Today's Headlines

Bloomberg:               

• Taliban Special Forces Bring Abrupt End to Women's Protest.  
• Chinese Finance Regulators Vow Tighter Supervision, New Rules.  
• ECB Tightening Too Soon Risks ‘Big Mistake,’ EU’s Gentiloni Says.
• Global Gas Price Surge Threatens to Dent the Economic Recovery.
• Hedge Funds Slash Exposure to U.S. Stocks That Count on China.  
• Back to Uncertainty Replaces Back to School for the Stock Market.
• Car Shows Are Back and CEOs Have Wheeling-and-Dealing to Do.
• Millennials and Gen Z Are Hooked on a $46 Billion Shopping App.  
• FDA Pushes for Moderna Booster Shot Data in Weighing Dose.
• Wealthy Nations Will Have 1.2 Billion Doses They Don’t Need.  
• ECB Dares to Ask If Crisis Stimulus Can Be Pared Back: Eco Week.   
• Bond-Market Day of Reckoning Denied as Weak Jobs Dim Taper Talk.

Wall Street Journal:  

• Taliban Claim Breakthrough in Afghan Resistance Haven.
• China Plays the Climate Card.
  
• The Afghan Fiasco Will Stick to Biden.
  
• Colleges Violate Their Promises to Vaccinated Students.
  
• A Woke City Wakes Up.
  
• Why I Won’t Support Spending Another $3.5 Trillion.
• Infrastructure Bill Could Alter States’ Transportation Approach.
• Schools Are Open but Don’t Have Enough School Bus Drivers.
• Researchers Infect Volunteers With Coronavirus, Hoping to Conquer Pandemic.
• The Children of 9/11 Remember the Pain of Losing Parents.
• Boeing Dreamliner Delivery Likely Delayed Until October.
• Main Street Pensions Take Wall Street Gamble by Investing Borrowed Money. 
• Media Can’t Handle the Climate Truth.
• Chip Shortage Has Spurred Demand for Little-Known Component.

CNBC:

• Afghanistan pullout sparks EU calls for more military might. 

IG:

• Weekend Markets Trading Live.

Barron's:

• Had bullish commentary on (XLRN), (NVTA), (SRPT), (CMPS), (ALVR), (TMHC), (DUOL), (TWOU) and (CHGG).
• Had bearish commentary on .
  

MarketWatch.com:    

• Delta blamed for poor jobs report, but too few people willing to work might be a bigger problem.   
• Opinion: Forget short-term stock-market fads and just buy these 5 rocketing tech stocks.

Fox News:

• GOP lawmaker says he has recordings of Biden 'lying' about Americans' access to Kabul airport.
• Afghanistan virtually missing from NYT front page.
• New fear parents can loose custody of their children if they are not vaccinated.
• EXCLUSIVE: Top US military official makes chilling Afghanistan war prediction ahead of 9/11 milestone.

Newsmax:    

• Rep. Ronny Jackson to Newsmax: Taliban Holding Americans Until US Recognizes Taliban.
• Lower Mississippi River, New Orleans Ports Reopen to Vessel Traffic.

Reuters:

• U.S.-bound migrants fill Colombia town as COVID-19 border closures lifted. (Aug. 11)
  
• Colombia has administered at least 35,750,492 doses of COVID vaccines so far. (graph) Assuming every person needs 2 doses, that’s enough to have vaccinated about 35.5% of the country’s population.
• COVID-19 infections are decreasing in Colombia, with 1,959 new infections reported on average each day. That’s 6% of the peak — the highest daily average reported on June 27.

 Jerusalem Post:

• COVID-19: New 'Mu variant' from Colombia could be vaccine resistant - WHO.

Nature: 

• Why US coronavirus tracking can’t keep up with concerning variants. (April 7) Laboratories supported by the US government have doubled the rate at which they are sequencing SARS-CoV-2 genomes over the past two months. Still, the number of genomes that the country shared in the online genome repository GISAID in March represented only 1.6% of its positive COVID-19 cases that month.

Newsweek:

• Mu COVID Variant, Which Could Be Resistant to Vaccines, Now in Almost Every State.

Zero Hedge:

• 3 New Cases Of "Mu Variant" Found In Hong Kong, Authorities Fear It Is Vaccine Resistant.
• USA Today 'Fact Check' Accuses Gold Star Parents Of Lying, Then Issues Massive Correction.
• China's Marxist "Profound Revolution" Is Here, And Nobody In The West Is Ready.
• DHS's E-Verify Authorizes Thousands Of Illegal Immigrants To Work In US.
• Oregon Police And Firefighters Sue Governor Over Covid Vaccine Mandate.
• One Bank Spots A Bizarre Market Divergence: Stocks Are At All Time Highs Yet Investors Are Bracing For Crisis.
• Why All The Fuss About Ivermectin?
• Israel's 'Coronavirus Czar' Tells Citizens To Prepare For Eventual 4th Shot.
• 100 Afghan Evacuees Flown To US Flagged For Terrorist Ties.
• Taliban Says China Will Be Afghanistan's "Most Important Partner".
• "Medical Drones" Deployed Over Italian Beaches Search For Feverish People.
•   Reports Of Rare Body Inflammation After COVID-19 Vaccinations Being Investigated By EU Watchdog.
• Amazon Air Delivery Now Runs 164 Flights A Day Despite 'Commitment' To Carbon Neutrality
• Treasure, Self-Delusion, And Groupthink.
• 7 Examples That Show How Completely And Utterly Insane Our Society Has Become.
• "This Is Bad" - Russian Cosmonauts Discovery Tiny Cracks In Space Station.
• EU To "Engage" & Coordinate With The Taliban, Short Of Political Recognition: Borrell.
• Top Health Officials Push Back Against Biden's Booster Jabs Plan.
• The Covidian Cult (Part III): There's Reality & There's "Reality". 
• Meanwhile In Canada, Rural Shack Sells For 37% Above Asking Within Days.
• China Decrees No 'Sissy Men' Allowed On TV.
• Fitful 48 Hours For Americans, Afghans Trying To Escape.

TheGatewayPundit.com:

• UPDATE: Father of Wounded Marine at Walter Reed Last Night: “Biden had the audacity to try to visit my son this evening. He was not welcomed”.
• Sounds Racist: FDA Scares Off Americans from Taking “Horse Drug” Ivermectin for COVID — But Pushed the Drug on African Migrants in 2015.
• Devastated Nation Rallies to Fallen Marine’s Family, Handles Unborn Child’s Tuition in Matter of Hours.
• Australia Unveils Orwellian App Using Facial Recognition Software, Geolocation to Enforce Covid Quarantine Orders.
• US Marine on the Ground in Kabul Says Biden Admin Filled Planes with Unvetted Afghans – Those with Papers were Left Behind — NY Times Confirms Afghans Were Unvetted.
• “Am I Going to End Up Dying Here?” – Pregnant American Woman Stranded in Afghanistan Says Taliban Hunting Americans Left Behind by Biden (VIDEO).
• A Gift from Joe Biden and Woke Generals: Taliban Parades US MRAP and M1117 Security Vehicles in Latest Victory Parade (VIDEO).
• Brave Afghan Women Hold Protest in Kabul Against Suppression of Women’s Rights — Taliban Gasses Them (VIDEO).

The Epoch Times:

• Chinese Propaganda at Home and Abroad: Chinese Media Attacks the US.

Covid-19(Data, Maps, Graphs):

• Our World in Data:  New Global Covid-19 Cases(7-day rolling average graphs). New US Covid Hospital Admissions/ICU Admissions/Deaths
  
• FT.com:  Fully Vaccinated by Country(graph). Global Lockdown Stringency Index(map).
• Bloomberg.com:  International Travel Restrictions.  Case Graphs by State.
  
• NYTimes.com:  County Trends and Clusters. Local ICU Occupancy.
  
• Brown School of Public Health:  Covid Severity by State/County(map).  US Hospital Capacity(region).
  
• CovidActNow:  Covid Severity/Infection Rate by Metro Area.
  
• KFF:  US Vaccinations by Race/Ethnicity.
  
• Carnegie Mellon: Covid-Like Symptoms in Community. Covid Symptom Searches on Google. Covid-Related Dr.Visits.  Restaurant Visits. Wearing Masks. (graphs)
  
• Safegraph.com:  Commerce Patterns(graphs).