americans make up a majority of those killed by police, but black Americans are roughly 3.5 times more likely to be killed by law enforcement, according to a 2018 study. The Trump administration has agreed to rescind its controversial policy on foreign student visas. District Judge Allison Burroughs announced at a hearing today that the government reached an agreement with Harvard and MIT to rescind the policy, which would have required foreign students to leave the country if they are earning their degrees entirely online because of the coronavirus pandemic. Ghislaine Maxwell was denied bailed in New York. Maxwell also pleaded not guilty to changes linked to her alleged involvement in Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking. Joe Biden unveiled his $2tn clean energy proposal aimed at reinvigorating the US economy, which has suffered greatly as a result of the pandemic. The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee delivered a speech on the plan in Wilmington, Delaware, saying, “We won’t just tinker around the edges. We’re going to make historic investments that will seize the opportunity and meet this moment in history.” The US carried out its first federal execution in 17 years. Convicted murderer Daniel Lewis Lee was put to death at a federal prison in Indiana after the supreme court issued a late night, 5-4 decision allowing the execution to proceed. Representative Steve Watkins, a Republican of Kansas, was charged with three felonies and a misdemeanor over allegations that he illegally voted in a 2019 municipal election. Shawnee County District Attorney Mike Kagay announced the charges as Watkins was scheduled to appear at a debate with his primary challengers. Watkins used a Topeka UPS store as his voter registration address in 2019, allegedly using an alternate address to obscure that he was living with his parents at the time. He has been accused of voting in the wrong district and interfering with law enforcement among other charges. Dakota Access Pipeline allowed to remain operational for now, after an appellate court ruling A federal appellate court agreed to temporarily freeze a lower court order shutting down the Dakota Access Pipeline, allowing the pipeline to stay operational. Earlier this month, a federal judge ordered developers to shut down the pipeline by August 5. The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued an administrative stay, which allows the pipeline to operate for now while the court considers whether the pipeline can continue pumping oil through what could be a lengthy appeals process. Kenya Evelyn From policy to public response, multiple factors put Black and Latino Americans disproportionately at risk of contracting and dying of Covid-19. As reports of community spread grew, trends in racial disparities among who was contracting and dying of the virus became clear across the country in places such as New Orleans, New York and Chicago. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, released after the New York Times sued the agency, confirmed what many had already known: of the nearly 1.5 million coronavirus patients in America thus far, Black people and Latino communities are disproportionately at risk of contracting and dying from the coronavirus. Black and Latino people in America represent nearly a third of all cases and have been nearly twice as likely to die from the virus as their White counterparts. Many health experts contend the data underscores how racial bias shapes not just policy, but also public behavior during health crises. Not only are Black and Latino Americans more likely to lack health insurance or live in areas without quality facilities, unconscious racial bias among medical professionals can also contribute to unequal health outcomes, with patients of color more likely to have their symptoms overlooked or pain disbelieved. Some experts point to people of color who later died of Covid-19 who were previously turned away as evidence of bias playing out in the pandemic. One week after police in Phoenix, Arizona, were caught on camera surrounding a parked car and killing a man inside, a young woman is coming forward with footage of a brutal assault by another officer in the department. Mariah Valenzuela, 23, was pulled over one night in January for a minor traffic violation. Body-camera footage obtained by the Guardian shows that the officer involved, Michael McGillis, would not tell the unarmed woman why he stopped her, and that seconds after she said she didn’t have ID on her, he tackled and slammed her on to the ground, injuring her head, face, hands and legs. Police footage also documents another officer instructing the policemen on the scene to “cover your ass” in the paperwork. Following the incident, Valenzuela was taken to jail, accused of resisting arrest and “creating a substantial risk of physical injury” to an officer. She was also cited for DUI even though her blood alcohol content was well below the legal limit. “He grabbed me and threw me on my car and kept slamming my head,” Valenzuela, a mother of two, said in a recent interview about the officer’s sudden use of force. “I was really afraid. It was dark and there was no one around.” Throughout his speech, in attacking Joe Biden, Trump has repeated several false claims. Trump: “Think of this: If we didn’t do testing — instead of testing over 40 million people, if we did half the testing we’d have half the cases.” Fact: This is an obvious one, but testing fewer Americans doesn’t mean that we’d have fewer coronavirus cases, we’d just be reporting fewer of them. People with the infection who aren’t able to get tested could unknowingly spread the infection to others, exacerbating the crisis. Trump: The president said Joe Biden’s son Hunter was “jobless” when he was appointed to the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company. Fact: Hunter Biden was employed at a law firm, and as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University at the time. He was CEO of his own investment advisory company. Trump: He said Biden would “abolish law enforcement as we know it.” Fact: Joe Biden’s platform does not include any proposal to abolish law enforcement. These are just a few fact-checks, of a slew of misleading and false statements from the president. Donald Trump is continuing to deliver what sounds like a prepared campaign speech form the Rose Garden, revisiting unfounded allegations against Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden and attacking his Democratic opponent directly. The top news line is Trump’s executive order, which ends Hong Kong’s favored trading status, in reaction to a Chinese national security law the administration says has undermined Hong Kong’s autonomy. In late June, my colleague Lily Kuo reported on the developments in Hong Kong. The controversial national security law gives Beijing unprecedented powers over Hong Kong, laying out “penalties as severe as life imprisonment for the crimes secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces” she wrote: The measure deals a devastating blow to Hong Kong’s autonomy as promised under the “one country, two systems” framework, the terms of the former British colony’s handover to Chinese control in 1997. Rights advocates and legal scholars believe the law will be used broadly to stifle dissent. More on Ginsburg: The justice is “resting comfortably and will stay in the hospital for a few days to receive intravenous antibiotic treatment”, according to a statement from the supreme court. She had a fever on Monday night and underwent a procedure to clean out a bile duct stent that was inserted in August, according to the statement. In May, Ginsburg underwent treatment for a gallbladder condition. Trump has signed an executive order ending special status for Hong Kong “Hong Kong will now be treated the same as mainland China. No special privileges, no special economic treatment and no export of sensitive technologies,” he said at the Rose Garden press conference. From there, Trump went on to hit common campaign points, attacking Joe Biden for being weak on China and lashing out at Democrats. Trump also touted stock market gains, largely ignoring the coronavirus crisis so far. Ginsburg is hospitalized Ruth Bader Ginsburg is reportedly in the hospital, seeking treatment for a possible infection. Stay tuned for more details. Ginsburg, 87, is the oldest judge on the supreme court, which just wrapped up a set of historic rulings in June.