1 Million Dead

The global death toll from the coronavirus pandemic eclipsed 1 million on Monday night—a figure that is almost certainly an undercount, as the Washington Post reports.

Stalled House Negotiations

Speaker Nancy Pelosi is holding out one more day for an eleventh-hour agreement with Republicans on a coronavirus relief package, hoping to clinch a longshot deal as talks with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin drag on this week. After a 50-minute conversation today, Pelosi and Mnuchin made plans to speak again Wednesday on their effort to deliver trillions of dollars in relief, as Politico reports.

Netanyahu to UN: Hezbollah Storing Missiles in Beirut

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today accused the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah of maintaining a “secret arms depot” in a residential neighborhood of Beirut, warning it could cause another tragic explosion in the Lebanese capital, as the AP reports.

CSIS Executive Education

CSIS's Risk and Foresight Group is hosting a new global executive education program that weaves together important issues, trends, and revolutions that government and business leaders must understand as they position themselves for the next 25 years. Register for the course here.

Video Shorts

Check out CSIS’s new series of video shorts: “Testify,” "What's Happening," "Preview," and “High Resolution.” And don’t forget to subscribe to the CSIS YouTube Channel!

In That Number

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The Tennessee Titans suspended all in-person activities today after three players and five members of the team’s personnel tested positive, the first such outbreak to hit a team since training camps began in late July. The Minnesota Vikings, who hosted the Titans on Sunday, also shut down in-person activities.

Source: ESPN

Critical Quote

“Responsible leadership matters. Science matters. Cooperation matters—and misinformation kills.”

— United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres

iDeas Lab

In 2012, the World Health Assembly endorsed a plan on maternal, infant, and young child nutrition to be achieved by 2025. As of this year, most of the 194 countries tracked by the Global Nutrition Report have either not been assessed or are not on track to meet these targets. To learn more, read a new CSIS longform report.

The Andreas C. Dracopoulos iDeas Lab at CSIS enhances our research with the latest in cutting-edge web technologies, design, and multimedia.

Optics

(Photo credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images.) A drive-in Yom Kippur service put on by Aventura Turnberry Jewish Center at the Dezerland Park in North Miami.

This Town Tomorrow

Tomorrow, at 9:00 a.m., join the CSIS Energy Security and Climate Change Program for its fifth session in the Energy Innovation Series, which will focus on innovation occurring in alternative fuels, including biofuels, power-to-liquids, and hydrogen.

Later, at 1:30 p.m., CSIS’s Transnational Threats Project and Defending Democratic Institutions Project will discuss the domestic terrorism threat in the United States before, during, and after the 2020 presidential election.

And, at 10:00 a.m., Brookings will hold a panel discussion to assess political and security developments in Afghanistan, U.S. interests in the country, and foreign policy options for the next administration to pursue.

Video

CSIS today hosted an online discussion on Jonathan Hillman's new book on China's Belt and Road Initiative, The Emperor’s New Road: China and the Project of the Century. He takes readers on a journey to China’s projects in Asia, Europe, and Africa to reveal the global risks lurking within Beijing’s project of the century. Watch the book event here.

Podcasts

Drawing on source material from Jake Tapper's book The Outpost, director Rod Lurie has brought the story of the Battle of Kamdesh to life in a film of the same name. In the latest episode of Thank You For Your Service, hosts Jim Golby and Alice Hunt Friend speak with Tapper and Lurie as well as with Ty Carter (Medal of Honor recipient and film adviser), Daniel Rodriguez (who fought in the battle and played himself in the movie), Stoney Portis (the last commander of Combat Outpost Keating), and Katie Kopp (the brigade psychologist who helped soldiers process and debrief the 14-hour firefight) about the battle, the movie, and mental health.

Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Google Podcasts.

Smiles

“We're gonna get to that place
Where we really want to go, and we'll walk in the sun
But till then, tramps like us
Baby, we were born to run”

This one’s for all of you eternal optimists out there…let’s go!

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The Evening is my daily guide to key insights CSIS brings to the events of the day. It is composed with the External Relations team: Emma Colbran, Caleb Diamond, and Kendal Gee.