NEWSLINKS:
Empty Beijing streets as COVID cases hit record (Reuters)
With record covid cases, China scrambles to plug an immunity gap (WP)
After a year, omicron still driving COVID surges and worries (AP)
New subvariants, family gatherings may bring more Covid-19 after holiday, but experts don’t expect severe surge (CNN)
Under Missile Strikes, Ukrainians Haul Water, While Surgeons Work in the Dark (NYT)
Merkel: There was nothing I could do about Putin (Politico)
Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine is pushing out one of Russia's biggest tech giants (Insider)
The Future of American Warfare Is Unfolding in Ukraine Aid to Ukrainian forces is achieving more than the long U.S. intervention in Afghanistan did. (Atlantic)
United States Enters a New Era of Direct Confrontation With Iran (NYT)
Afghans are bracing for a winter many fear will be even worse than the last (NPR)
How did we end up in a world where Trump wanders about doing whatever he wants and nobody is shocked? (Guardian)
Schumer proposes Dem leadership shake-up (Politico)
Biden said his administration was involved in negotiations to avert a looming U.S. railroad strike that could shut down supply chains across the country. A rail traffic stoppage could freeze almost 30% of U.S. cargo shipments by weight. (Reuters)
Six million Americans carried guns daily in 2019, twice as many as in 2015 (Guardian)
Elon Musk said he plans to bring back all banned Twitter accounts.The reversal would begin next week, according to the platform’s new owner. Users are banned for things like violent threats, harassment, abuse and misinformation. (WP)
Twitter has lost 50 of its top 100 advertisers since Elon Musk took over, report says (NPR)
525-million-year-old fossil defies textbook explanation for brain evolution (Phys.org)
Avian flu has wiped out 50.54 million birds in the United States this year, making it the country's deadliest outbreak in history, U.S. Department of Agriculture data showed. The deaths of chickens, turkeys and other birds represent the worst U.S. animal-health disaster to date. (Reuters)
Maya Lin’s Vietnam memorial blazed a path in 1982, but no one followed (WP)
An Ancient Language, Once on the Brink, Is a British Isle’s Talk of the Town (NYT)
There’s Some Big College Football Game in Columbus, If You Care (WSJ)
The World Cup's New High-Tech Ball Will Change Soccer Forever (538)
Failure To Get Into Private College To Be Most Financially Responsible Act Of 17-Year-Old’s Life (The Onion)
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