President Donald Trump vented on Twitter yesterday about what he called “political prosecution” after the Supreme Court ruled that New York prosecutors can obtain the president’s financial records, something the administration has long sought to suppress. Trump is the first president since Jimmy Carter to refuse to release his tax returns, and prosecutors will also be able to see records from Deutsche Bank concerning hush-money payments. A separate court decision barred Congress from accessing the same records — which means the public likely won’t know what’s in them until at least after the November election.

Police say the body of Park Won-soon, a prominent human rights lawyer who was elected mayor of Seoul in 2011, was found in woods near his official residence. Police are investigating the cause of the 64-year-old’s death, but say foul play does not appear to be involved, and that he left a note apologizing to everyone and asking to be cremated. Sexual harassment allegations against Park were unveiled shortly before his death. He’d recently been widely praised for his effective response to COVID-19, allowing Seoul to avoid strict lockdowns, and was thought to be a top contender for the presidency in 2022.

With more than 100 COVID-19 cases reported in the past week, Hong Kong has backtracked reopening and shut down its schools. But in the U.S. — which hit another daily record yesterday at more than 60,000 new cases — Texas bar owners are suing Gov. Greg Abbott for the right to stay open after he shut them down again following a virus spike. Meanwhile, Chinese officials warned yesterday that an unidentified pneumonia in Central Asia killed more than 600 people last month and that hundreds are being hospitalized daily, but Kazakhstan dismissed the statement as “fake news.”

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It slices, it dices, it steals jobs. Beef and pork shortages have abounded during the pandemic, with thousands of workers infected and many plants forced to shut down. Now industrial heavyweight Tyson is adapting by speeding its adoption of robot butchers, which can’t get coronavirus or unionize, thus following in the footsteps of the auto industry. Meanwhile, non-robot workers have filed a complaint against Tyson and JBS alleging that meat factories — in which 87 percent of coronavirus cases were non-white people — have discriminated against employees of color during the pandemic.

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Masked Singaporeans are voting today in an election that’s expected to lead to another victory for the ruling People’s Action Party. Plastic surgeons say they’ve seen a marked increase in business during the pandemic. And Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has unveiled his new $700 billion buy-American economic plan.

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