From Jenna Orkin

Disappearance of Clinton Foundation CEO Eric Braverman

NATO Auditor General Found Shot Dead

The Mosul Dam Is Failing

Virtual Reality Allows the Most Detailed, Intimate Digital Surveillance Yet

Home Ownership Among 25-Year-Olds in England and Wales Has Halved in 20 Years

Body in burned car in Brazil raises fears for missing Greek ambassador

Huge crowd joins Mexican teen's party after invite goes viral

How to Make Money Rebuilding Reputations: Have Them Destroyed First

WTF: White Nationalist Inks 6-Figure Book Deal With Simon & Schuster

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A New Year's Eve 'leap second' could make your countdown to midnight last 11 seconds instead of 10

Trump will be part of China's Lunar New Year celebrations — as a rooster

From Jenna Orkin

Sears and Kmart are closing more stores — see if your store is on the list  

Scientists just released this rare footage of a hidden underwater habitat in Antarctica

Minority children in the UK perform better in school but are still less likely to be employed

German anti-terror experts ranked Berlin truck attack suspect Anis Amri as 'a low threat'

Amazon is considering using blimps as huge airborne warehouses

A record number of refugees voluntarily left Germany this year

4 Out Of 5 Middle-Aged Brits Are Fat, Lazy Drunks; New Study Finds

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Faces Criminal Investigation For Fraud & Bribery

Federal Appeals Court Revives Hillary Email Case Leaving Key Decision To Trump's Attorney General

NYPD Officers Offered More Pay To Wear Body Cameras

From Jenna Orkin

California's largest separatist movement just opened its first 'embassy'— in Moscow

Germany is taking its gold back faster than expected

'Stances have shifted': Russia, Turkey, Iran are discussing chopping Syria into zones of influence

A new Missouri law could make school bullying a felony and that's a problem

Unhappy Holidays: Houston Police Force Homeless People To Throw Away Food
California Man Arrested, Charged With Driving Under The Influence Of Caffeine
Europe Proposes Confiscating Gold In Crackdown On "Terrorist Financing"

More than one-third of schoolchildren are homeless in shadow of Silicon Valley

Putin's Hit Teams Of "Chechen Killers" Head For Syria


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Weird images

From Jenna Orkin

WashPost Makes History: First Paper to Call for Prosecution of Its Own Source (After Accepting Pulitzer)

Chinese carrier heading toward Hainan amid renewed tension over Taiwan

Romania's Secretary of State warned polio could make a comeback in Europe

Pre-Christmas gas shortages in Mexico hint at a bigger weakness in the county’s oil industry

Chinese cities are undergoing an insane housing boom with prices up as much as 43% in a year

Le Pen Presidential Campaign Threatened By Russian Bank Failure

Refugee Admissions Surge 86% YoY As Obama Rushes Arrivals Ahead Of Trump Inauguration

Israel Urges Jews To Leave France, Suspends "Working Ties" With Countries That Voted For UN Resolution

Obama Quietly Signs The "Countering Disinformation And Propaganda Act" Into Law

The Bank of Japan Was The Top Buyer Of Japanese Stocks In 2016

Demographic Shock Ground Zero: Japan Births Drop Below Million For The First Time On Record


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Davos Staff May Sleep In Shipping Containers As Billionaires Swarm Resort

From Jenna Orkin

Britain could 'indefinitely' pay billions for former EU workers' pensions despite Brexit

How Europe's far right is already using the Berlin attack to exploit fears

A new law in Taiwan is requiring workers take 2 days off a week

 'We have never been embedded to this degree': US forces are stepping up their role in the fight for Mosul

Watch an amazing 360 degree video of a MiG-29 flying to the edge of space
Maybe this all makes sense if you can understand the Russian commands.  (Admittedly, we only spot-checked it.)  Otherwise, we recommend a couple of joints first.
Suddenly Liberals Are The Ones Stockpiling Guns, Food And Supplies

Top Ex-White House Economist Admits 94% Of All New Jobs Under Obama Were Part-Time

Sales Of Livestock Antibiotics Are Still Growing

California’s Birthrate Falls to Lowest Level on Record

Moscow: Senior Russian Diplomat Shot Dead Hours Before Assassination of Ambassador in Turkey
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Hillary Voters Ate Their Feelings On November 9th - Cheesecake Orders Surged 72%

From Jenna Orkin

An Ebola vaccine gave 100% protection in a trial — and that's a great sign for the next outbreak

How Amazon can become the world's first trillion-dollar business  

Trump says US must 'expand its nuclear capability' until 'the world comes to its senses'   

Bailing out the world's oldest bank could spark a fresh crisis for the eurozone 

Berlin Attack Suspect Killed In Shootout In Milan: Real-Time Updates

Snopes Co-Founder Embezzles $98,000, Drops Weight, Leaves Fat Wife And Marries Actual Whore

Euroskeptics Enraged At Europe's Open Borders After Details Of Berlin Killer's Trip Emerge
Et voila.  Cui bono.
Migrant Family Arrests At U.S.-Mexico Border Surge 130% In October And November


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Sex and marriage with robots: science fiction or new reality?
Those Robot Babies Meant to Scare Teens Out of Having Kids Might Not Work