From Jenna Orkin

Shifting Dynamics of the Mideast Pushed Israel and U.A.E. Together

Chinese researcher at UCLA arrested, accused of destroying evidence

'It's terrifying': can anyone stop China's vast armada of fishing boats?

Missouri lawmakers pass bill making it legal to give guns to kids without parents' permission

Mail Delivery Suspended at LA Public Housing Project

India Records Largest Daily Jump in Covid Cases

Huge explosion leaves crater 165ft deep in Arctic tundra following record hot summer

Rabbi Lerner - Infiltration of Protests

MLK's 12-year-old granddaughter called for 'genuine equality' on the anniversary of the 'I Have a Dream' speech

A UPenn professor is requesting another investigation into Trump's college admission after his sister said in secretly recorded audio that someone took exams for him

30 Fastest Shrinking Cities In America: City In New York Tops The List?

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Bill Gates' nuclear venture plans reactor to complement solar, wind power boom

 

22 Kilos Cocaine in Produce

MTA Doomsday Scenario

Japan's 'flying car' gets off ground, with a person aboard

Majority of American Jews in Full Page New York Times Ad: “Unequivocally: Black Lives Matter.”

New Thinking on Covid Lockdowns: They’re Overly Blunt and Costly

NYCHA Resident Leaders Who Appeared In RNC Video Clarify That They Don’t Support Trump

Half of Wisconsin's Black Neighborhoods Are Jails

Researchers at the University of Arizona say they stopped a coronavirus outbreak before it spread by testing students' poop

Nurses have died more often from COVID-19 than other healthcare workers during the pandemic, a preliminary study finds

Children with asymptomatic coronavirus cases could shed the virus for weeks, a study found

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The US is in a water crisis far worse than most people imagine - Erin Brockovich

Russian navy conducts major maneuvers near Alaska

Most Of Germany Imposes $59 Fine For Mask-wearing Breaches

Over 100 Ex-Staff Members for John McCain Endorse Joe Biden

Shortage of Waiters

White supremacists and militias have infiltrated police across US, report says

WHO Skips Wuhan During China Trip; "Sat In Beijing For Three Weeks"

Microsoft & Walmart Join Forces In Bid To Buy TikTok

Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe is resigning, citing a chronic health problem

School nurses could lead the defense against COVID-19 in schools — but many schools in the US don't even have one

Big private-equity firms are piling into tech deals. Top execs at Carlyle, KKR, and Warburg Pincus laid out how they're angling for an edge.

Paris is now getting a mandatory mask requirement following an 'undeniable resurgence' of coronavirus cases

The DNC warned campaign staffers to 'swipe carefully' on dating apps because matches could be political opponents digging for dirt

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The Hill: NASA: Asteroid headed toward Earth before November election

MTA Losing 200 Million Per Week

COVID-19 can waft through toilets into other apartments, study finds

Why the Baltic states are reconfiguring their electric grids

#LetUsSpeak campaign launched against Victorian laws 'silencing' sexual assault victims

China Fires Two Missiles Into Sea As "Warning To US" In Huge Escalation Following Spy Plane Breach

Jeff Bezos is now worth more than $200 billion, making him the richest person in the world by nearly $90 billion

The White House discussed changing CDC guidelines about testing asymptomatic people while Fauci was under anesthesia

CDC: Maine overnight camps hosted over 1,000 kids and counselors, and only 3 contracted the coronavirus. Here is the safety plan they followed.

FDA Approves Abbott Labs Rapid COVID-19 Test As Outbreaks In US, Brazil & Africa See Sharp Declines: Live Updates

Soy Boom? China Could Buy Record Amount of US Soybeans

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We Have Crossed the Line Debt Hawks Warned Us About

The End of the Oil Age Is Upon Us

A new report suggests that over the next 30 years, at least 80 percent of the oil industry will be wiped out.

Journalism’s Gates Keepers

For second time in eight years, a coup in Mali has been led by a U.S.-trained soldier

White Supremacist Who Gunned Down Multiple Protesters in Kenosha Was Working with Police?

After 48 Years, Democrats Endorse Nuclear Energy In Platform

1. 6-foot-distancing rule is outdated, Oxford and MIT created new system
   

The CDC quietly modified coronavirus testing guidelines to exclude people who are asymptomatic, potentially limiting our understanding of the true scope of the virus

Hundreds of university students have been suspended for violating COVID safety policies as cases rise across college campuses

1. California wildfires: 2 fires among biggest in history, 7 dead

Pandemic-related 'deaths of despair' were forecast at about 75,000 back in May — now they could be up to 150,000

Police Requests To Access Your Smart Speaker Are Up 72% Since 2016

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China Media Says Military Ready to Deal With U.S., Taiwan 'Secessionists'

TOUGH GUY LUKASHENKO VS “BALTIC SUPERPOWER”

Social Security Fund Would Be Empty By 2023 If Payroll Taxes Were Cut, Actuary Estimates

More than 100 000 livestock animals perish as intense snowstorms hit Patagonia, 70 percent of flock at risk

Boris Johnson to resign in 2021, says Dominic Cumming's father-in-law

'If you're not Harvard, you're f---ed': Business schools concerned about attracting MBA students are scrambling to improve their online courses during COVID-19

Business schools worry that students won't pay for remote, online learning — 30% of Harvard Business School's MBA intake have deferred entry.

In Historic Reshuffling, Exxon, Pfizer & Raytheon Kicked Out Of Dow Jones Industrial Average, Replaced By Saleforce, Amgen & Honeywell

Facebook reportedly plans to sue Thailand's government over its demand that the company block users within the country from accessing a group critical of its king

Donald Trump Jr. privately thinks Trump will lose in November, and fears prosecutions will follow, according to a new report which he has strongly denied

'Absolutely repugnant': Biden's campaign forcefully disavows an endorsement from neo-Nazi Richard Spencer

56 people got the coronavirus at a Starbucks in South Korea. The only people who didn’t were employees wearing masks.

 

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Zoom Outages

Syria says pipeline blast was terrorist attack, U.S. suspects IS

San Diego ocean temperatures jump nearly 20 degrees, hitting 77 in La Jolla

Navalny Poisoning Confirmed

1. COVID-19 can survive on frozen meat, fish for up to three weeks: study
   
   

• Maine wedding reception linked to 53 virus cases, 1 death

• EXCLUSIVE: Inside Harvard Business School's plans for helping students land coveted jobs and internships during the pandemic

  China says it has been injecting key workers with a coronavirus vaccine candidate for a month

  Hundreds of Chinese fishing boats lurking off South America add to fears about a future war for fish

  Uber Eats Found To Be Underpaying Drivers On 30% Of Trips, Programming Sleuth Finds

  
  

  

  Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman starkly laid out the disconnect between the stock market and the real economy in a scathing op-ed

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Kim Jong Un reportedly in a coma as his sister Kim Yo Jong takes control

Syrian gov’t rushes water tanks to Hasakah after Turkish-backed forces cutoff supply to 1 million people

Report: California's Oldest State Park, Home To Majestic Coast Redwoods, Is 'Gone'

How QAnon Conspiracy Is Spreading In Christian Communities Across The U.S.

Earth has lost a 'staggering' 28 trillion tonnes of ice to global warming in the last 23 years, UK scientists find

Michigan College Will Digitally Track Students’ Movements At All Times

Cuomo’s coronavirus rules: No dancing, no cornhole, no karaoke, no kidding

South Korea Indefinitely Closes All Nightlife As Global COVID-19 Cases Top 23 Million: Live Updates

Donald Trump is to speak on all 4 nights of the RNC, and his family will take up half of the keynote speaker spots

Trump To Announce "Major Therapeutic Treatment" Tonight, After Slamming FDA Over HCQ Snub

Trump's sister assailed him for 'lying,' 'phoniness,' 'cruelty,' and having 'no principles,' secretly recorded audio reveals

Secretly recorded by her niece.

How the University of North Carolina went from a leader in college reopenings to what the student paper called a 'clusterf---' with 135 coronavirus cases in just 7 days

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The [Gates] foundation even helped fund a 2016 report from the American Press Institute that was used to develop guidelineson how newsrooms can maintain editorial independence from philanthropic funders.

Six waterspouts filmed swirling at once in Gulf of Mexico

A rush is on to mine the deep seabed, with effects on ocean life that aren’t well understood

Virginia Health Commissioner says he’ll mandate a COVID-19 vaccine

Prison guards switch off security cameras to give Ghislaine Maxwell privacy during ‘difficult time’

Madrid Planning to Build Largest Urban Forest

1.  Leak: Postal workers told not to reconnect sorting machines

2. There were serious flaws with reports that a study found neck fleeces are worse than not wearing a mask at all

   As many as 215,000 people in the US have died as a result of COVID-19 pandemic, new CDC figures suggest

   Bears Capitulate As S&P Short Interest Hits Lowest On Record

   How this tiny beetle could help solve our water crisis

   A landmark deal with the UAE may not be enough to save Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu

• Coronavirus symptoms may follow a distinct order, new research shows — and diarrhea could signal more aggressive disease

  The greatest plays in the English language were written during a pandemic — and wouldn't have been possible without it

  Doctors are finding striking similarities between chronic fatigue syndrome and long-term coronavirus symptoms

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Pakistan warns of nuclear war with India, says 'our weapons will save Muslim lives and only target regions'

Big Basin Redwoods – California’s Oldest State Park – Destroyed by Wildfire

Unprecedented: Two hurricanes expected in Gulf; Florida still in path of Tropical Storm Laura

The coronavirus pandemic is behind Utah’s record number of human-caused wildfires, officials say

front-of-house staff in restaurants who choose to wear face shields must now wear them upside down so that they are attached at the collar instead of the forehead, so that their breath is directed up, not down.

A rare #satellite image of what appears to be a #Chinese Type 093 sub at the entrance of a not-so-secret, subterranean base at China's southern #Hainan island. Yulin Naval Base is home to subs of #China’s South Sea Fleet and provides convenient access to the South China Sea.

How We Could Wind Up Banned From Discussing An October Surprise On Social Media This Election

Walmart and Target are thriving during the pandemic thanks to stimulus spending — here are the top 9 items Americans purchased with their checks at the big-box retailers

A growing dent in Earth's magnetic field could wreak havoc on satellites and the space station, NASA says

Vietnam is warning about Chinese bombers deployed to disputed South China Sea islands

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China and Russia ditch dollar in move towards ‘financial alliance’

UConn Health Researchers Find a Simple Oral Rinse Can Inactivate the COVID-19 Virus

Steve Bannon Arrested In Scheme To Raise Money For Trump's Border Wall

Record Low: World Trade

Royal Australian Mint expects lowly silver coins to be phased out amid rise of contactless payments

Mauritius arrests captain of stricken Japanese oil tanker

Record melt: Greenland lost 586 billion tons of ice in 2019

Lakeland Linder Airport given 'all clear' after live missile found on property, officials say

People who get coronavirus develop long-term immunity via T cells: study

Video appears to show emergency workers rushing on a plane to take Putin opponent Alexei Navalny to the hospital after a suspected poisoning

China state media says angry reactions to a packed water party in Wuhan are 'sour grapes'

The world desperately needs coronavirus treatments, even if we get a vaccine. These 9 candidates are our best hope so far.

NYC is laying off 400 emergency medical workers as part of the city's COVID-19 budget cuts, union says

Sweden has recorded its highest death toll since a famine swept through the country 150 years ago

Facebook closes in on $650 million settlement of a lawsuit claiming it illegally gathered biometric data

'Beige gold': Criminals are making a fortune by illegally recycling cardboard, and it's making a huge dent in the pockets of cities and local authorities