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On the eve of Melania Trump’s big speech headlining the second night of the Republican National Convention, politics reporter Mary Jordan discusses the first lady’s reputation. Sarah Kaplan explains how genetic analysis of the coronavirus could help us map and control its spread. And Isabelle Khurshudyan on the mass demonstrations that have erupted in Belarus after a hotly contested presidential election.Read more:Melania Trump is about to give her biggest speech in four years. The Trump campaign hopes she can be its secret weapon.Read an excerpt from “The Art of Her Deal”: How Melania Trump blocked Ivanka Trump from encroaching on her domain.Genetic data show how a single superspreading event sent the coronavirus across Massachusetts –– and the nation.In Belarus, one protester describes the last two weeks of protest in the name of political reform.Subscribe to The Washington Post: postreports.com/offer

Today on Post Reports, Michael Kranish explores the inner workings of the Trump family. Kevin Sieff looks at how work deemed essential led to one of the largest coronavirus outbreaks in the United States. Plus, Robin Givhan hunts down the rare fashion brand beloved by the women of Trump’s world. Read more:In secretly recorded audio, President Trump’s sister says he has ‘no principles’ and ‘you can’t trust him.’For Guatemalans in Florida, essential work leads to a coronavirus outbreak. Chiara Boni, the rare fashion brand that’s beloved by the women of Trump world and not afraid to show it.Subscribe to The Washington Post: postreports.com/offer

Today on Post Reports, a story from the Post’s podcast All Told: As schools across the country wrestle with the question of how to best return to teaching in the fall, the story of one class’s preparation for Advanced Placement exams reveals the highs and lows, successes and struggles, that distance learning brings with it.Read more:Education reporter Laura Meckler writes about the struggle to prepare for AP exams across the nation.Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

Nick Anderson talks about how the outbreak at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill foreshadows how other higher education institutions are reacting to the coronavirus. Matt Viser describes Joe Biden’s decades-long fight for the Democratic nomination. And, Caroline Kitchener explains the debate over Susan B. Anthony’s views on abortion -- and why it matters. Read more:The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill reopened the campus for in-person classes. A week later, those classes went remote.Former vice president Joe Biden has been imagining this moment for more than 50 years. It’s not exactly the triumph he had in mind.Some conservatives want to celebrate Susan B. Anthony’s rumored antiabortion stance.Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

Rosalind S. Helderman on the new Senate report that alleges close ties between Trump’s 2016 campaign team and Russia. Fashion critic Robin Givhan shares Sen. Kamala D. Harris’s journey to a historically Black university. Read more:What’s in the Senate’s ‘grave’ new Russia report?Sen. Kamala D. Harris’s Black identity blossomed at Howard University, according to fashion critic Robin Givhan.Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

Today on Post Reports, Katie Mettler on the little known story about how the 19th Amendment was ratified. And historian Martha S. Jones on how Black women had to keep fighting for the right to vote after the 19th Amendment passed.Read more:A mother’s letter, a son’s choice and the little known story about the 19th Amendment’s ratification.Black women fought to get the right to vote long after White women earned it.The Lily: Meet the Americans who first advocated for women's right to voteSubscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

Ashley Parker traces President Trump’s obsession with the U.S. Postal Service. Freelance journalist Kayla Ruble talks about why young Black voters yearn for policy, not promises, from Sen. Kamala Harris. Plus, Dino Grandoni on the hunters and fishers asking Congress to deliver climate change solutions.Read more:Tracing Trump’s Postal Service obsession — from ‘loser’ to ‘scam’ to ‘rigged election’.A large portion of young Black voters in the U.S. aren’t entirely convinced Sen. Kamala Harris will be the change they need.Hunters and fishermen are asking Congress for climate change solutions. Here’s why that’s unusual.Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

Today on Post Reports, social issues reporter Kyle Swenson explains how America’s unemployment system is stretched to the brink by the pandemic. And reporter Sydney Page on one artist’s random acts of kindness, and what they mean to health-care heroes. Read more:Ten bucks left, no place to go: How the pandemic and a broken unemployment system are upending people’s lives.Health-care workers are opening their mailboxes and finding their own portraits.Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

On Today’s Post Reports, Jacob Bogage explains how delays and a partisan battle over funding the U.S. Postal Service may affect the election. Jose A. Del Real reports on Latino voters in Arizona, who may hold the key for a Democratic win there. And, Sarah Kaplan with a climate solution for America’s hottest cities. Read more:Trump says the Postal Service needs money for mail-in voting but he’ll keep blocking funding.Latinos transformed Arizona. Do campaigns see them? How America’s hottest city will survive climate change. Subscribe to The Washington Post: postreports.com/offer 

Today on Post Reports, national political reporter Annie Linskey breaks down the reasons behind Joe Biden’s historic choice of Sen. Kamala D. Harris as his running mate. Sports columnist Sally Jenkins on why it takes courage to hit pause on college football. Sarah Dadouch reports on the shattered lives left behind after the blasts in Beirut last week — plus, the story of a doctor whose wedding video shoot accidentally captured the explosions and went viral. Read more:Inside Biden’s unusual VP pick process: Tough questions, 11 finalists and many lawyers.An emotional moment for Black women.Big Ten and Pac-12 leaders had the courage to exercise a rare American trait: Caution.At Beirut’s shattered port, a crater nearly 50 yards deep and small signs of previous lives.Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer