• States like Alabama with soaring coronavirus infection rates have a window of opportunity to bring it under control, the country's top infectious diseases expert said Tuesday.
• Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Diseases, said the United States is in the midst of a resurgence of new coronavirus cases, sometimes seeing daily cases almost double over the country's previous baseline high. He said that differs from other countries that saw a decline after a baseline high.
• "We are facing a serious problem now," Fauci said in a news conference with Alabama Sen. Doug Jones.
• Infection rates have been rising particularly in the South and West.
• "What is alarming is the slope of the curve," Fauci said about the rise in cases in Alabama.
• He added that the state isn't yet at the point of exponential growth. "You have an opportunity, a window to get your arms around this and to prevent it from getting worse."
• Full story from Kim Chandler HERE.

• Senate President Pro Tem Del Marsh on Tuesday sent Gov. Kay Ivey a proposal to spend $300 million in federal coronavirus relief money on internet connectivity in the state.
• Marsh said required remote-learning options for the upcoming school year require quick action by the state. 
• “We are asking you, as Governor and President of the State Board of Education, to begin work as soon as possible with the State Board, Superintendent, and other relevant parties to ensure that we are making the best use of these federal resources as we seek to educate our students in light of the coronavirus outbreak,” Marsh, R-Anniston, wrote.
• “It is of utmost importance that we make every effort to equip our students with necessary devices for remote learning at the start of the upcoming school year. Leaving this effort up to local school districts will leave many of our students unprovided for.”
• Specifically, Marsh’s letter asked for $100 million on broadband expansion efforts and $200 million for the purchasing of devices for students. 
• Ivey press secretary Gina Maiola said the governor’s office received the letter Tuesday afternoon.
• Read more from ADN's Mary Sell HERE.

• President Donald Trump's June began with his Bible-clutching photo op outside a church after authorities used chemicals and batons to scatter peaceful demonstrators. It never got less jarring or divisive.
• Even measured against the warp-speed news cycle now routine under Trump, June was remarkable.
• By month's end, he was downplaying a coronavirus pandemic upsurge that was forcing Western and Southern states to throttle back their partial reopening of businesses. And Republican strategists already straining to retain Senate control in November's elections were conceding that Trump's performance could make it harder to defend their majority.
• Key Republicans were telling Trump they're worried about his campaign and he should heed polls showing him in trouble. They pointed to surveys showing diminished public optimism and many voters' views that Trump is poorly managing the surging virus and languishing economy. Still another said Republicans worry the GOP brand of cutting taxes could be overshadowed by Trump's drive to defend Confederate monuments.
• “In all elections, the political environment shapes how things come out, and sometimes you can’t control that,” No. 2 Senate Republican leader John Thune of South Dakota said last week. He said GOP candidates “need to do what they need to do to win. And in some states, he will be a benefit in some parts of the country. In other parts of the country, less so."
• Republicans control the Senate 53-47. Democrats must gain three seats to gain the majority if they win the White House because of the vice president’s tie-breaking vote, four if they don’t.
• Read more HERE.