With so many crazy things happening, sometimes things fall through the cracks. Here are some headlines that you may find interesting and worth discussing.
- With only nine days to go, it’s unlikely the U.S. will meet the original goal of having 20 million people vaccinated by the end of the year, members of Operation Warp Speed said Wednesday.
- Salt Lake City says it will reopen schools, which had been all-remote, once teachers are vaccinated.
- Duh!: Despite Trump’s intense hunt for voter fraud, officials in key states have so far identified just a small number of possible cases.
- We Italians cannot go without hugging: After months of isolation, a ‘hug room’ lets Italian nursing home residents touch family for the first time.
- Back to the bubble!
- The State Department notified Congress that it’s moving to issue a license for the sale of 7,500 precision-guided, air-to-ground munitions valued at $478 million to Saudi Arabia, according to two officials familiar with the issue.
- Businessman and former presidential candidate Andrew Yang has filed paperwork to run for mayor of New York City, the city’s Campaign Finance Board confirmed on Wednesday.
