Time - USA (2020-09-21)

Time September 21/September 28, 2020

‘He

wasn’t a

sucker.’

JOE BIDEN,

Democratic Party

presidential nominee,

speaking on Sept. 4 of

his late son Beau—an

Army officer who died

of cancer in 2015—

after the Atlantic

reported that President

Donald Trump had

referred to fallen

American soldiers as

“losers” and “suckers”

‘Yes, this does break

international law, in a very

specific and limited way.’

BRANDON LEWIS,

U.K. Northern Ireland Secretary, responding to a question

in Parliament on Sept. 8 about a proposal to make

cross-border trade-rule changes that would override the

Brexit agreement between the E.U. and the U.K.

‘Health

care

workers

in India

are

already

exhausted.’

HARJIT SINGH BHATTI,

a physician in the COVID-

ward of Delhi’s Manipal

hospital, speaking to the

Guardian as India on Sept. 

passed Brazil as the country

with the second-highest

number of COVID-19 cases

‘CHANGE YOUR

LIVES OUT THERE.’

JACOB BLAKE,

who was shot seven times by police in Kenosha, Wis.,

speaking to the public from his hospital bed in a Sept. 5 video statement

‘People say,

“ Te ac her s

aren’t

w o r king .”

We’re working

harder

than ever.’

JESSYCA MATHEWS,

an English teacher at

Carman-Ainsworth High

School in Flint, Mich.;

the school is set to

conduct classes remotely

through September

93 %

Proportion of U.S. racial-

justice protests from

May 24 to Aug. 22 that

went forward peacefully,

according to a Sept. 

report from the nonprofit

Armed Conflict Location

and Event Data Project

5

Number of mountain lion dens,

home to a total of 13 kittens,

found by researchers this

summer in the Santa Monica

Mountains and Simi Hills near

Los Angeles—a record for such

a short period, the National

Park Service reported Sept. 

GOOD NEWS

of the week

A young girl, her father

and a family dog were

rescued Sept. 3 after

spending more than two

days trapped in a ravine

in Oregon’s Mount Hood

National Forest

For the Record

ILLUSTRATIONS BY BROWN BIRD DESIGN FOR TIME

6 SOURCES: REUTERS, CNBC, THE GUARDIAN, AP