From Jenna Orkin

Senate will vote to repeal Iraq War authorization, Schumer says

Salt Lake hits the hottest temperature ever recorded

Not Exactly a Silent Spring Due to Cicadas, but the Birds Are Dying Again

Plant-Based Meth From Afghanistan Is Turning Up All Over the World

Two FDA Panel Members Resign Over Alzheimer's Drug Approval

China Sends A Record 28 Military Planes Into Airspace Controlled By Taiwan

At NATO, Lithuania says Russia trying to "swallow" Belarus

Sounds familiar.

Jared Kushner secures book deal with HarperCollins imprint, as the publishing industry avoids signing up Trump himself

Coca-Cola lost $4 billion in market value after soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo suggested people should drink water instead

Police union PACs have spent $510,000 targeting the Squad, but may not be aiming to unseat them as much as raise funds for themselves, report says

 

From Jenna Orkin

Pacific Northwest’s ‘forest gardens’ were deliberately planted by Indigenous people

Ex-lawmaker insisted her sister-in-law was murdered in burned trailer. Now she’s been killed at the same site.

First-of-Its-Kind Alzheimer's Vaccine Just Passed Safety Tests in Latest Human Trials

Brazil prepares decree that could lead to electricity rationing in drought

Domestic Mass Shooters

The Association With Unmedicated and Untreated Psychiatric Illness

Inside Larry Ellison's futuristic indoor farming company, whose massive, Tesla solar-powered Hawaii greenhouses are the first step toward an ambitious goal of feeding the world

Steve Jobs took $1 in salary when he returned to Apple in the 1990s. Facebook’s Zuckerberg, Oracle’s Larry Ellison and Google’s Larry Page have all done the same.

Yet this is not the self-effacing gesture it appears to be: Wages are taxed at a high rate. The top 25 wealthiest Americans reported $158 million in wages in 2018, according to the IRS data. That’s a mere 1.1% of what they listed on their tax forms as their total reported income. The rest mostly came from dividends and the sale of stock, bonds or other investments, which are taxed at lower rates than wages.

A ProPublica journalist explains how Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and other billionaires approach taxes in a new interview. Here are the 15 best quotes.

Chicken wings prices have shot up 99% because farms can't get enough workers, a Buffalo, New York, restaurant owner said

 

From Jenna Orkin

Exclusive: US assessing reported leak at Chinese nuclear power facility

Australian farmers are burning crops to fight a mouse plague that’s destroying their livelihood

Oregon law to decriminalize all drugs goes into effect, offering addicts rehab instead of prison

Interesting how he brings up Pearl Harbor as a galvanizing event. Angleton Interview

The photo is heart-wrenching.

Elon Musk says Tesla will accept Bitcoin payments again once miners use 50% clean energy

Executive pay soared during the pandemic, widening the gulf between CEOs and employees. These were the 5 execs who received the largest pay packages in 2020.

Shell considers selling assets in the largest US oil field, Reuters reports, highlighting pressure to focus on low-carbon investments

Apple will reportedly let vaccinated customers go maskless in many of its stores from Tuesday

Denmark's first meme stock plunges another 37% as a key broker warns of the risks extreme trading poses to investors

Rep. Pramila Jayapal wants to ban lawmakers from trading stocks — and will introduce a bill that does exactly that

A French company warned the US of a 'imminent radiological threat' at a Chinese nuclear facility but the US said the plant isn't at 'crisis level': CNN

 

From Jenna Orkin

New COVID-19 sensor can smell virus in crowded room: researchers
Maine tries to shift the cost of recycling onto companies instead of taxpayers

Wray promises to look with Biden spy chief into declassifying more info on 9/11Trump-inspired death threats are terrorizing election workers

A Random Walk through the English Language

How a dispute between a religious believer and a confirmed atheist led to a major mathematical breakthrough

Ranchers forced to sell 4,200 head of cattle as drought conditions worsen

The Retreat of Exxon and the Oil Majors Won’t Stop Fossil Fuel

Screening reveals coeliac disease cases in children have doubled in 25 years

Suicide attempts among teen girls spiked by about 51% during the pandemic, the CDC says

Humans will be able to reproduce on Mars because sperm can survive there for up to 200 years, a new study suggests

yay.

Executive pay soared during the pandemic, widening the gulf between CEOs and employees. 

 

From Jenna Orkin

What you need to know about El Salvador’s plan to use volcano-powered bitcoin as legal tender

CDC plans "emergency meeting" on rare heart inflammation following COVID-19 vaccines

"Mega-drought" in West means threat of extreme fire season ahead

1. A Nantucket restaurant is considering hiring 8th graders because of the lack of available workers amid the US labor shortage

   One person reportedly died while helping free the Ever Given ship, the Suez Canal Authority says

2. 

   Hertz's Chapter 11 restructuring plan has been confirmed by a bankruptcy court, paving the way for a $1 billion shareholder payout

   We're scientists who don't want to see business travel to return to normal after the pandemic. Here's why.
3. S&P 500 hits record high as optimism outweighs inflation

A federal judge just ruled against over 100 Houston hospital workers who will be fired if they don't get the COVID-19 vaccine

G7 members will spend 'hundreds of billions' on infrastructure to rival China's Belt and Road initiative, according to a US official. China says G7 proposals are doomed to fail.

 

From Jenna Orkin

Revealed: rightwing firm posed as leftist group on Facebook to divide Democrats

Ex-Mossad chief signals Israel attacked Iran nuclear assets

'Red alert': Lake Mead falls to record-low level, a milestone in Colorado River's crisis

How Washington is positioning Syrian Al-Qaeda’s founder as its ‘asset’

Teenagers and people in their early 20s accounted for more than half of the myocarditis cases reported to the CDC's safety monitoring systems following Covid-19 vaccination, despite representing a fraction of people who have received the shots.

The GOP lawmaker who let far-right protesters into the Oregon State Capitol has been expelled after he was caught on video plotting the incursion

As much as 50% of the stimulus unemployment money may have been stolen, Axios reports

Matt Gaetz questioned the head of the FBI in Congress despite himself being under investigation by the FBI

Amazon is fighting against laws that could force it to verify third-party sellers' identities and give out their contact information

More people have died of COVID-19 in 2021 than in 2020 and it's only June

 

From Jenna Orkin

WHO warns delta variant taking hold in Europe

Inside the Koch-Backed Effort to Block the Largest Election Reform Bill in Half a Century

Mosquitoes armed with virus-fighting bacteria sharply curb dengue infections, hospitalizations

Climate change is making ocean waves more powerful, threatening to erode many coastlines

Mongolia votes for new president amid COVID outbreak

PRECIOUS METALS

First European Physical Gold ATM Opens In Prague, Czech Republic

Causal modeling establishes that weight-adjusted HCQ and AZM therapy improves survival by over 100%. 

U.S. warns Venezuela, Cuba to turn away Iranian ships believed to be carrying arms

Cellebrite, the secretive firm famous for helping the FBI crack into locked iPhones, has big plans to expand into the private sector as it prepares to go public via SPAC

1. Potatoes for McDonald's fries are reportedly grown on Bill Gates' farmland in fields so vast that you can see them from space

   50 Black women have been killed by the police since 2015. Not one officer has been convicted.

 

From Jenna Orkin

AP Exclusive: State bar investigating Texas attorney general

Developer Abandons Keystone XL Pipeline Project, Ending Decade Long Battle

Not even ProPublica knows the source who provided blockbuster ‘Secret IRS Files’

This South L.A. startup will turn your front lawn into a farm

Little-known illnesses turning up in COVID long-haulers

Mining tin from the sea in IndonesiaMega-drought" takes dramatic toll on Colorado River system that provides water to 40 million people

Washington state approves offering free marijuana joints to those getting the Covid vaccine

Some cities think Elon Musk's tunnel could be the solution to their transportation issues but experts are skeptical

Some of the Boring Co. projects never materialized but officials in Fort Lauderdale are optimistic they will soon have one, NBC News reported.

El Salvador approved a law that will make it the first country to accept bitcoin as legal tender alongside the US dollar

Search engines like DuckDuckGo and Bing no longer have to pay to replace Google search on Android phones

Millions of Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines are set to expire this month, and states are scrambling to use up their stockpiles or send them abroad

Fauci warns that the Delta coronavirus variant, first found in India, could take over in the US if people don't get their shots

• In the UK the Delta variant is dominant. "We cannot let that happen in the United States," he said

 

From Jenna Orkin

Plant-based eaters are less likely to get severe COVID: study says

Fauci warns dangerous Indian COVID variant could become dominant in US

Alaska Native Corporation to Protect Its Land, Dealing Blow to Massive Gold Mine Project

Biden Justice Department Seeks to Defend Trump in Suit Over Rape Denial

Digital Yuan May Prove Hong Kong Dollar's Cousin

Malaysia: Police using drones to check body temperature in public places

CIA Seeks New Approach in Afghanistan

Federal prosecutors subpoenaed material related to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's book on handling the COVID-19 crisis, report says

Scientists revived a tiny worm-like animal after 24,000 years frozen in Siberian ice. It was still able to eat and reproduce.

2019 audio shows Rudy Giuliani pushing a Ukrainian official to investigate Biden in exchange for better relations with Trump

 

From Jenna Orkin

Despite pandemic, level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere hits historic levels

“The 12 Million Mile Battery”

WSJ - The Science Suggests a Wuhan Lab Leak

The Covid-19 pathogen has a genetic footprint that has never been observed in a natural coronavirus. 

Oregon Republican told group how to get into state Capitol days before violent breachFire And Explosion Hit Iran Steel Mill In Third Such Incident In Five Days

New reports reveal that Zhou Yusen, a military scientist for the People’s Liberation Army who died in May last year, had filed a patent for a Covid-19 vaccine on 24 February 2020.

QAnon? The ‘big lie’? What might it take to get Latter-day Saints to stop believing in them?

China plans to build more bio labs amid scrutiny in Wuhan

Police in Malaysia are using drones to check people's temperatures amid a COVID-19 surge

Amazon could sidestep new G7 corporate tax measures because its profit margins are below a 10% threshold

Jeff Bezos says he's flying into space with his brother on July 20