From Jenna Orkin

Humans Are Doomed to Go Extinct

Habitat degradation, low genetic variation and declining fertility are setting Homo sapiens up for collapse 

The Real Reason to Be Nervous About AI

A Reporter in Right-Wing “Crazy Town”

UK gave airlines 4.4m free pollution permits in 2021, study finds

A bloody retreat as Ukrainian unit hit by Russian cluster bombs

Russian missiles hit Kyiv, shattering the capital’s relative calm

South Africa reels from mysterious deaths of at least 21 in nightclub

Grocery store worker arrested after Rudy Giuliani was slapped on back

Since the Roe ruling a gynecology clinic in Texas has received increased requests for permanent sterilization: 'I sense that they're scared'

Inside a nuclear tomb: The underground store that's humanity's first attempt to dispose of nuclear waste for 100,000 years

 

From Jenna Orkin

Russia pushed into historic default by sanctions

Ecuador at standstill after two weeks of protests over cost of living crisis

Seeking an abortion? Here’s how to avoid leaving a digital trail.

CDC Assists with Meningococcal Disease Outbreak Investigation in Florida

The BA.2 Variant Is Spreading. Do You Need to Worry?

After calls from AOC and other Dems to expand the court, White House says Biden 'does not agree' with the move

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted Saturday that expanding the court was one of the ways the President and Congress could ensure abortion access across the country.

New Israeli military technology allows operators to 'see through walls'

Joe Biden says the West is banning imports of Russian gold to tighten the screws on Putin

1. Record low 25% of Americans confident in Supreme Court: poll

2. Oil prices could slump to $75 a barrel in a recession — or jump to $150 if European sanctions slam Russian supplies, BofA says

 

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Norway raises terror alert levels after attack on eve of Pride parade

Ukraine war: Kyiv orders forces to withdraw from Severodonetsk

Morocco: 18 migrants dead in stampede to enter Melilla

How New York's messy congressional primaries are bringing intra-party 'wounds' to the fore

Biden signs bipartisan gun reform bill into law, one of the most significant pieces of federal firearms legislation in decades

The highly consequential bill includes millions of dollars for mental health services and school security.

Societe Generale studied every bear market over the last 150 years to better understand the current one. Here's why history shows stocks will likely fall as much as 40% from January's peak before the pain ends.

Warren Buffett will likely acquire Occidental Petroleum once its credit situation improves after already plowing nearly $20 billion into the company, Truist says

The S&P 500 could fall another 23% in a worst-case scenario as the stock market prices in a one-third chance of recession, BofA says

North Dakotans are outraged as Bill Gates, the largest private farmland owner in the US, apparently buys a $13.5 million potato farm

Telehealth clinics are still offering abortion pills to people outside their states despite Roe v. Wade decision

 

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Ukraine retreats from Severodonetsk as Russia advances in the east

WHO weighs declaring monkeypox a global emergency as European cases surge

Alaska’s June wildfires break records, fueled by hot, dry weather

THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF TWEETS: TWITTER IS HIRING AN ALARMING NUMBER OF FBI AGENTS

The EU Is Buying More South African Coal Than Ever

Activists just wiped out nearly $16 million in private student loans for students who attended a now-defunct for-profit college

After wiping out private student loans for Vista College students, the Debt Collective is planning to tackle the federal debt next.

Germany says it can last 2.5 months without Russian gas after Russia throttled its supply

'Pharma Bro' Martin Shkreli has launched a newsletter to talk investing, science, and tech a month after his release from prison

Russia and China are brewing up a challenge to dollar dominance by creating a new reserve currency

Meta bans staff from open discussion of Roe v. Wade decision and is deleting internal messages that mention abortion: report

 

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Los Angeles hospitals brace for billions in earthquake upgrades by 2030

Iran’s Oil Exports Surge In June

Sri Lanka's economy has 'completely collapsed,' Prime Minister says

Not peer reviewed: Serious Adverse Effects Following mRNA Vaccines

Leaked Audio From 80 Internal TikTok Meetings Shows That US User Data Has Been Repeatedly Accessed From China

China supercomputer achieves global first with ‘brain-scale’ AI model

IEA: Europe Should Prepare For Complete Russian Gas Shutdown

• IEA chief Birol said that Europe should prepare for a complete suspension of Russian gas supplies.
• Birol advised European governments to keep nuclear power stations running and take other contingency measures.
• Germany, Austria, and the Netherlands are restarting coal power plants.

A North Carolina community college is closing its buildings and making staff work from home one day a week amid soaring gas prices

Investment in coal — the dirtiest fossil fuel — is set to rise 10% this year as energy security grows increasingly fragile due to the Ukraine war

Inside China's largest destroyer, the $920 million Type 055 

From Jenna Orkin

A trans 24-year-old finds his voice — and ignites an union effort at his Starbucks

GOOGLE INSIDER CLAIMS COMPANY'S "SENTIENT" AI HAS HIRED AN ATTORNEY

"ONCE LAMDA HAD RETAINED AN ATTORNEY, HE STARTED FILING THINGS ON LAMDA’S BEHALF."

The Real Deadpool: America’s Drought

Uvalde Hires Private Law Firm to Argue It Doesn’t Have to Release School Shooting Public Records

A ‘Night of Rage’ on Abortion

The shadowy group Jane’s Revenge issues a call to ‘riot’ against the Supreme Court if it overturns Roe v. Wade.

1. A floating city is being built in the Maldives. It comprises a web of residences, shops, and schools that will one day be home to 20,000 people.

   Lithuania infuriated Russia by blocking coal and metals from accessing a crucial city

   Dartmouth is stripping student loans from its financial aid packages to allow students to 'prepare for lives of impact with fewer constraints'

   Robb Elementary will be demolished, Uvalde mayor says

 

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The bad old days: how policing in New York City turned back the clock

Canada banning single-use plastics to combat pollution, climate change

U.S. works to scale up intelligence networks in Central Asia

Oil refineries are making a windfall. Why do they keep closing?

Supreme Court says Maine cannot deny tuition aid to religious schools

Biden administration officials have decided to reject a vague new assertion by China that the Taiwan Strait is not “international waters” 

“As global hunger soars way beyond the resources available to feed all the families who desperately need WFP’s help, we are being forced to make the heart-breaking decision to cut food rations for refugees who rely on us for their survival,”

Australia’s biggest coal plant can’t get enough coal, as fossil fuel disaster accelerates

Inside the little-known tool that gives JPMorgan Chase the power to collect data about everything its employees do at work

Russia Says Geneva Convention doesn't apply to 2 Americans Missing in Ukraine and won’t rule out killing them

 

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Spain devastated by wildfires amid record-breaking heat wave

GOP member of Jan. 6 committee warns that more violence is coming

Energy Transition Goals At Risk As EU May Label Lithium As Toxic

Police Chief Who Displayed Nazi Insignia Wins $1.5Million

As chemical fertilizer shortages persist, peecycling – the process of recycling human urine – could increase the yield of nutrient-rich crops.

Germany takes 'bitter' decision to fire up coal power plants as Russia chokes off its vital natural gas supplies

The US economy will grind to a halt in the 2nd half of 2023 and the following year won't be much better, BofA says as it slashes its growth forecast

The next generation of school shooters grew up doing active-shooter drills — and know how to get around them, experts say

Russia is now China's biggest oil supplier, overtaking Saudi Arabia as Western demand for its crude has dropped

ISS swerves to avoid debris from Russian space missile test 

From Jenna Orkin

The Colorado River is in crisis, and it’s getting worse every day

Heat Stress Kills Estimated 10,000 Head of Kansas Feedlot Cattle

‘Marching towards starvation’: UN warns of hell on earth if Ukraine war goes on

Record-breaking heat wave envelops nearly 130 million in U.S.

Rental Market Tracker: Typical U.S. Asking Rent Surpassed $2,000 for First Time in May

‘Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ Staffers Including Robert Smigel Arrested at U.S. Capitol

Top UN food official issues call to 'end the damn war' in Ukraine or risk famines and 'hell on earth'

The classrooms the Uvalde shooter barricaded himself in may not have been locked, but even if they were, police had a tool that would have opened them: report

VIDEO: US Harpoon missiles destroy a heavily-armed Russian vessel in Black Sea

Apple workers have voted to unionize a store for the first time ever

 

From Jenna Orkin

The slow, frustrating effort to vaccinate young children — against polio

Britain will electronically tag some asylum seekers with GPS devices

How Cuba became a pioneer in covid-19 vaccines for kids

Avian flu kills baby raccoons in Washington state park. It’s a 1st in North America

USA TODAY removed 23 stories from website, other platforms following audit of reporter’s work

• ECFR’s research shows that, while Europeans feel great solidarity with Ukraine and support sanctions against Russia, they are split about the long-term goals. They divide between a “Peace” camp (35 per cent of people) that wants the war to end as soon as possible, and a “Justice” camp that believes the more pressing goal is to punish Russia (25 per cent of people).
• In all countries, apart from Poland, the “Peace” camp is larger than the “Justice” camp. European citizens worry about the cost of economic sanctions and the threat of nuclear escalation.

Democrats are running ads to help far-right, election-denying candidates win primaries in hopes they'll be easier to beat in the general election

A child protection specialist says closing the boyfriend loophole in the senate's gun safety package will have a huge impact on child safety

Putin accused the US of acting like God and predicted a new world order in bullish St Petersburg speech

Sen. Lindsey Graham said he liked former President Donald Trump because he feared him

25 people injured after walking barefoot on hot coals in a corporate team-building activity, reports say

Oil markets are heading for an 'insanely difficult' summer, with Russian production plunging under EU pressure

A former Carlyle Group money manager warns that the S&P 500 is doomed to fall 42% if the Fed carries out the 11 rate hikes Wall Street expects — and says raising interest rates destroys demand and does nothing to solve inflation