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5 Things to Know for Today

August 11, 2020 GMT
FILE - In this April 17, 2020, file photo, emergency medical workers arrive at Cobble Hill Health Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York. New York’s coronavirus death toll in nursing homes, already among the highest in the nation, could actually be a significant undercount. Unlike every other state with major outbreaks, New York only counts residents who died on nursing home property and not those who died in hospitals.  (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
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FILE - In this April 17, 2020, file photo, emergency medical workers arrive at Cobble Hill Health Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York. New York’s coronavirus death toll in nursing homes, already among the highest in the nation, could actually be a significant undercount. Unlike every other state with major outbreaks, New York only counts residents who died on nursing home property and not those who died in hospitals. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
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FILE - In this April 17, 2020, file photo, emergency medical workers arrive at Cobble Hill Health Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York. New York’s coronavirus death toll in nursing homes, already among the highest in the nation, could actually be a significant undercount. Unlike every other state with major outbreaks, New York only counts residents who died on nursing home property and not those who died in hospitals. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:

1. RUSSIA REGISTERS VIRUS VACCINE Vladimir Putin says that a coronavirus vaccine developed in his country has been registered for use and one of his daughters has already been inoculated, despite international skepticism.

2. ‘IT WAS A CASCADING EFFECT’ New York’s coronavirus death toll in nursing homes could be a major undercount because it includes only residents who died on nursing home property and not at hospitals, AP finds.

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3. CORONAVIRUS HITTING ANTI-AIDS EFFORT HARD Across Africa and around the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the supply of antiretroviral drugs to many of the millions of people who take them, endangering their lives.

4. SEATTLE’S TOP COP STEPPING DOWN The move by Carmen Best, the city’s first Black police chief, was made public the same day the City Council approved reducing the department by as many as 100 officers through layoffs and attrition.

5. ANGELINA JOLIE SEEKS JUDICIAL CHANGE The “Changeling” actor asks that the private judge overseeing her divorce from Brad Pitt be disqualified because of insufficient disclosures of his business relationships with one of Pitt’s attorneys.