*University of Florida reverses decision, will allow professors to testify as paid experts in voting rights case.*

Senator Schiff calls for the US to state clearly its commitment to defending Taiwan if China attacks,*

The logic of this is obvious: to make sure doesn't someday attack Taiwan on the supposition that the US will not help Taiwan resist.

I am unable to judge how "strategic ambiguity" might help avoid an attack, but I won't claim that is impossible. I am no expert on displomacy.

*NIH Officials Worked With EcoHealth Alliance to Evade Restrictions on Coronavirus Experiments.*

These experiments took place in the Wuhan lab in China, with US funding specifically to do these experiments, and the experimenters pushed the safety limits.

These experiments did not cause a pandemic, but there was a risk they could have done so.

Restoring mangrove swamps could be an effective way of sequestering large amounts of carbon in the sea.*

I see two possible problems with it.

• The amount that can be done is limited by the length of suitabkle shoreline that can be used.
• Whatever mangroves people restore, sea-level rise could destroy in a few decades. Will that release the carbon they will have sequestered?

Interviews with exiled Nicaraguan opponents of the Ortega couple's dictatorship, including their daughter.