From Jenna Orkin

Key witness in Assange case admits to lies in indictment

Engineer warned of ‘major structural damage’ years before Florida condo building collapsed

WHO urges fully vaccinated people to continue to wear masks as delta Covid variant spreads

'Historic' heat wave takes aim at Pacific Northwest

Blood test that finds 50 types of cancer is accurate enough to be rolled out

Watch: UP Security guard shoots man for not wearing a mask inside bank premises

“I’m totally screwed.” WD My Book Live users wake up to find their data deleted

App Taps Unwitting Users Abroad to Gather Open-Source Intelligence

U.S. Navy’s Deadliest New Sub Is Hobbled Over Spare Parts

Uber's push into the 'cutthroat' grocery business continues as it buys the remaining stake in South American e-commerce startup Cornershop

Lumber prices have bottomed out, but are likely to stay double the historical average for at least the next 5 years, a lumber trader says

A map shows how many people had undiagnosed COVID-19 in the first 6 months of the pandemic, across 7 regions of the US 

From Jenna Orkin

Massive human head in Chinese well forces scientists to rethink evolution

UFO report to come from Pentagon as soon as today

‘The water is coming’: Florida Keys faces stark reality as seas rise

Mongooses solve inequality problem

Scientists don't know why hundreds of birds are getting sick and dying across the U.S.

Flight attendants will get self-defense lessons to protect themselves from violent passengers, the TSA said, as reports of unruly flyers reach record highs

Meet the 32-year-old woman tapped to police Big Tech who is known as one of its most vocal critics

South African regulator says it's powerless over suspected $3.6 billion bitcoin scam, as crypto is out of its reach

China wants to up the ante on the space race with a 'sky ladder' to Mars that can beam humans and cargo up in a capsule

The US hasn't vaccinated enough people to stop a Delta variant spike of infections, one of the leading US public-health experts has warned

 

From Jenna Orkin

DeSantis signs bill requiring Florida students, professors to register political views with state

Universities may lose funding if staff and students' beliefs do not satisfy Florida's GOP-run legislature

Court Suspends Giuliani’s Law License, Citing Trump Election Lies

Is Lockheed Martin Shadowing You?

Gun sales rise among Black people as they look for firearm training and education

Child Suicides Drive Colorado Hospital to Declare State of Emergency

School Violated Student's Free Speech Right

China requested deletion of early coronavirus data that could help explain pandemic origins, researcher find

2 years before his death, John McAfee posted a tweet saying 'If I suicide myself, I didn't — I was whackd'

The Bank of England says it expects inflation to surge above 3%, but keeps its $1.25 trillion bond-buying target for now

NYC Democratic mayoral front runner says he will turn the city into a bitcoin hub to rival Miami

Israel says up to 50% of Delta variant cases in vaccinated people 

From Jenna Orkin

The World Relies on One Chip Maker in Taiwan, Leaving Everyone Vulnerable

Rise in Delta variant cases leads to Manchester travel restriction

Does Your Drinking Water Smell Like a Pool Party?

Native Americans no longer silent as racial tensions build amid new Klamath water crisis

DOJ Seizes Middle East News Sites for Allegedly Spreading Disinformation

Iran's English-language media outlet Press TV was seized but is still active on Twitter.

Warren Buffett gives away another $4.1 billion, resigns as trustee at Gates Foundation

Russia says warning shots deter UK warship; London denies it

China increased its threshold for herd immunity from 70% vaccinated to 85% as the efficacy of its shots comes into question

India is tracking a new mutated coronavirus strain that health officials call 'Delta Plus' — but experts say there's no need to worry

Israel says it's facing a new COVID-19 outbreak fueled by the Delta variant, despite having the world's most vaccinated population

Delta variant rates doubled in the US in 2 weeks, Fauci said: from 9.9% to 20.6%. It could derail the US COVID-19 recovery.

 

From Jenna Orkin

Disability Group Homes At Risk Of COVID Outbreaks As Staff Falls Behind In Vaccination

Ground Temperatures Hit 118 Degrees in the Arctic Circle

Large birds are dropping from heat stroke in Arizona as temperatures near 120 degrees

Swedish PM Lofven ousted by parliament in no-confidence vote

Any deal now would have to work around the uncomfortable reality that Pakistan’s government has long supported the Taliban. In discussions between American and Pakistani officials, the Pakistanis have demanded a variety of restrictions in exchange for the use of a base in the country, and they have effectively required that they sign off on any targets that either the C.I.A. or the military would want to hit inside Afghanistan, according to three Americans familiar with the discussions.

British doctor Peter Daszak who tried to gag Wuhan lab leak theory is FIRED from UN commission investigating COVID after he was exposed for organizing letter denying leak claim in The Lancet medical journal

There is not yet enough evidence on the use of vaccines against COVID-19 in children to make recommendations for children to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Children and adolescents tend to have milder disease compared to adults. However, children should continue to have the recommended childhood vaccines. 

1. More than 3,500 women have reported period changes after their COVID-19 vaccine — but people should still get their shot, leading experts say

   
   
   Kids are more likely to be vectors for fast-spreading new coronavirus strains like the Delta variant, former FDA chief says
   
2. 8 people killed, dozens wounded in 10 mass shootings over 2 days
3. Op-ed: Doctors losing trust in the CDC is a public-health crisis

 

From Jenna Orkin

Children Now Account For 22% Of New U.S. COVID Cases. Why Is That?

Indonesia records largest single-day jump in COVID-19 infections

New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard is first openly transgender athlete selected to compete at the Olympics

Ominous new research shows that the Earth is taking in a shocking amount of heat. In the past 15 years, the amount of incoming solar radiation trapped on the surface and in the oceans has doubled.

A World Without Fossil Fuels Funding Our Enemies Would Be A Safer World for America

 the average life expectancy of ranch employees in the United States stands at just 49 years old.

Oregon Won't Hit Target to Lift Restrictions

A Top Virologist in China, at Center of a Pandemic Storm, Speaks Out

With tension rising in the Pacific, Australia is preparing to fight alongside the US and on its own

Ammon Bundy, the anti-government militant who led an armed takeover of a US wildlife refuge, is running for governor of Idaho

Hong Kong's pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily could shut within days, top advisor says

COVID-19 survivors may suffer from a loss of gray matter and other brain tissue over time, a long-term study suggests

 

From Jenna Orkin

How Energy Transition Models Go Wrong

The amount of heat the Earth traps has doubled in just 15 years, study shows

JOURNAL REPORTS: ENERGY How New Wind Turbines Produce Far More Energy

Record: Lake Mead Down to 36%

A California reservoir is expected to fall so low that a hydro-power plant will shut down for first time

After supermarket shooting, Colorado is letting cities pass their own gun laws — and Boulder plans to enforce its assault weapons ban

More than 350 Indonesian healthcare workers vaccinated with China's Sinovac vaccine got COVID-19 and dozens are hospitalized, raising questions about the vaccine's efficacy on variants

Amtrak just debuted upgraded long-distance trains that will transform rail travel in America with new seats and rooms — see inside

More than 41,000 people have signed petitions to stop Jeff Bezos from returning to Earth after his trip to space next month

Brazil hits 500,000 COVID-19 deaths as the Amazon Gamma variant accelerates virus contagion

Ireland, the home of Apple and Google in Europe, is seeking a compromise on 15% global minimum corporate tax rate

 

From Jenna Orkin

A Bundy-Linked Group Is Rallying Farmers in Drought-Stricken Oregon. Things Are Getting Weird.

People’s Rights hosted a “motivational speaker” who writes for a white-nationalist paper.

Meet the Censored: Bret Weinstein

The Alarming Power of Melting Arctic Ice

Expect the Unexpected From the Delta Variant

The Record Temperatures Enveloping The West Are Not Your Average Heat Wave

It’s Too Late To Avoid A Major Oil Supply Crisis

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Bats in China carry all the ingredients to make a new SARS virus

The Jeff Bezos-backed company General Fusion is building a nuclear fusion plant, which is due to switch on in 2025

The father of El Salvador's Bitcoin Beach received an anonymous donation of a cryptocurrency fortune — now the local economy runs on it

Hard-line judiciary head wins Iran presidency in a vote with low turnout, calls for a boycott

Biden says the Delta variant — set to become the US's dominant strain — is 'particularly dangerous for young people'

From Jenna Orkin

The mechanisms of action of Ivermectin against SARS-CoV-2: An evidence-based clinical review article

Hundreds of thousands of salmon dying in 'climate catastrophe'

CDC investigating TB cases linked to tainted bone repair product used in more than 100 patients

1 month, 1 million-plus containers at Port of LA - a record

Half the trees in two new English woodlands planted by jays, study finds

Religious Grounds Trump Adoption by Same Sex Couples

Jeff Bezos-Backed Company To Build Fusion Plant In UK

A 33-year-old nurse got long COVID despite being fully vaccinated. Doctors think we may see more of these rare cases.

Plans for undersea communications cables are at a stalemate after the US warned of China's involvement, report says

NASA Warns Earth Trapping Twice As Much Heat As In 2005

Delta coronavirus variant may be strongest threat to vaccinated people 

From Jenna Orkin

Hundreds of vaccinated Indonesian health workers get COVID-19

NYC To Create College Savings Accounts For Every Public School Kindergartener In 2022

House votes to repeal 2002 war powers measure that gave authority to president to invade Iraq after 9/11

Earth is now trapping an ‘unprecedented’ amount of heat, NASA says

‘Mega-heatwave’ is peaking in the West, breaking records and intensifying drought, fires

Ageing process is unstoppable, finds unprecedented study

Supreme Court upholds ObamaCare in 7-2 ruling

Mortality, Preeclampsia Up for Women With COVID-19 Giving Birth

Alberta oil & gas lost 10,000s of jobs yet produced more oil

Perspex Screens Scrapped (against spread of Covid)

1. Arkansas passed 2 of the most brutal laws targeting trans kids in the US. These pro-LGBTQ companies pumped hundreds of thousands of dollars to the lawmakers behind it.

   Proud Boys boss now sells Black Lives Matter, anti-Trump shirts