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August 18th, 2022. The CDC Admits They Handled COVID Poorly, Yet Monkeypox Response Has Seen No Improvement.

The President's Daily Brief

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The Drought in the West and Southwest of the United States

Droughts are nothing new to the west, but this drought is specially bad. Cotton futures shot up to about a buck 50 a pound in may, dropped to about 90 cents last month and now heading back north. For the first time in three years, lake mead's water levels have gone up. Still, lakemead sits at 27 % of capacity, and the dam is very close to losing its ability to generate power.

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