From Jenna Orkin

 The Untold History of Obama and the CIA

Electricity bills in Italy rise by almost 30 percent from Friday

New COVID vaccines may be needed next year, BioNTech CEO says

Can Nuclear Fusion Put the Brakes on Climate Change? Amid an escalating crisis, the power source offers a dream—or a pipe dream—of limitless clean energy.

Romanian billionaire dies when his private plane crashes near Milan

Czech police promise to ‘act upon’ Pandora Papers, as revelations about prime minister become campaign topic

Former Facebook employee Frances Haugen revealed as ‘whistleblower’ behind leaked company documents

The revelations about Mike Pence’s role in Jan. 6 keep getting worse

Letters: gene editing will just perpetuate disastrous factory farming

Instead of trying to cosh nature into submission, our farmers should be improving the health of the soil and the diversity of their crops and animals

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Massive oil spill hits Orange County beaches, killing birds, marine life, California

46. Vaccination reduces transmission of Delta, but by less than the Alpha variant. The impact of
47. 48  vaccination decreased over time. Factors other than PCR-measured viral load are important
48. 49  in vaccine-associated transmission reductions. Booster vaccinations may help control
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The Federation of American Scientists last week renewed its petition to the Department of Energy and the Department of Defense to declassify the current number of weapons in the U.S. nuclear stockpile and the number that have been dismantled.

"US nuclear weapons policy should be conducted on the basis of accurate public information to the extent possible," the FAS petition said. "Declassification of stockpile data supports a factual deliberative process in Congress and elsewhere."

"We will begin the process of evaluating your proposal and conducting the necessary coordination," replied Nick Prospero, the acting director of the Office of Classification at the Department of Energy.

The size of the US nuclear stockpile was previously declassified and disclosed by the government for each year through FY 2017, when the Trump Administration ended the practice.

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Another FAS petition, filed in 2018, to declassify the size of the current US inventory of highly enriched uranium has lately received a favorable response from the Department of Energy.

"The program office has indicated they are ready to support the declassification request," said Andrew Weston-Dawkes, then-director of the DOE Office of Classification, on September 8. "I suspect there is a good amount of work to collect and process the HEU data so hopefully we can provide an update on status in a couple of months."

Kabul faces blackouts because the Taliban stopped paying foreign companies that generate most of Afghanistan's electricity

LinkedIn is blocking the Chinese profiles of journalists and researchers over 'prohibited content' not approved by the government

South Dakota now rivals offshore tax havens for financial secrecy, Pandora Papers say

The 'Pandora Papers' investigation has linked the Met museum and the British Museum with suspected looted Cambodian antiquities

How a region that bans WiFi and cell service attracted neo-Nazis, astronomers, and people allergic to technology

Brazil's tragic ivermectin frenzy is a warning to the US, experts say

One ICU doctor said the US should take note: "We Brazilians had to learn in the hardest way that ivermectin didn't work."

Stephanie Grisham says she and other Trump staffers 'got heady with power' and 'didn't think about serving the country'

Google, Amazon, and Microsoft have taken advantage of a commonly used but little-known tool to quietly enter dozens of contracts with ICE and CBP