The Justice Department announced new restrictions Tuesday on how it conducts any secret national security surveillance of candidates for federal office or their staff. The restrictions, announced by Attorney General William Barr in a pair of memos, are part of broader changes to the Justice Department’s surveillance procedures implemented in response to problems detected during the 2016 investigation into ties between Russia and President Donald Trump’s campaign. Coming just two months before the 2020 election, the changes are designed to ensure that law enforcement officials have to clear additional hurdles before pursuing the same type of surveillance as was conducted on a former adviser to Trump’s 2016 campaign.

Israel’s Health Ministry stated that 2,180 people had tested positive for the coronavirus in the previous 24 hours on Monday morning, the highest number of daily cases since the start of the pandemic, surpassing the previous record of 2,100 cases on July 28. There are currently 20,699 active cases, with 438 seriously ill patients, of whom 119 are ventilated. The death toll has risen to 946. Israeli’s lab technicians, who are on their third day of a strike, protested outside the Prime Minister’s Residence in Jerusalem at 5 p.m. The lab workers have been continuing to carry out coronavirus tests during the strike but have threatened to halt all tests if no progress in negotiations is made. Dr.

China likely plans to double its stockpile of nuclear warheads in this decade, including those designed to be carried atop ballistic missiles that can reach the United States, the Pentagon said in a report released Tuesday. Even with such increases, China’s nuclear force would be far smaller than that of the United States, which has an estimated 3,800 warheads in active status and others in reserve. Unlike the U.S., China has no nuclear air force, but the report said that gap may be filled by developing a nuclear air-launched ballistic missile. The Trump administration has been urging China to join the U.S. and Russia in negotiating a three-way deal to limit strategic nuclear arms, but China has declined.

Israel’s Health Ministry designated Bnei Brak as a “red” city, meaning it has a high number of coronavirus patients and thus is considered to be dangerous. According to the new “traffic light” agreement put forth by Ronni Gamzu, which was accepted by the Government on Monday, any city designated as a “red” zone will have numerous consequences and restrictions placed upon it. Thus far, there are 25 cities in Israel listed as “red” cities due to the high infection rate of COVID-19 patients in the city.

American factories expanded last month at the fastest pace since late 2018, continuing a rebound from the coronavirus recession. The Institute for Supply Management, an association of purchasing managers, reported Tuesday that its manufacturing index climbed to 56 in August from 54.2 in July, highest since November 2018. Anything above 50 signals growth, and U.S. manufacturing has been expanding for three straight months. The reading was bigger than economists had forecast. As the pandemic and the measures meant to contain it paralyzed the American economy, the survey showed that manufacturing contracted in March, April and May before resuming growth in June. The ISM reported that orders, production and export orders all grew faster in August.

Hamas announced on Monday that it has reached an agreement for the de-escalation of the violence across the Gaza-Israeli border. The ceasefire was reached through the Qatari envoy to the Gaza Strip, Muhammad al-Amadi, Egyptian mediators and the United Nations. Hamas has agreed to end the launches of explosives-laden balloons and rocket fire into Israel, which has kindled about 450 fires in Israel, burning thousands of dunams of land. Israel did not expressly confirm the ceasefire but it did announce it will be easing restrictions it imposed on the Strip in recent weeks on Tuesday morning, including reopening the Kerem Shalom border crossing, resuming fuel shipments, restoring Gaza’s 15-mile (25-kilometer) fishing zone, and allowing the transfer of Qatari funds into Gaza.

Apple and Google are trying to get more U.S. states to adopt their phone-based approach for tracing and curbing the spread of the coronavirus by building more of the necessary technology directly into phone software. That could make it much easier for people to get it on their phone even if their local public health agency hasn’t built its own compatible app. The tech giants on Tuesday launched the second phase of their “exposure notification” system, designed to automatically alert people if they might have been exposed to the coronavirus. Until now, only a handful of U.S. states have built pandemic apps using the tech companies’ framework, which has seen somewhat wider adoption in Europe and other parts of the world.

A Black man who deputies said was stopped for riding his bicycle in violation of vehicle codes was fatally shot when he dropped a bundle of items that included a gun, authorities said, setting off a protest march to a nearby sheriff’s station in Los Angeles. Sheriff’s Lt. Brandon Dean said the specific violations were not known, the Los Angeles Times reported. Dean said investigators had not yet interviewed the two deputies, but he gave this account: When deputies tried to stop the man Monday, he dropped his bike and ran. When they caught up to him he punched one of them in the face and dropped a bundle of clothes he was carrying. The deputies spotted a handgun in the bundle and opened fire. “He was in possession of a firearm and did assault a deputy,” Dean said.

A federal appeals court on Tuesday blocked a New York prosecutor from obtaining Donald Trump’s tax returns while the president’s lawyers fight a subpoena seeking the records. The three-judge panel ruled after hearing brief arguments from both sides. Trump’s lawyers asked for a temporary stay while they appeal a lower-court ruling that granted Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.’s office access to Trump’s tax returns. A lawyer for Vance’s office had argued that further delays would only impede their investigation. THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below. NEW YORK — A federal appeals court is weighing whether to allow a New York prosecutor access to President Donald Trump’s tax returns while his lawyers fight a subpoena seeking the records.

Zoom’s videoconferencing service is deepening its integral role in life during the pandemic as tens of thousands more businesses and other users pay for subscriptions to get more control over their virtual meetings. The surge in paying customers enabled Zoom to hail another quarter of explosive growth. The company on Monday reported that its revenue for the May-July period more than quadrupled from the same time last year to $663.5 million, boosted by a steadily rising number of users converting from the free to paid version of Zoom’s service. Zoom finished its fiscal second quarter with 370,200 customers with at least 10 employees, a gain of about 105,000 customers from the end of April.