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Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: August 3, 2020

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Good morning from The Daily Beast. These are the top 6 stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Deutsche Bank investigates Donald Trump and Jared Kushner's personal banker over a 2013 deal that could have been a conflict of interest, a Michigan lawmaker who was against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's coronavirus-prevention policies tests positive for COVID-19, the Navy SEALs open an investigation into dogs who attacked a man wearing a Colin Kaepernick jersey at the Navy SEAL museum during an event, an Indiana school has to shut down after a staff has already tested positive for the coronavirus, Microsoft wants to buy TikTok, and there's a petition going on in a Missouri town to replace the local mascot—but that petition also prompted a counter-petition in favor of the name "Savannah Savages." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Good morning from The Daily Beast. These are the top 6 stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Deutsche Bank investigates Donald Trump and Jared Kushner's personal banker over a 2013 deal that could have been a conflict of interest, a Michigan lawmaker who was against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's coronavirus-prevention policies tests positive for COVID-19, the Navy SEALs open an investigation into dogs who attacked a man wearing a Colin Kaepernick jersey at the Navy SEAL museum during an event, an Indiana school has to shut down after a staff has already tested positive for the coronavirus, Microsoft wants to buy TikTok, and there's a petition going on in a Missouri town to replace the local mascot—but that petition also prompted a counter-petition in favor of the name "Savannah Savages." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Good morning. This is recovered with the Daily Beast. It's Monday, August 3rd, and these are the top six stories the Chi Chi team is watching right now Deutsche Bank has reportedly opened a probe into Donald Trump and Jerry Kushner's personal banker over her 2013 purchase at the New York City apartment from a company part owned by the president's son-in-law The New York Times reports that Rosemary Vraeblich and two of her co-workers and the private banking division bought the $1.5 million Park Avenue pad in June 2013 from Burgle 715 Associates in which Kushner reportedly held an ownership state The deal went through while Trump and Kushner who have secured around 190 million in loans from Deutsche Bank were her clients Bank employees are normally prohibited from making personal transactions with customers in light of potential conflicts of interest a bank spokesman said the transaction will be closely examined and the general counsel at Kushner company said Trump's son-in-law had quote no involvement with the sales of the apartments a State lawmaker who opposed Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer's extended lockdown has been diagnosed with COVID-19 leaving several legislators potentially exposed to the virus Republican Senator Tom Barrett learned he is infected after undergoing mandatory screening because he's in the Army National Guard He said he did not have any quote significant symptoms But will now self isolate in line with medical guidelines and reach out to people who he's been in contact with over the past couple of weeks Whitmer's statewide lockdown is credited with bringing the spread of the virus under control this spring though numbers have started to spike against its reopening Barrett has been a vocal critic of Whitmer's handling of the crisis and when as far as to sponsor a bill to repeal the law The governor has used to maintain a state of emergency related to the coronavirus The Navy's sales have opened an investigation into a canine demonstration at the Navy Seal Museum in Fort Pierce, Florida Where military dogs attacked a man wearing a call in Kaepernick, Jersey Video of the insane incident was posted on Instagram over a year ago But made the rounds on social media again on Sunday Thanks to a tweet by documentarian Billy Corbin the seal said in the statement that it had only learned about the demonstration over the past few days And condemned it as quote completely inconsistent with its values The seals went best to get the matter but said there are initial indications that there were no active duty-native personnel or equipment involved with the event Who on earth could have predicted this? Indiana schools are reopening for in-person learning and one is already shutting down after a staff member tested positive for the coronavirus The Indianapolis star reported that several other staffers at Elwood Jr.

at senior high school who came intact with the infected employee are now in quarantine At least one other staffer in the district has also tested positive but officials inexplicably refused to say how many or where they worked Elwood will be closed for a week for a deep cleaning and all the district schools will be closed on Wednesdays for the rest of the month to allow for more cleaning time Microsoft confirms Sunday night that it's in talks to buy TikTok in the US and hopes to have a deal by September 15th President Trump has said he wants to ban the app which is currently owned by the Chinese firm Vite Dance But Microsoft said it will continue talking to the administration about an acquisition Microsoft has pledged to protect the privacy of American users and maintain servers in the United States The company said it's also interested in buying TikTok in Canada, Australia and New Zealand Word is reported early Monday morning that Trump only agreed to allow Microsoft to negotiate the acquisition if it could secure a deal within 45 days The app has around a hundred million US users a Small town in Missouri has been divided by the name of the Thai school teams called the Savannah Savages a water tower emblazoned with the name and a sketch of a Native American looms over the community Which has several businesses with the word quote savage in its name a mandibar who graduated from the school nearly two decades ago Started a petition to get the name changed and garnered over 6,000 signatures She told the Kansas City Star that she's ashamed to belong to a community that she said quote Denigrates people have been victims of oppression Meanwhile a town resident started a counter petition that has been signed by over 2,000 people Jeffrey Hovey declared on the petition that quote a savage can be from any razor land Right the school board has not yet voted on the matter That's all for this morning check back every weekday morning and afternoon for more than news You need to know find us on your smart speaker or wherever you listen to podcasts

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