From Jenna Orkin

White Supremacy Goes Green

A heat wave in Antarctica melted 20% of an island's snow in 9 days

COVID-19 Vaccine Shipped, and Drug Trials Start

Chinese Scientists Sequence Genome Of COVID-19 

Court confirms that YouTube is not a public platform, and therefore has no obligation to abide by the First Amendment

An Ivy League professor who nailed the financial crisis says another 'colossal disaster' is on the way — and warns of a 50% market crash

Several young doctors in China have died of the coronavirus. Medical workers are far more vulnerable to infection than the general population.

South Korea reported a record 800 new cases of coronavirus in a single day — and the vast majority are linked to a religious cult

Jaw-dropping photos show the scale of delivering food and medical supplies to the millions of people still under coronavirus lockdown in China

The Drive-Thru: Coronavirus spreads to retail, Victoria's Secret closes stores, and BI heads to eTail West

US Alzheimer's diagnoses tripled among 30- to 64-year-olds according to a Blue Cross and Blue Shield analysis

And...

Ryan Reynolds' Aviation Gin is toasting all of those who were born on Leap Day in 1936 and are finally 'turning 21' with a gift card for free alcohol

Lithuania introduces plastic deposit scheme and within 2 years has a 92% recycling rate

From Jenna Orkin

Whistleblower: Personnel handled coronavirus evacuees without proper training or gear
What this story doesn't tell you: Travis Air Force Base, where untrained medical personnel were sent to handle the first American evacuees from China, is in Solano County CA, north of San Francisco, only a few miles down the toad from Vacaville, home of the first unsourced US coronavirus victim. - Peter Dale Scott
Sanders Can Beat Trump - Here's the Math - NYTimes

'The OAS Has a Lot to Answer For': New MIT Study Disputes Key Claim That Paved Way for Right-Wing Coup in Bolivia

Questions raised about of China anti-locust ‘duck army’

Lithuania introduces plastic deposit scheme and within 2 years has a 92% recycling rate

Airplanes spread diseases quickly – so maybe unvaccinated people shouldn't be allowed to fly

Sigh.

U.S. Health Workers Responding to Coronavirus Lacked Training and Protective Gear, Whistle-Blower Says

NYSE Testing Testing
SANDERS ADMITS RECEIVING FREE CHECKING FROM BIG BANKS (Satire)
Facing 250 sex abuse lawsuits, Diocese of Buffalo declares bankruptcy

New genus of Australian lion discovered in Queensland's Riversleigh World Heritage fossil site

Airlines around the world are now using hospital-grade disinfectants to sterilize planes to stave off the coronavirus

Amazon has pulled one million products that inaccurately claim to defend against the coronavirus from its site

From Jenna Orkin

Climate Change is Pushing Giant Ocean Currents Poleward

Coronavirus far more likely than Sars to bond to human cells due to HIV-like mutation, scientists say

Google, Microsoft shift production from China faster due to virus

New Coronavirus Cases Outside China Overtake Inside for First Time

Japan's Abe to request school closures nationwide from March 2

Chinatowns Crashing

Leaked Documents Reveal Coronavirus Infections Up to 52 Times Higher Than Reported Figures in China’s Shandong Province - Epoch Times, so... hmm...

Forensic Psychologist Who Testified for Prosecution at Harvey Weinstein Trial Was Hit by a Car

First possible case of 'community spread' of coronavirus reported in the US

JetBlue is waiving fees for canceling or changing flights because of the coronavirus, the first US airline to do so for all routes

China confiscated over 31 million counterfeit face masks as coronavirus fears cause supply shortage and spike in demand

A city in Hubei, China, is giving residents $1,400 if they report their coronavirus symptoms to doctors and then test positive

The story of how a nun played private equity's game and created affordable housing in the Bay Area

Australia is changing its visa rules so that backpackers can help rebuild the country in the aftermath of bushfire devastation

From Jenna Orkin

Coronavirus: secretive South Korean church linked to outbreak held meetings in Wuhan until December

Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility

US 'plotted to kill Julian Assange and make it look like an accident': Spies discussed kidnapping or poisoning WikiLeaks founder in Ecuadorean embassy, extradition trial hears

Chipping Away at the Antarctic 

Coronavirus could kill half a million Britons and infect 80% of UK population, government documents indicate

Supreme Court rules Mexican parents can't sue Border Patrol agent who killed their son

Meet the Children Being Armed to Defend a Mexican Village From Drug Cartels

Across the country, rural communities want to secede from their states. Here's why.

1. San Francisco declares state of emergency

2. British farmers fear Boris Johnson has 'terrifying' plans to abandon UK food standards in order to win a Brexit trade deal with Trump

   Iran says it won't quarantine any towns or cities, despite recording the most coronavirus deaths outside of China

Biodiversity highest on Indigenous-managed lands

From Jenna Orkin

Bloomberg's Paid “Volunteers” Are Telling Voters to Support Other Candidates

France has seen a 30% to 40% fall in tourists following the coronavirus outbreak: Finance minister

Apparently, this is about a South Korean crisis response coordinator who jumped off a bridge after coronavirus cases continued their upward trend

Climate Deniers' Answer to Greta Thunberg

Biodiversity highest on Indigenous-managed lands

British Politicians Covered Up Child Sex Abuse for Decades, Inquiry Finds

How Profits From Opium Shaped 19th-Century Boston

Big tech stocks lost more than $200 billion in market value in a single day as coronavirus fears forced the market down

Iranian Deputy Health Minister Infected With Coronavirus Seen Looking Feverish During Official Press Conference

The world's biggest iPhone factory is reportedly offering $1,000 bonuses to lure workers after being shut down over coronavirus

Warren Buffett says he would vote for Mike Bloomberg over Bernie Sanders, but doubts his endorsement would help the billionaire

From Jenna Orkin

Iran rejects reported Qom death toll of 50 from new virus

New Chinese study indicates novel coronavirus did not originate in Huanan seafood market

Virus hits China's economic heart -- its small businesses

Over 85% expect to run out of cash within three months

Tesla Gets Go-Ahead to Resume Clearing Forest in Germany

Bloomberg News Is Said to Curb Articles That Might Anger China - Archive

New Study Projects Severe Water Shortages in the Colorado River Basin

Philip Haney, DHS whistleblower during Obama era, found dead, police say

Survey: U.S. adults have more than $20 billion in unused gift cards or other leftover credits

Trump accused Boris Johnson of 'betrayal' after slamming the phone down on him in a moment of 'apoplectic' fury

Clubbers in China are going to 'cloud raves' on TikTok because coronavirus quarantines mean they can't party for real — here's what they're like

Italy put 12 towns on coronavirus lockdown after 215 cases and 5 deaths made it the most-infected country outside of Asia

From Jenna Orkin

Bernie Sanders briefed by US officials that Russia is trying to aid his campaign

The endgame being to elect Trump.

Members Of Nevada's Largest Union Defied Their Leadership To Support Bernie Sanders

Fairview Development Center in Costa Mesa considered for housing coronavirus patients, judge temporarily blocks plan

Hundreds of Animals Drop Dead After Being Exposed to Virus Disinfectant

Eastern Kentucky Has Been Underwater, but You Probably Didn’t Notice

Justice Sotomayor warns the Supreme Court is doing special favors for the Trump administration

Mike Hughes: Daredevil who wanted to prove Earth is flat dies after crashing homemade rocket

Google manager arrested after wife’s body found on Hawaii beach

From Jenna Orkin
Bloomberg quietly plotting brokered convention strategy
Ex-Sanders consultant arrested after allegedly planting weapons in jail for 'evil' escape plot
A more accurate headline would be: Bernie Campaign Massively Infiltrated

Apparent US Intel Meddling in US Election With ‘Report’ Russia is Aiding Sanders

MEDICARE FOR ALL WOULD SAVE $450 BILLION ANNUALLY WHILE PREVENTING 68,000 DEATHS, NEW STUDY SHOWS

Russia Doesn't Want Bernie Sanders. It Wants Chaos

Missouri bill seeks to allow employers to test for medical marijuana

Chinese coronavirus patient reinfected 10 days after leaving hospital

'Traumatized' Africans stranded by coronavirus plead to be brought home

Auditor Arrests Former Director of DHS and Co-Conspirators in Largest Public Embezzlement Case in State History

How Capitalism Turned Women Into Witches

Chinese jails have become hotbeds of coronavirus as more than 500 cases have erupted, prompting the ouster of several officials

The lawyer for Jeffrey Epstein's accusers sent a school bus to Buckingham Palace with a wanted poster telling Prince Andrew to call the FBI

From Jenna Orkin

Drought slashes Australian crop output to record low

Coronavirus Found In China Prisons, As Cases Spike In South Korea
Antarctica Melts Under Its Hottest Days on Record

With Half of China Locked Up, Car Sales Plunge 92%

Europe’s anti-science plague descends on Africa

Is there a viable yet more benign alternative to the pesticides?
Gold prices today hit record high, silver rates surge

No casket, no cost: Tennesseans go back to ‘natural’ burial

Hippocampal-dependent appetitive control is impaired by experimental exposure to a Western-style diet

Pigeons with 'Make America Great Again' hats glued to their heads released in Las Vegas

China Injects A Record 5 Trillion Yuan In New Debt To Arrest Economic Crash

The new coronavirus has killed nearly 3 times as many people in 8 weeks as SARS did in 8 months. Here's how the 2 outbreaks compare.

A plane was forced to turn around and land back at Dublin airport after hitting a hare on the runway

'The deep state is 100% true': Trump is launching an all-out assault on the US intelligence community

An impressive deepfake video of Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk in 'Star Trek' shows how far the technology has come

Babies may learn most of their vocabulary from their fathers

"We often talk about "Mother Language" but there may also be a link between vocabulary and the Y chromosome, which is passed on by the father."

Your (or somebody's) tax dollars at work

From Jenna Orkin

Secession in the Pacific Northwest? Some Oregon residents petition to join Idaho

9 killed in suspected far-right attack in Germany

What is the 'boogaloo?' How online calls for a violent uprising are hitting the mainstream

Fossil Fuels May Emit 40% More Methane than Previously Thought

Face facts, Bernie Sanders is electable USA Today(!)

Mexican accused of being Russian agent after photographing U.S. informant’s car in Miami

Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article240390941.html#storylink=cpy

Chinese CDC study finds Covid-19 virus to be more contagious than SARS or MERS

WHO expert: 'No guidelines' on how to fight virus

Before-and-after photos show how the coronavirus has left Asia's biggest tourist attractions looking like ghost towns

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sided with 'The View' hosts after they confront her over 'deeply misogynistic' and 'violent' Bernie Bros

"Elizabeth Warren, a fellow progressive 2020 candidate, said Bernie Sanders "has a lot of questions to answer" about his fans' behavior."

I wonder how many of those violent Bernie Bros are working for the other side.

Epstein Mentor Les Wexner Leaves L Brands, Sells 55% Stake In Victoria's Secret For $525 Million

From Jenna Orkin

Tehran, Other Iranian Cities In The Cold And Dark On Suspect Power Outages

Many signs of peak oil and decline

French ski resort angers ecologists by using helicopters to transport snow

'Historic, unprecedented' flooding swamps southern USA; Mississippi and Tennessee hardest hit

Auditor Arrests Former Director of DHS and Co-Conspirators in Largest Public Embezzlement Case in State History

The One-Time Girlfriend of One of Mexico’s Most Notorious Drug Lords Returns to the Border to Offer Tours

New green technology generates electricity 'out of thin air'

Coronavirus ‘lab leakage’ rumors spreading

"Outbreak 'could have started' in Wuhan facility, as first patient never went to wet market identified as source"

The 1,600-bed Wuhan coronavirus hospital that China panic-built in a few days is less than half full 11 days after it opened

Uber is reportedly shutting down its LA office and laying off 80 people

I had to turn down acceptances at Yale, Columbia, and Johns Hopkins because I can't take on interest-bearing loans — and I'm just one example of how the American loan system doesn't cater to Muslims

"I follow the religious mandate from the Quran of staying away from interest. So when it came to paying for school I had few options."

From Jenna Orkin

We're Reading the Coronavirus Numbers Wrong

Easily overlooked issues regarding COVID-19

Deepwater Horizon disaster had much worse impact than believed, study finds

Oregon landfill accepted 2 million pounds of radioactive fracking waste from North Dakota

The Taliban are gaining strength.

Opium production has quadrupled.

Osama bin Laden is dead.

Most Afghans live in poverty

What Did the U.S. Get for $2 Trillion in Afghanistan?

Lake Erie just broke February high water record -- and the lake level keeps rising

Cocktail of flu, HIV drugs appears to help fight coronavirus: Thai doctors

Assigned Democrat at Birth

FBI Raids James Biden-Tied Business

Rise in Farmer Suicides

The Computer Scientist Who Prefers Paper 2017

Winning Photos

Russian agents went to Ireland to inspect undersea cable

1. The Boy Scouts filed for bankruptcy after facing hundreds of new allegations of sexual abuse

From Jenna Orkin

Hospital director in China's coronavirus epicentre dies from disease himself - World News - Mirror Online

I spoke to experts on authoritarian rule about Trump's behavior this week. They say 2020 could be our last free election

To Tame Coronavirus, Mao-Style Social Control Blankets China

14 Americans aboard evacuation plane from Japan stricken with coronavirus

Twenty-four killed in Burkina Faso church attack: governor

Venezuela realiza ejercicio militar Escudo Bolivariano 2020

After 40 Years of Hunting, Scientists Identify a Key Flaw in Solar Panel Efficiency

SCIENTISTS MAKE MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH IN ‘QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT’ THAT COULD CHANGE HOW THE INTERNET WORKS

Hillary Clinton 'wants back in' as Bloomberg campaign tries to quiet speculation she could be his VP pick

Topless dairy industry protesters crashed the stage at a Bernie Sanders rally

14 Americans who got the coronavirus from the quarantined cruise ship in Japan were flown home in an 'isolation box' at the back of the plane

POLICY SHORTFALL: US government is less equipped to handle coronavirus and support citizens than the East Asian countries that have already been hit

Inside the chaotic 'Valentine's Day massacre' at Wayfair where 550 people lost their jobs