*US declares support for patent waiver on Covid-19 vaccines.*

I am curious to see how this change of position came about, and who championed it. Most of the officials that Biden chose for foreign policy have plutocratist leanings.

The article says nothing about the trade secrets of the vaccine companies, but I've read elsewhere that the US means to include them too.

Governments should require the vaccine companies to teach their methods to new producers, but that (unlike the patent license) is not just a matter of stating a new policy.

US citizens: call on Congress to include paid sick leave and family leave in the American Families Plan.

A wide variety of explosives and weapons have been confiscated from right-wing protesters in the past year.

*US seen as bigger threat to democracy than Russia or China, global poll finds.*

That was true for most of the time since 1990, and it is still true for Russia, but it is not true any more regarding China.

*Myanmar junta bans satellite dishes in media crackdown.*