Here are the news items:
- A new World Health Organization report warns that antibiotic medicines under development today are ineffective against drug-resistant bacteria.
- The theory that the coronavirus behind COVID-19 may have escaped from a laboratory in Wuhan is gaining credibility.
- China Huarong’s bonds have plunged, but it’s just too big (and state-owned) for China to let it fail.
- A new weapon can take down even advanced military drones by emitting a microwave beam.
- “Woke capitalism” has led to a rocky relationship between the Republican Party and corporate America – and created strange bedfellows in Democrats and big business.
PLUS: John interviews New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman about Trump’s post-presidency — and the Republican Party post-Trump.
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