Republican candidates that won Republican primaries by professing bellicose opposition to abortion are trying to disown those views to win the final election.

So, did they seriously mean the positions they took before the primaries? Or do they seriously mean the positions they take now? Or neither one?

In poor countries, many practical obstacles impede vaccination and treatment of Covid-19.

Six of these obstacles are not a matter of "hesitancy". One of the obstacles is a historical cause of understandable distrust, and thus hesitancy.

*Corporate PACs Have Lavished $22 Million on 'Big Lie' Republicans Since Jan. 6.*

*Turkish pop star Gülsen arrested over religious schools joke.* The joke clearly suggested religious schools have undesired effects on some students, but is not a direct accusation of wrong, Nonetheless, she has been denied bail.

An uncontacted indigenous tribe in the Brazilian Amazon has been murdered one by one. None remain alive.

The massacre may have started when murderous colonizers got the tribe used to eating gifts of sugar, then gave them poison (mixed with sugar?).

The last survivor refused all contact. We do not know the tribe's language, or even its name.

*Invasions and illegal exploitation of indigenous lands in Brazil tripled under Bolsonaro, says advocacy group.*