From Jenna Orkin

Gold deposit on new Armenian-Azerbaijani border – whose mine is it?

Covid stimulus help for desperate ICU nurses is urgent. But Congress is on vacation.

Sicily asks Cuba to send medics as Italy fights second Covid wave

Virus Deaths Approach Spring Record Amid Changing U.S. Crisis

Pennsylvania Supreme Court dismisses Trump challenge to vote

Fears for environment after 50,000 fish escape salmon farm in Tasmania

COVID-19 Has Claimed the Lives of 100,000 Long-Term Care Residents and Staff

Honestie Hodges, Whose Handcuffing Changed Police Policy, Is Dead at 14

US breaks record for daily COVID-19 hospitalizations

The Republican Secretary of State for Georgia says Trump 'should leave quietly' after state's election recount confirmed Biden's win

How AstraZeneca and Oxford blew their big vaccine moment: A messy week that overshadowed what should have been a scientific victory

 From Jenna Orkin

Australian State Shut Because of Nonexistent Pizza Delivery

Suicide claimed more Japanese lives in October than 10 months of COVID

The great unravelling: 'I never thought I’d live to see the horror of planetary collapse'

Take Trump's coup seriously. It's no joke — and Biden's win was just a sugar high

Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Misguided Defense of John Brennan and The Logan Act: a Dangerous and Unconstitutional Law

Union: Brigham and Women’s Hospital telling nurses living with coronavirus-positive relatives to report to work

Trump administration moves ahead on gutting bird protections

Dr. Mary Fowkes, 66, Dies; Helped Science Understand the Pandemic

When he leaves office, can ex-President Trump be trusted with America's national security secrets?

McKinsey Proposed Paying Pharmacy Companies Rebates for OxyContin Overdoses

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Secret Amazon Reports Expose the Company’s Surveillance of Labor and Environmental Groups

US Hospitalizations Hit Record High

Why is Joe Biden considering this man to help fight the climate crisis?

The Biden transition team is facing pressure not to hire people with fossil fuel ties, like Obama’s energy secretary Ernest Moniz

Video footage shows Russian warship following US destroyer before stopping vessel

Astra Vaccine’s 90% Efficacy in Covid Came in Younger Group

Government secretly deployed British troops to defend Saudi Arabian oil fields

IRGC Navy’s popular forces stage massive naval drill in Persian Gulf

At New York’s Hospitals, Staff Brace for Another COVID Wave: ‘We Know What’s Coming’

 

Taiwanese politicians threw punches and pig guts in parliament in bitter dispute over US pork imports

A top scientist seen as the father of Iran's nuclear weapons program has been assassinated, Iranian media reports

1. Moderna vaccine was designed in just 2 days
2. AstraZeneca will retest its vaccine

3. 'Dr. Doom' economist Nouriel Roubini trashes Bitcoin for being heavily manipulated, and blames retail investor FOMO for its recent pump-and-dump

 From Jenna Orkin

CDC warns eight COVID-19 infections are missed for every one counted

How Think Tanks Amplify Corporate America’s Influence - 2016

All That Glitters is Not Gold: Turmoil in Zimbabwe’s Mining Sector

AstraZeneca admits the best results in its COVID-19 vaccine study came from a dosing error, and experts are raising new questions about the shot

Researchers Revive Bacteria from Age of Dinosaurs

Key Democrat warns Biden not to nominate Mike Morell as CIA director

Mayo Clinic Puts Hospital Beds In Ambulance Garage, Lobbies As COVID-19 Surges

Splitting 5 to 4, Supreme Court Backs Religious Challenge to Cuomo’s Virus Shutdown Order

Donald Trump Is First President Since Jimmy Carter Not to Enter U.S. Troops Into New Conflict

Vaccine trials didn't monitor one variable: volunteers' behavior. 'Masks and social distancing were left up to us,' a participant said.

The head of the US government program tasked with getting the country vaccines said he will probably quit by early next year — before most Americans can get a shot

Sweden Unexpectedly Expands QE By 40%

 

From Jenna Orkin

The World Is $277 Trillion in Debt So Why Aren't Economists More Worried?

TK News by Matt Taibbi:  Google was now pushing viewers away from alternative sources, such that an article in the New York Times about Trotskyism might be ranked ahead of the world’s leading Trotskyite media organ...

At repeated hearings in Washington, figures like Mark Warner and Adam Schiff would demand over and over again that Google, Facebook, and Twitter censor left-wing content.

UK sourced PPE from factories secretly using North Korean slave labour

 The global percentage of people undernourished is rising again. In 2018, it was declared that 25 percent of the world population, 1.9 billion people, lived with food insecurity. If infant mortality is taken as a baseline, around 60 percent of the world population lives in poverty.

Scams led California to send COVID jobless benefits to Scott Peterson, death row inmates

How do we avoid future authoritarians? Winning back the working class is keyBernie Sanders

‘Zombie’ minks rise from Denmark’s mass graves after COVID-19 slaughter

Americans, Cancel Thanksgiving Plans To Prevent The Spread Of COVID-19. Love, Canada.

1% of farms operate 70% of world's farmland

What if Trump won’t leave the White House? A hostage negotiator, an animal-control officer, and a toddler whisperer have advice

We now have the best evidence yet that coronavirus immunity lasts 6 to 8 months after infection, and perhaps even years

Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner expand NJ estate after dark signs from NY

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New Zealand, With Its Covid-19 Outbreak Under Control, Is In Talks With Biden As U.S. Exceeds 12 Million Cases

Doctors say CDC should warn people the side effects from Covid vaccine shots won't be 'a walk in the park'

Panic grips Shanghai airport after employees are sealed in for coronavirus testing

G.M. Drops Its Support for Trump Climate Rollbacks and Aligns With Biden

Presidential Transition Act: Provisions and Funding, November 13, 2020

Federal Scientific Integrity Policies: A Primer, November 20, 2020

Vaccine Safety in the United States: Overview and Considerations for COVID-19 Vaccines, November 4, 2020

Arms Sales in the Middle East: Trends and Analytical Perspectives for U.S. Policy, updated November 23, 2020

Federal Law Enforcement Use of Facial Recognition Technology, October 27, 2020

Trump endorsed Biden transition after told didn't have to concede: NYT

Biden will pick former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen to head the Treasury Department

Oil wipes out most of its pandemic losses and hits its highest since March, as a vaccine rollout turns traders bullish on 2021

Architects are designing the airports of the future as the coronavirus pandemic forces new thinking on how we travel - take a look

Flyers may someday take individual pods directly from the terminal to their planes while security and border checks are virtually conducted.

The prospect of a Trump memoir is already filling publishing workers with dread — and could lead to revolt

A Big Five publishing-house editor says the "best-kept secret" is that "so much of the industry is supported by conservative authors."

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Climate crisis: CO2 hits new record despite Covid-19 lockdowns

Pennsylvania Republicans Emergency Request to Block Certification

New Type of Test May Better Discern Immunity to the Coronavirus

Largest COVID-19 contact tracing study to date finds children key to spread, evidence of superspreaders

Mask Mandates Work To Slow Spread Of Coronavirus, Kansas Study Finds

Extinction Rebellion launches campaign of financial disobedience

Cancel the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree for Good

AstraZeneca and Oxford University announced a 3rd working COVID-19 vaccine, which they say is 70% effective

Facebook is reportedly planning to woo Joe Biden by rolling out new vaccine and climate change features

Boris Johnson relaxes the national coronavirus lockdown and says families can meet to celebrate Christmas

Danone, the world's largest yogurt-maker, is cutting up to 2,000 jobs as it targets $1.2 billion in annual savings

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New Report Finds More Than 200 Firearms Went Missing From Philadelphia Sheriff’s Office

1,000 U.S. Hospitals Are 'Critically' Short On Staff — And More Expect To Be Soon

Kissinger Warns Biden of U.S.-China Catastrophe on Scale of WWI

UNICEF: Schools are not 'main drivers' of Covid among kids

So what's killing the teachers?

Effectiveness of Adding a Mask Recommendation to Other Public Health Measures to Prevent SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Danish Mask Wearers

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A Randomized Controlled Trial

Why Rich Countries Are So Much More Vulnerable to COVID

Older population

Ending China’s Chokehold on Rare-Earth Minerals

 

What Does China Really Want? To Dominate the World (May)

Trump lawyers 'thankful' to judge who dismissed Pennsylvania lawsuit

Stacey Abrams helped register 800,000 voters and flipped Georgia for Biden. Here's what anyone can learn from her ability to inspire and influence others.

The German government tells people to be as 'lazy as raccoons' as it deploys humor to control the spread of COVID-19

Greta Thunberg spoke zero words to anyone outside her family for 3 years before becoming the face of the youth climate movement, a new film reveals

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SECNAV Braithwaite Calls for New U.S. 1st Fleet Near Indian, Pacific Oceans

China Vaccine Arrives in Sao Paulo With Virus Cases on the Rise

Op-Ed | New York City has enough vacant apartments to house the homeless: It’s time to do it

A destructive legacy: Trump bids for final hack at environmental protections

Talk about a scorched earth policy! - JO

Iran’s Revolutionary GGuard launches aircraft-carrying ship

China’s ‘bat woman’ says COVID-19 did not originate in Wuhan lab

Covid: chemicals found in everyday products could hinder vaccine

A fragile peace in Nagorno-Karabakh leaves Russia and Turkey in charge and the West in the cold

If the US doesn't start to meaningfully help African nations, China will have a blank check to control growing African industries

China curtailed travel ahead of the Lunar New Year. As Thanksgiving approaches, the US is ignoring that example.

The life and career of Tony West, the Uber executive married to Kamala Harris' sister, and who may be in the running for a role in the Biden administration

Uh oh

How to spot a deepfake, according to experts who clocked the fake persona behind the Hunter Biden dossier

Look for vague textures, weird hairlines, and strange ears.

Rumblings of racism at a famous civil-rights law firm highlight the lack of diversity at the firms that are supposed to fight for the oppressed

From Jenna Orkin

New COVID-19 cases in Michigan's prisons hit all-time high

New Data Suggest Covid Immunity Could Last  Years

Georgia confirms Biden victory and finds no widespread fraud after statewide audit

US military reports record number of coronavirus cases

 

Prevalence of Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infection

COVID-19: in the footsteps of Ernest Shackleton

We describe what we believe is the first instance of complete COVID-19 testing of all passengers and crew on an isolated cruise ship during the current COVID-19 pandemic

Poll suggests Americans are more willing to be vaccinated.

The baseless ‘Great Reset’ conspiracy theory rises again.

Famed Arecibo telescope, on the brink of collapse, will be dismantled

Kenyan Death Rate Far Lower form COVID

All of Switzerland’s regular intensive care beds are full.

1. Giuliani asks judge to ignore PA voters, declare Trump winner

2. A mutated COVID-19 strain that spread on Danish mink farms is 'most likely' extinct, authorities say, as Ireland starts its own mink cull