From Jenna Orkin

L.A. County hospitals turn away ambulances, put patients in gift shop: ‘I’ve never seen anything like this’

Last man to share jail cell with Jeffrey Epstein died last month of COVID

Covid: Military back-up for pupil testing as heads urge delay to start of term

Asian American voters could decide the Georgia Senate runoffs

What The Early Vote In Georgia Can — And Can’t — Tell Us

Girl Scout cookies have been linked to child labor on palm oil plantations, report says

Best (And Worst) Ways to Spot a Liar

Vice Gets Squeezed

Wuhan, the pandemic's first epicenter, may have had 10 times as many COVID-19 cases as were reported, a study from China's CDC suggests

The US has confirmed its first case of the new, more transmissible coronavirus strain in Colorado

Less than a week before taking office, 41-year-old Louisiana Congressman-elect Luke Letlow has died from COVID-19

 From Jenna Orkin

Thousands of Colorado residents without heat after attack on gas service

Strong Earthquake Kills 6, Causes Serious Damage in Croatia

AI People

Even Homer Gets Mobbed

White supremacists plotted to attack US electric grid by shooting into power stations, FBI says

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Edinburgh company generates electricity from gravity 

NYC Ousts 12,000 Students From In-Person Class Over Virus Test Forms

Man's fatal heart attack likely unlinked to vaccine he took 2 hours before

China to leapfrog US as world’s biggest economy by 2028: Report

Anti-lockdown protest organiser faces £10,000 fine as London enters tier 4

Why We Desperately Need To Bring Back Vocational Training In Schools 

Addicts in rehab next to get COVID-19 vaccine, Cuomo says

Adidas is developing plant-based leather that will be used to make shoes, its latest sustainability initiative after producing 15 million pairs of recycled plastic sneakers in 2020

From Jenna Orkin

Saudi court jails women's rights activist, posing challenge for Biden

Small Number of Covid Patients Develop Severe Psychotic Symptoms

 

Most had no history of mental illness and became psychotic weeks after falling ill. Cases are expected to remain rare but are being reported worldwide.

China and Rare Earths - CATO Institute

How China’s digital currency will thwart US dollar trap and help the world

Britain set to infect 2,500 people with COVID-19 for research

Chinese journalist who documented Wuhan coronavirus outbreak jailed for 4 years

Swedish Millionaire Buys 4 Million Acres Amazon Rainforest to Preserve It

Restaurants have battled each other with breakfast offerings for years. In 2021, they'll have a new competitor — big food companies.

Most vaccine skeptics are persuadable and will get the COVID-19 shot, says a Nobel prize-winner who studies vaccine hesitancy

European Union nations have kicked off a mass effort to distribute COVID-19 vaccines to more than 450 million people

Under cover of darkness, hundreds of skiers secretly escaped from COVID-19 quarantine at a resort in the Swiss Alps

Nashville bombing suspect told ex-girlfriend he had cancer and gave possessions away in weeks leading up to suicide, as 5G paranoia motive investigated

New York Post editorial board tells Trump it's time to end the 'undemocratic coup' and secure his legacy by helping Republicans maintain control of the Senate

From Jenna Orkin

More than 1.5 billion masks believed to have entered oceans in 2020

I'm a consultant in infectious diseases. 'Long Covid' is anything but a mild illness

Cover Story: How Illegal Online Gambling Launders $153 Billion From China

Wheels Come Off For Bus Companies, Closing Down Travel Options For Poorer Americans

NYC Now Requires Energy Efficiency Grades For Big Buildings, And Most Are Getting D’s and F’s

Jetpack Man

Indigenous Peoples Photos

Amazing Photos

Himalayan dams become economic burdens

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez should not challenge Chuck Schumer to his Senate seat as she would 'absolutely' lose, warns New York's top Democrat official

Prosecutors have dominated the bench for too long. We need more public defenders to become judges

 From Jenna Orkin

Oregon Hospitals Didn't Have Shortages. So Why Were Disabled People Denied Care?

Italy to Build 1500 Vaccine Pavilions

U.S. whistleblower was pressed to exaggerate leftist role in urban protests, lawyer says

GoDaddy Employees Receive Xmas Phishing Greeting
UK's Largest Testing Lab Suffers Covid Outbreak, According to Whistleblower

Pinellas landlord forgives $100 in rent for every hour tenants volunteer for local charities

How should you talk to friends and relatives who believe conspiracy theories?

A praying 82-year-old COVID-19 patient was beaten to death by another patient with an oxygen tank, police say

More than 400,000 Excedrin bottles have been recalled because of holes in the bottles that could cause child poisoning

A Boston physician said he had a severe allergic reaction to Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine, the first reported case of its kind for the shot. Moderna is looking into it.

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'It's So Much Worse Than Before.' Dread And Despair Haunt Nurses Inside LA's ICUs

Big Pharma In Outrage Over Anderson Cooper's Latest Business Venture - He Fires Back With This!

The Trump Administration sets new all-time low number for refugee admissions

 Russia reopens Soviet-era laboratory to test weapons in Arctic condition

How will you be told when it's your turn for a COVID-19 vaccine? It's complicated.

Vitamin D, other everyday vitamins could counter coronavirus effects: report

The CDC says people planning to travel from the United Kingdom to the US have to test negative for COVID-19 first

A little slow on the uptake

Los Angeles breaks record for COVID-19 deaths on the day before Christmas

Korean artificial sun sets the new world record of 20-sec-long operation at 100 million degrees

U.S. sets COVID-19 hospitalization record, as hospitals scramble to find enough nurses and doctors

 From Jenna Orkin

COVID outbreak in South Korea possibly linked to apartment ventilation system

How the FDA ignores the law when approving new chemical additives to food

An investigation finds the federal agency is not accounting for the cumulative health effect of chemicals as required by law. Such neglect leaves consumers at higher risk for chronic diseases.

U.S. Considers Granting Immunity to Saudi Prince in Suspected Assassination Attempt

Lasers Could Cut Nuclear Life Span from a Million Years to 30 Minutes

The Lawyer Working to Dismantle the World’s Nuclear Weapons

Another new variant of COVID-19 is spreading rapidly in ...

 

Taxpayers on the Hook for Nearly Half of Apartment Building Mortgages

Andrew Yang files paperwork to run for New York mayor

A chart shows how Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos's net worth exploded by $72 billion in 2020 amid the coronavirus pandemic

Gov. Andrew Cuomo says some of Moderna's vaccine vials contain extra doses, just like Pfizer's

Tennessee declared 'ground zero' for a US surge in COVID-19 cases, after it recorded the nation's highest rate of new coronavirus infections

A Chinese producer of Netflix's 'The Three-Body Problem' has been poisoned as part of a suspected murder attempt

From Jenna Orkin 

Pollution killed nearly 1.7m people in India in 2019 – study

2020: The Year Things Started Going Badly Wrong

Posted on December 23, 2020 by Gail Tverberg

" Today’s citizens have never been told that many of the services we take for granted today, such as suppression of forest fires, are really services provided by fossil fuels."

One in Four Diagnosed with Covid Is Infected in Hospital 

Who Is Brenda Mallory, Biden Pick For Council On ... - NPR

Artificial intelligence solves Schrödinger's equation

When the lockdown and domestic travel restrictions were announced in the UK, passengers packed train station platforms and crowded carriages to leave London prior to enforcement of tier 4 restrictions, creating conditions conducive to virus spread.

Here's what we know about the new variant of coronavirus

It's vital we act now to suppress the new coronavirus variant

The Justice Department is suing Walmart, accusing the retailer of turning its pharmacies into a network of opioid suppliers that helped fuel the epidemic

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.

Restaurants can take now take more of thier workers' tips

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5,000-Page Funding Bill Including COVID Relief Also Has Section Detailing Reincarnation of Dalai Lama

Collapsed Patient on Crowded Plane Had Covid

Norway’s Supreme Court Makes Way for More Arctic Drilling

‘The Whole City Was Dark’: China Rations Electricity for Millions

China aircraft carrier sails through Taiwan Strait raising alarm

Improper Payments: Analyzing $2.3 Trillion Mistakenly Spent By The U.S. Government Since 2004 | OpenTheBooks Oversight Report

U.S. Surpasses 3,600 Daily Coronavirus Deaths, Breaks Prior Hospitalization Record

Hemp is the New Oak: America’s First Hemp “Wood” Factory is Being Built

US Navy Sails Nuclear Submarine Through Straits of Hormuz 

Navy Warship’s Secret Mission Off West Africa Aims to Help Punish Venezuela

US Air Force to test anti-drone microwave weapon in Africa, fearing Iran’s countermeasures

Far Right Mob Descends on Oregon Capitol

Man with COVID-19 symptoms dies on United Airlines flight bound for LAX, CDC investigating

 

From Jenna Orkin

Vatican OKs Receiving COVID-19 Vaccines, Even If Research Involved Fetal Tissue

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2 Jewish Wisconsin judges rejected a Trump case. Now anti-Semites are after them

Greece increases military spending by 57% due to tension with Turkey

Japan Understood COVID Better Than Most

Rosneft Spinning Off Key Assets

Billionaire investor Sam Zell questions Tesla and Bitcoin, predicts workers will return to offices, and warns the US dollar could be replaced as the world's reserve currency in a new interview. Here are the 15 best quotes.

Clerics and citizens of Muslim-majority countries question whether the COVID-19 vaccine is allowed under Islamic law

The COVID-19 stimulus deal includes a tax break for business lunches pushed by Trump, in exchange for measures that help the poor, report says

Sidney Powell pushes for executive order to seize voting machines: NYT

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Kushner approved shell company that spent Trump campaign cash

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Russian scientist working on COVID-19 vaccine plummets to death in St. Petersburg

Pakistan 'opens secret normalisation talks' with Israel

Johnson outlined that in Tier 4 areas under the toughest restrictions, there will be no possibility for household mixing over Christmas. In areas under lower alert levels in England, Scotland and Wales, mixing will now be permitted only on Christmas Day.

U.S. Will Close Last Two Consulates in Russia

Biden to seek talks with Maduro in reversal of Trump plan

Mauritius Shipping Disaster: 

The crew of the MV Wakashio, a nearly 300-metre Cape Size bulker used for carrying iron ore, changed direction to sail close enough to Mauritius to get cell phone coverage

Jacinda Ardern says New Zealand has bought so many COVID-19 vaccines that it will give free doses to neighboring countries

54 million Americans, including 18 million children, to be food insecure by the end of 2020, according to Feeding America

Apple is closing its 53 California stores through Christmas, as COVID-19 cases soar to record highs

Chaotic scenes as Londoners try to escape the city before midnight lockdown. Police deployed to prevent non-essential journeys.

Biden is considering Russian financial sanctions or other retaliatory action in response to the SolarWinds hack

From Jenna Orkin 

Millions forced to cancel Christmas as mutant coronavirus strain spreads in U.K.

Stanford Apologizes After Vaccine Allocation Leaves Out Nearly All Medical Residents

Warren reintroduces bill to bar lawmakers from trading stocks

Should You Avoid Alcohol When Getting Corona Virus Vaccine?

Ocasio-Cortez passed over for key committee assignment

Greece arrests two men on Rhodes on suspicion of spying

 

A Riveting ISIS Story, Told in a Times Podcast, Falls Apart

JUST IN: Tulsi Gabbard introduces bill to REPEAL PATRIOT Act

To make the worldwide COVID-19 vaccination roll out successful, we need to address Africa's glaring energy problem

1. Humidifiers can lower COVID-19 transmission risk while indoors

Ilhan Omar blames Trump's 'criminal neglect' for her father's COVID-19 death during interview with MSNBC

The Thanksgiving surge in coronavirus deaths is here. It's 'horrifically awful,' a hospital chaplain said.

The untold story of Ghislaine Maxwell's secret husband, Scott Borgerson