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 The National Association of the Deaf and five deaf Americans are suing the White House in an attempt to force President Donald Trump and other top officials to have American Sign Language interpreters at Covid-19 briefings.
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The move comes as Trump has tried to attribute the surge in U.S. cases to increased testing.
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 Speaking at a relatively subdued White House press conference on Monday, President Trump urged New York to re-run its June 23 primary election in New York's 12th Congressional District, which still hasn't produced a winner as thousands of mail-in ballots have been tossed or remain uncounted.
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As his support among the white suburban voters who helped propel him to the presidency has cratered, President Donald Trump has increasingly aimed to stoke fear and racial division at a time when the country faces a national reckoning on race. In recent months, the President has called Black Lives Matter a "symbol of hate," while also defending the Confederate flag.
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 BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/GettyPresident Donald Trump attacked Dr. Deborah Birx for the first time on Monday after the White House coronavirus task force coordinator said she believed the virus had entered a "new phase" and that counties with significant community spread should not reopen schools in the fall.
Birx's comments came on CNN just two days after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) criticized her in a meeting with administration officials, calling her "the worst." One Democratic aide said Pelosi was referencing Birx's apparent deference to the president's inaccurate statements about the virus, including that ingesting bleach should be studied as a possible cure.
"She's not a straight shooter," the aide said. "She sat there during the bleach [comment]. She just sat there!"
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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