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Election officials across the U.S. continued counting votes Friday. The practice of counting ballots after Election Day is not unusual, but President Trump has raised doubts about it.

Cleveland has administered less than 30 percent of the 6,500 COVID-19 vaccine doses it has received since late December and Mayor Frank Jackson said the slow rollout is because "there is no infrastructure for this." Cleveland has distributed 1,767 doses and is ramping up for more, the mayor said in press conference Tuesday.

A Cleveland-based printing company has sent out all of the ballots requested by Summit County as of Tuesday afternoon. But Summit County election officials say the process was marred by delays and a lack of transparency. The Summit County Board of Elections placed two orders for ballots through Midwest Direct, totaling around 110,000 ballots. Both orders were delayed, said BOE Chairman William Rich, and some ballots were sent out as much as six days late.

COVID-19 and tariffs are reconfiguring trade. And companies are reevaluating how and where their products get made.

The nation’s attention will undoubtedly turn to the U.S. Senate this month, where the Judiciary Committee will begin hearings on President Donald Trump’s latest nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court. Should Judge Amy Coney Barrett be confirmed, as many pundits expect, she may play a key role in cases ranging from health care to gun rights.

Updated: 4:45 p.m., Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020 Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and leaders from the state’s top children’s hospitals on Tuesday offered advice on how children can return to school in a safe manner and offered statistics on the impact of COVID-19 on kids.

For the young people across Ohio, who’ve spent the past year raising pigs, cows, chickens, and other animals, showing them at county fairs is the culmination of their work. This year the coronavirus pandemic has caused many fairs to be canceled. Josie Wagner, a rising high school senior, has been raising animals as part of 4-H since she was eight. She talked about dealing with the disappointment of not being able to bring her rooster and rabbit to the Trumbull County Fair which was called off due to COVID-19.

City of Cleveland officials sought on Friday to refute concerns that the federal government is sending federal agents to Cleveland to replicate the scenes in Portland, Ore., where agents from the Department of Homeland Security detained protestors using unmarked vans. Officials called the conference to address news of Cleveland’s inclusion in Operation Legend, a federal law enforcement operation that sends agents from several federal agencies to cities to combat crime.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Jim Galloway about his impending retirement after 41 years as the senior political columnist for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Five years ago, 12-year-old Tamir Rice was shot and killed in a public park by a Cleveland police officer. The incident quickly became a rallying point for a growing national conversation about violence against black people at the hands of the police, and Rice continues to be a source of inspiration for artists.