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Should vaccinated SC residents wear masks as Delta variant spreads? What experts say The Island Packet 13 hrs ago Sam Ogozalek, The Island Packet (Hilton Head Island, S.C.) Jul. 5—This was supposed to be Americas post-pandemic summer. "A summer of freedom. A summer of joy," as the Biden administration recently put it. But fears of another COVID-19 surge are growing in South Carolina and across the United States as the highly infectious Delta variant, first discovered in Indi...

A white supremacist march in downtown Nashville left bystanders unsettled. Heres what one expert says may be driving hate groups and conspiracists.

A white supremacist march in downtown Nashville left bystanders unsettled. Heres what one expert says may be driving hate groups and conspiracists.

Next month’s planned meeting between US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to include conversations on Ukraine, COVID-19 and the recent diversion of a flight by officials in Belarus, but as tensions between the two countries remain tense, there are bigger issues at play, like the hacking of the Colonial Pipeline,  … Continue reading "What a Future Russia House Must Look Like"

The Cipher Daily Brief Get a daily rundown of the top security stories delivered to your inbox Monday through Friday with exclusive briefs and columns on what matters most to you and your organization. SIGN UP FOR The Free NewsletterSign up How to Integrate Climate in Future National Security May 4, 2021 The Newsletter As part of a special series on climate in partnership with The Intelligence Project at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and Cipher Brie...

John F. Kerry, former Secretary of State and current Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, joined intelligence experts and other stakeholders at a Harvard Kennedy School conference on the geopolitical, intelligence, and national security implications of climate change on Friday. The half-day conference was co-sponsored by the HKS Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs’s Environment and Natural Resources Program, the Belfer Center’s Intelligence Project, and the nonpartisan th...

The Cipher Daily Brief Get a daily rundown of the top security stories delivered to your inbox Monday through Friday with exclusive briefs and columns on what matters most to you and your organization. SIGN UP FOR The Free NewsletterSign up The Link Between National Security and Climate Change in Asia April 21, 2021 The Newsletter The White House is preparing to launch a Leaders Summit on Climate hosted by President Joe Biden beginning Thursday. 40 World leaders were invited to participate in t...

MUSC: Statewide immunity to coronavirus at about 60% VIDEO: MUSC: Statewide immunity to coronavirus at about 60% By Live 5 Web Staff | April 8, 2021 at 4:12 PM EDT - Updated April 8 at 5:46 PM CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - Officials at the Medical University of South Carolina say they are shocked after they say experts at the hospital estimated statewide immunity to the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 has hit about 60%. “I’m a little shocked,” said Michael Sweat, Ph.D., leader of the MU...

The Pentagon often wargames future scenarios for when ‘all hell breaks loose’ with the idea of training for the worst-case scenario.  Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin made clear when he took the helm at the Pentagon earlier this year, that – consistent with President Joe Biden’s focus on climate change – the DOD would include climate as a threat to national security in the next iteration of the National Security Strategy. He also said that the impacts of climate change will be inclu...

By James Oliphant and Chris Kahn | Reuters WASHINGTON – Since the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, former President Donald Trump and his Republican allies have pushed false and misleading accounts to downplay the event that left five dead and scores of others wounded. His supporters appear to have listened. Three months after a mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol to try to overturn his November election loss, about half of Republicans believe the siege was largely a ...