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Trump's Day: President Trump delivers remarks this afternoon at the U.S.S. Battleship North Carolina in Wilmington, N.C., commemorating the 75th anniversary of the signing of Japan’s surrender, ending World War II. He will designate Wilmington as the first American World War II Heritage City.

Biden's Day: Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is expected to give a speech on school re-openings this afternoon in Wilmington, Del.

Census: A high workforce attrition rate and a shortened schedule are making it more difficult for the Census Bureau to complete a decennial count that has been disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic.

President Trump said violence sparked by the police shooting of a Black man in Kenosha, Wis., amounted to “domestic terror.” He said he didn’t believe police violence was a systemic problem, as he visited the city despite pleas from local and state Democratic officials to stay away, report Rebecca Ballhaus and Catherine Lucey. Wisconsin is a key state in the presidential election.

• Mr. Trump said his administration would give $1 million to Kenosha law enforcement, $4 million to help small businesses and $42 million to support public safety in the state.

• Kyle Rittenhouse, who was charged in the killing of two people in Kenosha, Wis., last week, has a hefty legal fund. Mr. Trump has suggested that he might have acted in self-defense.

Attorney General William Barr put new restrictions on government surveillance of campaigns, the latest fallout from an inspector general report that found problems with how the FBI sought to monitor a former Trump campaign adviser, reports Sadie Gurman.

• Facebook said it removed recently created accounts linked to a Russian group accused of interfering in the 2016 presidential election.

With nine weeks to Election Day, both parties are investing heavily in Minnesota, underscoring its status as Mr. Trump’s best potential pickup opportunity in a campaign where he is mostly playing defense against Joe Biden, report Catherine Lucey and John McCormick.

Arizona has been reliably Republican since 1996 and Minnesota reliably Democratic since 1972. But both states are in play for the 2020 election.

Black candidates have begun winning more House seats and statewide offices in places where most voters are white—a departure from decades in which Black political power was rooted largely in minority communities. Officials and analysts say these wins could position Black candidates to win the highest statewide offices, reports Aaron Zitner.

• There have been only two elected Black governors in U.S. history and six Black senators since Reconstruction.
• This year, at least 26 Black candidates have won primary elections in districts with large shares of white residents.

Sen. Ed Markey defeated Rep. Joe Kennedy III in the Massachusetts Senate Democratic primary, the Associated Press projected, beating back a member of the famous political dynasty, Andrew Duehren and Natalie Andrews report.

• Incumbents held onto power across the state Tuesday. Voters also picked Rep. Richard Neal over an insurgent challenger who argued the incumbent wasn’t progressive enough for the district. 

The Trump administration plans to target U.S. hospitals for gaps in Covid-19 data. It plans to publicize the names of hospitals missing daily tallies of Covid-19 patients, shortages of nurses, the number of available beds and other data as soon as next week, report Melanie Evans and Alexandra Berzon.

• New U.S. coronavirus cases climbed back above 40,000 after two days of declines, with Florida reporting more than 7,000 new cases.

• How’s the coronavirus economy? It depends on whom you ask.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin urged Congress to appropriate more money to combat the effects of the pandemic, saying at a hearing Tuesday that he was ready to sit down with Democratic leaders to resume negotiations, reports Paul Kiernan.

• He mentioned the administration’s proposed ceiling for a follow-on bill is now $1.5 trillion, and indicated it has softened its opposition to a proposal to apportion more money for state and local governments.
• Meanwhile, the administration said it is moving to halt evictions through the end of the year in an effort to slow the spread of Covid-19.

Tens of thousands of loans issued under the government’s $670 billion Paycheck Protection Program are vulnerable to fraud, waste and abuse, according to a House panel report. Mr. Mnuchin said that the SBA is preparing a comprehensive audit program, reports Yuka Hayashi.

Senate Democrats are weighing the filibuster's future, report Siobhan Hughes and Lindsay Wise. They are discussing rule changes that would curtail the power of the minority party to block legislation but stop short of completely killing off the filibuster.

• A Wall Street Journal survey of all 47 members of the Democratic caucus found at least five lawmakers who currently oppose ending the filibuster, potentially enough to stop it from being killed outright.

• Q&A: Why the filibuster has vexed the Senate

A string of recent IRS court victories could threaten a tax break Mr. Trump’s business was able to claim in 2014 for a conservation easement on its California golf course, reports Richard Rubin. Federal judges have invalidated more than $275 million of similar deductions.

Manhattan prosecutors can’t obtain the president’s tax returns during a pending appeal, a three-judge panel ruled, handing a temporary win to Mr. Trump in his bid to shield financial documents from a criminal investigation, reports Corinne Ramey.

• The Department of Homeland Security in July withheld publication of a bulletin warning of a scheme by Russian intelligence services to promote allegations of poor mental health of Joe Biden. (ABC News)
• Gallup finds that Americans consider race relations poorer now than at any time since 2001. (Gallup)
• A task force commissioned by the government of the District of Columbia has recommended renaming, relocating or adding context to dozens of monuments in the capital. (Associated Press)

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