The US must continue using masks, keeping distance, and avoiding/prohibiting activities that tend to spread Covid-19.

Otherwise the newer, more infectious strains are likely to spread and cause another surge in cases.

Oxfam says that the UK's arms sales to Salafi Arabia are helping it continue fighting in Yemen.

Secretary General Guterres: *The world faces a pandemic of human rights abuses in the wake of Covid-19.*

Nathan J. Robinson, former columnist for The Guardian, explains how the paper's US editor terminated dealings with him after he was absurdly accused of antisemitism.

In the article, he explains both the paper's good aspects which are why I refer principally to its stories, and its bad aspects, such as helping to give Corbyn the shaft.

Virginia has abolished the death penalty.

Almost half the states in the US have done this. I hope Biden will encourage progress.