News from the note…
A round up of the day’s news that might be of interest to you.
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Fauci says vaccines could be available to kids in early November https://t.co/yXYRvCquiQ pic.twitter.com/sPI6ijIkCL
— The Hill (@thehill) October 24, 2021
Arkansas’s Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson says mandates are deepening resistance to Covid-19 vaccination in his state.
— CNN (@CNN) October 24, 2021
A mandate for state employees “would probably increase vaccination rates, but it would also increase the resistance of some,” he says. pic.twitter.com/RV1khISKQq
“I obviously totally disagree with Senator Paul. He's absolutely incorrect. Neither I nor Dr. Francis Collins, the director of the NIH, lied or misled about what we’ve done,” Dr. Anthony Fauci tells @GStephanopoulos in response to NIH letter on Wuhan lab. https://t.co/mxoj9m6BsC pic.twitter.com/bdb2VT7CVe
— ABC News (@ABC) October 24, 2021
U.S. taxpayers largely funded Moderna’s COVID vaccine. The Biden administration is now leaning on the company to share its recipe. “Either we end this pandemic, or we muddle our way through,” one congressman says. https://t.co/YQNm2RCBmm
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 24, 2021
President Joe Biden will host critical moderate Sen. Joe Manchin and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer at his Delaware home in a push to finalize an agreement on a sweeping economic and climate package, a White House official told CNN. https://t.co/RySkpUhPqQ
— CNN (@CNN) October 24, 2021
Democrats 'pretty much there' on U.S. social spending bill -Pelosi https://t.co/rib6Eogw6O pic.twitter.com/oHDe8xE5rl
— Reuters (@Reuters) October 24, 2021
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of staff Mark Milley says the withdrawal from Afghanistan was a "strategic failure."
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) October 24, 2021
Fmr. US envoy to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad tells @marbrennan the U.S. did "not succeed" in building a democratic Afghanistan, "The struggle goes on," he says. pic.twitter.com/EEuWrm2UtM
Thompson says Facebook is "working with" House January 6 select committee https://t.co/doSBSBM7S2
— CBS News (@CBSNews) October 24, 2021
Colombian security forces capture the country’s most wanted drug trafficker, a rural warlord who stayed on the run for more than a decade by corrupting state officials and aligning himself with combatants on the left and right. https://t.co/3MggkofGjC
— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 24, 2021
An assistant director unwittingly handed Alec Baldwin a loaded weapon and told him it was safe to use, in the moments before the actor fatally shot a cinematographer, according to unsealed court documents. https://t.co/q1z1CXYoAF
— NPR (@NPR) October 24, 2021
Upwards of 10,000 trees weakened by fires, drought, disease or age must be removed in the wake of California wildfires, work that will keep a nearby highway closed to visitors who seek the world’s 2 largest sequoia trees. https://t.co/dqIvs4Ql4C
— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 24, 2021
