From Jenna Orkin

Fumio Kishida set to become Japan’s new prime minister after winning party vote

Michigan to have nation's first electrified road to wirelessly charge EVs, Whitmer says

‘Unprecedented’ power cuts in China hits homes, factories

Macron Says Europe Should "Stop Being Naive" After Inking Face-Saving Defense Deal With Greece

Poland’s KGHM turns to nuclear as alternative power source

1. A new model shows that US COVID-19 cases are likely to slow heading into the fall and winter

   One of the biggest student loan companies in the US wants to shut down its services

   Jamie Dimon says JPMorgan is preparing for the US to default on its debt, warning that such a scenario would be 'potentially catastrophic'

   How 4 Black Alabama women went door-to-door persuading people to get jabbed in one of the least vaccinated US states

   AOC threatens to vote down bipartisan infrastructure deal

 

From Jenna Orkin

Global gas wars: the fun has just begun!

Scientists Study How Bacteria Repair DNA

Two dead from taking ivermectin in New Mexico

‘Dozens’ of Massachusetts state troopers resign over vaccine mandate

John Hinckley Jr., Who Tried to Kill Reagan, Will Be Free in June

Hochul signs executive order for National Guard to fill hospital shortages due to vaccine hesitancy

The Biggest Federal Reserve Scandal

Oil prices soar above $80 for the first time in 3 years as the natural gas shortage stokes demand

Afghanistan's female judges say they are on the run after the Taliban freed the male rapists and murderers they put behind bars

The Facebook-backed 2Africa subsea communications cable is set to become the world's longest, stretching about 28,000 miles

Afghanistan's financial system is about to collapse, lender warns, as the US keeps nearly $10 billion in reserves frozen from the Taliban

 

From Jenna Orkin

Panic buying leaves up to 90 percent of fuel pumps dry in major British cities

Alabama lawmakers weigh using virus funds to build prisons

In shock ruling, Italy court overturns mafia verdicts

New York Hospitals Face Possible Mass Firings as Workers Spurn Vaccines

With a Monday deadline looming, thousands of health care workers in the state are risking their jobs by not getting a coronavirus vaccine.

A Danish man found buried treasure from the Iron Age using a metal detector, just hours after turning it on for the first time

A metal detectorist has uncovered one of the largest gold hoards ever found in Denmark. An Iron Age chieftain buried the treasure 1,500 years ago.

The CIA pitched Trump officials plans to assassinate Julian Assange while he was hiding in a London embassy in 2017, report says

A third of El Salvador's population is actively using its bitcoin wallet Chivo, President Nayib Bukele says

Costco is renting 3 container ships and 'several thousand containers' to shield itself from supply chain delays and rising costs

The WHO is restarting its investigation into whether COVID-19 leaked from a Chinese lab, report says

 

From Jenna Orkin

The Record-Breaking Failures of Nuclear Power

As Treasury scrambles to pay bills, pandemic fuels uncertainty over calamitous ‘X Date’

Based on the best selling masterpiece by Lisa Pease. The documentary is a 3 part series that covers the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy and the aftermath of that event.

Instead of a Doomsday Post-Delta Variant...

Covid Pill

Solar Superstorms: Planning for an Internet Apocalypse

Orlando is gearing up to become a rival to Silicon Valley — and shift away from being a destination primarily for tourists and retirees

Taliban foot soldiers need to stop having so much fun and taking selfies, Afghanistan's new defense minister says

Walmart does away with layaway, which didn't carry any fees, and announces new buy now, pay later program that will charge customers interest

Exclusive: ICE just paid $3.9 million for 'rapid' AI-powered facial recognition at migrant detention facilities

 

From Jenna Orkin

Unemployment frauds using identity theft to steal billions: study

Radical leader of Pakistan’s Red Mosque emboldened by Taliban takeover of Afghanistan

Grocery workers have borne the brunt of the pandemic. Now supermarket shootings are on the rise.

The danger isn’t that China’s Evergrande will collapse. It’s that it won’t.

A JetBlue passenger choked a female flight attendant with his necktie and begged to be shot, report says

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

Dozens of cargo ships stuck waiting off New York's coast amid port staff shortages and surging demand for goods

1. Donald Trump could be charged with multiple crimes over his attempts to overturn his loss in the state of Georgia, report says
2. Chairman disbands panel investigating COVID-19's origins

3. Expensive housing is the reason the planet is burning, the rich are getting richer, and women are choosing to have fewer children

 

From Jenna Orkin

Meet Josiah Zayner, America's Most Censored Person

How big corporations and Bill Gates took over the UN food Summit

Lithuania: Decomposition analysis performed on mobile devices manufactured by Huawei, Xiaomi and OnePlus identified 10 instances of increased cybersecurity risk.

The US deported dozens of children without Haitian passports to Haiti, report says

The Biden administration is using a Trump-era measure to deport thousands of Haitian migrants gathered at the US border back to Haiti.

Humans won't be able to control a superintelligent AI, according to a study

China declares all crypto-related transactions illegal and forbids overseas exchanges from serving its citizens

A hamster has been trading cryptocurrencies in a cage rigged to automatically buy and sell tokens since June — and it's currently outperforming the S&P 500

'Right-to-work' legislation may sound nice, but it's actually terrible for workers and has a deeply racist history

Pitchfork Economics' Paul Constant says these laws hurt unions' ability to get workers higher pay and employer-provided health insurance.

Insulin prices have tripled over the past decade. Diabetics like me are now being forced to choose between paying for groceries or our medication.

One of the most secretive and powerful groups in GOP politics just had its cellphone numbers leaked. Here's what its members said about Trump 2024 when we started calling. 

From Jenna Orkin

Mormon church to require masks in temples amid COVID surge

EPA to cut greenhouse gases thousands of times more powerful than carbon dioxide

U.S. special envoy to Haiti resigns, says he will not be associated with ‘inhumane, counterproductive’ deportations of Haitians

Abrahamic Family House in Abu Dhabi to open in 2022

80-year old gardener plants native species; is told to mow them down

What is Havana Syndrome, the mysterious illness afflicting US diplomats from China to Vietnam?

Workplace vaccine mandates expected to accelerate, Willis Towers Watson survey finds

Taliban ask to address UN General Assembly: UN spokesman

Aide to Ukraine's president survives apparent assassination attempt

Macy's wants to hire 76,000 workers before the holidays, nearing pre-pandemic levels of employment

Workers with a higher risk of getting COVID-19, like healthcare workers and teachers, are eligible for a Pfizer-BioNTech booster shot

Schools often use AI to find students in crisis — one software-monitoring company reported 5,000 self-harm situations in a single week

France ordered officials to 'get revenge' on the US, UK, and Australia after it was ditched from $50 billion submarine contract, report says

Former Defense Secretary James Mattis told the Elizabeth Holmes jury that 'there came a point when I didn't know what to believe'

A California school district is putting 'now hiring' flyers in students' lunch boxes to help fill 200 job openings during a staff shortage, a report says

A school district in Georgia has raised substitute teacher pay from $89 to $189 a day as schools struggle to find staff

Trump appeared to admit in a lawsuit that NYT report on his taxes — which his lawyer had dismissed — is actually true

 

From Jenna Orkin

Former FDA chief predicts flu season will be a ‘whopper’

Melting of polar ice shifting Earth itself, not just sea levels

Hospitals overwhelmed by covid are turning to ‘crisis standards of care.’ What does that mean?

China Evergrande veers toward default — and a $300 billion global shock

Before off-duty police shooting, Chicago officer had long complaint record. Should the city pay?

Record backlog of cargo ships at California ports

Wuhan Scientists Planned To Release 'Chimeric Covid Spike Proteins' Into Bat Populations Using 'Skin-Penetrating Nanoparticles'A single pair of jeans can take 1,500 liters of water to make — these sustainable denim brands are looking to change that

Crypto funding for Palestine's Hamas nears $1 million and far outstrips hauls for other militant groups, Coinbase says

70% of fully vaccinated prisoners caught COVID-19 in a Texas Delta outbreak, the CDC says — but the vaccine protected against severe disease

 

From Jenna Orkin

Magnitude 6.0 earthquake strikes near Melbourne, Australia

Anonymous Hack Triggers Massive Data Dump on Proud Boys, QAnon

Jeff Bezos pledges $1 billion to protect 30 percent of the Earth’s land and sea

Kentucky schools overwhelmingly keep mask mandates after Republicans scrapped state requirement

Why Texas’s laws are moving right while its population shifts left

As opportunity beckons in Afghanistan, al-Qaeda’s leader squabbles and writes ‘comically boring’ books

FBI raids Brian Laundrie’s family home after body believed to be Gabby Petito found; Search for boyfriend continues

Cuba vaccinates children as young as 2 in strategy to reopen schools, economy

A member of the CIA director's team experienced symptoms of the mysterious 'Havana Syndrome' on a trip to India, report says

A funeral truck in North Carolina sported the slogan 'don't get vaccinated' in what turned out to be an ad agency's pro-vaccination stunt

A COVID-19 booster shot that could protect against multiple variants at once is being tested in humans for the first time

Mitch McConnell says the GOP will vote for the US to default on its debt 

From Jenna Orkin

Texas restaurant kicks out couple who wore masks to protect their at-risk son

Is the Australia-UK-USA Trilateral Security Partnership (AUKUS) a Gamechanger?

Shooting at Russian university leaves at least 6 dead, 24 injured

Deportees land in Port-au-Prince: ‘Nobody told us we were going back to Haiti’

Thousands Evacuated as Canary Island Volcano Erupts

Hillary Clinton Lawyer Indicted

Taliban seize $12.4 million from former top Afghan officials

1. Hours after 9/11, the US military turned to Delta Force, and Delta Force scrambled to get operators back in uniform

   Pfizer says its COVID-19 vaccine is safe and likely to work in younger children, and it's planning to ask for permission to use it in kids as young as 5

   A swarm of bees killed 63 endangered penguins in Cape Town

 

From Jenna Orkin

How an intelligence officer’s disappearance in Somalia has ripped the government apart

Afghan family ravaged by U.S. drone strike mistake wants headstones for the dead — and possible new life in America

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Long-Secret FBI Report Reveals New Connections Between 9/11 Hijackers and Saudi Religious Officials in U.S.

Can Deep-Sea Mining Solve The Battery Metals Supply Crisis?

You can bet we're going to find out.

Mossad assassinated Iran's top nuclear scientist using an AI-powered, remote-controlled machine gun, report says

1. Small airlines battle to serve the most remote US cities, where even empty flights can be profitable thanks to millions in subsidies

   Africa is poised to be a significant player in the new space age — especially when it comes to governance. Here's why.

   COVID-19 vaccine's impact on menstrual cycles needs to be investigated after 30,000 women report changes, says top scientist

   710 Indigenous people, mostly girls, were reported missing over the past decade in Wyoming,  where Gabby Petito disappeared

 

From Jenna Orkin

Wildfire reaches Giant Forest; fate of giant sequoias unknown

Scientists created the world's whitest paint. It could eliminate the need for air conditioning.

A Detroit community college professor is fighting Silicon Valley’s surveillance machine. People are listening.

A Montana Man Has The Oldest DNA Native To America – And It Alters What We Know About Our Ancestors

Among a cohort of 432,302 persons aged 2–19 years, the rate of body mass index (BMI) increase approximately doubled during the pandemic compared to a prepandemic period.

France Recalls Ambassadors to US and Australia Over Submarine Deal

Caught On Video: Carmine’s Hostess Attacked After Asking Tourists For Proof Of Vaccination

Sources in southern Damascus reported hearing an explosion seconds before the blackout. All of this happened as the second batch of tankers carrying Iranian fuel was crossing into Lebanon.

Warren Buffett had at least 3 chances to bail out Lehman Brothers before it collapsed. Here's why he didn't take them.

1. El Salvador just made bitcoin its legal currency — here's what it's like trying to buy things with cryptocurrency in the country

   El Salvador just made bitcoin a legal currency, but it's off to a rocky start. Here's what it's like trying to make purchases with it.

   The companies polluting the planet have spent millions to make you think carpooling and recycling will save us

   How Trump used goats to cut millions of dollars off his local property taxes, and paid just $700 last year
2. FDA panel backs COVID-19 booster shots for at-risk adults, 65+
3. Scientists close to classifying long COVID as autoimmune disease