From Jenna Orkin

Ukraine suffers on battlefield while pleading for U.S. arms

Hungary is still holding up the E.U.’s push to phase out Russian oil

German judges visit Peru glacial lake in unprecedented climate crisis lawsuit

Texas police admit to failed shooting response, say kids in room with gunman called 911Physicists predict Earth will become a chaotic world, with dire consequences

Hundreds of public swimming pools in the UK could close due to rising energy costs

Gas prices have hit record highs but don't expect Biden to lower them: 'They already used their biggest bullet'

Iran's revenue from oil and gas exports has jumped 60% as Russia's war sends energy prices soaring

Thai, Vietnam rice price hike plan 'impossible', Thai export body says

With Water Cut to Rice Growers, Colusa County Asks for Economic Assistance

A researcher's avatar was sexually assaulted on a metaverse platform owned by Meta, making her the latest victim of sexual abuse on Meta's platforms, watchdog says

 

From Jenna Orkin

Uvalde schools have a safety plan. The shooting showed its limits.

Covid Can Shrink the Brain By As Much As a Decade in Aging

Charlie Burrell and Isabella Tree were pioneers of rewilding in the UK. Now they are setting their sights on regenerative agriculture, which will supply food to a new farm shop and cafe

DuckDuckGo browser allows Microsoft trackers due to search agreement

Bush-era records released under the Freedom of Information Act raise concerns about the powers presidents might claim during crises, from suspending habeas corpus to implementing an internet kill switch.

1. Baby formula made from Australian goats and grass-fed cows flown to US to battle shortages

   Cousin of Uvalde gunman says he was asking around for details of elementary school a week before the attack

   Online threats made by Uvalde shooter went unreported to parents and were dismissed as harmless: 'kids joke around like that'

   Putin signs law scrapping military age limit in Russia, allowing over-40s to join and fight in Ukraine

   I tried ordering pizza with my mind on the new Domino's 'Stranger Things' app.

 

From Jenna Orkin

What Makes a Mass Shooter?

Before massacre, Uvalde gunman frequently threatened teen girls online

Goat’s milk from Australia: Infant formula is being corralled from all parts of the glob

U.S. is preparing to send long-range rocket systems to Ukraine

Covid was vanishing last Memorial Day. Cases are five times higher now.

If we explain this problem as pure evil or other labels like terrorist attack or hate crime, we feel better because it makes it seem like we’ve found the motive and solved the puzzle. But we haven’t solved anything. We’ve just explained the problem away. What this really problematic terminology does is prevent us from recognizing that mass shooters are us. 

A mother who was handcuffed outside the Texas school shooting later ran into the school and pulled her two children to safety: report

Iran seizes 2 Greek tankers in Persian Gulf as tensions rise

The Uvalde gunman's co-workers nicknamed him 'school shooter' before the attack that killed 21 people

More than 1,000 flights canceled ahead of Memorial Day weekend amid staff shortages as millions travel

Georgia voters have gone to the polls 50 times in the last 7 years, and they're caught between relishing and regretting their role as the newest battleground swing state

 

From Jenna Orkin

Russia’s grain blockade may require U.S. intervention, general suggests

Southern Baptist leaders release sex abuser database they kept secret for years

Walmart’s Troubles Should Have Everyone on High Alert

Uvalde Shooter Fired Outside School for 12 Minutes Before Entering

Ukrainian volunteer fighters in the east feel abandoned

1. GOP Senate candidate Herschel Walker proposes 'a department that can look at young men that's looking at women that's looking at social media' in response to Texas shooting

   "We've gotta get back into prayer," Walker said as another way to prevent mass shootings. "People thinking now praying is bad. No, it's not bad."
2. Texas gunman's father says his son should have killed him instead 
3. Full list of the 214 mass shootings in the US this year

Scientists sequence ancient Pompeii victim's genome for the first time 

When Amazon drones crashed, the company told the FAA to go fly a kite

From Jenna Orkin

Maker of Uvalde shooter’s rifle posted image of child with gun before massacre

How Often Do We Have to Get Covid to Stop Getting Covid?

Abdullah has about 20 prior arrests, including an outstanding gun charge from last year, according to sources. He also has prior arrests for assault, robbery, menacing and grand larceny, sources said.

Abdullah has three cases that are still pending, including an April arrest for fourth-degree criminal possession of stolen property for allegedly being found with a stolen motorcycle, as well as a June 2021 arrest for violating a protective order and March 2021 arrest for assault.

Former classmate says shooter sent him photos of gun and ammunition before the attack

Ukraine Latest: Russia Pledges to Open Sea Corridors, Kyiv Wary

Russia's Oil Export Loophole Runs Through Greece

China is shuttling small ships to tankers at sea to transport cheap Russian oil amid sanctions, report says

World Bank warns a global recession looks inevitable as food and energy prices spiral

Ethereum's cofounder says we'll soon use 'soulbound tokens' to verify things like school and employment — all stored in a 'souls' wallet

China must be able to destroy Elon Musk's Starlink, researchers say 

From Jenna Orkin

Billions of Banknotes Missing

Europe accepts Putin’s demands on gas payments to avoid more shut-offs

Kemp, Raffensperger win in blow to Trump and his false election claims

Can Planets Be Intelligent?

Hungary’s Orban Declares State of Emergency Over War, Economy

 North Korea test-launched a suspected intercontinental ballistic missile and two shorter-range weapons into the sea Wednesday, South Korea said, hours after President Joe Biden ended a trip to Asia where he reaffirmed the U.S. commitment to defend its allies in the face of the North’s nuclear threat.

UK Braces For Internet "Blackouts" Due To Coming "Wave Of Bankruptcies"

Russia moves to stop foreigners from using the services of its surrogate mothers

Tesla is quarantining thousands of Chinese workers in disused factories and an old military camp to keep them free of COVID-19, report says

Amazon more than doubled its warehouse footprint during the pandemic but now has 'too much space.' This chart shows everywhere Amazon expanded.

 

From Jenna Orkin

A Texas Tale of Tinder, Millions in Stolen Crypto and Murder

Climate worries galvanize a new pro-nuclear movement in the U.S.

Along Ukraine’s northern border with Russia, fears of a new invasion

Biden announces Indo-Pacific economic pact to counter China

Navy desertions have more than doubled amid suicide concerns, as sailors feel trapped by contracts

Citi: Soaring Energy Bills Raise Chances Of Windfall Taxes In Europe

Philippines president who once called Putin his 'idol' slams him for killing civilians in Ukraine, becoming first ally of the Russian president to speak out

Facebook parent Meta erases $42 billion in market value after Snap warning rips social media stocks

Kissinger: Ukraine must give up land to Russia, not humiliate Putin

Russia and Iran are holding energy talks as Moscow looks to boost oil exports to Asia

Sugar is the next food you might have a hard time getting your hands on as India announces it's limiting sugar exports

 

From Jenna Orkin

The Topsy-Turvy End of Zero COVID in Taiwan

Russian diplomat resigns protesting Putin’s ‘aggressive war’

Southern Baptist leaders covered up sex abuse, lied about secret database, report say

The grand plan to create a periodic table of all animal intelligence

Hidden Valley Farm says it lost 100k bees to pesticides

Ukraine’s new labour law could ‘open Pandora’s box’ for workers

Amazon Aims to Sublet, End Warehouse Leases as Online Sales Cool

Company wants to shed at least 10 million square feet of space

Global stocks rally and the yuan jumps after Biden says he's weighing cutting tariffs on China

Food and energy tycoons made $1 billion every 2 days amid soaring inflation while millions 'are skipping meals, turning off the heating': Oxfam

Sri Lanka is running out of food, medicine, gas, and money — but the tourists just keep coming

 

From Jenna Orkin 

Biden: U.S. exploring monkeypox vaccines; ‘everybody’ should be concerned

Fighting fire with fire

Ukraine’s Zelensky says war will end in diplomacy; West discusses atrocities in Hague

The Age of Extinction Is Here — Some of Us Just Don’t Know It Yet

Deadly thunderstorm complex cuts power to nearly a million in Canada

Japan Nuclear Regulator Greenlights Radiactive Water Release From Fukushima

Belgium introduces 21-day quarantine for all monkeypox cases

A Tesla driver who had his car on Autopilot in a fatal crash faces manslaughter charges, report says

Goldman Sachs lays out the case for investing more of your money in real assets — and reveals which ones it's most bullish on as the stock market crashes

Millennials and Gen Zers are getting swindled by the biggest scam in higher education

From Jenna Orkin

An Insurrectionist Could Be the Next Governor of Pennsylvania

Michigan Couple Says Town Seized Their Building and Offered To Return It if They Bought Two Cars for Police

Iranian security forces fire tear gas at anti-government protesters

New York City Investigates Possible Monkeypox Case Amid Outbreak

NATO not planning nuclear arms or bases in Finland: PM

NATO Plans to Rip Off Americans Even More as Sweden and Finland Set to Join

Goldman Sachs is installing fancy new biometric fingerprint scanners in the lobby of its NYC headquarters, setting off privacy alarm bells

Investing legend Jeremy Grantham, who called the dot-com bust, warns stocks are once again in a 'real McCoy' bubble

Putin's leadership is unraveling as he takes regular breaks for medical treatment and is constantly surrounded by doctors, says British ex-spy

Former MI6 spy Christopher Steele told the LBC radio station that Putin is "increasingly ill" and takes regular treatments with an entourage of doctors. 

Oliver Stone claims Vladimir Putin has 'had this cancer' but 'I think he's licked it'

From Jenna Orkin

Could Google’s Carbon Emissions Have Effectively Doubled Overnight?

A new report suggests the money that Big Tech companies keep in the banking system can do more climate damage than the products they sell.

Five Imploding $40 Billion Companies Are Shadows Of What They Were

Record Heat in France

Record heat surging toward East Coast with temperatures to near 100

Just before Buffalo shooting, 15 users signed into suspect’s chatroom, says person familiar with review

How a Social Security program piled huge fines on the poor and disabled

California To Spend $5.2 Billion On Electricity Reserve To Avoid Blackouts

German Court OKs Vaccine Mandate

Vast Swath of US at Risk of Summer Blackouts, Regulator Warns

Putin's daughter had a child with a former ballet director in Germany and traveled there more than 50 times between 2017 and 2019, reports say

Biden trying to organize first meeting with Saudi crown prince, CNN reports — a major climbdown after saying he didn't consider him an equal

Biden once promised to make Saudi Arabia a "pariah" but the war between Russia and Ukraine, plus soaring energy prices, flipped the dynamic.

From Jenna Orkin

Scientists Use Gene Editing to Create Mutant Cockroaches in Breakthrough

B.C. windstorm breaks record, knocks out power to thousands

How many times can you get COVID? What experts know about reinfection

Doug Mastriano and the Resurgence of Christian Nationalism

Is the debt bubble supporting the world economy in danger of collapsing?

Surviving inflation one plasma donation at a time

Saharan dust cloud over the Atlantic may reach Gulf Coast by weekend

UK inflation hits 40-year high of 9% as cost of food and energy soars

My town in Massachusetts has been using its own local currency for 15 years, and it's funneled $10 million into our economy

'Pharma Bro' Martin Shkreli has been released from prison early and sent to a halfway house

 

From Jenna Orkin

Throwing Drug Resistance for a Loop

Twitter turns the tables on Musk, will “enforce” merger

New Research Shows Higher Risk of Developing Diabetes After Covid-19 Infection

Gas prices pass $4 per gallon in every U.S. state for the first time

‘I lied to them for months’: Buffalo shooting suspect kept plans from family, he wrote

Austin staging 'radiological incident' this week in citywide exercise

Mysterious Deaths of Babies

One man in Japan accidentally received over $350,000 in COVID relief funds intended for his whole town — and he says he gambled it away online

Map shows how Russia's border with NATO would more than double with Finland and Sweden as members

George W. Bush mistakenly condemned Putin's 'brutal, unjustified invasion of Iraq' instead of Ukraine, then blamed the slip-up on age😎