D-K: Afghanistan “intelligence”

News: COVID: Latest trends, booster vaccinations, and vaccination mandates and incentives; Fed direction impacts markets; return of cryptocurrency theft proceeds; Biden using civil rights laws to push for vaccinations in schools; Colorado River water shortage; Haiti suffers dual-catastrophes; legal action in billionaire space race; and T-Mobile data breach.

Entertainment: Narcos Mexico and Manifest

D-K: California legislators proposing vaccination site anti-harassment bill.

News: COVID: The latest stats and data, new studies on vaccine effectiveness, vaccination mandates from employers, US/UK recent trends comparison and Florida law struck down; continued strength of the US economy; cryptocurrency theft gone wrong; Andrew Cuomo turns in his resignation; the federal infrastructure and budget bills move along; Oregon ends proficiency requirement for high-schoolers; Canada is open to US residents; Olympics report and Tik Tok becomes king of the heap.

Entertainment: The value of critical consumption.

D-K: Rochelle Walensky, director of the CDC

News: COVID: The latest stats, new vaccination and masking requirements, Asia and resurgence in Wuhan, who does or doesn’t get vaccinated and what’s happening in the UK; Eviction moratorium status; Mario Cuomo on the way out?; Infrastructure bill; and Olympics report.

Entertainment: Disney’s Jungle Cruise

D-K: Media reporting on Simon Biles

News: COVID: latest stats, revised CDC masking guidance, vaccination mandates for employees, possible need for vaccine boosters, a pill for COVID treatment and the NFL gets aggressive to save the 2021 season; GDP growth and tech sector earnings in markets and economy; House committee hearing testimony on the January 6 Capitol attack; Infrastructure bill advances in Senate; U.S. population growth, or lack thereof; graduate degrees - earnings versus debt; Mississippi directly attacks Roe v. Wade in Supreme Court case; Atlanta sex shop shooter pleads guilty; ride sharing saving lives; and Tokyo Olympics report.

Entertainment: Schmigadoon!

D-K: Rudy Giuliani and his involvement as Trump's legal counsel.

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Entertainment:  Space Jam 2

D-K: Scott and Mike as podcasters.

New: COVID update, vaccination challenges, inflation and growing economies, Texas legislative showdown, Branson in space, gun rights going to Supreme Court again? and a little sports.

Entertainment: A Quiet Place 2

D-K: Rich guys' space race.

News: COVID update, vaccination facts, June jobs report, Biden’s battle with big business, FTC direction on licensing and hearing aids and European auto companies pay $1bn over diesel emissions collusion.

Entertainment: Downton Abbey

D-K: U.S. Department of Justice and decision to file a legal challenge to Georgia’s recent voting law based on the Federal Voting Rights Act, on the cusp of the Supreme Court’s decision on an Arizona voting law.

News: COVID: Global under-reporting, COVID incidence in Africa surges, and the latest vaccination numbers; Stock market indexes; unemployment trends; Miami condo collapse; efforts to remove statues of racist figures in history; Chauvin sentenced for killing George Floyd; Bill Cosby goes free; NCAA rule changes; student’s use of bathrooms based on gender identity; and new discovery on bird biology and migration.

Entertainment: Top Netflix series - Lupin.

D-K: Biden voters may be surprised at his latest guidance on use of COVID relief funds and Indiana University thumbs it’s nose at Indiana law on vaccination requirements.

News: COVID: Brazil exceeds 500,000 deaths, CDC urging people to follow-through with second dose of vaccine and international travel update; Airlines struggle to keep up with demand; Spielberg and Netflix collaboration; Latest on the U.S. infrastructure package negotiation; Afghanistan government weakens; and Supreme Court decisions on free speech, Affordable Care Act, NCAA rules and religious objections to sexual identity equality policies.

Entertainment: New movie release from director Jon Chu — In the Heights, an adaptation of the 2008 Broadway musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegria Hudes.

D-K: Florida and Georgia policy makers who want to tell businesses how to operate.

News: COVID -- Employers requiring vaccines, latest data, new treatments and vaccines and a “tale of two societies,” as vaccination rates diverge; Latest jobs report, ransomware and Federal Reserve meeting; Biden/Putin meeting, Facebook sentences Trump, Israeli government changes; Bezos going to space, UFOs? and Alzheimer’s drug approval.

Entertainment: Top show on Netflix - Sweet Tooth, half boy, half deer.