FDA Authorizes Updated Covid Boosters

The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday authorized the first redesign of coronavirus vaccines since they were rolled out in late 2020, setting up millions of Americans to receive new booster doses targeting Omicron subvariants as soon as next week, as the NYT reports.

IAEA Visits Zaporizhzhia

A Ukrainian assault on Russian forces in the south is ongoing, and a team from the International Atomic Energy Agency has arrived in the city of Zaporizhzhia, some 80 miles from the Russian-held nuclear power plant where inspectors aim this week to assess potential damage caused by recent strikes around the facility, as the Washington Post reports.

Russia Halts Nord Stream Gas Pipeline

Russia shut down its main artery for natural gas to Europe for maintenance on Wednesday, in what Western governments see as the latest salvo in the Kremlin’s economic war on the continent, as the WSJ reports.

Executive Education

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Video Shorts

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In That Number

76

In 2021, the average American could expect to live until the age of 76, the sharpest two-year decline (from 79) in nearly 100 years.

Source: CDC

Critical Quote

“As we head into fall and begin to spend more time indoors, we strongly encourage anyone who is eligible to consider receiving a booster dose with a bivalent COVID-19 vaccine to provide better protection against currently circulating variants.”

— FDA Commissioner Robert M. Califf, M.D.

iDeas Lab

The Yonpo Vegetable Greenhouse Farm is a top-priority project for North Korea. Once completed, the project will convert the former grounds of an airbase at Yonpo into an agricultural complex with hundreds of greenhouses, support buildings, and housing units.

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: Fida Hussain/AFP/Getty Images.) This aerial photograph taken on August 31, 2022 shows a flooded residential area after heavy monsoon rains in Jaffarabad district of Pakistan's Balochistan province.

This Town Tomorrow

At 11:30 a.m ., the American Enterprise Institute hosts UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Nadhim Zahawi for a discussion on the British government's actions toward a greener, fairer, freer, and more global economy.

Later, at 1:00 p.m., the Bipartisan Policy Center holds a webinar to discuss the state of the housing market’s homebuying and rental sectors.

And, on Friday at 10:00 a.m., the CSIS Americas Program hosts a discussion on religious persecution and the closing of civic space in Nicaragua.

Video

Yesterday, CSIS's Renewing American Innovation Project hosted a discussion on the current geopolitical competition for technological leadership in critical areas such as AI, 5G, and more. Watch the full event here.

Podcasts

This week, Babel examines the ongoing crisis happening outside of Iraq’s parliament, why the current intra-Shi’a conflict is unique and how it echoes similar crises before, and where Iran and the United States stand.

Listen on Spotify & Apple Podcasts.

Smiles

What do you get when you combine members of Wilco (Jeff Tweedy and Nels Cline) with Phil Lesh and Friends? “Philco!” It happened late last week at the Sacred Rose Festival near Chicago and the results were pretty cool.

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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: Paige Montfort, Claire Dannenbaum, and Claire Smrt.