Briefly with OZY

America's latest mass shooting claimed the lives of eight people last night, days after President Joe Biden ushered in new gun restrictions. An increasingly aggressive China is expected to dominate talks between Biden and his Japanese counterpart at the White House today. And, like something out of a Breaking Bad episode, a North Carolina teacher is killed by a Mexican drug cartel.

President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that by Sept. 11 — 20 years after the attacks that sparked the so-called war on terror — the last GIs would come home. And New York's politicians are growling about the city's robot police dog.

After its longest war, the U.S. will pull troops out of Afghanistan by September 11th this year, President Joe Biden has promised. After J&J vaccinations were halted, some experts are saying the risk is actually lower than taking the contraceptive pill. And is it time the insect world becomes a Republic? Research shows Queen Ants brains can shrink dramatically.

Minneapolis police have arrested dozens of people who broke curfew to protest the latest fatal shooting of a Black man, with tensions high as the Derek Chauvin murder trial continues. Japan has alarmed its neighbors with plans to release contaminated water from Fukushima into the sea. And it was a hefty heist, the world's biggest bunny has been stolen.

Iran blames Israel for an attack on its nuclear facilities, vowing revenge. Protests erupt in Minneapolis after police shoot a Black man during a traffic stop. And, a tribe in Vanuatu is in mourning for Prince Philip, who they considered a god.

Tributes to Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth II's husband and the U.K.'s longest-serving consort, poured in from around the world after his Friday death at the age of 99. And workers have voted against unionizing an Alabama Amazon facility.

Action, not the ubiquitous "thoughts and prayers," is what's needed to curb gun violence in America, President Joe Biden says. Kim Jung Un harks back to dark days of famine as North Korea struggles with economic crises. And a giant monitor lizard goes on the rampage in Thailand.

Myanmar's ambassador to the U.K. found himself locked out of his embassy in London yesterday after criticizing the military junta. The Biden administration has restarted aid to the Palestinians after Trump halted it in 2018. And poet Amanda Gorman graces the cover of this month's Vogue magazine.

Oxford University has paused a trial of its COVID-19 vaccine, developed in conjunction with AstraZeneca, and its effectiveness in children, while British regulators review rare blood clots afflicting adults who’ve had the inoculation. And the world is minting a billionaire every 17 hours.

Minneapolis' police chief testified against his former officer Derek Chauvin on Monday, breaking with the unwritten "Blue Wall of Silence" rule that cops stick together. Russian dissident Alexei Navalny has been moved to his prison's sick ward as his health deteriorates. And in a propaganda offensive, China's made a new musical movie about the Uyghurs.