Recent News Highlights: October 23, 2021

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Colin Powell died this week at 84. Powell was the countrys first Black national security adviser, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and secretary of state, but he decided not to run for president after getting courted by both Republicans and Democrats in the 1990s.

The F.D.A. authorized and the C.D.C. endorsed the mixing and matching of different types of Covid vaccines. Carl Zimmer explains why the science behind the move is promising.

In the past week, Mountain West has led the U.S. in new Covid cases per capita. While much of the country continues to see improvement, Montana, Idaho and Wyoming have been struggling, leading the country in recent cases per capita.

A congressional panel in Brazil recommended that President Jair Bolsonaro be charged with "crimes against humanity" for letting the coronavirus spread in a failed bid for herd immunity. The 11- member panel recommended criminally charging Bolsonaro for discouraging masks, delaying a vaccine rollout and other policies it said had led to the deaths of more than 300,000 Brazilians, half the country s total Covid death toll.

The House found the former Trump administration official Steve Bannon in criminal contempt of Congress after he defied a subpoena. The former White House counselor to Donald Trump refused to turn over documents or testify to the committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. The Justice Department must now determine whether to prosecute him.

New York City officials this week voted to remove a statue of Thomas Jefferson from the City Council chamber. On Monday, city officials voted unanimously to remove the statue from Council chambers after some members cited Jefferson s history as a slaveholder and called for the statue to be banished.

Gang members kidnapped 17 people from a U.S.- based group working in Haiti. They are a part of Christian missionaries. The gang members kidnapped the group, which includes five children, as they left an orphanage, and have demanded $17 million for their release.

The Chicago Sky this week won the championship in W.N.B.A. They were led by Candace Parker, an all-star who grew up near Chicago and joined her hometown team this season after 13 years in Los Angeles.

The photo below is from Dune, a film adapted from a classic sci-fi novel, that came to theaters on Friday. It is based on the 1965 novel by Frank Herbert.

A kidney grown in a genetically altered animal was attached to a human patient in a New York hospital and found to work normally. The kidney was grown in a pig. Surgeons at NYU Langone Health attached the kidney to a brain-dead patient who was being kept alive on a ventilator, and discovered that the organ functioned normally.

A diver discovered a sword on the sea floor off the coast of Israel. Archaeologists determined that it is about 900 years old and most likely belonged to a knight in the Third Crusade who fell into the sea or lost the weapon in battle.

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Source: CNN Weekly News