Here are the news items:

• Apple is rolling out an iPhone software update with a Facebook-rebuffing privacy feature.
• New research shows how neurons act in complementary ways as the brain analyzes the past and present. 
• He’s nearly 100 days into his presidency, and Joe Biden’s approval ratings are decent but lower than most of his predecessors’ at this mark.
• Dominic Cummings, the former top advisor to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, is preparing to make the case that Johnson is personally responsible for tens of thousands of second-wave COVID deaths.
• Environmental, social, and governance-oriented (ESG) funds have raked in $340 billion in the last two years – almost twice as much as other stock funds – but the Financial Times’ Robin Wigglesworth says that creates premium returns for “sinful” industries.

PLUS: John and Rebecca explain why they like a proposal to create a public bank in California.

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