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Dozens of journalists were delayed in their attempt to cover President Biden s trip to Europe when the infamous cicadas, that once-every-17-years plague, clogged the plane s engines. Via the New York Times:
Somehow, the flying insects had filled the plane’s engines, grounding it and forcing Mr. Biden’s aides to scramble for another way to ferry the reporters overseas. What was supposed to be a 9 p.m. departure was delayed until 11. And then until 2:15 a.m.
Perhaps it was inevitable, with billions of cicadas flying around much of the eastern United States in recent weeks. In the nation’s capital, where a brood that emerges every 17 years is near its beastly peak, they have crawled up the necks of TV journalists, splattered across car windshields and gotten tangled in the hair of anyone braving the swampy, 90-degree heat.
Vaccine advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration will meet next week to discuss the parameters for authorizing Covid-19 vaccines for children 11 and under, Dr. Paul Offit, a member of the advisory committee, said Friday.
Biden: This was not a riot. This was a massacre. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images
President Biden said during his speech in Tulsa that there was no proper accounting of the dead from the Tulsa Race Massacre that occurred 100 years ago. The death toll records by local officials said there were 36 people. That s all. Thirty-six people. Based on studies, records, and accounts, the likelihood the likely number is much more in the multiple of hundreds, Biden said.
The President said that an untold number of bodies were dumped into mass graves, adding, the process of exhuming the unmarked graves has started.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has dropped masking and physical distancing guidance for campers and staffers who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19.