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1.00pm BST
Overnight it has been confirmed by the Supreme Court that Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. had an overnight stay in hospital last month, following a fall at a Maryland country club.
The story was broken by the Washington Post, who say they received a tip about the incident, which otherwise would not have been disclosed. The person who informed the paper about it described Roberts’ head as being “covered in blood” after the fall. Roberts has previously had seizures, although this has apparently been ruled out in this case.
The Chief Justice was treated at a hospital on June 21 for an injury to his forehead sustained in a fall while walking for exercise near his home. The injury required sutures, and out of an abundance of caution, he stayed in the hospital overnight and was discharged the next morning. His doctors ruled out a seizure. They believe the fall was likely due to light-headedness caused by dehydration.
12.44pm BST
Away from coronavirus for a moment, one of the things that just won’t go away for Donald Trump are questions over his administration’s handling of intelligence suggesting that Vladimir Putin’s Russia were offering bounties to the Taliban for attacks on US military personnel in Afghanistan.
Last night Alabama Democratic Party Sen. Doug Jones was interviewed on MSNBC’s The Last Word, and he was pretty stringent about what he saw as Trump’s failings over the issue, saying:
It should be very troubling to all Americans that an adversary like Russia is creating this kind of atmosphere of fear. [The biggest problem] I think for me and most folks in Alabama is, why hasn’t the commander-in-chief stood up and said “We are going to get to the bottom of this right now, and I’m going to demand some answers from Vladimir Putin and others.”
It doesn’t matter if people can agree to disagree within that intelligence community. The one thing that the commander-in-chief ought to be doing is getting answers, and letting the American people know that he will take the appropriate action should he find that it was absolutely true. Continue reading...