From Jenna Orkin

China reassigns 60,000 soldiers to plant trees in bid to fight pollution

Climate change is destroying a barrier that protects the U.S. East Coast from hurricanes

A veteran died in police custody. His body was returned to his family with some organs missing - CNN

Record-Breaking Heat in Alaska Wreaks Havoc on Communities and Ecosystems

Judge Says Government Can Be Sued in Flynt Water Crisis - (April)

The world's largest king penguin colony has collapsed, losing nearly 90 per cent of its population - (2018)

7 places that are sinking faster than anywhere else in the US

More Than 4 Million Venezuelans Have Now Fled The Country

The Los Angeles Disease Renaissance: Typhoid & Typhus Make A Comeback

The Pentagon's Spoiling For A Fight... But With China, Not Iran

And...

The US Navy runs a gift store in Guantanamo Bay, where you can buy 'Straight Outta Gitmo' mugs, stuffed toys, and beer koozies. Here's what it's like inside.

From Jenna Orkin

'Tsunami bomb' tested off New Zealand coast

Undersea cables -- Huawei's ace in the hole

YouTube's purge of white supremacist videos also hits anti-racism channels

Facial Recognition Software Wrongly Identifies 28 Lawmakers As Crime Suspects

Michael Bloomberg Promises $500 Million to Help End Coal

Inside the secret messages that allegedly show how big drug companies plotted to increase the price of your medicines

Fewer Than Half Of Violent Crimes Are Solved In America

US just quietly challenged China on something Beijing promised to go to war over

Judge Orders FBI To Unredact Sections Of Comey Memos

Scientists Now Believe Black Holes Could Be Portals To Other Galaxies

And Jeff Bezos already has plans to ship half the population.

From Jenna Orkin

"Forever Chemicals" in Food:  Abstracts from Helsinki Conference - click on link (Copyright warning precludes my placing the link directly here.)

Second former GOP state senator found shot dead in two days, this time in Oklahoma

Turkey's "Second Invasion" Of Cyprus: Illegal Drilling In Eastern Mediterranean

"In Gold We Trust": Waning Confidence In US Sends World's Central Banks On Buying Spree

New "Call Of Duty" Video Game Encourages Support For The White Helmets

Huawei Signs Contract To Build 5G Network In Russia

Mexico Freezes Human Traffickers' Bank Accounts, Sends National Guard To Border Amid 'Very Good Discussion' 

Walmart employees will soon deliver groceries to your fridge when you're not home and wear body cameras so you can watch them doing it

Microsoft Deletes Facial Recognition Database Used By China's Surveillance State

Shocking photos show Russian destroyer playing a dangerous game of chicken with a US warship

From Jenna Orkin

Swapping Planes for Trains

Roundup’s Risks Could Go Well Beyond Cancer

Sharp rise in Arctic temperatures now inevitable – UN

Let’s tweet again? The impact of socialnetworks on literature achievement in high school students: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial

Russia, China Prepare To Dump Dollar, Agree To Bilateral Trade In National Currencies

'They just keep washing in': Scientists see evidence of climate change in deaths of thousands of seabirds in the Bering Sea

Brace For Impact: Italy Poised To Launch Euro Parallel Currency

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says her Green New Deal climate plan would cost at least $10 trillion

PODCAST: How Enron's emails helped create new technologies, fight terrorism, and added to our understanding of how we communicate.

French Weapons Sales To Saudi Jumped 50% Last Year

CNN Panel Slams 'Arrogant, Lazy Biden' Over Latest Example Of Plagiarism

Alabama Passes Bill Requiring Certain Child Molesters To Be Chemically Castrated

21 young people are suing the US government, claiming a constitutional right to a stable climate. Here's what happened in court.

From Jenna Orkin

Deforestation of Brazilian Amazon surges to record high

Pre Wakeword Speech Processing Patent Application

This would give Alexa the ability to record everything you say.

United States added to list of most dangerous countries for journalists for first time

Cities Planting Trees (Milan)

America's Largest Retailer Sued For Selling Fake Medicine

Australian Federal Police raid the offices of the country's national broadcaster over a series of government leaks related to unlawful killings in Afghanistan

Paul Manafort Headed To Rikers Island, Where He Faces Solitary Confinement

Venezuela Defaults On $750 Million Gold-Backed Swap With Deutsche Bank

Google Parses Your Gmail For Financial Transactions

California And Nevada Have Been Hit By 240 Earthquakes Over The Last 24 Hours

'Iron Man' actor Robert Downey Jr. vows to use robotics and AI to clean up the Earth

The Big Sell.

Gaokao - Chinese high school exam

From Jenna Orkin

Climate change doomsday report predicts end of human civilisation

Chinese goods navigate alternate trade routes to US shores

Only 60 Years of Farming Left If Soil Degradation Continues

Renewable Energy Costs Take Another Tumble, Making Fossil Fuels Look More Expensive Than Ever

Chlorinated chicken: ‘Dangerous’ practices at major US plant stoke fears of contaminated food in UK after Brexit

Channel 4’s ‘Dispatches’ exposes danger of cross-contamination with deadly bacteria – because of poor standards outlawed by EU membership

UFOs pose ‘vital national security issue’: ex-defense official

Major Russian Defense Contractor Exits Venezuela In Huge Blow To Maduro

Mysterious Version Of US Main Battle Tank Spotted In Romania

Orwellian Future Is Here: Facial Recognition & Mass Surveillance Coming To US Schools

Aussie Feds Raid News Corp Journalist's Home After Government Spying Exposé

ISRAEL HATED AMERICAN BAN ON SHARING INTEL FOR ASSASSINATIONS, SO U.S. MADE NEW RULES

From Jenna Orkin

The New Trove of Secret Gerrymandering Files Will Be a Nightmare for the GOP

It was 84 degrees near the Arctic Ocean this weekend as carbon dioxide hit its highest level in human history

India weather: Temperature passes 50C Celsius in northern India

Corn That Won't Get Planted This Year Could Shatter All U.S. Records

ISRAEL HATED AMERICAN BAN ON SHARING INTEL FOR ASSASSINATIONS, SO U.S. MADE NEW RULES

Border Patrol Agents Apprehend Large Group in Del Rio - First large group from Africa apprehended

Chief White House Economist Kevin Hassett Resigns

Trash Wars Part Deux: Philippines Now Shipping Barge Of Illegal Trash Back To Canada

"They Are Prone To Cracking": FAA Orders Boeing To Replace Wing Components On Hundreds Of 737s

"Scene From A Disaster Movie": Video Shows Out Of Control Cruise Ship Slamming Into Dock In Venice

Dozens of naked people, holding up images of nipples, stood outside Facebook to protest against its ban on nudity

From Jenna Orkin

Live from Moscow:  Edward Snowden

You Can Almost Count on Each New Mass Shooter Being a Veteran

'Gas Is a Loser and It's Time to Move On': Report Debunks Myth That Natural Gas Can Help Fight Climate Crisis

Team Obama Tells Iran: Don’t Escalate, Don’t Take Trump’s Bait

Malaysian PM declares ‘no evidence’ Russia shot down MH17

DARPA Genetic Extinction Research a Mistake - Human Rights Watchdog - NB:  NATO considers Sputnik News to be a Russian propaganda outlet.

The Books of College Libraries Are Turning Into Wallpaper

U.K. Hits "Open Borders" Highs - 600,000 Migrants Arrive In Just One Year

Joe Biden says LGBTQ rights will be his top legislative priority

An animal-rights protester rushed the stage and ripped the mic out of Kamala Harris' hand at a San Francisco forum

Mysterious deaths of over 70 gray whales spark federal investigation

"Extreme Vetting" Escalates: U.S. Visa Applicants Must Now Turn Over Their Social Media History

From Jenna Orkin

US wildlife refuge to be opened up for oil drilling

Are You A Petty Criminal? Canada Just Stopped Prosecuting Minor Crimes

Just 10 streams carry 95% of all river-borne plastic into the ocean

Puffins found starving to death in mass die-off likely linked to climate change, study suggests

Tree-clearing kills 87 million animals in NSW 08 Nov 2018

The United Nations finds that Siri and Alexa are tools of male oppression.

Teachers allegedly told to favor black students in ‘racial equity’ training

'Hoover's revenge': Information the FBI once hoped could destroy Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. has been declassified

Trump Administration Deploys Dozens Of DHS Agents To Guatemala-Mexico Border

Trump Declares War On Silicon Valley: DoJ Launches Google Anti-Monopoly Probe

Duterte Says He Used To Be Gay, But "Cured Himself" When He Met His Wife

From Jenna Orkin

'Slow-motion disaster' along Arkansas River: Every large community will see major flooding within 7-10 days

Online abortion pill provider ordered to cease delivery by FDA (March)

Kim Jong-Un Executes Four Officials Over Failed Trump Summit

Malaysia Proposes Common Asian Gold-Backed Currency

Israel has been plunged into political chaos after Netanyahu failed to form a government — and experts say this could be the end of the line for him

New Satellite Imagery Reveals Chinese Navy Simulating An Invasion On Taiwan

Russian Jets Unleash Hell On Idlib After Ceasefire Talks With Turkey Collapse

What's Behind Bitcoin's Blistering Ascent: Former Chinese Central Banker Denied Transfer Of $20,000 Abroad

Hillary And Chelsea Clinton To Launch Feminist Production Company

Only 10% Of US Shale Drillers Have A Positive Cash Flow

The Philippines is shipping 1,500 tons of trash back to Canada, the latest move in Southeast Asia's rebellion against Western garbage