Your Tuesday Briefing
Harry and Meghan interview, the latest moves by
Myanmar’s military to expand its control and
global warming in the tropics.
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Meghan and Harry’s bombshell interview
Hours after the interview was broadcast in the U.S. on Sunday, Britain was already grappling with the shock wave rippling out across the Atlantic, exposing a deep royal rift.
For many Black Britons, in particular, the interview offered a scathing assessment of the royal family and resurfaced barely submerged tensions over entrenched racism.
Recap: Meghan Markle made dramatic disclosures, including that there were “concerns and conversations about how dark” her son Archie’s skin might be when she was pregnant with him. (Harry later said neither Queen Elizabeth II nor Prince Philip was the source of that comment.) Meghan also disclosed that her life as a member of the royal family had become so emotionally desolate that she contemplated suicide. When she asked for help, she sai
Your Tuesday Briefing
Myanmar protesters going strong and bringing live music back to New York.
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Global signs of hope, even as 500,000 U.S. deaths approach
New cases, hospitalizations and deaths around the world have slowed drastically in the worst hotspots, with six countries accounting for most of the drop.
Experts attribute the progress to increased adherence to social distancing and mask wearing, the seasonality of the virus and a buildup of natural immunity among groups with high rates of existing infection.
It’s a window of opportunity to vaccinate widely and prevent more deaths, even as worries mount about contagious new variants, and lots of caveats and risks remain. “We see the light at the end of the tunnel, but it’s still a long tunnel,” said Wafaa El-Sadr, an epidemiologist at Columbia University.