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The One-Minute Meeting

The Department of Energy's announcement today of a successful fusion process could be a historic advancement in electricity production. After 70 years of experimentation, some scientists are using the word “breakthrough.” But it is a long way from being ready for commercial electrical production. Fusion creates energy the way the Sun does, by slamming atoms into each other. If this is truly the breakthrough it appears to be, scientists say it holds the potential to become a clean, constant source of energy that has, until now, been an experiment in the works since the 1950s. This will be all over the news today, so I will explain what fusion is and where the work is being done in today’s Morning Meeting.

Two of America’s closest neighbors are in great turmoil. The U.N. says gangs now control almost two-thirds of Haiti in the absence of virtually any federal government control. Police are involved in daily shootouts and some police have formed their own gangs. In Cuba, the economy has become so desperate that a quarter of a million Cubans, nearly 2% of the population, have fled. These two situations need far more media and political attention now.

California got a green light from the U.S. Supreme Court to impose bans on flavored tobacco products next week. Some states have banned menthol — California's law does that too — but it goes much further in banning many other flavors of tobacco that are especially alluring to younger tobacco users. The CDC has been saying for a long time that a ban on flavored tobacco would certainly lead to a drop in tobacco consumption.
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