From Jenna Orkin

The 2022 Election Nightmare Has Already Started

U.S. workers have gotten way less productive. No one is sure why.

Lula da Silva will return to Brazil’s presidency in stunning comeback

Bolsonaro hasn’t conceded to Lula. Is he following the Trump playbook?

In Nevada, a tribe and a toad halt a renewable power plant

Credit Suisse Plans a Big Retreat From Wall Street

Moral Injury Is an Invisible Epidemic That Affects Millions

Scientists Discover Material That’s Created Like Plastic but Conducts Like Metal

NBI Suspects Ukrainian Arms Might Be in Hands of Gangs

Workers are fleeing from Foxconn, China's biggest iPhone factory, by climbing over fences and walking down highways on foot amid COVID fears, photos and videos show

 

From Jenna Orkin

Covid Outbreak at China iPhone Plant Pushes Workers to the Edge

Biden says it appears attack on Paul Pelosi intended for House Speaker

A Study of Prehistoric Painting Has Come to a Startling Conclusion: Many Ancient Artists Were Tiny Children

How and where the Seoul tragedy happened, in maps and videos

Iran charges female journalists who helped break Amini’s story with being CIA spies

Russia pauses grain deal after Ukraine strikes warships in Crimea

China is blowing up its own economy — and it could take the rest of world down with it

Ready for lift-off: first space launch from British soil poised to make history

1. Paul Pelosi secretly called 911, spoke in code to dispatcher: reports

2. Russian naval officers discussed nuking Berlin during a training exercise to unnerve Germany and erode support for Ukraine, report says

 

From Jenna Orkin

The EPA closed a refinery that rained oil. Now it’s a ‘ticking time bomb.’

After Trump called the 2020 election rigged, this rural Ga. county gave his allies access to voting machines

Meet an Inventor Making the World More Energy-Efficient

Pentagon’s Strategy Won’t Rule Out Nuclear Use Against Non-Nuclear Threats

Taiwan CECC casts doubt on wet market origin for COVID

Experts say crude oil pipeline from Uganda to Tanzania will produce 25 times host nations’ combined annual emissions

As invasion of Ukraine continues, western nations need to tax war profiteers’ windfalls

Russian journalist and Putin’s rumoured goddaughter flees to Lithuania

PFAS left dangerous blood compounds in nearly all US study participants

Afghan commandos that were trained by US Navy SEALs are being recruited to fight for Russia in Ukraine, report says

 

From Jenna Orkin

Wuhan, other cities in China bring back COVID-19 lockdowns as cases rise
Why More and More Girls Are Hitting Puberty Early

A pandemic-era rise in early puberty may help physicians to better understand its causes.

The European Central Bank announces new jumbo rate hike despite European opposition

Communities of color record big gains in health insurance coverage

Germany Is Dismantling A Wind Farm To Make Way For A Coal Mine

At fourth grade, the average reading score was lower than all previous assessment years going back to 2005

Nuclear fusion is the primordial source of the sun’s energy. For decades, scientists have been trying to re-create it on Earth. Now they’re closer than ever to achieving it—and to unlocking a future of clean power for all.

1. Someone broke into Nancy Pelosi's SF home and 'violently assaulted' her husband, House speaker's office said

2. Scientology's inner workings are being laid bare by one of the biggest trials in its history

   Mondrian painting has been hanging upside down for 75 years

   Despite the discovery, the work, titled New York City I, will continue to be displayed the wrong way up to avoid damaging it

 

From Jenna Orkin

Turkeys will cost more because 6 million died during bird flu 

Climate warming methane emissions rising faster than ever, study says

Ukraine refugees told not to return yet as energy crisis looms

St Louis school shooting suspect had gun confiscated days before attack

Americans die younger in states run by conservatives, study finds

Climate crisis: UN finds ‘no credible pathway to 1.5C in place’

Carbon emissions from energy to peak in 2025 in ‘historic turning point’, says IEA

Bolsonaro’s campaign relies on ‘secret budget’ payoffs to win Brazil’s election

1. Russian women should have more babies if draft upsets them:  Influential Orthodox priest

2. A 23-year-old woman died on the operating table while having an IVF procedure. She had a rare reaction to drugs that help eggs grow.

 

From Jenna Orkin

Progressive Democrats retract Biden Ukraine letter after furious debate

Trump bragged about new US nuclear weapons, Woodward tape shows

An Extreme Black Hole Collision Just Proved Einstein Was Right

How Scientists Grew a Living Animal in an Artificial Womb

Ocean Shipping Costs Decline 84 Percent, Truckers on Verge of Losing Money

Stunning pictures show desert bursting with life after flooding rains

IEA: The Current Energy Crisis Is Unprecedented

Ukraine refugees told not to return yet as energy crisis looms

#BREAKING Judge Strikes Down NYC Vaccine Mandate for City Workers. “It’s null and void,” says attorney

@ChadLaveglia

. “We just defeated the vaccine mandate for every single city employee.”

Mehmet Oz says abortion should be decided between 'women, doctors, local political leaders' during debate with John Fetterman

 

From Jenna Orkin

Newer coronavirus subvariants ticking up in California amid concerns of winter wave

She clicked sign-in with Google. Strangers got access to all her files.

Western powers warn Russia could use ‘dirty bomb’ claim to escalate war

Opinion  |  The Trump Tapes: 20 interviews that show why he is an unparalleled danger By Bob Woodward

Bob Woodward to Release All Trump Tapes

Israeli Strike Targeted Iranian Drone Assembly Site Near Damascus, Syrian Rights Monitor Says

Stunning week of early coal closures opens path to 100 pct renewables

1. Rishi Sunak's family wealth makes him richer than King Charles

2. China's richest people lost about $13 billion in just one day due to a market sell-off after President Xi Jinping secured a third term

   How anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers target women looking for abortions

 

From Jenna Orkin

EU to Give 18 Billion Euros to Kyiv Next Year to Help Run Ukraine

Newer coronavirus subvariants ticking up in California amid concerns of winter wave

China hands Xi unchecked power, upending norms decades in the making

Cyprus, a haven for Russian expats, welcomes techies fleeing Ukraine war

Has the C.I.A. Done More Harm Than Good?

In the agency’s seventy-five years of existence, a lack of accountability has sustained dysfunction, ineptitude, and lawlessness.

Why financial approaches won’t fix the world’s economic problems this time

@RishiSunak

has been elected as the Leader of the Conservative Party

China's oil imports from Russia surge 22% as refiners step up their purchases of the cheap supplies

America's 'Zoomtowns' are running out of water

Audio shows how Bob Woodward realized Trump was an 'unparalleled danger' and not just bad at being president 

From Jenna Orkin

FBI Raids Star ABC News Producer’s Home

Emmy-winning producer James Gordon Meek had his home raided by the FBI. His colleagues say they haven’t seen him since.

50 percent of wage earners had net compensation less than or equal to the medianwage, which is estimated to be $37,586.03 for 2021.

The US Army Corps of Engineers is dredging the Mississippi River and racing to keep the sea from contaminating drinking water

1. Italy's first female prime minister leads the most far-right government since the fascist era of Mussolini

   Boy dies after being infected by a rare brain-eating amoeba, people warned about swimming in fresh water

   Officials say that the Las Vegas boy, who was under 18, might have been exposed to the brain-eating amoeba during a visit to Arizona's Lake Mead.

2. Republican National Committee is suing Google, claiming it sent millions of fundraising emails to spam folders ahead of midterm elections

   Russian mothers are turning deadbeat dads over to draft

1. Ukrainian kids taken by Russian forces, placed for adoption: reports

2. They were on the run from the Taliban, abandoned by their US allies — until a Wall Street banker decided to smuggle them out of Afghanistan

 

From Jenna Orkin

Media Manipulation Casebook
Will Pollsters Get It Wrong (Again) in 2022?

Why Seattle currently has the worst air quality in the world

Possible prime minister front-runners emerge as Britain’s Truss resigns 

Bannon sentenced to four months prison for contempt of Congress in Jan. 6 probe

EU’s Sanctions Against Russia Risk Ensnaring More Oil Tankers

Sailors have long complained about jet fuel seeping into their water on US Navy aircraft carriers and other warships. Here's how that can even happen.

The US Navy acknowledged last month that the drinking and bathing water on one of its aircraft carriers was contaminated by jet fuel.

Copper supplies are dangerously low and can only cover less than 5 days of global demand, top commodities trader says

1. Afghan couple says Marine who helped them evacuate abducted their baby

The fate of the world economy may depend on what happens to a company most Americans have never heard of

• The fate of the global economy may rest on the shoulders of one company: TSMC.

 

From Jenna Orkin

Biden announces oil release, hoping to calm prices as midterms near

Adderall shortage is so bad some patients can’t fill their prescriptions

Electric vehicle supply chains have a human rights problem. Can tech fix it?

Oceans are warming faster than ever. Here’s what could come next.

ISIS fighters terrorize Mozambique, threaten gas supply amid Ukraine war

American stockpiles of distillate fuel are exceptionally low, which could mean higher costs for everything from trucking to farming to construction. 
U.K. military warns ex-pilots not to train Chinese air force

That nondescript building on the side of the highway is the newest gold mine Wall Street is trying to tap

Wall Street is seeing massive returns from a boring, albeit steady, investment strategy in warehouses.

Gold rush: Lawyers are flocking to Arizona to take advantage of new rules resulting in a flood of outside investments in law firms

UK Prime Minister Liz Truss resigned after the market rebelled against her aggressive economic growth plan. It's a warning for global leaders with lofty ambitions.

 

From Jenna Orkin

World's First Living Robots Can Now Reproduce
Texas schools are sending out DNA kits, stark reminders of Uvalde shooting

Record High Homelessness in NYC

China’s oil imports jumped by 2 million barrels per day in September as the country prepared to supply fuel demand growth in Europe.

LNG Tankers Are Queuing Up To Unload In Europe

The online shopping frenzy pushed warehouses into Pennsylvania's once quiet Lehigh Valley. Unhappy locals are pushing back.

The Columbus, Ohio, Warehouse Boom: How warehouses brought stifling dust and diesel fumes — and a chance for refugees to grab the American dream

Why Russia accused China of copying its stealth fighter design

The world’s population could plunge by 2 billion this century — and it’s going to cause a major economic crisis

Economic growth at all costs.

'Dr Doom' Nouriel Roubini says to brace for a crash that combines the worst of the financial crisis and 1970s-style stagflation

 

From Jenna Orkin

How the COVID-19 pandemic affected life expectancy: study

Half-a-Million Year Old Signs of Extinct Human Species Found in Poland Cave

A swarm of coronavirus variants could fuel a winter surge

Boston University is refuting a series of misleading claims about research at the University’s National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL). The reports, which first appeared on Monday in the United Kingdom’s Daily Mail, claimed researchers at the lab had “created a new deadly COVID strain.”

Since Oct 10, 30% of Ukraine’s power stations have been destroyed, causing massive blackouts across the country.

About 17 Americans die waiting for transplants each day. Scientists are trying to make more organs in 5 creative ways.

An Alabama factory that makes parts for Kia and Hyundai employed children as young as 13, a Labor Department investigation found

Attrition at Amazon is costing the company $8 billion a year, with workers twice as likely to leave by choice than be fired, report says

How the warehouse boom devoured America's workforce

The pound slides after soaring food prices drive UK inflation back to a 40-year high of 10.1%