From Jenna Orkin

Nuclear fusion breakthrough as reactor runs seven times hotter than the Sun for 30 seconds

Thousands of dead fish wash up in Oakland lake to create a putrid mess

Bannon charged with fraud, money laundering, conspiracy in ‘We Build the Wall’

Swiss to be fined and jailed for overheating houses in winter

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

How a cheap Swedish submarine 'ran rings' around a US aircraft carrier and its sub-hunting escorts

The Swedish sub HSMS Gotland didn't actually sink the USS Ronald Reagan, but it showed that it could be done.

JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank are rationing hot water and turning down the lights ahead of a chilling winter as banks prep for Europe's energy crisis

China has secured Russian gas at a 50% discount until the end of this year

Germany is now generating nearly a third of its electricity from coal as it scrambles to replace Russian gas before winter

Some farmers in Europe are shutting operations and reducing production because of the energy crunch, adding to the global food crisis

A reporter who investigated a Las Vegas county official was killed. Police just arrested the official in connection to the reporter's death.

Steve Bannon surrenders in Manhattan 'We Build the Wall' donor-scam case

 

From Jenna Orkin

1. The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse

   A ‘doomsday glacier’ the size of Florida is disintegrating faster than thought Europe’s Energy Crunch Squeezes World’s Largest Particle Collider

   UNESCO - Addressing conspiracy theories: what teachers need to know

   A Dutch city has become the world's first to ban ads for meat in public places over climate concerns

   Europe is loading up on Russian oil 3 months before an import ban is set to kick in amid EU's energy crisis

   JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank, and other major European banks are turning off hot water, stopping fountains, and preparing diesel generators as Russia chokes the energy supply

   Greece warns of another war as Turkey ratchets up the heat
2. Bed Bath & Beyond board members were concerned about late CFO
3. Facebook doesn't know where your data is kept

 

From Jenna Orkin

Pakistan’s biggest lake bursts its banks, threatening further floods

Canadian stabbing suspect found dead after 10 killed; brother at large

‘Fat Leonard’ escapes weeks before sentencing in Navy bribery scandal

Historic, unforgiving western heat wave is peaking and crushing record

Xi Jinping to visit Kazakhstan in first trip out of China since pandemic began

Russia is buying artillery shells from North Korea, US intel says, a sign of desperation as sanctions bite

Residents of a Chinese city under COVID-19 lockdown were forced to stay at home during a 6.8-magnitude earthquake, reports say

Oil climbs 4% after OPEC+ decides to trim output by 100,000 barrels a day

An occupied region of Ukraine is delaying a vote to join Russia amid Kyiv's counteroffensive to take it back

Ukrainian hackers created fake profiles of attractive women to trick Russian soldiers into sharing their location, report says. Days later, the base was blown up.

 

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1. Dozens of artifacts seized from the Metropolitan Museum of Art

   4,000 Google cafeteria workers quietly unionized during the pandemic

   May - U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve drops to lowest level since 1987 

   China Embassy Spokesman Responds to US Arms Sale to Taiwan
   

   European natural gas prices surge 36% after Russia halts Nord Stream 1 flows indefinitely

   Oil climbs over 3% as OPEC+ meets to discuss trimming output, and natural gas prices soar

   Oil prices will surge to $125 a barrel next year despite the G7's cap on Russian crude, Goldman Sachs says

   A Tennessee teacher and granddaughter of a billionaire was snatched while on an early morning jog. Police say a suspect has been charged but Eliza Fletcher remains missing.

   
   

   

   Republicans want to rewrite the Constitution to limit federal power but a former senator says a 'runaway' convention could spell danger for health care, education, and the environment

   Global coal prices soar to a record high

 

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1. Viewsnight: Our addiction to economic growth is killing us

   NASA’s toaster-sized device can make oxygen on MarsSolar and Wind Power Now Deliver ‘More than Double’ the Energy Produced by OilNew Study Finds

   Tens of thousands protest in Prague against Czech government, EU and NATO

   Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar today released totals for fiscal 2022 state revenues, in addition to announcing monthly state revenues for August.

   • General Revenue-related revenue for fiscal 2022 totaled $76.47 billion, up 26.4 percent from fiscal 2021.

   Austria Bails Out Vienna Energy Supplier

   Man who fell to his death from the 18th floor of a New York tower identified as Bed Bath & Beyond CFO

   A man won an art competition in Colorado using AI-generated art, prompting a debate over what art is

   Liz Truss named new UK prime minister, taking over after Boris Johnson was forced from office by scandal

   The euro just dropped below $0.99 for the first time in 20 years

 

From Jenna Orkin

Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant operations extended through 2030 by California Lawmakers

Punishing heat wave in West sets records, fuels fires

U.S. to sell $1.1 billion in anti-ship, air-to-air weapons to Taiwan

Thousands of Xcel customers locked out of thermostats during 'energy emergency'

Saudi Arabians are using a widely available Google and Apple store app to report activists who speak out against the government. Some have received harsh sentences while others are self-censoring.

Russia's Gazprom will keep the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline shut down after finding a leak, heightening Europe's energy crisis

Russia's ruble has rallied nearly 40% since the war in Ukraine began. That could be bad news for Putin.

The US and other countries that sanctioned Moscow are likely importing Russian oil via India, report says

Copper prices are set to drop another 11%. That would be a good sign for inflation but a bad omen for the economy.

'Every historical parallel suggests that the worst is yet to come': Investing legend Jeremy Grantham warns that stocks are in a bubble 'eerily similar' to the biggest in history — all of which resulted in crashes of 50% or more

 

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Predicting the viruses that will spread to humans

Death Valley is sizzling weeks after record rainiest day

Lukoil chairman dies in mysterious fall from Moscow hospital window

Gun jams inches from Argentinian vice president’s face in shooting attempt

Taiwan Troops Shoot Intruding Drone 

Russia is looking to address the shortage of troops in part by compelling soldiers wounded earlier in the war to return to combat, recruiting personnel from private security companies and even recruiting from prisons, according to a U.S. official who spoke to the AP on the condition of anonymity to discuss the downgraded intelligence finding.

Poland Demands $1.3 Trillion in Reparations from Germany

A former cybercriminal who once worked with - and betrayed - the Secret Service says the easy access to bots is one of the biggest threats on the internet right now

Russia just said it won't sell oil to countries that try to impose a price cap on its crude

Risk of civil unrest surging in more than half of the world's countries, analysis says

 

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West Virginia Goes After Banks on Fossil Fuels

Jackson, Miss., shows how extreme weather can trigger a clean-water crisis

China slams U.N. ‘farce’ on Xinjiang as Uyghur exiles praise report

Ohio police officer fatally shoots Black man in bed, body camera shows

Record-setting, long-duration heat wave is roasting Western U.S.

Dismal U.S. math, reading scores reflect pandemic’s harsh impact on students

Norwegian Tesla owners are fed up with their Teslas and are hunger striking to get the attention of Elon Musk.

Food banks across the country are feeling the impact of high prices, with long lines and new faces as more families struggle to make ends meet.

California Excessive heat starting tomorrow will stress energy grid

China's oil imports have surged from an area known for offshore ship-to-ship crude mixing meant to hide its origin

Imports of Malaysian oil have soared to nearly 800,000 barrels per day, which is more than what it produces on its own, according to Bloomberg. 

From Jenna Orkin

The Surreal Abundance of Alaska’s Permafrost Farms

Monkeypox outbreak can be eliminated in Europe, WHO says as cases fall

• Norway replaces Russia as largest supplier to Europe

Montebello poultry business burns

State of Emergency in Jackson Miss
Solomon Islands opposition claims PM's office declined request by US vessel

China snaps up over US$2 billion of Russian LNG as energy trade bucks economic downturn

1. Russia halts natural gas flows via Nord Stream 1 pipeline, intensifying the pressure on Europe in its energy crisis

   Iran tried to capture US unmanned vessel, stopped by Navy patrol

Taliban on the cusp of securing wheat, gas, and oil deal with Russia, officials say

 

From Jenna Orkin

A third of Pakistan is underwater from floods, climate chief says

Gene editing could revive a nearly lost tree. Not everyone is on board.

Closure of coal power station set to be delayed to prevent UK blackouts

Be less squeamish about drinking sewage water, says expert

Fifty million empty flats threaten to plunge China’s troubled property market further into crisis, warns think tank

The EU is sending millions of anti-radiation tablets to Ukraine to protect people from a potential accident caused by fighting at a nuclear power plant

Chinese students have helped bankroll the US economy. Now fewer want to study here and it risks America's position as a global leader.

A million barrels per day of Iraqi oil could be taken off the market as violence breaks out in the country, RBC commodities chief says

Russian oil exports to Asia have fallen by more than 500,000 barrels a day to a 5-month low

The Kremlin says Western sanctions are the only thing stopping gas flows through Nord Stream 1 as Russia prepares to shut the key pipeline for maintenance