The news to know for Tuesday, October 12th, 2021!
What to know about new talks between the U.S. and other nations: from an in-person meeting with Taliban leaders to a possible global deal impacting the tax rate.
Also, remember the college admissions bribery scandal? We'll tell you what the jury decided for the first two people to stand trial.
Plus, what happened with Southwest Airlines and the thousands of flights canceled over the weekend, how the next Superman will make history, and which iconic women will be featured on the U.S. quarter.
Those stories and more in around 10 minutes!
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Sources:
U.S.-Taliban Talks: Reuters, CBS News, BBC, CNN, State Dept.
Global Minimum Tax Agreement: WSJ, Fox Business, Al Jazeera, Reuters, White House
Pledge to Reduce Methane: Reuters, NY Times, Axios, WaPo, State Dept.
Navy Engineer Charged with Espionage: WaPo, NY Times, NPR, ABC News, DOJ
Parents Convicted in College Admissions Scandal: WSJ, Reuters, CNN, NY Times
More Boosters than Initial Doses: NY Times, NBC News, CNN, Becker’s Hospital Review, CDC
TX Bans Vaccine Mandates: Texas Tribune, NBC News, WSJ, Axios, Texas Gov.
Southwest Cancellations: CNN, Fox Business, NY Times, SWAPA
Raiders Coach Resigns Amid Controversy: Las Vegas Sun, ESPN, NY Times, NFL, Raiders
New Superman is Bisexual: NBC News, Deadline, Vulture, DC Comics, Tom Taylor
Women on U.S. Quarters: The Verge, USA Today, NPR, U.S. Mint
This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
Today's tuesday october Twa what you know about new talks between the: u s and other nations, from an in person meeting with taliban leaders to a possible global deal impacting the tax rate. Also remember the college admissions bribery scandal will tell you what the jury decided for the first two people to stand trial, plus what happened with southwest airlines and the thousands of flights cancelled over the weekend. How the next superman character will make history,
and iconic women will be featured on the? U s. Quarter will tell you who andwent welcome, welcome it,
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senior. U s and taliban official sat down face to face for the first time since american troops left Afghanistan and they covered quite a bit during the weekend talks. The US state department says they address security and terrorism concerns, that's a big one. It was lost round when the cia warned Al Qaeda might be moving back to afghanistan, hoping to rebuild to what it was before strike in the? U s on nine eleven, this weekend, the? U s and taliban leaders also talked about human rights, including whether women and girls can participate in all parts.
The afghan society that's been pretty uncertain lately, since the taliban have promised greater freedoms, but in reality women are only allowed to work certain jobs and at least for now not all girls are allowed to go to school. Another key issue that was brought up: the: u s, giving humanitarian aid directly to the afghan people. The united nations has millions of people in afghanistan, lack food, shelter and other essential supplies. It's not clear if the two sides reached any agreements over the weekend, but the? U s called it
talks quote candid and professional still. American officials say, though, keep judging the taliban on their actions, not just their words. Dozens of countries around the world have been making some big promises to tackle key issues. First, nearly a hundred forty countries, including the united states, agree to the most sweeping overhaul of global tax rules. In a century they all backed a new global minimum tax rate of at least fifteen
percent. Now this is a concept. That's been debated for a long time. It means corporations all around the world would pay no less than the decided rate, no matter where their headquarters are. The goal is to prevent companies from essentially shopping around the globe, to figure out which country can offer the smallest tax bill
its estimated the new minimum tax could bring governments and other a hundred and fifty billion dollars a year. But to be clear, this is not a done deal just yet all the country still actually need to change their national laws, and here are the? U s that means going through congress. All countries who signed honour, hoping they can get it done by
twenty twenty three. Also over the weekend, the? U s and european union lined up more than thirty countries in a new climate pledge the promising to lower math,
emissions, thirty percent by the year. Two thousand and thirty methane is the second largest driver of global warming after carbon dioxide and it's much more potent in the short term at heating the planet. So, president Biden's climate envoy, John Kerry has called cutting methane, the single fastest strategy that we have to keep the dangers of global warming from worsening. Remember scientists say those dangers include deadly heat waves, water shortages, crop failures and more methane is most often released into the atmosphere from landfills, livestock and thawing permafrost. The thing is, though, the four countries that emit the most methane
china, india, russia and Brazil did not join this pledge. Other top polluters did, though, like the? U S, mexico, canada and the european union, a nuclear,
engineer with the. U s. Navy was apparently trying to share some of america's most closely held secrets on submarines with another country, at least that's what the f b, I is saying the engineer and his wife are charged with espionage. Over the weekend newly released court documents show he was trying to sell information about certain nuclear technology and he thought he was making a deal with a representative of a foreign government, basically he's accused of offering navy secrets in return for one hundred thousand dollars in crypto.
currency over time, but the representative he was negotiating with turned out to be an undercover f b. I agent this had been going on for more than a year or two and the f b I detailed a lot of different ways. The couple tried to secretly share information. For example, in one case, the engineer left an sd card inside half a peanut butter sandwich in a plastic bag, while his wife acted as a lookout. Another time an sd card was hidden inside a pack of gum so far the fbi has,
not set at any foreign country. Actually, god classified information, and neither the engineer nor his wife have commented so far, though both be in court today
the first two people to actually stand trial for the college admissions bribery scandal were found guilty. You probably member these cases, even playing out for more than two years now. Nearly sixty wealthy and powerful people, including some celebrities, have been accused of basically paying their children's way into college. Most of them have been able to avoid trial by reaching collegial so they plead guilty in exchange for a lighter sentence, but it was up to a jury to hear the case involving two wealthy businessmen. Like many of the others, they were accused of conspiring with a corrupt college counselor to get their children into the university of southern california as phony athletic recruits.
now that the jury convicted both fathers they each face up to twenty years in prison, but sentencing guidelines, say they'll, probably get fewer than five, though know for sure. After their sentencing hearings in february, the most well known celebrities involved in this whole scandal were actresses, Lori, laughlin and felicity huffman, but they both made plea, deals and have already served their time other times
though, are scheduled for next year it seems covered nineteen booster, shots are booming, new data from the cdc shows more p,
we are getting a booster dose of the cover nineteen vaccine each day then are getting their first or second doses. In other words, the rate of people getting boosters is now outpacing the number of people starting their covered vaccination
Experts say that shows that almost all the eligible people who have not yet already gotten their shots are likely the hard core refusers so far about fifty six percent of the. U S, population is fully vaccinated and well that's more than some early estimates. Some experts now say around. Ninety percent of the population needs to give vaccinated to really stop the spread of the new delta variant and speaking of vaccines. The by an administration is getting even more push back over its vaccine mandate. We're talking about the one the president announced last month. It's as companies with one hundred or more workers need to make sure that employees are vaccinated or tested regularly. Well, the texas governor just signed an executive order that bans that kind
The policy in his announcement governor abbot, said, quote the covert nineteen vaccine is safe, effective and our best defence against the virus, but should always remain voluntary and never forced. The white house has not yet commented, but some texas based companies are already facing court challenges over their vaccine mandate.
Or lawsuits. Our expected, we have much more
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Wes flights were cancelled. The airline blamed some of the problems on air traffic control issues and bad weather. There was also reportedly a problem with south west internal system that re roots planes in riga, signs pilots whenever there is a change. This all happened just a few days after southwest decided all employees needed to get vaccinated against covered
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Going on one of the most
Popular football coaches in the nfl is now out of a job las vegas, raiders, coach, Jon, gruden stepped down last night. In the wake of an email controversy,
just hours earlier, the new york times reported crude and often used homophobic and otherwise offensive language should describe some anna fell onerous coaches and journalists who cover the league. A couple days before that the wall street journal reported, he used a racist term to describe the nfl union chief and of elephants. Reportedly found these emails as part of a separate workplace conduct investigation that did not directly involve him. Still. There reportedly got passed on to the raiders and last night greed and apologized and resign saying quote: I love the raiders and do not want to be a distraction. The teams assistant head, coach, rich massage, will take over for now until a permanent replacement is named.
then a man of steel is bisexual dc. Comic says superman is going to have a relationship with a man in the next issue of the comic book, superman son of call out in the series the man behind the cape is John Kent. The son of clark, kent and lois lane, who inherited his father's superhero powers, do see comic, says John can't will develop feelings for a male reporter, and the story line will include a kiss writer Tom Taylor says he chose to go this round, because quote everyone needs heroes and everyone deserves to see themselves in their heroes. Who said, he was grateful that dc comics and warner brothers agreed with his vision. The new issue of the comic book will be released next month. A group of iconic american women will soon be featured on the eu
best quarter. It's part of a four year programme to celebrate the accomplishments and contributions women have made to the nation congress approved the programme. Earlier this year, the women highlighted on the coins include poet and author, my angelou, the first american woman in space astronaut, sally ride, chinese american actress, anime Wong, suffragist, nina o tara, warren and native american activist wilma man killer. Who was the first female principle chief of the cherokee nation. The new designs will be on the tales side of the coin. George Washington will still be on the head side. You estimate plans to issue up to five quarters highlighting different women each year. It starts
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And only looks much brighter to us, because the sun is so much closer to earth than serious says as for serious its most visible here in the northern hemisphere during the winter months to find it astronomer say to use the orion constellation as a marker. Serious is located below orion's belt and to the left
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