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Senate passes defense bill, setting up Trump veto fight | TheHill

Source: Senate passes defense bill, setting up Trump veto fight | TheHill

Morocco Counts 38,201 Active COVID-19 Infections, 982 Severe Cases

Morocco also reported another 3,887 COVID-19 recoveries in the last 24 hours.  The total number of recovered COVID-19 carriers in Morocco is now 349,821. The national recovery rate is 88.7%. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health counted 50 more COVID-19-related fatalities, bringing the death toll to 6,542. The mortality rate stands at 1.7%.

Source: Morocco Counts 38,201 Active COVID-19 Infections, 982 Severe Cases

New on the COVID-19 Front Lines: Children May Be Driving the Pandemic After All – DER SPIEGEL

A large study from Austria shows that SARS-CoV-2 infects just as many schoolchildren as it does teachers. Other surveys indicate that while young children may show no symptoms, they are quite efficient at spreading the virus.

Source: New on the COVID-19 Front Lines: Children May Be Driving the Pandemic After All – DER SPIEGEL

Government to send mass text message on new pandemic rules – Radio Sweden | Sveriges Radio

Home Affairs Minister Mikael Damberg said the authorities wanted to remind Swedes again about how important it is to follow the Covid-19 guidelines, especially with the upcoming holidays. The text coincides with national coronavirus recommendations come into force on Monday. The message will be sent out in batches early next week to some 22 million mobile phones.

Source: Government to send mass text message on new pandemic rules – Radio Sweden | Sveriges Radio

A crisis of invisibility: inside San Francisco’s planned Native American cultural center | San Francisco | The Guardian

The Village is an outgrowth of San Francisco’s Friendship House.

An ambitious project is hoping to help address a challenge that the region’s Native population has grappled with since the occupation of Alcatraz Island in the late 1960s and early 70s: a crisis of invisibility.

The Village, a multi-year project with funding from the philanthropic investor Kat Taylor (who is married to Tom Steyer, the billionaire financier and brief Democratic presidential hopeful), is intended to become a center of Native culture and heritage. The effort is an outgrowth of the Mission District’s 57-year-old Friendship House, which describes itself as “the longest-running social-service organization in the United States run by and for American Indians”.

Source: A crisis of invisibility: inside San Francisco’s planned Native American cultural center | San Francisco | The Guardian