The Morning Dispatch: Wildfires Continue to Rage Out West

Plus, two Los Angeles sheriff deputies are ambushed.

By The Dispatch Staff

Sep 14, 2020

Happy Monday! Who has two thumbs and led the Chicago Bears to a come-from-behind win yesterday down 17 points in the fourth quarter? Mitch Trubisky, that’s who.

Quick Hits: Today’s Top Stories

The United States confirmed 36,618 new cases of COVID-19 yesterday, with 4.8 percent of the 771,475 tests reported coming back positive. An additional 371 deaths were attributed to the virus on Sunday, bringing the pandemic’s American death toll to 194,041.

Tropical Storm Sally is expected to strengthen into a hurricane and make landfall in Louisiana and Mississippi as early as today.
Oracle reportedly beat out Microsoft for the right to the U.S. operations of TikTok, the Chinese-owned video sharing app. The proposed deal—which President Trump had mandated be done by September 15—will now go through a review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS).

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