*Biden to announce new 60-day eviction ban protecting most of US population.*

*U.S. diplomat Sherman backs moves to end 'forever war' authorizations.*

Members of the UK Parliament continually accept gifts which are tantamount to bribes.

Members of Congress in the US are not allowed to accept, and do not accept, gifts of nonzero value. Barnie Frank did accept the zero-dollar bill I gave him, but then he voted for the DMCA anyway.

Bolsonaro claims there was election fraud in recent Brazilian elections and threatens to cancel the next election if Brazil does not switch to paper ballots.

Brazil should switch to paper ballots, because the current system cannot be properly audited. I have not seen any plausible claims that there has been election fraud, but there could be, and it would be well to eliminate that risk. However, I would not trust Bolsonaro to attempt to make elections honest, and his threat would imply an autogolpe.

The presence of female elders in a family of giraffes helps the family survive. This may have to do with why giraffes evolved menopause.

The reason this concerns grandmothers and not grandfathers is that adult male giraffes do not stay in families with their offspring. They form separate groups consisting of adult males only. The only elders that can help lead the family are female.

Elephants are similar, except that the adult males are generally solitary.

Orca pods include male and female adults, but the males may have grown up in other pods.