A round up of the day’s news that might be of interest to you.
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NEW: CDC Director Redfield to US Senate cmte.:
“These facemasks are the important, powerful public health tool we have … I might even go so far as to say that this facemask is more guaranteed to protect me against COVID than when I take a COVID vaccine.” pic.twitter.com/7LJZ3U9xi1
Federal Reserve officials projected today that they would keep interest rates near zero through 2023, as it aims to help the economy fully recover from the coronavirus pandemichttps://t.co/M6EExt1ptX
Michael Caputo, the top spokesman at the Department of Health and Human Services, is taking a two-month leave of absence, the department announced a day after he apologized for a conspiracy theory-laden rant he made against career government scientists. https://t.co/dBR4mJdP4O
President Trump shared a doctored video of Democratic Joe Biden today that was flagged by Twitter, the latest instance of the White House and its allies spreading misinformation online https://t.co/OmylIRvzze
Bob Woodward on President Trump: "He failed himself, he failed the country, he failed the Republican Party, he failed the concept of the office of the president."https://t.co/wCeIuZN3Qs
A section of the Three Mile Bridge that connects Gulf Breeze, Florida, to Pensacola is missing due to #HurricaneSally, Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan says. https://t.co/eJVT7WMJ7U
Barbados announces plans to remove Queen Elizabeth II as head of state next year, marking the first time in nearly 30 years since a commonwealth country dropped a monarch. https://t.co/gIw4vzelF9
Japan's longest-serving prime minister Shinzo Abe left office amid cheers before his longtime aide Yoshihide Suga was elected the country’s first new leader in nearly 8 years https://t.co/hKCJX4KxAxpic.twitter.com/4NJWPOUtZ9
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