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President Joe Biden has led calls from both major parties for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to resign after investigation found he sexually harassed 11 women, created fear in a workplace toxic and violated federal and state civil laws.

Despite an explosive 165-page report released by state attorney general Letitia James, containing overwhelming evidence, Cuomo, 63, denied the allegations and stressed that he had no intention of resigning.

Announcing the results at a press conference on Tuesday, James said: Specifically, the investigation found Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed current and former New York State employees by engaging in unwelcome touching non-consensual and making numerous offensive comments of a suggestive and sexual nature. which created a hostile working environment for women.

Cuomo posted a provocative video address on Tuesday, insisting that I have never touched anyone inappropriately or made inappropriate sexual advances.

Moderate Democrats rejoice: Shontel Brown defeats progressive Nina Turner in Ohio Democratic primary Shontel Brown picks up the phone after learning she won Ohio’s 11th Congressional District at her Bedford Watch Party Heights on August 3, 2021. Photograph: Stephen Zenner / Sopa Images / Rex / Shutterstock

The mainstream Democratic establishment on Tuesday won a major victory over the party’s progressive wing when Shontel Brown, 46, backed by Hillary Clinton, defeated Nina Turner in a primary election in Ohio.

Fifteen months before the midterm elections for Congress, Brown’s victory in the Safe Democratic District will be interpreted by moderates as proof that the party must stick to a centrist platform and not tilt towards the left, writes my colleague David Smith.

Turner, who admitted defeat, had the backing of Sen. Bernie Sanders and MP Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

New 60-day deportation ban could protect millions of Americans

The U.S. government has issued a new moratorium on evictions that will last until October 3, following increasing pressure on Biden to take action to help keep Americans at home during the pandemic as states have took a long time to release federal rent assistance.

The moratorium, signed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday, would temporarily halt evictions in counties where transmission of the virus is high and high and cover areas where 90% of the U.S. population lives.

In other news, attorneys Mark and Patricia McCloskey who pointed guns at Black Lives Matter protesters in St. Louis on June 28, 2020 have been pardoned by Missouri Governor Mike Parson. Photo: Bill Greenblatt / UPI / Rex / Shutterstock Status of the day: Long Covid affects less than 1 in 20 school-aged children with symptoms of the virus

In somewhat reassuring news, less than one in 20 children with Covid who have symptoms continue to be symptomatic for more than four weeks, a study found. The analysis was based on data from 1,734 children aged five to 17, collected between September 2020 and February 2021, coinciding with the reopening of schools in the fall and the peak of the winter wave of the virus in the UK.

Don’t miss: Beirut, one year after the explosion A man marks the first anniversary of the explosion on Wednesday by hanging a giant Lebanese flag on a damaged building in Beirut. Photograph: Hussein Malla / AP

A year after the catastrophic port explosion destroyed large swathes of the Lebanese capital and killed 218 people, Beirut remains a city shell as efforts to find who is to blame for the tragedy have made little headway, and anger is mounting in a population deprived of justice, Reports by Martin Chulov.

Climate balance: residents flee as forest fires encroach on homes in Athens

Thousands of residents of the northern outskirts of Athens have been forced to leave their homes as a wildfire gripped residential areas, as Greece experiences its worst heat wave since 1987, according to local authorities. Temperatures reached 42C (107.6F) in parts of the Greek capital.

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Last thing: I realized how much I relied on him for my self-esteem and quit Twitter. The login / registration screen for a Twitter account is displayed on a laptop. Photograph: John Raoux / AP

While Twitter brought her a long-term boyfriend, better jobs, close friends, and 60,000 followers, Guardians associate music editor Laura Snapes explains why she left the highly addictive platform for good, though the simple deletion of his account is not even possible.

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