Here's your midday update on everything happening in San Diego, the nation and the world on Tuesday, September 21, 2021.
CHANGE IN THE WEATHER
·President addresses UN on heels of botched Afghan exit, surging COVID and new Cold War fear
·Biden: The US is 'back at the table'
·Biden announces US will increase funding to help developing nations confront the climate crisis
·UN chief says climate alarms are ringing at a 'fever pitch'
·Nikki Haley says Biden 'ignored' threats in UN speech that did not mention Russia, China by name
·Brazil’s unvaccinated Bolsonaro appears to break U.N. vaccine ‘honor system’ during address
HEARTLESS
·Joy Reid frames Petito story as 'missing White woman syndrome'
·CNN's Don Lemon argues Laundrie family has 'privilege' because of their skin color
·Coroner faces uphill battle to answer critical questions in Gabby Petito case: forensic pathologist
·Gabby Petito's case underscores how easy it is to hide the darkest parts of our lives
·What Gabby Petito’s Case Says About Cops—and Us
THANKS COVID
·COVID-19 has killed around as many Americans as the 1918-19 flu
·New Zealand Cops Arrest Men Entering Locked-Down City With ‘Large Amounts’ of Illicit KFC
·How the pandemic helped scatter $1-million homes across L.A.
·People are worried about going back to the office because they don’t want to poo at work
VACCI-HATE
·Why the South hates vaccines and loves monoclonal antibodies
·Biden’s Vaccine Mandate Hurts Working Class America The Most
·Restaurant releases new footage of wild brawl sparked by vaccine proof request
·How to Make an Anti-Vax Protest Even Worse: Blackface
·States embrace vaccine mandates despite potential worker exodus
CORONA-OVER-IT
·Poway Unified will keep board meetings virtual after anti-mask protests
·German officials fear anti-mask radicalization after killing
ONE NATION, DIVIDED
·Why has massive California never been split into two states? Or six?
CRISIS
·'Where Is She?': MSNBC Anchor Tears Into 'Border Czar' Kamala Harris For Not Handling Border Crisis
·DHS chief 'horrified' by images of US Border Patrol confronting migrants
·Rep. Omar: Atrocious images from border should make Americans’ skin crawl
·Biden administration seeks to lift US refugee cap to 125,000 beginning 1 October
·Confined to U.S. border camp, Haitian migrants wade to Mexico for supplies
·Biden's Approval Rating Tanks With Texas Hispanics Amid Border Crisis, Migrant Influx
ORANGE THEORY
·Trump Org Prosecutors Find New Evidence—in a Basement
·Memo shows Trump lawyer's six-step plan for Pence to overturn the election
·How Rudy Giuliani's massive ego saved the country from an utter disaster on election 'fraud'
HERE’S JOHNNY!
·Jon Stewart Drops First Look Trailer for New Apple Show