Mexico’s president downplays COVID

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Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador speaks during a meeting with Vice President Kamala Harris in her office at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex, Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021, in Washington. 

Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Tuesday that he had a sore throat after testing positive for COVID-19 for a second time. He then downplayed the illness, saying “it’s like a cold.” And Russia has used an array of tools to destabilize its adversaries, including coercive cyberactivity. Yesterday, several US security agencies released an advisory report detailing specific cybertactics in the Kremlin’s toolbox. Plus, we hear from the “lonesome yodeler” of Sudbury, Ontario. During the pandemic, he’s been sharing his vocal talents in the hopes of making lockdown a bit less lonesome for his city.

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