Saturday Headlines

 

• How Music Created Silicon Valley (The Honest Broker)

• New variant classed 'of concern' and named Omicron (BBC)

• Dow posts worst drop of 2021 amid variant news (WP)

• New ‘Variant of Concern’ Fuels Global Fear of Another Virus Surge (NYT)

• Announcement of new virus variant alarms world, crashing stocks and banning flights (WP)

• EU states agree on need to halt travel to southern Africa (Guardian)

• New Virus Variant Stokes Concern but Vaccines Still Likely to Work (NYT)

• Japan tightens entry measures over new variant (NHK)

• Omicron variant feared at Amsterdam airport as the Netherlands enters night-time lockdown (WP)

• Pandemic focus swings from Europe to southern Africa (Financial Times)

• Afghan Economy Nears Collapse as Pressure Builds to Ease U.S. Sanctions(NYT)

• NASA Is Practicing Asteroid Deflection. You Know, Just in Case. (Atlantic)

• Two more atmospheric rivers to blast British Columbia and western Washington state (WP)

• FDA seeks advice on whether to limit Covid-19 pill in pregnant people (Politico)

• Upcoming Moon missions spur the search for new spacesuits (BBC)

• As cases rise nationwide, a flood of covid patients causes ‘almost unmanageable’ stress in Michigan (WP)

• ‘There is nothing alive on that tree’: Inside a giant sequoia grove scorched by the KNP Complex fire (LAT)

• The Deadly Myth That Human Error Causes Most Car Crashes (Atlantic)

• Biden administration pushes to raise rates for oil and gas drilling on public lands and waters, citing climate change (WP)

• Stephen Sondheim | 1930–2021: Central figure in American musical theater dies at 91 (WP)

• New Report Finds Computers Actually Outpaced Human Intelligence Back With Commodore 64 (The Onion)