U.S. COVID-19 Toll Hits 140,000

• Major retailers including Wal-Mart, Krogers, Kohl's, Best Buy to mandate masks inside stores by next week.

• Oklahoma one of 17 states to report 1,000+ new cases, governor included

• Texas nearing 1,200 nursing home deaths, nearly 1/3 of current toll

• U.S. eclipses 1,000 deaths for first time since June 9 (per worldometers.info)

• Governor Walz to declare Minnesota's 'peacetime emergency declaration' through Aug. 12