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Human Rights Campaign has hired an independent law firm to investigate President Alphonso David's work in helping New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo respond to allegations of sexual harassment.https://trib.al/lE4117B 

Biden reiterated today his campaign pledge to declassify documents pertaining to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, adding that he welcomed a new DOJ filing to conduct a "fresh review" of the available documents.https://trib.al/dZ8WWP7 

"Today, I, and so many other young people, wake up enraged — the IPCC report is apocalyptic, catastrophic, and nothing we haven’t been screaming from the rooftops for years," the executive director of the Sunrise Movement said.https://trib.al/sBU2Cg3 

The CDC has raised the travel advisories for France and Israel to the highest level as COVID cases surge in those countries.https://trib.al/WL2Xplx 

The past 50 years saw the fastest temperature increases in at least 2,000 years — and the connection between human emissions of greenhouse gases and global warming is “unequivocal," a new U.N. report finds.https://trib.al/Qg44Jew 

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ICYMI: Florida parents, including those of students with disabilities, are suing over Gov. DeSantis' order barring school mask mandates. "They are framing this as a parent choice issue when this is really a public health issue," an attorney said.https://trib.al/MzJWYNH 

About 64% of active duty military members are fully vaccinated, higher than the American average but low enough to pose concern for potential outbreaks, per the NYT.https://www.axios.com/military-covid-vaccine-mandate-d98b8366-4b15-49b8-be70-49c54df08aad.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_content=politics-vaccinemandates …

BREAKING: The Pentagon will require all members of the military to get vaccinated by Sept. 15https://trib.al/D3IQ7TS 

NEW: The Dallas Independent School District has become the first district in Texas to defy Gov. Greg Abbott's order barring schools from issuing mask mandates.https://trib.al/KocqLaz 

A judge has issued an order blocking the arrests of the Texas Democrats who left the state to prevent a GOP effort to pass voting restrictions — paving the way for their return home without risking arrest, as Gov. Greg Abbott has threatened.https://trib.al/sFXmsv4 

Beijing is planning COVID mitigation measures for next year's Winter Games, including: • a redesign of all 39 venues to ensure minimal athlete contact with others • athlete interviews through plastic walls • a bubble where Chinese staff will livehttps://trib.al/rHQN44g 

The U.S., U.K. and Canada imposed new sanctions against Belarus today on the first anniversary of its fraudulent election — leading its authoritarian leader to call the U.K. "America's lapdogs" and tell London to "choke on" the sanctions.https://trib.al/wfOU8jo 

Experts attribute as much as 30% of traffic and emissions to cars searching for a parking spot. If cars could park themselves efficiently, it would ease some of those problems. One parking garage in Detroit is serving as a lap to try to make that happen.https://trib.al/lH1XK4f 

SCOOP: CIA director Bill Burns will visit Israel today for talks that are expected to focus on Iran, Israeli officials tell @BarakRavid. He's also expected to meet Palestinian Authority officials in Ramallah.https://trib.al/IIU19Jh 

HD maps are critical to the safe, wide-scale deployment of autonomous vehicles. More accurate than satellite-based GPS, they provide richly detailed models of the operating environment and important context to help AVs avoid mistakes.https://trib.al/HJpTbuU 

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