From Jenna Orkin

Next pandemic could be more lethal, vaccine researcher warns

‘Rife’ cocaine use reported in U.K. Parliament — just as Boris Johnson announces crackdown on drug crime

Myanmar court sentences ousted president in trial condemned as political

A White teacher taught White students about White privilege. It cost him his job.

China Seeks First Military Base on Africa’s Atlantic Coast, U.S. Intelligence Finds

The Taliban are courting Iran and China, hoping to avoid blackouts if other countries cut off power to Afghanistan for non-payment

The Omicron variant appeared to spread between two fully vaccinated people in separate hotel rooms in Hong Kong, early research suggests

See the bizarre list of banned words and phrases in Jeffrey Epstein's 'household manual'

metaverse land was sold in the last week alone. The co-founder of a virtual real estate company breaks down why the opportunity in digital properties could rise ​200x in 16 months.

SF restaurant flooded with 1-star reviews for refusing to serve police 

From Jenna Orkin

Do taxpayers have to fund religious education? The Supreme Court may say yes.

Bank of America execs warn junior staffers to ‘dress down’ as NYC crime surges

CNN Fires Chris Cuomo Amid Inquiry Into His Efforts to Aid His Brother

Brutal, brazen crimes shake L.A., leaving city at a crossroads

A California school district said two parents knowingly sent their COVID-positive child to class

A Southwest Airlines passenger opened a galley door and jumped out of a plane while it was taxiing, authorities say

See the bizarre list of banned words and phrases in Jeffrey Epstein's 'household manual'

Silicon Valley's metaverse will suck reality into the virtual world — and ostracize those who aren't plugged in

Experts say when AR glasses replace cell phones in 10 years, there'll be a turning point in the metaverse — "and it will not be good for humanity."

Omicron's 'wacko' combination of mutations has scientists split over whether it developed in humans or animals

Trump's new social media company is under investigation by the US Securities and Exchange Commission

 

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Russia planning massive military offensive against Ukraine involving 175,000 troops, U.S. intelligence warns

More states consider laws to punish parents if children fire unsecured guns

China Set to Create New State-Owned Rare-Earths Giant

California water districts to get 0% of requested supplies in unprecedented decision

• Stash of money found in bathroom wall at Joel Osteen’s megachurch
  
  

A Trump-loving former KKK leader who was jailed for beating a Black man is running for office as a Republican in Georgia, report says

A corporate Christmas party turned into the biggest Omicron 'super spreader event' outside South Africa, with up to 60 people infected

The jailed founder of The Silk Road dark web marketplace is minting NFTs for charity — and a DAO has been formed to buy them and protest his imprisonment

Kayleigh McEnany: Trump tested positive for COVID-19 before going on Hannity

Woman describes removal from Qatar plane, given forced internal exam

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Omicron's 'wacko' combination of mutations has scientists split over whether it developed in humans or animals

How Penn Medicine is replacing a Philadelphia hospital with doctors' offices and clinics to keep people out of emergency rooms

 

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Omicron cases, hospitalizations surging among kids under 5 in South Africa

Trapped by rising water: Record floods linked to climate change have left the people of South Sudan in crisis

Parents of Michigan high school shooting suspect charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter

Omicron covid variant three times more likely to cause reinfection than delta, S. Africa study says

CIA Files Say Staffers Committed Sex Crimes Involving Children. They Weren’t Prosecuted.

A 2018 Study Found that the Defense Department’s Network Ranked 19th out of 2,891 Networks Nationwide in Peer-to-Peer File Trading of Child Pornography

Russia Deploys Missiles, Stations Personnel on Island in Middle of Chain Claimed by Japan

It's December and it hasn't snowed in Denver yet. That's never been recorded

CEOs and insiders sell a record $69 billion of their stock, and the year isn’t over yet

IMF warns of 'economic collapse' unless G20 extends debt relief

California has 50 times more monarch butterflies than last year — a puzzling blip in their path to extinction

Having severe COVID-19 doubled the chance of dying within a year for people in a Florida study — the risk was even higher for young people

Police say a FedEx driver dumped packages into a ravine in Alabama on at least 6 separate occasions

 

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Scientists find clues to what triggers rare blood clots in AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine

Fetal viability is at the center of Mississippi abortion case. Here’s why. Michigan school shooting prosecutor suggests she will charge parents

The bombshell about Trump testing positive also implicates the Trump family

France Sends Military Police to Caribbean Island Amid Vaccine Mandate Protests

Teenagers from remote NT community arrested after escape from Howard Springs COVID quarantine facility

New Zealand to send troops to quell unrest in Solomon Islands

Elizabeth Holmes Concludes Day 2 of Her Testimony

A college law professor who teaches critical race theory worries that educators are living through another 'Red Scare'

Elizabeth Holmes trial: Theranos founder's testimony turns the tide

The FBI still hasn't found proof that Saudi Arabia hacked Jeff Bezos' phone and isn't prioritizing that theory, report says

 

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Cereal Killers: How 80-Hour Weeks and a Caste System Pushed Kellogg's Workers to Strike

Japan suspends new reservations on all incoming flights

		First US case of Omicron COVID variant confirmed in California

CNN suspends Chris Cuomo ‘indefinitely’ after documents detail help he gave his brother

Why the CIA is so worried about Russia and Ukraine

Justices hear arguments over Mississippi abortion law challenging Roe v. Wade

Oxford High School shooting: 3 killed, 8 hurt, 15-year-old in custody, officials say

'I find QAnon total nonsense': Michael Flynn DISAVOWS conspiracy movement he once  pledged allegiance to by saying its a 'disinformation campaign created by the CIA or the left' in audio released by lawyer Lin Wood

1. Port of Vancouver faces a backlog of over 50 ships as trucker union plans to strike

   Google has been ordered to unseal dozens of documents related to its secret anti-union campaign 'Project Vivian'

   Video: Oxford High School students realize they spoke to gunman

Billionaire investor Ray Dalio warns that the US is coming to the brink of an empire-ending catastrophe. Here's why he's worried, and how he says you should invest your money.

 

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Chris Cuomo sought ‘intel’ on media coverage about accusations against his brother, text messages show

Netherlands says omicron variant was within its borders a week before South Africa revealed it existed

World's first living robots can now reproduce, scientists say

California ship pileup still piling up — but out of sight, over horizon

Disney’s Missing ‘Simpsons’ Episode in Hong Kong Raises Censorship Fears

Moscow says 27 more Russian diplomats due to leave U.S. in January

Chinese jets enter Taiwan zone as Xi holds talks to strengthen military

The Next Word Where will predictive text take us?

The FAA accidentally disclosed more than 2,000 flight records associated with Jeffrey Epstein's private jets

An Ohio school district said it closed all its schools for a day because of staff shortages. About 5,000 students were affected. 

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Humiliation All the Way Down

Kevin McCarthy's latest grovel

Vaccine efficacy for Omicron has likely dropped: Moderna CEO

Omicron variant now in North America as first cases found in Canada Barbados to cast off Queen Elizabeth II, declare itself a republic

Panicked Democrats are ready to shove Biden aside. Again

China Avoids Olympic Boycott By Banning Foreign Spectators

Chinese spy ship spotted off Australia’s coast, federal government confirms

Scoop: Germany urges Congress not to sanction Putin’s pipeline

Macau Casino Stocks Sink After Police Arrest City’s Junket King

 

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Former Georgia district attorney booked on charges of obstructing Ahmaud Arbery case
Thalidomide Documentary

Fauci explains what is ‘troublesome’ about the Omicron variant

The Black people who lived in Walden Woods long before Henry David Thoreau

Taiwan sends jets after 27 Chinese planes enter buffer zone

Billionaire Bill Gates Uses Money to Shape the Media

1. Japan, Israel, Morocco ban all foreign travelers from entering

2. People with the Omicron variant have 'extremely mild' symptoms and haven't had to be hospitalized yet, says the South African doctor who first reported it

   The Federal Reserve can't rescue America's economy this time

   China's air force used its latest flight near Taiwan to show off a new capability

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THE ANGRY ARAB: The Rise and Fall of Aljazeera

World Medical Association boss compares new strain of COVID-19 with Ebola

Southern states fall behind in vaccinating kids as pediatric infections climb

Appalachian “Apple Hunter” Finds and Rescues 1200 Lost Varieties

Congress must untie Biden’s hands on Taiwan

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A former UN worker in Afghanistan faces the heartbreaking choice to sell his young daughter into marriage for $1,200, so his other children won't starve

Moderna plans to produce a booster vaccine shot specifically for the new coronavirus variant Omicron

The Omicron variant carries a number of genetic mutations that might cause it to spread quickly, even among unvaccinated people: report

Blame student loans on Sputnik: How the 1957 launch of a Soviet rocket inspired the government to overhaul education

South Africa says it has been 'punished' rather than 'applauded' for detecting the new Omicron variant