From Jenna Orkin

New Data Leads To Rethinking (Once More) Where The Pandemic Actually Began

Dow plunges more than 800 points on fears Delta variant could derail recovery

Trump Fanatic Paul Hodgkins Sentenced To 8 Months In First Felony Capitol Riot Case

American Academy of Pediatrics recommends masks in schools for everyone over 2, regardless of vaccinations

Humans Causing Life on Earth to Vanish

Thawing Permafrost Is Artificially Chilled to Stabilize Alaska Oil Pipeline

Tribes Are Leading the Way to Remove Dams and Restore Ecosystems

OSS Simple Sabotage Manual

Greece bans music on Mykonos to curb COVID-19 spread

An American father and son will serve prison time for helping ex-Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn in his dramatic escape from Japan in a box

Michael and Peter Taylor pleaded guilty last month to helping Ghosn flee Japan, where he was on bail awaiting trial.

New Jersey brothers who made 60 million robocalls to sell cesspool cleaners must pay $1.66 million penalty

 

From Jenna Orkin

JEFFREY ST. CLAIR - The atmospheric impact of just 1000 space flights a year would equal that of current aviation. Space tourism to accelerate climate change

Ugandan athlete goes missing from Olympic training center

‘Hawkpocalypse’: Baby birds of prey have leaped from their nests to escape West’s extreme heat

France prepares to introduce Covid-19 'health pass' for access to cultural venues

Texas patient becomes U.S.' first monkeypox case since 2003

Inside the 'vicious cycle' of spiralling student-loan debt caused by servicers just not picking up the phone

Meet Wally Funk, the 82-year-old female aviator on Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin flight who's finally going to space six decades after training for it

Facebook rejects Joe Biden's claim it's 'killing people' with misinformation, saying vaccine hesitancy among its users has dropped by 50%

A year after I contracted COVID-19, everything still smells like garbage and onions. One expert says it could last up to 3 years.

Jeff Bezos shares video of Oliver Daemen, the 18-year-old who will fly with him and become the youngest person to go to space

 

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How radical gardeners took back New York City

Northern Ireland records its highest ever temperature as UK bakes

Top Biden officials now believe COVID lab-leak theory: report

Concern grows about vaccine effectiveness against COVID Beta variant

Delta Becomes Dominant Variant In NYC, Making Up Two-Thirds Of New Cases

1 Dead in Iran Water Shortage Protests

The vomiting bug norovirus is surging in the the UK as it prepares to lift of all of its COVID-19 restrictions

Jeff Bezos is risking his life to reach space. The rocket has flown 15 times, but he'll have no pilot and possibly no spacesuit.

Cryptocurrencies are taking the developing world by storm, with more users now in Nigeria than in the US - 2 experts lay out how bitcoin is changing emerging-market finance

Eye-poking flight attendants and eye-popping fines for airplane mayhem 

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ECB Inches Closer to Digital Euro

Greenland suspends oil exploration because of climate change

‘Extremely Disturbing’: 2 NorCal Men Charged With Plotting To Bomb Democratic Headquarters In Sacramento

The US Embargo Against Cuba Much Worse Than It Seems

WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) are asking the Justice Department for more information and records after learning that the department could not locate 59 of the 96 phones used by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team.

China to release more than 10 million tonnes of coal from reserves

In Athens, thousands rally against COVID-19 vaccinations

A Russian passenger plane carrying at least 13 people has disappeared in Siberia, per state media reports

Biogen falls 8% after 2 major hospital systems say they won't administer controversial Alzheimer's drug

Photos show how South Korea's plummeting birth rate has left hundreds of abandoned and crumbling schools throughout the country

Indonesia's COVID-19 surge has been so extreme that volunteers are recovering dead bodies from people's homes as hospitals turn patients away

 

From Jenna Orkin

Green New Deal Doesn't, Strictly Speaking, Exist

U.S. military once trained Colombians implicated in Haiti assassination plot, Pentagon says

Brazil's Bolsonaro in hospital amid concern over chronic hiccups

Cannes Review: Oliver Stone’s ‘JFK Revisited: Through The Looking Glass’

Kremlin papers appear to show Putin’s plot to put Trump in White House

Spain’s top court rules pandemic lockdown unconstitutional

South African Military Is Called In to Quell Violence

1. Haitian police have taken the assassinated president's security chief into custody

   964 people got COVID-19 after an outdoor music festival, despite compulsory negative tests, vaccines, or other proof of immunity

   Senators pass a bill banning products from Xinjiang

 

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MIT Predicted in 1972 That Society Will Collapse This Century. New Research Shows We’re on Schedule.

7 Mississippi children are in ICU with COVID-19, with 2 on life support

NYC Unions Confirm Decision To Shift Retirees Onto Privatized Health Insurance

On “Gain of Function” Research, COVID-19 and the Shortcomings of the Biological Weapons Convention: an Interview with Laurie Garrett

Former bank CEO convicted of bribery in scheme to land Trump admin job

Coronavirus outbreaks at summer camps could be a preview of school-year problems

New Maine law prohibits offshore wind farms in state waters

But the compromise still encourages the development of offshore wind technology in federal waters off Maine.

More than 60 wildfires rage across US west – including blaze bigger than Portland

The IEA Warns Of Another Oil Price War

The activist Iran is accused of plotting to kidnap in NYC enraged the regime with a viral video campaign against its forced hijab laws

Scientists could create a single vaccine that fights multiple coronaviruses within 5 years, potentially preventing the next pandemic, an expert says

 

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A gun covered in Legos to look like a toy sets off a furor

Cassandra and Her Complex: NATO’s New Literary Project

The Court’s Voting-Rights Decision Was Worse Than People Think

China military ‘drove away’ US warship in South China Sea

Mississippi Claims Memphis is Stealing its Groundwater, Supreme Court to Decide

Haitian doctor with Florida connections arrested as a leader in Moïse assassination plot

1. Oregon's Bootleg Fire burns more than 150,000 acres as wildfires rage through West

   Some areas of Klamath County were evacuated as the wildfire, which was zero percent contained Sunday, continued to spread, officials said.
2. 6 fully vaccinated wedding guests got COVID, one died: studySanders pushing for infrastructure package above $3.5 trillion
3. Haiti assassination suspect wanted presidency: police

Haitian authorities arrested a US doctor as a suspect in the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse

Elon Musk has paid a $10,000 deposit for a ticket to the edge of space with Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic

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NYC officials warn of COVID-19 Delta variant spread on Staten Island

Australia’s COVID-19 Delta outbreak worsens despite Sydney lockdown

Bootleg Fire rages through Oregon, threatening California’s electricity supply

Synagogue shooting victims can sue gunmaker Smith & Wesson, California judge rules

A teen was accused of abuse inside Vatican City. Powerful church figures helped him become a priest.

Farmers Braced for Water Shortages as Reservoirs Dry Up in Mexico

Orlov - A Case Study in National Shame

 Last month sets record for the hottest June in U.S. history

Colombians held in Haitian president’s assassination claim ties to Miami-area security firm

Why Africa's Geography Is a Barrier to Growth

The article takes for granted that growth is an unquestioned good. But the points it makes are interesting.

Tesla fire in Tainan City took 20 tons of water, 1 hour to extinguish

Suspects in the Haitian president's assassination claim they broke into his house to arrest — not kill — him, reports say

India is proposing a 2-child policy to keep its population under control, and it includes cash benefits for couples who opt for voluntary sterilization

Haitian authorities arrested a US doctor as a suspect in the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse

Elon Musk has paid a $10,000 deposit for a ticket to the edge of space with Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic

 

From Jenna Orkin

Hundreds of Thai medical workers get COVID-19 despite Sinovac vaccinations

‘Fear on top of fear’: Why anti-gun Americans joined the wave of new gun owners

Europe is racing to vaccinate residents. But in some countries, undocumented immigrants have been left out.

Here’s why FEMA is denying disaster aid to Black families who’ve lived for generations in the Deep South

Richard Branson and his Virgin Galactic crew safely back from space, ushering in a new era

The Republican operatives, who dismiss the expositions of critical race theorists and anti-racists in order to define critical race theory and anti-racism, and then attack those definitions, are effectively debating themselves. 

#Film4Climate 1st Prize Short Film Winner - “Three Seconds"

The Ascension of Bernie Sanders

South Korea's spy agency says North Korean leader Kim Jong Un may have lost more than 40 pounds

The U.S. says it can answer cyberattacks with nuclear weapons. That’s lunacy. 

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"Jigsaw" - Google Tracking Visitors' Cursors

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StratforLeaks: Google Ideas Director Involved in ‘Regime Change’ (Archive)

Younger patients flooding Spanish hospitals amid new COVID surge

Search Underway For Escaped Inmate From Bronx Jail Barge

Police say the inmate busted out of the floating jail barge at 4:15 a.m. on Saturday.

Death Valley soars to 130 degrees, matching Earth’s highest temperature in at least 90 years

FBI, Homeland Security officials will travel to Haiti 'as soon as possible,' White House says

Massachusetts school wins court battle to use electric shock therapy on self-harming disabled students

China's iron grip on Hollywood began in 1998 with a Martin Scorsese movie and a groveling apology form Disney

Take a look inside this underground crypto mining farm in Ukraine with its 3,800 PlayStations and 5,000 computers