Susan Dyer Reynolds is John’s guest this hour

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With the Tokyo Olympic Games weeks away, Japan faces a double whammy over the escalating epidemic and mounting challenges to hold the sports event especially after the US warned Americans not to travel to the country.

Chinese observers believed that Washington's "Level 4: Do Not Travel" advisory, which is the highest cautionary level in the US State Department's hierarchy of warnings, is a bellwether in the international community and more countries could follow suit to issue travel alerts or other restrictions to their citizens to visit Japan.

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A newly disclosed effort by Russian intelligence to hijack the email system of a United States government agency prompted leading Democrats on Friday to urge stronger action against Moscow for accelerating cyberattacks ahead of President Biden’s summit next month with President Vladimir Putin.

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“We have a Second Amendment in this country, and I think we have an obligation to use it!” he said to the roars of an audience giving him a standing ovation, according to a clip of the rally included in this audio

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Garen Wintemute, MD, MPH is professor of emergency medicine and Baker–Teret Chair in Violence Prevention at the University of California, Davis, where he directs the Violence Prevention Research Program and the University of California Firearm Violence Research Center. A practicing emergency medicine physician, he was among the first to study firearm violence as a health problem.

For more information:  https://health.ucdavis.edu/vprp/

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell asked other GOP senators to vote against the January 6 commission as a "personal favor" to him. Earlier this month, the House passed a bill to create a bipartisan commission that would investigate the January 6 insurrection. The bill has received pushback from Republicans, including McConnell, who announced his opposition to the commission on the Senate floor last week.

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Biden and Putin will be meeting next month.

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday rolled out his plan to spend $2 billion on battling and preventing wildfires across California.

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