Monday Watch

Today's Headlines 

Bloomberg:                  

• U.S. Urges China to Halt ‘Provocative’ Flybys Near Taiwan.  
• China Steps Up Efforts to Ring-Fence Evergrande, Not to Save it.   
• China’s Energy Crisis Highlights Weaknesses in Xi’s Power Plans. 
• U.K. Plans All Electricity From Renewable Sources by 2035: Times.
• U.K. Drivers Face Higher Petrol Prices as Troops Deployed.  
• Europe’s Power Crisis Is Moving North as Water Shortage Worsens.  
• Puerto Ricans Fume as Outages Threaten Health, Work, School.    
• Asian Stocks Set for Gains; Dollar Holds Losses: Markets Wrap.
• OPEC+ Will Drive Oil Prices Over Coming Months, Says Vitol.   
• U.S. Payrolls Hinge on Progress With Record Vacancies: Eco Week.
• Progressives Offer to Cut Spending Short to Save Biden Plan.
• Vaccine Mandates Hit Amid Historic Health-Care Staff Shortage. Nearly one in four beds lies empty at TaraVista Behavioral Health Center in central Massachusetts -- not for lack of patients, but for lack of staff. Even before the pandemic, nurses and lower-paid aides were in perennially short supply, but the 116-bed facility could still run full, said Chief Executive Officer Michael Krupa. At similar hospitals around Massachusetts, hundreds of beds can’t be filled, and “the reason is exclusively staff,” he said. What some are calling the worst U.S. health-care labor crisis in memory is sharpening concerns about attrition from resistance to vaccine mandates -- even in the medical mecca of Massachusetts, where Covid cases remain well within hospital capacity. About 16% of American hospitals had critical staffing shortages as of Oct. 1, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
  
• Pandora Papers Highlight How Wealthy Use Offshore Companies.  
• Amazon Makes a Robot Bet That Apple Wouldn’t—But Consumers Aren’t Ready. 
• A Stock Trader’s Guide to Navigating the Global Energy Crisis. 
• Delta to Ramp Up Boston Service, Add New International Routes.

Wall Street Journal:

• Robots Take Over Italy’s Vineyards Amid Worker Shortages 
• Unlearned AIDS Lessons for Covid. In the 1980s, Fauci and Redfield sowed fear about a heterosexual epidemic that never happened.  
• Will China Save Evergrande?
• Mortgage Payments Are Getting More and More Unaffordable.
• Covid-19 Charges at Hospitals Can Vary by Thousands of Dollars.  
• Abandoning Bagram May Have Cost 13 U.S. Lives.  
• The ACLU Decides ‘Woman’ Is a Bad Word.
• China’s Evergrande Debt Crisis: Sizing Up a Big Mess.
• Medical Device Makers Seek Priority in Chip Shortage.

Barron's:

• Had bullish commentary on (TGT), (WMT), (XPO), (HAS), (MAT), (XEC), (MRO), (LNG), (TELL), (MTOR), (CLF) and (X).

Fox News:  

• Dem governor candidate belittles Black group for endorsing Republican.

CNBC:

• Google’s pivot away from bank accounts shows why finance is a tough industry for tech giants.
• Semiconductor chip shortage could extend through 2022, Marvell CEO says.
• Restaurant owners nationwide push to make street-side dining permanent.

Zero Hedge: 

• Reports Of Military Planes At Bagram Air Base Fuel Speculation Of Chinese-Afghan Alliance. 
• $2.2 Million Raised For Marine In Military Detainment After Criticizing Afghan Chaos.
• Hollywood Stageworkers Consider First Strike In History In Threat To "Cripple" Content Studios.
• Corporate Insiders With Impeccable Trading Records Send Clear Signal "Stock Market Is Rigged".
• Goldman On The Biggest Story In The Markets Right Now And 9 Other Observations.
• The Next "Lehman Moment" - Will China Try To Create A Dangerous Diversion?
• NBC Reporter Goes Into Damage Control After NASCAR Fans Chant "F**K Joe Biden".
• J&J Vaccine Possibly Linked To Two More Serious Health Conditions, EU Regulator Finds.
• Progressives Blink First, Offer To Cut Spending Short To Reduce $3.5 Trillion Plan.
• "It's A Really Dangerous Situation" - Afghanistan Faces Imminent Blackouts As Power Bills Skyrocket.
• In Deep Ship: What's Really Driving The Supply-Chain Crisis.
• Tesla Posts Record 241,300 Deliveries In Q3.
• Lessons To Learn From The Recent Decline.
• Kemp: Europe's Rising Energy Prices Will Force Factory Closures.
• "Running Out Of Space" - UK Farmers To Cull 120,000 Pigs Amid Labor Shortages At Slaughterhouses.
• Fed Vice Chair Clarida Traded Millions One Day Before Powell Emergency Pandemic Statement.
• Disinfo Vs. Democracy.
• India's Ivermectin Blackout: The Secret Revealed. 
• Goldman's Stagflationary Horror Chart Book.

NY Times:

• Covid on the Border: Migrants Aren’t Tested on Arrival in U.S. The Border Patrol says it has insufficient time and space to conduct coronavirus testing at crowded processing stations. Officials in border cities fear further spread of the virus.
  
• Covid-19 cases are plunging in the South over the last two weeks despite packed college football games and campuses. Florida -51%(vaccination rate: 57%), Louisiana -43%(vaccination rate: 46%), Tennessee -58%(vaccination rate: 46%), Georgia -40%(vaccination rate: 45%), Texas -38%(vaccination rate: 51%), Mississippi -52%(vaccination rate: 44%) and South Carolina -47%(vaccination rate: 47%), Arkansas -46%(vaccination rate: 46%) and Alabama -41%(vaccination rate: 43%).
• Covid-19 hospitalizations are rising at some of the fastest rates in the country over the last two weeks in three of the most vaccinated states. Maine +20%(vaccination rate: 69%), Vermont +14%(vaccination rate: 70%) and Rhode Island +11%(vaccination rate: 68%).

Reuters:

• 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 40.1% of the country’s population. COVID-19 infections are decreasing in Colombia, with 1,518 new infections reported on average each day(21 infections per 100K people reported last 7 days). That’s 5% of the peak — the highest daily average reported on June 27.
• South Africa has administered at least 14,670,161 doses of COVID vaccines so far. Assuming every person needs 2 doses, that’s enough to have vaccinated about 14.9% of the country’s population. COVID-19 infections are decreasing in South Africa, with 1,423 new infections reported on average each day(17 infections per 100K people reported last 7 days). That’s 7% of the peak — the highest daily average reported on July 7.
• Singapore has administered at least 9,403,389 doses of COVID vaccines so far. Assuming every person needs 2 doses, that's enough to have vaccinated about 82.4% of the country's population(4th best rate in world). Singapore is reporting 2,131 new infections on average each day(261 infections per 100K people reported last 7 days), 100% of the peak - the highest daily average reported on Oct. 2.

OANN:

• Sen. Paul: Biden, Fauci Continue To Ignore ‘The Science’ Of Natural Immunity.

NewsMax:

• Biden Loses Support From Independent Voters.
• Sen. Blackburn Slams Unraveling Biden 'Build Back Broke' Agenda.

TheGatewayPundit.com:

• Science and Medicine are Now Political Weapons Used Against Americans.
• White House Dubs “We Love Joe!” Chant in Video of Congressional Ballgame Appearance to Make Biden Seem Popular.  
• Fired Healthcare Workers in New York Protest Vaccine Mandates by Burning Their Hospital Scrubs (VIDEO).
• Denver Police Officer and Father of Four Takes the Jab and Now Cannot Walk.
• Taiwan Says 77 Chinese Warplanes Enter its Defense Zone in the Span of Two Days.
• What Are They Hiding? UK Government Blacks Out Details of Conversations Between Fauci and British Doctors on COVID’s Origins.
• House Budget Committee Chairman Says The Federal Government “Can Afford Anything” (VIDEO).
• BOOM! Sen. Ron Johnson Drops Truth-Bomb on Senate Floor – 63% of UK Delta Deaths in Last 7.5 Months Were Fully Vaccinated (VIDEO).
• Former Australian Member of Parliament Says Pfizer and AstraZeneca Paid Lobbyists to Direct Australia’s Leaders to Push Vaccine Mandates (VIDEO). 
• “I’m Vaccinated, But I Also Have Covid – And it Spread Through My Entire Family!” – CNBC Host Grills Fauci on Vaccine ‘Breakthrough’ Cases (VIDEO).
  

The Epoch Times:

• Does Collusion Between Wall Street and the CCP Fuel Chinese Trading in 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).

Night Trading

• Asian indices are +.25% to +1.25% on average.
• Asia Ex-Japan Investment Grade CDS Index 84.25 -.25 basis point.
• China Sovereign CDS 46.5 unch.
• Bloomberg Emerging Markets Currency Index 59.0 +.05%.
• Bloomberg Global Risk-On/Risk Off Index 2,909.0 -25.0 points.
• Volatility Index(VIX) futures 22.90 -1.4%. 
• Euro Stoxx 50 futures n/a.
• S&P 500 futures +.30%.
• NASDAQ 100 futures +.34%.

Morning Preview Links

Earnings of Note

Company/Estimate

Before the Open:

• (CMTL)/.49
• (PEP)/1.73
  

After the Close:

• None of note
  

Economic Releases

10:00 am EST

• Factory Orders for Aug. is estimated to rise +1.0% versus a +.4% gain in July.
• Factory Orders Ex Transports for Aug. is estimated to rise +.6% versus a +.8% gain in July.
  

Upcoming Splits

• None of note
  

Other Potential Market Movers

• The Eurozone PMI report, HealthTech Innovation Day and the (IBM) investor meeting could also impact trading today.

US Equity Market Hours

• 9:30 am - 4:00 pm EST

BOTTOM LINE: Asian indices are higher, boosted by commodity and technology shares in the region. I expect US stocks to open mixed and to rally into the afternoon, finishing modestly higher.  The Portfolio is 100% net long heading into the week.

Today's Headlines

Bloomberg:         

• Vaccine Mandates Hit Amid Historic Health-Care Staff Shortage. Nearly one in four beds lies empty at TaraVista Behavioral Health Center in central Massachusetts -- not for lack of patients, but for lack of staff. Even before the pandemic, nurses and lower-paid aides were in perennially short supply, but the 116-bed facility could still run full, said Chief Executive Officer Michael Krupa. At similar hospitals around Massachusetts, hundreds of beds can’t be filled, and “the reason is exclusively staff,” he said. What some are calling the worst U.S. health-care labor crisis in memory is sharpening concerns about attrition from resistance to vaccine mandates -- even in the medical mecca of Massachusetts, where Covid cases remain well within hospital capacity. About 16% of American hospitals had critical staffing shortages as of Oct. 1, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. “We don’t have a single position we can afford to lose right now,” Eric Dickson, president of UMass Memorial Health, told Bloomberg Radio last month. “I have areas that have a 50% vacancy rate. And God forbid we lose any more.” In recent weeks, worker shortages have prompted extreme measures, even in regions that aren’t Covid hot spots. “While it may be disappointing for someone to wait for a lobster roll or an ice cream cone, or have a longer wait for their hotel room, when essential staff are missing from human services, clients’ and residents’ safety and health are immediately at risk,” he said.
• China Continues Taiwan Flybys With 20 More Jets Seen Saturday.    
• Busiest Summer for Asia IPOs on Record With $56 Billion in Deals.
• Top UAE Official Warns on Risk of ‘Cold War’ Between China, U.S. 
• Saudis Triumph in Oil Market With Comeback From Covid Crisis.
• Pelosi Sets Revised Oct. 31 Target to Pass Infrastructure Bill.
  
• Carmakers Log Ugly Quarter Amid Chip Squeeze: Auto Sales Update.
• Restaurants’ Fragile Recovery Is Fizzling in the U.S.
• U.S. Rents Are Increasing at ‘Shocking’ Rates of More Than 10%.
• Charting the Global Economy: U.S., Europe Inflation Accelerates.

Wall Street Journal:  

• Covid-19 Vaccine Makers Say There Are Enough Doses for Everyone. Poor Countries Are Still Waiting for Shots.  
• Pelosi Goes for Broke.
  
• Ilhan Omar’s Idea of Progress.
• Democratic Clashes Hold Up Biden’s Agenda. 
• Tesla Deliveries Surge, Defying Supply-Chain Woes.
• Countdown Starts on Chinese Company Delistings After U.S.-China Audit Fight.
• Market Is Right to Be Spooked by Rising Bond Yields. 
• Democrats Pursue Europe’s Welfare State on American-Style Taxes. Biden’s agenda further severs the connection between government benefits and the obligation to pay for them.

IG:

• Weekend Markets Trading Live.

CNBC:

• Why California is shutting down its last nuclear plant.
• Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is a ‘toxic’ workplace, some current and ex-workers claim in essay.
• American, JetBlue, Alaska Airlines tell employees they must get Covid vaccinations under federal rules.
• These high-yielding investments can protect against inflation risk, market analysts say.

 Yahoo News:

• Merck’s COVID-19 pill is a 'huge game changer': Doctor. (video)
  

Fox News:   

• McConnell and Graham ask CBO for 'true cost' of Biden spending plan.
• Biden admits ‘everyone’ frustrated as Dem disunity stalls agenda, pres to launch campaign to sell ideas.
• Socialist spending bill fiasco a setback for Pelosi, a big win for far-left Jayapal.
• Canadian pastor warns Americans after arrest for opposition to COVID rules.

Newsmax:   

• Panama Official: 60,000 More Migrants, Mostly Haitians, Are Headed to US.
• Rep. Stewart: Getting Votes to 'Destroy the American Dream' Isn't Easy.

NY Times:

• Covid on the Border: Migrants Aren’t Tested on Arrival in U.S. The Border Patrol says it has insufficient time and space to conduct coronavirus testing at crowded processing stations. Officials in border cities fear further spread of the virus.
  
• Covid-19 cases are plunging in the South over the last two weeks despite packed college football games and campuses. Florida -51%(vaccination rate: 57%), Louisiana -43%(vaccination rate: 46%), Tennessee -58%(vaccination rate: 46%), Georgia -40%(vaccination rate: 45%), Texas -38%(vaccination rate: 51%), Mississippi -52%(vaccination rate: 44%) and South Carolina -47%(vaccination rate: 47%), Arkansas -46%(vaccination rate: 46%) and Alabama -41%(vaccination rate: 43%).
• Covid-19 hospitalizations are rising at some of the fastest rates in the country over the last two weeks in three of the most vaccinated states. Maine +20%(vaccination rate: 69%), Vermont +14%(vaccination rate: 70%) and Rhode Island +11%(vaccination rate: 68%).

Reuters:

• 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 40.1% of the country’s population. COVID-19 infections are decreasing in Colombia, with 1,518 new infections reported on average each day(21 infections per 100K people reported last 7 days). That’s 5% of the peak — the highest daily average reported on June 27.
• South Africa has administered at least 14,670,161 doses of COVID vaccines so far. Assuming every person needs 2 doses, that’s enough to have vaccinated about 14.9% of the country’s population. COVID-19 infections are decreasing in South Africa, with 1,423 new infections reported on average each day(17 infections per 100K people reported last 7 days). That’s 7% of the peak — the highest daily average reported on July 7.
• Singapore has administered at least 9,403,389 doses of COVID vaccines so far. Assuming every person needs 2 doses, that's enough to have vaccinated about 82.4% of the country's population(4th best rate in world). Singapore is reporting 2,131 new infections on average each day(261 infections per 100K people reported last 7 days), 100% of the peak - the highest daily average reported on Oct. 2.

Zero Hedge:   

• Fed Vice Chair Clarida Traded Millions One Day Before Powell Emergency Pandemic Statement.
• NYC Restaurateurs: Business Down 40-60% Due To Vaccine Mandate.
• "We've Been Locked Up For Almost 50 Days" - 1000s Rally Against Auckland Lockdown As Public Opposition Grows.
• UK Military Wants To Spy On Social Media To Detect "Change In Population Sentiment".
• France Begins "Price Protection" Measures To Shield Consumers From Soaring Energy Prices.
• Dutch Greenhouses Go Dark As Energy Crisis Worsens; Food Inflation Fears Mount For Europe.
• COVID-19 Detention Camps: Are Government Round-Ups Of Resistors In Our Future?
• How Autonomous Weapons Could Be More Destabilizing Than Nukes.
• Housing's On Fire... Literally: Burned-Out Boston Home Selling 'As Is' For $400K.
• Orwell And The Woke.
• US Trade Chief To Give Major Speech Monday Belatedly Unveiling Biden's China Trade Strategy.
• "The Great Reset" Is The Road To Socialism Mises Warned Us About.
• Military Suicides Jump By Alarming 15% - Pentagon Downplays Pandemic's Impact.
• The Streets Of Major US Cities Are Being Flooded With Far More Drugs Than Ever Before.
• Liberal Justice Sotomayor Rejects NYC Teachers' Pro-Choice Vaccine Plea.
• Despite DHS Panic Over 400K Migrants In October, Agency Issues 'No-Arrest' Guidelines.

TheGatewayPundit.com:

• Scenes in Australia Now Look Like Dystopian Horror Flick – And Lt. General Promises EVERYONE Will Have First Dose of Vax by Christmas (VIDEO).
• Far Left ‘Eco-Terrorist’ Confirmed To Lead Bureau Of Land Management By Senate Democrats.
• UPDATE: Court Denies Bail to Jeremy Brown Until Next Tuesday – Former Green Beret Was Arrested Thursday After He Earlier Refused FBI Request to Be Informant Plant at Jan. 6 Rallies.
• Dems Stunned In Florida As More Republicans Continue to Register To Vote – Openly Admit Their Policies Don’t Connect with Voters.
• National School Boards Association Begs Biden To Label Outraged Parents “Domestic Terrorists” and Use The Patriot Act Against Them.
• CRAZY: Australian Authorities Show Up to Woman’s Home and Harass Her Over Social Media Posts: “We Have Instructions Because You Have Been Posting Things” – (Video).
• Likely Charges Announced Against Lt. Col. Scheller for Speaking Out Against Military Leaders Who Surrendered to Taliban and Armed them with $80 Billion in US Weapons.

The Epoch Times:

• US Heading Towards New Cold War With Chinese Regime Amid Beijing’s Rising Aggression: Experts.

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).

Evening Headlines

Bloomberg:    

• Biden Says Infrastructure Can Wait, Spending Plan May Shrink.
• DeFi Platform Mistakenly Sends $89 Million; CEO Begs Return.
• Treasury Is Pushing to Impose Bank-Like Rules on Stablecoins.
• Clarida Traded Into Stocks on Eve of Powell Pandemic Statement.  
• Justice Sotomayor Lets NYC Schools Enforce Vaccine Mandate.  
• U.S. CLO Sales Hit Annual Record Amid Leveraged Buyout Loan Boom.
• JPMorgan Sees Natural Gas Crisis Pushing Oil to $84 By Year-End.  
• Charting the Global Economy: U.S., Europe Inflation Accelerates.
• Coal Surges to Record as Global Scramble for Energy Accelerates.
• JetBlue Says Workers Must Get Covid Shots Under Federal Mandate.
• Citigroup’s Levkovich Dies, Was Struck by Car on Long Island.

Wall Street Journal:  

• Capital Gains and Capital Pains in House Tax Proposal.
• There May Soon Be a Covid Pill .
• The Joe Manchin Moment.  
• Will Biden’s Fall Be Worse Than His Summer?
• China’s Power Shortfalls Begin to Ripple Around the World.
• Pandemic’s Peloton Obsession Turns to Peloton Fatigue.
• House Panel Hits Baby-Food Makers Over High Metal Content.

IG:

• Weekend Markets Trading Live.

CNBC:

• Biden’s top trade advisor will say China isn’t complying with phase 1 deal, according to sources.
• Dow climbs 480 points, Nasdaq snaps five-day losing streak as stocks rebound to start October.
• Turmoil at Bezos’ Blue Origin: Talent exodus came after CEO’s push for full return to the office.
• Fauci says FDA will review Merck’s new Covid treatment ‘as quickly as they possibly can’
• Biden rallies support for social spending deal as House Democrats delay infrastructure vote.
• Ozy Media is shutting down after reports about misconduct and lies at the company.
• Stocks are at a 70-year high as a share of household financial wealth.
• Key inflation gauge watched by the Federal Reserve hits another 30-year high.
• Energy rally has more room to run and these four stocks should benefit, Piper Sandler says.
• Justice Kavanaugh tests positive for Covid, days before SCOTUS term begins.

MarketWatch.com:              

• Why a pill you take at home could change the direction of the pandemic.
  
• ‘This is a profound game changer’: Merck’s antiviral pill cuts risk of COVID-19 hospitalization and death in half, data show .
• Amazon-backed EV company Rivian files for IPO .
• Online traders see 76% likelihood that Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell will stay for a second term.

 Yahoo News:

• Merck’s COVID-19 pill is a 'huge game changer': Doctor. (video)
  

Fox News:   

• Parking garage unveils diversity spots reserved for LGBTQ, migrant motorists.
• School board group demands help from Biden as parents stand up against CRT

Newsmax:   

• Fed Judge Questions Whether 1/6 Rioters, George Floyd Protesters Get Same Justice. 
• WH Presses US Airlines to Mandate Vaccines for Staff.

Zero Hedge: 

• US Service Members File Lawsuit Against Department Of Defense Over Vaccine Requirement.
• Biden Fails To Clinch Infrastructure Deal With Progs, Says "Doesn't Matter" When Bill Passes, Is Ordered By Staff Not To Take Questions.
• "This Is A Game-Changer" - Merck Releasing "Phenomenal" Test Results For Experimental COVID Pill.
• Record-Smashing Total Of 38 PLA Jets Breach Taiwan Airspace On China's National Day.
• Bill Gross Found Guilty Of Contempt, Ordered To Spend Five Days In Jail In Suspended Sentence.
• Declassified Report Definitively Debunks 'Havana Syndrome' Attacks That US Officials Blamed On Russia.
• Watch: Dr. Fauci Confronted About CDC's Unverified Claims About "Breakthrough" Infections.
• Archegos 2.0? Multi-Billion-Dollar "Mr. China" Fund Suffers Huge Loss After Xi Crackdown.
• De Blasio Orders NYPD To Shift Focus To "Customer Service" Amid Surge In Shootings.
• Banks Around World Are Suffering Big Outages, Leaving Millions Of Customers In Lurch At Worst Possible Time.
• The Definitive List Of How We're Living In '1984'.
• Nasdaq Suffers Worst Week In 7 Months; Bonds, Gold, Crypto, & The Dollar Higher.

TheGatewayPundit.com:

• Breaking: FBI Arrests Retired Green Beret Jeremy Brown for Attending Jan. 6 Protests and Standing Outside Capitol — AFTER HE REFUSED TO BE THEIR INFORMANT!
• ANOTHER HATE HOAX: Black Woman in Atlanta Accused of Pretending to be White Male Member of the Ku Klux Klan, Threatening Black Neighbors.
• Sheila Jackson Lee Lies and Says the Border Is Secure as Country Braces for Record 400,000 Illegals to Storm Across Open Border This Month.
• California Governor Gavin Newsom Announces First K-12 Covid Vaccine Mandate For In-Person Learning (VIDEO).
• Shock Report: Biden Admin Prepares for Up to 400,000 Migrant Surge in October.
• DeBlasio’s New York City: Business Down 40-60 Percent Due to Vaccine Mandates.
• NOW DELAWARE: With Only 10% of 2020 Election Results Audited, 20,000 Invalid or Suspect Ballots Identified.

The Epoch Times:

• Beijing Groomed Telecom Giant Huawei to Expand China’s Global Influence: Report.

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).