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The U.S. Army is retooling itself in the Indo-Pacific region to build up deterrence against its top challenger: rising China.

FEMA says its new rates better reflect the risk from more intense and frequent rain and floods. The increase could make housing unaffordable for some in the most flood-prone areas.

A plan expected to be approved Monday could make training available for 12,000 Ukrainians in Poland, and another 3,000 in Germany. The move comes as Russia is mobilizing an additional 300,000 troops.

Interview with Cornel West and Dean Nelson as part of the 2022 Writer's Symposium by the Sea. Dr. Cornel West is a prominent and provocative intellectual. He is Dietrich Bonhoeffer Chair at Union Theological Seminary and has written 20 books and edited 13. He's best known for his classics, Race Matters and Democracy Matters, and for his memoir, Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud. His most recent book, Black Prophetic Fire, offers an unflinching look at nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American leaders and their visionary legacies. The 27th Annual Writer's Symposium by the Sea will be Feb. 22-25, 2022, featuring Dr. Cornel West, Nadia Bolz-Weber, and David Brooks. For more info, visit pointloma.edu/2022writers

Planned Parenthood says it will provide abortions out of an RV-based clinic in southern Illinois by the end of the year. It will reduce travel time for some patients coming from surrounding states.

A new report says glaciers in a third of UNESCO World Heritage sites will disappear. Two-thirds of glaciers in the heritage sites can be saved — but only if carbon emissions are cut quickly, it says.

The Greater San Diego Music Coterie presents the Thirteenth Annual Winter Chamber Heat Participants Concert on Sunday, February 6 at 4pm. at St Bart’s Episcopal Church in Poway. Program includes Geminiani's La Follia, Brahms’ Piano Trio Op. 114, Beethoven’s Serenade for flute, violin and viola, Karl Heinrich Graun's Trio Sonata for horn, violin, and continuo, and Hubert Léonard's Sérènade humoristique à l'espagnole for 3 violins and piano. The concert is the grand finale of the 2022 Winter Chamber Festival. Admission is free with free-will donation at the performance. Donation by check can be marked tax deductible. Visit https://gsdmusicoterie.org for registration, further details and program updates.

The "independent state legislature theory" could give state legislatures independent power to put in place all manner of election rules, without any available review by state courts.

Delegates from nearly 200 countries are gathering in Canada to try to fix humanity's relationship with nature. The convention comes during an emerging extinction crisis.

Migrants apprehensions at the southern border this past year jumped by 37% compared to the year ago. A growing number of border-crossers are from Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua.