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On National Security Education Day, Hong Kong Celebrates Police Brutality Posted by John Chan | Apr 15, 2021 After weeks of wall-to-wall advertising, the Hong Kong government celebrated its newly created “National Security Education Day” on Thursday. The New York Times’ Vivian Wang Teddy bears clad in black police riot gear, on sale for more than $60 apiece. Schoolchildren’s messages of gratitude to the authorities, pasted onto the walls of their schools. Uniformed police officers goose-stepping in formation, accompanied by a counterterrorism drill complete with a helicopter and host...

9:51 a.m. ET, April 12, 2021 50% of US adults expected to have at least one dose of Covid-19 vaccine by end of this week From CNN's Deidre McPhillips People wait in line at a pop-up Coviid-19 vaccination site in Orlando, Florida, on April 9. Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images If Covid-19 vaccinations continue at the current pace, the United States will likely hit a milestone this week: vaccinating half of adults with at least one dose of vaccine. Over the past week, more than 3.1 million doses of vaccine have been administered each day on average, according to data reported b...

Fauci says he is "very much" concerned about a possible mental health pandemic From CNN's Naomi Thomas Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, listens as President Joe Biden, not pictured, speaks at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, on February 11. Oliver Contreras/Sipa/Bloomberg/Getty Images Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told CBS’ Norah O’Donnell Thursday that he is “very much” concerned about the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on mental health,...

Commission Criticizes Lack of Preparedness; U.S. Likely to Implement Sweeping Rule on Tech-Related Transactions President Xi Jinping at a press conference in Kigali, Rwanda, taken on July 23, 2018. (Paul Kagame, https://flic.kr/p/28jsTzN; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/) The National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI) published its final report on March 1. The report stresses the importance of domestic investment in innovation and education, as well as a transformation of the federal approach to technology in national security. At the m...

Houston Health Department finds large amount of UK coronavirus variant in wastewater testing From CNN’s Kelsie Smith Dr. David Persse speaks at a press conference on Monday, March 8. Pool Houston health officials announced that the B.1.1.7 coronavirus variant first seen in the UK has been identified in over half of the city’s wastewater treatment plants. “There is a fairly large amount of the UK variant in our community,” said Houston Chief Medical Officer Dr. David Persse in a news conference. “And it is spreading.” Persse said the variant was identified in 21 out of 39 wast...