
NPR News Now reports: Day 1 at Democratic Convention featured speech by Michele Obama, weather advisory for excessive heat in the West, and other top news.

NPR News Now reports: Day 1 at Democratic Convention featured speech by Michele Obama, weather advisory for excessive heat in the West, and other top news.

Axios Today reports: Democrats are going ahead with a mostly virtual convention, starting tonight. But how TV networks will cover the event, and how the millions of American voters watching it will react is still up in the air.
Guests: Axios’ Margaret Talev, Jonathan Swan, and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg.
The consensus among economists is that the U.S. recovery will most likely be something in between a V and a W — a sharp drop, a relatively small bounce back, and then a long period of slow growth.
Guests: Axios’ Felix Salmon, Sam Baker, and Mike Allen.