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testing. its going to help us accelerate our nationwide effort to reopen schools safely. last week i directed all states, tribes and territories to make all adults eligible to be vaccinated no later than may 1. while this is a time of optimism, its not a time for relaxation. i need all americans to keep doing your part. wash your hands, stay socially distanced, keep masking up as recommended by the cdc and get vaccinated when its your turn. none of this is political. its all science ba...

centers and more increase in testing. its going to help us accelerate our nationwide evidence to reopen schools safely. last week i directed allstate®s, tribes and territories to make all adults eligibly vaccinated to later than may 1. while this is a time of optimism, its not a time for relaxation. i need all americans to keep doing your part. wash your hands, stay socially distanced, keep masking up as recommended by the cdc and get vaccinated when its your turn. none of this is pol...

on that day. june 6th, 1944. its to listen to the echoes. theyre asking us to do our job, to protect freedom in our time, to defend democracy. to stand up against aggression abroad and at home. >> president biden stressing the importance of democracy from the very cliffs that allied forces scaled 80 years ago to fight the nazis. >> plus, the far right is finally facing accountability, with steve bannon ordered to report to prison next months and alex jones forced to liquidate his asset...

over delivering. so this was a distinct change, i think, in messaging and sort of represents a noof phase according to some of the people i talked to who are responsible for the vaccine rollout. i think numbers wise, yeah, its totally possible when you start to look at the amount of vaccine thats available, look from moderna, pfizer, johnson & joh johnson, getting the vaccines into peoples arms, and also into hard-to-reach communities. its not a slam dunk. i think the vaccine itself wi...

able to achieve without also acknowledging the cataclysmic situation american women find themselves in today. one that threatens to wipe away many of the advancements were supposedly celebrating. lets start with the unemployment crisis. the latest jobs report reveals that overall unemployment rate ticked down slightly to 6.2%. that number doesnt tell the whole story. for example, since the pandemic hit, the retail sector has lost nearly 363,000 jobs, 98% of which belong to women. pande...

And since thison is not related to diversity, and since this is a new amendment being offered and since we have things that have been tabled to can we take ofw, this amendment and you can bring it back with a place you think is appropriate since we all agree it is not appropriate . Does that make sense . I agree, i just dont know if it is possible. Instead of us trying to figure out where to put it now, can we get through this one section . I think we are trying to see if it is can we take of th...

Good morning. Im adam segal, correct the digital at Cybersecurity Program has the council just want to say a few words of thanks and a few words of welcome. First let me thank shannon and lauren and alex for helping put this together and making sure that it runs smoothly. We want to thank pwc which is provided the funding to help us run this as as a number of othr programs in the digital cyberspace policy program. Like many of the other think tanks were doing more and more work in this space, on...

The former world footballer of the year, george weah, has won the liberian president ial election. Mr weah played for a string of high profile clubs, including ac milan, chelsea, and manchester city. He entered politics after his retirement in 2002, and will succeed Ellen Johnson sirleaf africas first elected female president. From monrovia, umaru fofana reports. Hundreds of jubilant supporters of george weah took to the streets minutes after the Electoral Commission had announced the results. T...

But most of this panel i think will be focussed on data and the importants of data and how we use it in the elections community. We have a great panel here for you. My staff has provided some abbreviated biographies which ill read and then well start hearing from the panel. Ive asked each of them to speak for about five minutes or so from their perspective on this panel and then i have some questions for them. And then we will go to questions for you. So before i get started, i want to thank you...

State about security challenges. I want to welcome my panelists up here. Thank you for being to participate in this discussion. Obviously, its the topic day jour for Election Administrators and folks like jeremy in the Computer Science community dealing with election cybersecurity, securing the elections process. Just as a way of background, this topic is the topic de jour coming out of the elections where we saw state actors targeting systems and vendors and sphere fishing attempts in 2016 as w...