How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline

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How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline

The New York Times called it a “mystery,” but the United States executed a covert sea operation that was kept secret—until now

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Key Chinese Middle Eastern Hub Switches Gas Supplies To Europe

The new ChatGPT clones from Google and Microsoft are going to destroy online search

• Sure, Google's answer to ChatGPT will save you time. But it'll also lie to you.
• Relying on artificial intelligence for online searches will accelerate the spread of disinformation

• A secret Russian satellite has broken apart in orbit, creating a cloud of debris that could last a century - (uncertain)

 

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Number of Foreign Workers in Japan Reaches Record High

North Korean balloon briefly spotted over South Korea, Seoul says

U.S. Trade Deficit Hit Record in 2022

‘Only in Mississippi’: White representatives vote to create white-appointed court system for Blackest city in America

Elián González Poised To Become Lawmaker After Nomination To Cuba's National Assembly

González, who became the center of an international custody battle at 5 years old, was nominated Sunday to Cuba's National Assembly.

Milwaukee Public School students sell farm-fresh eggs that they raised, for cheaper than the grocery store

Officer texted photo of bloodied Tyre Nichols to others, records show

Putin implicated in 2014 downing of Malaysia passenger jet that killed 298

1. A Memphis officer took, shared photo of Tyre Nichols after beating

2. Web search as you know it is dead. New AIs are about to transform how you look for information online.

 

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India Predicts 500% Increase In Domestic Natural Gas Demand

Ramping up wind turbines, solar panels and electric vehicles can’t solve our energy problem

GOP base warms to giving Russia some of Ukraine’s territory

BP dials back climate pledge amid soaring oil profits

The U.N. Secretary-General’s Searing Message for the Fossil-Fuel Industry

DOJ Brings Conspiracy Charges in Plot to Destroy Baltimore 

A single judge could outlaw the abortion pill nationwide. And that’s not even the worst of it.

Migrants abandon NYC for Canada with taxpayer-funded bus tickets

U.S. military failed to detect prior Chinese incursions, general says

Attacks on power grids plunged thousands of Americans into darkness

 

Data Snapshot: Are we overcounting Covid-19 deaths? No.

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Germany Studies Tapping Coal-Exit Funds for Defense Projects

Goldman Says Commodities Will Gain 43% in 2023 as Supply Shortages Bite

Moscow, Tehran Advance Plans for Iranian-Designed Drone Facility in Russia

Ukraine’s defense minister to be replaced, top parliamentarian says

Italy’s National Cybersecurity Agency warns of massive global hacking attack

Neo-Nazi leader and girlfriend accused of targeting Md. power stations

Data Snapshot: Are we overcounting Covid-19 deaths? No.

Imran Khan’s Double Game Following an assassination attempt, Pakistan’s former Prime Minister discusses his views on the Taliban, his relationship with the military, and why he’s more “evolved” than other people.

'Ultra-patriots' may try to overthrow Putin because of his army's failures in Ukraine, says Russian MP

Scientists are modifying catfish with alligator DNA to create hybrids for human consumption

 

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Antidepressants can induce mutation and enhance persistence toward multiple antibiotics

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Record cold was achieved at 3 of our 4 climate sites for yesterday (Feb 3rd)!

Worst London air pollution in six years as home fires burn

Wood fires produce more particle pollution than traffic exhausts in UK, and controls remain ineffective

Medicaid rolls swell as 8 million New Yorkers get coverage at expected record- price of almost $35B

Russia-Ukraine updates: Dozens of soldiers freed in prisoner swap

Post COVID-19, still wear a face mask? Self-perceived facial attractiveness reduces mask-wearing intention

Emotional Judges and Unlucky Juveniles

California is turning mountain lions into roadkill faster than they can reproduce

Group backed by conservative Charles Koch to oppose Trump in GOP presidential primary

 

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Live Look Atop Mt. Washington, Which Just Set a Wind Chill Record of -109

Moscow is sending poorly trained recruits, including convicts, to the front lines in eastern Ukraine to pave the way for more seasoned fighters, U.S. and allied officials say.

Brazil sank a decommissioned aircraft carrier in the Atlantic Ocean off its northeast coast, the Brazilian Navy said, despite warnings from environmentalists that the rusting 1960s French-built ship would pollute the sea and the marine food chain.

Student Loan Payment Pause Benefits High-Income Households the Most

Change to classification of psilocybin and MDMA to enable prescribing by authorised psychiatrists

Using behavioural insights to decarbonise home energy, transport, food, and material consumption

‘Historic Arctic outbreak’ crushes records in New England

Water crises due to climate change: More severe than previously thought

Sending Help Instead of the Police in Albuquerque

After a week adrift, a surveillance balloon from China has been deflated. Here's what we know about the suspect device and its mission.

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Chinese spy balloon flies over the United States: Pentagon

Excess Deaths Soaring as Health Card Systems Wobble

Norway discovers huge trove of metals, minerals and rare earths on its seabed

State and local authorities have reacted aggressively to protesters trying to stop 85 acres of the forest being torn down to build a sprawling, state-of-the-art, $90m police training complex – dubbed “Cop City” by opponents as it will feature a mock city for “tactical” exercises.

Harvard is shutting down project that studied social media misinformation

USDA announces rigorous new school nutrition standards NY Deer Lousy With Old COVID Variants, Study Shows — Mutation Worries Abound CHINA claims to have cloned mutant "super cows" that can pump out nearly twice as much milk.

1 out of every 4 migrant kids separated at the border by Trump still hasn't been reunited with their family 2 years later

• The Department of Homeland Security says nearly a thousand migrant children are still separated.

• Two years before beating Tyre Nichols, a Memphis police officer didn't report that a colleague ripped a woman out of her car and dislocated her shoulder just for laughing

 

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New Jersey councilwoman Eunice Dwumfour shot and killed, authorities say

Pricier Burgers Are Coming for Diners as US Cattle Herd Plummets

India Set To Crank Up Coal Power To Meet Soaring Demand

Rio’s missing radioactive capsule found on side of highway

Fungal Pathogens May Be Adapting Dangerously to Global Warming

Report: Duke Energy’s N.C. coal plants more expensive to run than building new solar farms

Bird flu 'spills over' to otters and foxes in UK

New Prototype Device Generates Hydrogen From Untreated Seawater

U.S. reaches military base access agreement in the Philippines

The clean energy transition relies on critical minerals. Do we have enough?

Cardboard box demand plunging at rates unseen since the Great Recession

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South Africa’s Energy Crisis Could Spark A Political And Economic Disaster

Cardboard box demand plunging at rates unseen since the Great Recession

Britain grinds to a halt as half a million workers go on strike

Columbia Journalism Review "The Press Vs. the President"

An alleged $500 million Ponzi scheme preyed on Mormons. It ended with FBI gunfire.

How New Zealand plans to tackle climate change: Taxing cow burps

Y chromosome Disappearing FB

This is the environmental cost of the food we eat

Former ABC News journalist charged in child porn case

China's shrinking population is a grim omen for the rest of the world

• China will lose half its population by the end of the century.

• Russia's top prosecutor criticizes mass mobilisation, telling Putin to his face that more than 9,000 were illegally sent to fight in Ukraine

 

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‘The world should be worried’: Saudi Aramco — the world’s largest oil producer — issued a dire warning over 'extremely low' capacity.

A Tiny ‘Highly Radioactive’ Capsule Lost in Vast Australian Desert Raises Alarm

A large share of Berlin’s vegetable consumption can be produced within the city

Oil companies post record-smashing profits as gas prices creep up From human composting to freeze-drying, new ways to plan a funeral   EPA may have dealt final ‘nail in the coffin’ to Alaska’s Pebble Mine

Panel seeks to allow re-exports of Swiss weaponry to Ukraine

Rep. George Santos is stepping down from committees amid fabrications about his biography

Inflation is so bad people are buying pigs and chickens to save on groceries — and even holding off on getting tattoos

1. Nikki Haley set to run against Trump for the GOP nomination for president