UMass system gets $50 million gift, largest in school history
https://www.boston.com/news/schools/2021/09/01/umass-system-gets-50-million-gift-largest-in-school-history/?p1=recirc_mostpopular
China Preparing to Recognize Taliban if Kabul Falls: Sources
The move comes at the expense of the U.S., which has held up the Taliban’s international legitimacy as its remaining source of leverage while the militant group storms across Afghanistan.
By Paul D. Shinkman Aug. 12, 2021, at 12:52 p.m.
https://www.usnews.com/news/world-report/articles/2021-08-12/china-prepared-to-recognize-taliban-if-kabul-falls-sources-say-undermining-us-threats
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NATIONAL SECURITY
CIA warned of rapid Afghanistan collapse. So why did U.S. get it so wrong?
With U.S. officials struggling to explain why America’s longest war ended in chaos, a series of interviews revealed there’s plenty of blame to go around.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/cia-warned-rapid-afghanistan-collapse-so-why-did-u-s-n1277026
POLITICS NEWS
2 U.S. diplomats to be evacuated from Vietnam after "Havana Syndrome" incidents
The cases caused a brief delay in Vice President Kamala Harris’ planned trip to the country.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/two-u-s-diplomats-be-evacuated-vietnam-after-havana-syndrome-n1277539
Marburg virus: Man who died in Guinea found to have disease
By Vivienne Nunis Africa correspondent, BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-58156499China says crackdown on business to go on for years By Peter HoskinsBusiness reporter, Singapore https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58182658
Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'
By Matt McGrathEnvironment correspondent
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-58130705AFGHANISTAN Published August 21 Elite Taliban unit wearing US gear appears...iconic American WWII photo By Emma Colton | Fox News
(313 Badri Battalion/AP)
https://www.foxnews.com/world/taliban-unit-wearing-us-gear-mock-iconic-american-wwii-photo
Other News: 'peporus 'screaming for help'' In New Jersey, five people died in the same apartment complex in the city of Elizabeth. Officials are asking residents to check on their neighbours as the clean-up effort gets underway. Footage shows stranded drivers 'screaming for help' 'The BBC's US partner CBS has shared social media footage from the city of Yonkers in New York showing drivers stuck in their cars amid the flash flooding and calling for help. "Oh my God! This is terrible.": Footage shows multiple drivers stranded and screaming for help in their vehicles in Yonkers, New York on Wednesday after getting caught in flash floods that pummeled parts of New Jersey and New York. Senator Chuck Schumer: 'Climate change is upon us'Chuck Schumer was also at the NYC news conference, where he said he believed that the recent storms were a result of climate change.
The US Senate majority leader said that “global warming is upon us."
“When you get two record rainfalls in a week, it’s not just a coincidence,” he said. “When you get all the changes that we have seen in the weather, that’s not a coincidence.”
The senator added he believes that climate “will get worse and worse and worse, unless we do something about it.”https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-us-canada-58420997 Screentime ‘South Park’ Creators Sign Massive New $900 Million Deal With Viacom CBS The expanding ‘South Park’ universe will include new movies for Paramount+ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-05/south-park-creators-sign-900-million-deal-for-more-episodes-movies Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes welcomes 1st child with partner Billy Evans... https://abcnews.go.com/Business/theranos-founder-elizabeth-holmes-welcomes-1st-child-partner/story?id=79298331 (Congratulations.) Researchers find fine particulate pollution associated with increased risk of COVID-19 cases and death in three western U.S. states
BY Karen Feldscher Harvard Chan School Communications
DATEAugust 13, 2021
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/08/wildfire-smoke-linked-to-increase-in-covid-19-cases-and-deaths/ Tequila On ‘The Rock’: Dwayne Johnson Offers To Toast With His Viral Doppleganger September 2, 2021 at 3:00 pm https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2021/09/02/dwayne-johnson-the-rock-eric-fields-doppleganger-tequila-teramana/
(313 Badri Battalion/AP)
https://www.foxnews.com/world/taliban-unit-wearing-us-gear-mock-iconic-american-wwii-photoThe US Senate majority leader said that “global warming is upon us."
“When you get two record rainfalls in a week, it’s not just a coincidence,” he said. “When you get all the changes that we have seen in the weather, that’s not a coincidence.”
The senator added he believes that climate “will get worse and worse and worse, unless we do something about it.”
BY Karen Feldscher Harvard Chan School Communications
DATEAugust 13, 2021
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/08/wildfire-smoke-linked-to-increase-in-covid-19-cases-and-deaths/
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