Episode 48: August 8-14, 2021

The 25th Hour

Catch up on last week's news as you stay inside from this heatwave with THE 25TH HOUR, helping you stay on top of they 24/7 news cycle!

• Governor Andrew Cuomo has resigned following Letitia James' report finding 11 women's sexual harassment allegations against the Governor as credible. Finding no way out, Cuomo stepped down, effective in two weeks, giving New York its first female Governor, Kathy Hochul. The state Assembly, accordingly, is shutting down its impeachment investigation.
• The FDA has approved a booster shot for immunocompromised Americans to build on Pfizer and Moderna's two-dose vaccines as the Delta variant increases case counts and crowd ICU beds in the South.
• Afghanistan has fell to the Taliban in just a week after 20 years of and $1 trillion dollars of US involvement. Biden remains steadfast in his mission to completely withdraw from the country no matter what happens, ordering 5000 troops into the capital to evacuate embassy staff and their families.
• The Senate has passed Biden's $1.2 trillion infrastructure proposal and has passed a key procedural hurdle to the accompanying $3.5 trillion human infrastructure proposal, setting up to give Biden a key legislative victory in the coming months after Congress comes back from its August recess.

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