From Jenna Orkin

Texas synagogue attacker was previously known to British security services

Tonga races to prevent a ‘tsunami of covid’ as rescue efforts begin after underwater volcano disaster

They relied on rapid coronavirus tests to gather safely. Some wish they hadn’t.

Given the current grave and complicated situation of the COVID-19 pandemic and to ensure the safety of all participants and spectators, it was decided that tickets should not be sold anymore but be part of an adapted programme that will invite groups of spectators to be present on site during the Games. 

China’s coal production hit record levels in 2021

Today, the FAA cleared an estimated 45 percent of the U.S. commercial fleet to perform low-visibility landings at many of the airports where 5G C-band will be deployed on Jan. 19.

Sweden's military is stepping up its preparedness in response to Russian activity that 'deviates' from normal

Meta wants to track your eye movements and facial expressions as you roam the metaverse, patents suggest

1. Tencent is scanning kids' faces to stop them using older relatives' gaming accounts to get around China's gaming restrictions

   Oil prices surge to a 7-year high on the back of supply disruption fears and surging demand

   The labor shortage is likely to last for years — and it's going to wreak havoc on everything from airline flights to inflation

   Bill de Blasio won't join the 2022 New York governor's race

   Former palace officer thought Ghislaine Maxwell and Prince Andrew had 'intimate relationship'
2. Texas synagogue gunman on phone with kids when shot, brother says

 

From Jenna Orkin

Inside a government-sanctioned site where you can take illegal drugs without fear of overdosing

Former Google scientist says the computers that run our lives exploit us — and he has a way to stop them

China Set To Release Crude From Strategic Reserve In Early February

US accuses Russia of 'fabricating a pretext' to invade Ukraine

Greenwald: Video Transcript: The Semi-Inside Story of Why Trump Refused to Pardon Snowden and Assange

Walmart is quietly preparing to enter the metaverse

McDonald's locations have cut hours by 10% due to staffing shortages: CEO

1. No evidence of fraud found in GOP-backed audit of election results in Macomb County, Michigan, which Trump won anyway

   Mark Zuckerberg and Sundar Pichai personally oversaw an illegal deal that misled publishers and advertisers, unredacted suit alleges

   China's zero Covid policy could wreak havoc on an already struggling supply chain. Investing experts lay out 3 ways and 6 stocks to capitalize on the chaos as freight rates start to surge.

   NZ and Australia sent surveillance flights to Tonga, the only way to figure out what happened after a tsunami cut off internet and phone access

   China tells citizens to avoid mail from abroad amid Omicron fears

 

From Jenna Orkin

CIA and the Media

Ghislaine Maxwell Ends Fight to Protect Men Involved With Epstein; Names Could Be Revealed

Hallucinations and headaches: Seven ways COVID can affect your brain

My wife had long Covid and killed herself. We must help others who are suffering

Gene discovered in Georgia water a possible global threat

FedEx Express, Airbus Model A321-200 Airplanes; Installation of an Infrared Laser Countermeasure System

«Okay, I’ll call Beijing» – My nightmare odyssey through China’s bureaucracy

Japan's eastern coast hit by tsunami triggered by Tonga eruption

Psychedelic beer served at intimate dinner parties helped an ancient empire in the Andes rule for centuries, study finds

The mysterious case of the 2.3 million missing workers

 

From Jenna Orkin

When is a life-saving drug too expensive? Critics say patient’s death shows Switzerland’s health system is a «lottery»

Why Ukraine’s Turkish-made drone became a flashpoint in tensions with Russia

How the Refrigerator Became an Agent of Climate Catastrophe

US envoy in Europe says 'drumbeat of war is sounding loud'

Tsunami hits Tonga after underwater volcanic eruption

Unknown objects at the heart of the Milky Way are beaming radio signals, then mysteriously disappearing

Federal judge bans Martin Shkreli from the pharmaceutical industry for life, orders him to pay $64.6 million fine

The Federal Reserve's plan to combat recessions rarely works and often benefits the already-rich — here's why

These 8 companies and trade groups are said to be among the top donors to 'Sedition Caucus' Republicans who voted against certifying the 2020 election result

Bannon says Trump Arizona rally precursor to overturning 2020 election

 

From Jenna Orkin

Nurses across the U.S. strike against COVID working conditions

These mass shooting survivors were called journalism heroes. Then the buyouts came.  Russia planning potential sabotage operations in Ukraine, U.S. says

Northwest Indiana will be home to largest solar farm in U.S., covering 13,000 acres

What the West gets wrong about Putin

China Locks Down Ports

Laurie Garrett: Where Did We Go Wrong? (Covid)

T&E: EU carbon pricing to exempt heavily polluting ship types

Kazakhstan's electricity and internet shutdown took bitcoin miners offline. The cofounder of a mining operation says it's time to explore other options, including satellite internet and alternative countries.

Ukraine was hit by a massive cyberattack telling people to 'be afraid and expect the worst' as tensions with Russia rise

 

From Jenna Orkin

Russia ratchets up pressure on Europe, says ‘no grounds’ for further talks on security amid heightened tensions

He once stabbed a man seven times. He just received the first pig-to-human heart transplant. Earlier this week, a Maryland woman was reading about a historic pig heart transplant when she froze — she recognized the man’s name. He’d been convicted 34 years earlier of stabbing her younger brother, paralyzing him.

The past seven years have been the hottest in recorded history, new data shows

China, Philippines halt Canadian beef imports after discovery of 'atypical' BSE case

Omicron has a 91% lower chance of death than delta variant of COVID-19: study

Protesters clash with police outside Bulgaria's parliament over COVID-19 measures

Psy-ops are a crucial weapon in the war against disinformation

"Mission Accomplished" in Kazakhstan - Putin

MI5 issues a rare statement naming a woman they suspect is a Chinese agent and warning British politicians to avoid her

MI5 has named a solicitor, Christine Lee, as carrying out political interference activities on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party.

Meet the Danish Frogmen who just took down a boat full of pirates in the Atlantic

Top Russian diplomat says there no point in further Ukraine talks as European leaders warn of the risk of war

 

From Jenna Orkin

A cryptic email, then a confession: How a U.S. Muslim group uncovered moles

Buenos Aires falls into darkness

Ivy League Sued

Pope Warns Against Cancel Culture

China's Dalian sees 2 test positive for COVID-19

New research found COVID-19 vaccines saved more than 240,000 lives in the US and prevented more than 1 million hospitalizations

1. COVID-19 virus particles lose most of their ability to infect after about 10 minutes in the air, lab study suggests

   BBC official says the network would feature flat-Earthers on air because leadership doesn't believe in 'cancel culture'

   Researchers are building a black box in Tasmania to prevent the 'crash' of civilization

   
   
   Fauci: Omicron 'will find just about everybody'
2. American Airlines: Passenger arrested after breaking into cockpit

 

From Jenna Orkin

Pfizer CEO says two Covid vaccine doses aren’t ‘enough for omicron’

‘We Were Blown Away’: How New A.I. Research Is Changing the Way Conservators and Collectors Think About Attribution

A new technique claims to detect forgeries with accuracy of 96 percent.

Growing threat of domestic terrorism, brought into focus by Jan. 6, prompts new investigative unit at Justice Department

U.S. breaks record with more than 145,000 covid-19 hospitalization

Scientists call for a moratorium on climate change research until governments take real action

COVID is here to stay: countries must decide how to adapt

In a First, Man Receives a Heart From a Genetically Altered Pig

Turkmenistan To Close "Gates Of Hell" Gas Fire

China to Assist Kazakhstan

Female health startup founders are being asked about Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos in investment meetings. 'Such serious cases of fraud make it harder for us.'

Omicron 'tidal wave' could infect half of all Europeans within the next 2 months, WHO official says

 

From Jenna Orkin

Covid Drove Workers to Quit. Here’s Why From the Person Who Saw It Coming.

Sea level on steroids: Record tides flood Washington coastlines

The Great Siberian Thaw

Permafrost contains microbes, mammoths, and twice as much carbon as Earth’s atmosphere. What happens when it starts to melt

Hong Kong Felt Like a Different Planet (Covid)

U.S. emissions surged in 2021, putting the nation further off track from its climate targets

Laurie Garrett

Hospitals Are in Serious Trouble

The situation in Kazakhstan is a much bigger deal than Western media is letting on.

Kazakhstan denies military laboratory was seized by rioters after Russia claimed a possible pathogen leak occurred at controversial facility, as country's health ministry says more than 160 have been killed during protests in the country

1. World's largest condom maker says sales slumped in pandemic

 

From Jenna Orkin

Africa’s rising cities

By 2100, 13 of the world’s 20 biggest urban areas will be in Africa.

Kazakhstan officials say 164 dead in protests, country now ‘stabilized’

Turkmenistan’s leader wants to extinguish the country’s ‘Gates of hell Carl Bernstein’s Eulogy for the Newspaper Business 'If America wants 2,000 English [i.e., American] Troops At Its Embassy In Afghanistan, We Also Want 2,000 Fidayeen Mujahideen [i.e., Suicide Bombers] From The Fateh Force At The Embassy Of Afghanistan In America'

China’s Chang’e 5 lunar probe finds first on-site evidence of water on moon’s surface

Highest Ever Vegetable Oil Prices

How 15,000 ceramics are made a day in Gujarat, India

Clay refrigerators that don't need electricity saved the ceramics company Mitticool when other pottery companies in Gujarat failed.

A lawmaker in Indiana walked back comments saying teachers should be 'impartial' when teaching students about Nazism

Some cruise passengers and staff infected with COVID-19 say they were served rotten food and left without water for hours: report

Video shows freeloading grizzly bear in Yellowstone Park hunting with wolf pack to steal elk kill