From Jenna Orkin

Men may be more prone to coronavirus than women, Chinese study finds

STATE OF EMERGENCY: Large Bushfire Threatens the City of Canberra

Turkey deploys warships and air defense systems to Libya: LNA

The West Virginia Town Where Everyone's Dying and the Land Is Toxic

Coronavirus: China accused of 'burning bodies in secret'

Massacre Leaves Six Indigenous Dead in Nicaragua

A Battle to Protect Forests Unfolds in Central Africa

Just 29,000 Western Monarch Butterflies Are Left in California. That's Down From Millions

BREXIT DAY: Here's what will actually change after the UK leaves the EU

Major fast-food chains and retailers in China are shutting their doors as the deadly coronavirus continues to spread. Here's a list of closures.

Hallmark stores are closing in 12 states. See if your local store is on the list.

Corporate giants like Google and Facebook bought a record amount of renewable power in 2019. These are the 10 energy companies that benefited most from those deals.

Guinea protests: Anti-government demonstrations continue

From Jenna Orkin

10-Year-Old Boy Raises Fears Wuhan Virus Could Spread Undetected

Wuhan coronavirus: China was warned in 2017 that a deadly virus could escape its level 4 biohazard lab

Starbucks sees hit as coronavirus prompts over 2,000 China store closures

Homero Gómez: Missing Mexican butterfly activist found dead

Mohammed Nuru, head of SF Public Works, arrested in FBI corruption probe

Genetically engineered moths have been released into the wild to wipe out pests

Guinea protests: Anti-government demonstrations continue

'Sounds like Barr wants to be vice president': DOJ and FBI veterans are floored by AG Barr's fawning praise of Trump in a stunning interview

Coronavirus Scare Leaves 6,000 Quarantined On Italian Cruise Ship; India Confirms First Case

Wuhan is running low on food, hospitals are overflowing, and foreigners are being evacuated as panic sets in after a week under coronavirus lockdown

The Wuhan coronavirus has officially spread to every single region in China

A dead NASA space telescope and an old Air Force satellite likely avoided colliding over Pittsburgh on Wednesday, beating 'alarming' odds

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Harvard Chemistry Chairman Charged on Alleged Undisclosed Ties to China

Joe Biden says he’d want Michelle Obama to be his running mate

Australians engulfed by dust storm bigger than Britain

Desert locust infestation threatens food security and livelihoods in region reeling from drought and deadly floods.

Indonesia's Aceh unveils new female flogging squad

Trump is presiding over 'the biggest strategic defeat for the US since the early days of WW2' as European allies ignore his threats and back Huawei

The UK has banned Huawei from 'core' parts of its 5G network. Here's what that actually means.

Trump is trying to boost Bernie Sanders' profile to help him clinch the Democratic 2020 nomination, but it could backfire

Democratic voters' opinions of Bernie Sanders improved but declined for Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren in the run-up to Iowa

British Airways cancels all flights to mainland China as Wuhan coronavirus spreads

Number Of Coronavirus Cases Surpasses SARS As China Holds 60k Under 'Observation'

QAnon conspiracy theorists are telling people to drink bleach as a cure against the deadly Wuhan coronavirus

1. People seem to think Corona beer is linked to deadly coronavirus

From Jenna Orkin

Canberra Fires: Terrifying Wall of Flames Heads Toward City

Coronavirus: Japan and Germany confirm patients who caught disease did not visit China

Britain allows Huawei limited role in 5G networks
As Virus Spreads, Anger Floods Chinese Social Media
The sheer volume of criticism of the government, and the sometimes clever ways that critics dodge censors, are testing Beijing’s ability to control the narrative.

41 dead, 1,607 injured as massive quake of magnitude 6.8 rocks Turkey's Elazığ

Doctor at hospital in Wuhan dies after treating patients with coronavirus

We Made the Corona Virus Epidemic

Source: Alexander Vindman’s Brother, Yevgeny, Clears Publications by NSC Officials

U.S. geoengineering research gets a lift with $4 million from Congress

CDC Issues Level 3 Warning: Avoid All Non-Essential Travel To China

"Prices Start To Sink At Record Paces" - Manhattan Luxury Home Prices Plunge To 2013 Levels

1. Kobe Bryant: Unanswered questions about the helicopter crash

2. Amazon engineer calls for Ring to be 'shut down immediately' over privacy concerns

Another strong M 6.0 earthquake has hit Puerto Rico this morning

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Iran has capacity to enrich uranium at any percentage: nuclear agency

5 million left Wuhan before lockdown, 1,000 new coronavirus cases expected in city

Chilling role of 'the Preacher' confirmed at CIA waterboarding hearing in Guantánamo

We need to plant 25 percent more trees than there are on Earth right now, or more than half a trillion in total, the study found. This would reduce the amount of carbon in the atmosphere by a quarter, erasing 20 years of emissions. Yet it would not solve the climate problem on its own, without a sustained effort to cut emissions, commentators on the study said.

Big Oil’s Plan B is already in the pipeline: More plastic

‘This is huge’: Locust swarms in Africa are worst in decades

Another strong M 6.0 earthquake has hit Puerto Rico this morning

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Takes on Artificial Intelligence

Russian documents reveal desire to sow racial discord — and violence — in the U.S. (May) 

Here's how an ex-CIA officer and a tech entrepreneur are using AI to hunt sex traffickers on Super Bowl Sunday

China expands coronavirus outbreak lockdown to 56 million people

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Prince Charles: We need a new economic model or the planet will burn

Bio-warfare experts question why Canada was sending lethal viruses to China

Here’s What Trump Has Been Up to While Americans Have Been Distracted by Impeachment

Obama feels Sanders is unfit to battle Trump – and he has told people he might say so publicly

The Attempted Corporate Takeover of .Org

It’s a Vast, Invisible Climate Menace. We Made It Visible.

Tepco estimates 44 years to decommission Fukushima No. 2 nuclear plant

Goldman Sachs asks in biotech research report: ‘Is curing patients a sustainable business model?’ - archive

China expands coronavirus outbreak lockdown to 56 million people

Coronavirus is spread through the EYES making surgical masks

useless, expert claims

There's so much that's wrong with this article.

Relatives Wonder Why Pneumonia Deaths Not in Coronavirus Tally

Isolation of a novel coronavirus from a man with pneumonia in Saudi Arabia.

Wuhan coronavirus has infected more than 2,000 people and killed at least 56.

Wuhan, the center of the deadly coronavirus outbreak, is a major business hub for several international corporations

UK public health officials are searching for 2,000 people who flew from Wuhan after coronavirus reached Europe

8 cities that have been crippled by cyberattacks — and what they did to fight them

Iowa's biggest newspaper just endorsed Elizabeth Warren ahead of the state's February 3 caucuses

Hong Kong is shutting down its schools until February 17 to limit the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus

Transit going in and out of Wuhan, China is being shut down to contain coronavirus

From Jenna Orkin

'We want them out': Iraq protesters call for US troops exit

The D[enocrat]:R[epublican] donation ratio favors the Democratic Party in all nine [university] disciplines sampled... For six of the eight or nine disciplines, the D:R donation ratio exceeds 100:1. 

2 people killed in an explosion at a Houston manufacturer that shook the city and damaged homes

Al-Shabaab Terror Group Bans Single Use Plastic Bags

America’s Radioactive Secret

"Radium, typically the most abundant radionuclide in brine, is often measured in picocuries per liter of substance and is so dangerous it’s subject to tight restrictions even at hazardous-waste sites. The most common isotopes are radium-226 and radium-228, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission requires industrial discharges to remain below 60 for each. Four of Peter’s samples registered combined radium levels above 3,500, and one was more than 8,500."

Red Cross director admits that almost $11million from bushfire donations WON'T go to victims and will be used for 'administration costs'

Plus ca change.

Alabama senate blocks attempts to raise minimum wage in Birmingham

New Study: Crime Shows Are A 'PR Machine' For Law Enforcement

Europe now has its first 3 confirmed cases of the Wuhan coronavirus, all in France

UK Researcher Predicts Over 250,000 Chinese Will Have Coronavirus In Ten Days

Hospital staff in Wuhan are wearing adult diapers because they don't have time to pee while caring for an overwhelming number of coronavirus patients

Lindsey Graham Attacks, Then Protects Bidens - Will Oppose Any Attempts To Call As Impeachment Witnesses

From Jenna Orkin
Trump Removes Pollution Controls on Streams and Wetlands

Mexican Feminist & Activist Isabel Cabanillas de la Torre Killed in Juárez

Revealed: the true identity of the leader of an American neo-Nazi terror group

Wuhan two years ago: Inside the Chinese lab poised to study world's most dangerous pathogens

Chinese market at center of coronavirus outbreak sold wolves, rats to eat

The Wuhan coronavirus has hit Xinjiang, where China has imprisoned at least 1 million Uighur Muslims. Its filthy detention camps will make inmates sitting ducks.

Wuhan, China, is scrambling to build a hospital in just 6 days to treat coronavirus patients as its health system gets overwhelmed

McDonald's reportedly 'suspends business' in five Chinese cities as the coronavirus death toll continues to rise

Coronavirus Pandemic Simulation Run 3 Months Ago Predicts 65 Million People Could Die

A managing director at Goldman Sachs says an 'alt-data explosion' is creating FOMO that could lead traders to look for investment signs in things like lunar cycles and how wide your face is

Turkey Demands Greece "Demilitarize" 16 Aegean Islands Amid Gas Drilling Dispute

From Jenna Orkin

The Saudi Connection: Inside the 9/11 Case That Divided the F.B.I.

Preparations for DEFENDER-Europe 20, the largest exercise of U.S.-based military forces to Europe in more than 25 years, will begin Thursday 

Militia ally of Iran's Soleimani shot dead in southwest Iran: IRNA

Ray McGovern: Ukraine for Dummies

Defense Department Fails Its Second Audit, Yet Is Making Progress

Walmart Expands Its Robotic Workforce to 650 Additional Stores

Marry-your-rapist’ bill to be introduced by lawmakers in Turkey

Switzerland switches off nuclear plant as it begins exit from atomic power

US drinking water contamination with ‘forever chemicals’ far worse than scientists thought

"It Just Keeps Getting Crazier" - Options Speculation Reaches Record High

Videos show apparent Wuhan coronavirus patients being transported in small boxes and plastic tubes to stop the deadly disease from spreading further

1. Wuhan cut off from the outside world in unprecedented quarantine
2. Virus may have jumped from snakes to humans, scientists say

3. "It's Like Cancelling Christmas" - Beijing Scraps Lunar New Year Festivities Amid Virus Outbreak

4. Bed Bath & Beyond is closing 41 stores – here's the full list

   Express is closing 31 stores in 20 states this month. See if your local store is on the list.

   More than 1,900 stores are closing in 2020 as the retail apocalypse drags on. Here's the full list.

   Pier 1, Sears, Kmart, Forever 21, and A.C. Moore, and Express are among the retailers that are planning to close stores this year.

   Whole Foods shoppers report food shortages and empty shelves at some stores as the company faces supplier issue

   "The 2-Child Policy Has Failed": China's Birth Rate Hits Record Low As Growth Slows

From Jenna Orkin

Climate change: Arctic permafrost now melting at levels not expected until 2090

Fresh fish caught off Britain goes on 10,000-MILE round trip before being sold in UK supermarkets

HOW THE US WAGES WAR TO PROP UP THE DOLLAR

Tucker Carlson: Bernie Sanders capable of taking 'many thousands' of Trump voters

‘No Chinese allowed’: Japanese shop criticised for coronavirus sign

Swiss police suspect Davos plumbers of being Russian spies

Florida Buys Everglades Land to Prevent Oil Drilling

Trump staffers planned the Ukraine aid freeze the night before his call to Zelensky, further undermining defense

Saudi Arabia denies hacking into Jeff Bezos' phone and calls for an investigation into the 'absurd' claims

The Saudi hack on Jeff Bezos' phone went on for months and led to gigabytes of personal data being stolen, according to new report

Democrats are mulling offering Hunter Biden as part of a Trump impeachment witness swap in exchange for testimony from John Bolton

1. Wuhan virus death toll jumps to 9, with 440 infected

2. Italy's Luigi Di Maio Resigns As Five Star Leader

To win black support, Bloomberg acknowledges white privilege

From Jenna Orkin

Glenn Greenwald Charged with Cybercrimes in Brazil

The Global Risks Report 2020

France apology after history textbook links CIA to 9/11

Immune cell that kills most cancers discovered by accident by British scientists 

Australian Coal Company Says Bush Fire Smoke Is Slowing Production

'It's heart-wrenching': 80% of Blue Mountains and 50% of Gondwana rainforests burn in bushfires

Libya summit: Participants agree to respect arms embargo

To win black support, Bloomberg acknowledges white privilege

Hackers may have gained ‘almost total control’ of an election server in Georgia, report says

Germany Breaks Korea’s Six-Year Streak as Most Innovative Nation

Despite record low unemployment, 44% of U.S. workers are in low-wage jobs: Study

Iran is asking for help to analyze the downed Ukraine Flight 752, but its refusal to hand over the black box means the full truth may never emerge

"I’m Not An Expert On Pandemics But...": Global Stocks Slide, Hong Kong Plunges On Coronavirus Fears

Sweden Has 'Lost Control' After Bombings Spike 60% In 2019, Says MP

Tesla Is Cutting Down "Thousands Of Trees" To Put Up Its German Gigafactory 4