From Jenna Orkin

The length of Earth’s days has been mysteriously increasing, and scientists don’t know why

“Throughout his Presidency, Trump had sought to redefine the role of the military in American public life,” Susan B. Glasser and Peter Baker write, in a disturbing report in this week’s issue. 
Treasury penalizes crypto service that laundered funds for North Koreans

White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham Weighs In on DeSantis vs. Trump

Robots can’t think or feel, despite what the researchers who build them want to believe.

Russian state TV: North Korea offering Kremlin 100,000 ‘volunteers’

The US offered technical advice to Cuba after the communist state asked 'friendly countries' to help put out a huge oil depot fire

'My training is going to be limited': Med students and aspiring OBGYNs are trying to adapt to a post-Roe landscape

"I truly can't see myself going into a field that is governed so heavily," a third-year medical student told Insider.

'The next public health disaster in the making': Studies offer new pieces of 

Lindsey Graham says same-sex marriage should be left to the states but pivots from question on interracial marriage

 

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New Cancer Study Results Confirm Lasting Effects on 9/11 First Responders

China expands military drills, escalates threats against Taiwan

Why the Chair of the Lancet’s COVID-19 Commission Thinks The US Government Is Preventing a Real Investigation Into the Pandemic

Japan Needs to Look at Links Between Church and State

China IPO Market Trounces the World With Record $58 Billion Boom

Record coral cover on parts of Great Barrier Reef, but global heating could jeopardise recovery

Thieves steal at least 20 whole briskets worth thousands of dollars from famous Texas barbecue restaurant

This map shows where Europe gets its natural gas - and economic disaster is looming if Russia cuts off its fuel supply

Russia has stoked up an energy crisis in Europe by cutting the capacity of the Nord Stream 1 pipeline. Here's where the continent gets its natural gas.

5 of Turkey's banks have adopted Russia's payment system, and Western officials are concerned it could be used to skirt sanctions

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow speaks highly of Fox host Tucker Carlson

 

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1. Trump Once Again Dominates CPAC 2024 Presidential Straw Poll

   G.O.P. Governors Cause Havoc by Busing Migrants to East Coast

   European Power Hits Records as Plants Start to Buckle in Heat

   Turkish Banks Are Adopting Russian Payments System, Erdogan Says

   China’s Hainan Starts Mass Covid Testing, Imposes More Lockdowns

   Hundreds may have contracted polio after the virus was detected in wastewater, New York Health Department warns

   Taiwan scrambles jets as officials say China rehearsing attack

American Airlines told mother of a 10-year-old unaccompanied passenger she couldn't collect her daughter from the airport

Chris Christie says 2024 presidential race will feature Trump, Cotton, Pence, and Cruz and force GOP voters to choose between 'the party of me or the party of us'

A jury says Alex Jones should pay $49 million for defaming Sandy Hook parents. He might be ordered to pay only a fraction of that thanks to Texas law.

 

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Tonga volcano blasted ‘unprecedented’ amount of water into atmosphere

Shale Giant Chesapeake To Exit Oil As It Focuses On Natural Gas

Will Civilization Collapse Because It’s Running Out of Oil?

High Suicide Rates among United States Service Members and Veterans of the Post- 9/11 Wars

Azerbaijan summons UK charge d'affaires over London embassy attack

Long Beach Announces Pediatric Case of Monkeypox

Argentina pledges end of money printing to battle 60% inflation

1. In world first, artificial mouse 'embryos' were grown without the need for a womb, sperm, or egg

   The Democrats have taken aim at the stock market's safety net by taxing buybacks - potentially creating another headwind for investors

   White House: Monkeypox is public-health emergency in US

 

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Polio surveillance uncovers new evidence of community spread in New York

Lawsuit: 9/11 Debris Released Hazardous Emissions at Fresh Kills Landfill

Brittney Griner sentenced to 9 years in Russian prison on drug charges

Pollution: 'Forever chemicals' in rainwater exceed safe levels

Does Anyone Still Understand the ‘Security Dilemma’?

Hunger in Africa - The Situation is Serious

Uniper Warns on German Power Output as Rhine River Dries Up

QAnon candidate Ron Watkins finished dead last in his Arizona GOP primary race

Russia is Europe's biggest energy supplier - but the US is sending more gas by boat than Russia is by pipeline

Alex Jones could face perjury charges and up to 10 years in a Texas jail after his lawyer mistakenly revealed text messages the InfoWars host claimed didn't exist, legal experts say

Bank of England hikes interest rates by 50 basis points 

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‘Never seen it this bad’: America faces catastrophic teacher shortage

Several election deniers backed by Trump prevail in hotly contested primaries

Worsening Drought Drives California Water Prices to All-Time High

Covid-19: UK makes first payments to compensate injury or death from vaccines

The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) has awarded NT$3.5 million (US$116,877) to the family of a person in Tainan who died of intracerebral hemorrhage after receiving a dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.

NOCs, Not Big Oil, Are Responsible For Most Emissions

67 members of Congress have violated a law designed to prevent insider trading and stop conflicts-of-interest

A McDonald's has banned under-18s from eating there after 5 p.m. without their parents after staff were subjected to 'verbal and physical abuse'

Georgia will now let people claim an 'unborn child' as a dependent on their tax returns after Supreme Court throws out abortion rights

Senate passes PACT Act, providing billions in aid for US veterans exposed to burn pits, after 41 GOP senators blocked passage last week

 

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Wikipedia Used As 'Shortcut' By Judges, Researchers Find

Fact check: A 1912 article about burning coal and climate change is authentic

SPAM goes on lockdown due to inflation in NYC

Earth Is Suddenly Spinning Faster. Why Our Planet Just Recorded Its Shortest Day Since Records Began

African fossils show 'monster' could have lived in Loch Ness

Hezbollah Threatens Israel With War Over Disputed Gas Field

Nearly Half of All Restaurants & Car Services Couldn't Pay July Rent

Indigenous senator in Australia told to repeat oath of allegiance after she called Queen Elizabeth 'the colonizing Her Majesty'

EXCLUSIVE: Cassidy Hutchinson kept working for Donald Trump for nine weeks after he left the White House, government records show

3 states have declared states of emergency over monkeypox outbreaks to expand resources to slow the spread

 

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‘Soon it will be unrecognisable’: total climate meltdown cannot be stopped, says expert

As Putin squeezes gas supplies, Germany is falling back on coal Covid Supply Chain Chaos Is Just a Dress Rehearsal for What’s Next The position of the Chinese government and people on the Taiwan question is consistent, and resolutely safeguarding China’s national sovereignty and territorial integrity is the firm will of the more than 1.4 billion Chinese people. The public opinion cannot be defied. Those who play with fire will perish by it.

Banana Boat sunscreen recalled over carcinogen

Amazon Cut Its Staff by Almost 100,000 in the June Quarter

Former Putin ally who fled Russia hospitalized with rare illness that made him suddenly lose feeling in his hands and legs: report

June 29 was the shortest day in recorded history — a 'wobble' in the Earth's spin shaved off 1.59 milliseconds

Australia tells exporters to keep natural gas at home to avoid an energy crunch - which could cause prices to soar even further

An 18-year research analyst who believes the Fed's rate hikes aren't enough to tame inflation warns the S&P 500 could plunge another 47% in a worst-case scenario

 

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Coming to a giant airport screen: Your personal flight information

States may revive abortion laws from a time when women couldn’t vote

Italy’s Right Has an Orban-Style Super Majority Within Reach

‘Betrayed’: Sick 9/11 first responders on brink of losing jobs despite law

Wildfires are setting off hundreds of unexploded bombs on WWI battlefields, endangering firefighters

Justice Neil Gorsuch's background primed him to break from the other conservatives on Native law and defend tribal sovereignty

Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, who saw many Native cases as a Western judge, blasted his conservative colleagues' understanding of Native law.

Woman describes how she was 'humiliated' at a Walgreens as autoimmune patients become collateral damage in the US abortion crackdown

Methotrexate, a drug used to treat arthritis, lupus, IBD, and more, is being restricted across the US because it can cause abortions.

Zelenskyy warns that harvest from Ukraine— one of the world's largest suppliers of wheat — will be cut in half this year

Republicans' next big play is to 'scare the hell out of Washington' by rewriting the Constitution. And they're willing to play the long game to win.

Jon Stewart goes to war on Twitter with Ted Cruz over veterans' healthcare 

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April - Florida man asks schools to ban Bible following the state's efforts to remove books 

Biden tests positive for COVID again — days after initial recovery

Dr. Lisa-Maria Kellermayr — targeted by anti-vaxxers — commits suicide The Default Tech Settings You Should Turn Off Right Away

These controls, which are buried inside products from Apple, Google, Meta and others, make us share more data than we need to.

‘Not enough shots’: U.S. faces ‘vaccine cliff’ on monkeypox

Chinese Army - "Prepare for war"

International oil traders are flocking to India as the nation seeks new ways to buy Russian crude

Russia's oil exports to China via ‘dark’ ship-to-ship transfers have surged as trading secrecy grows

Videos show water pouring into Las Vegas casinos as flash flooding follows a rare, heavy thunderstorm in one of the US's driest cities

Infowars parent company files for bankruptcy as defamation trial for Alex Jones' Sandy Hook conspiracy claims nears decision on awarding damages to victims

1. Prince Charles gifted $1.2M by Osama Bin Laden's family: report