From Jenna Orkin

We Know Enough About Omicron to Know That We’re in Trouble

Data Point to Millions More Unvaccinated

Men more likely to die of COVID than women, data shows

As Omicron Hits, COVID-19 Case Counts Don't Mean What They Used To

The case for ... making low-tech 'dumb' cities instead of 'smart' ones

Refugees lack COVID shots because drugmakers fear lawsuits, documents show

Lightfoot under fire for suggesting retail stores increase security to prevent smash-and-grabs

How Ashley Biden’s Diary Made Its Way to Project Veritas

1. Warren Buffett evaded a kidnapping attempt in the 1980s. He's prioritized his personal security ever since.

   More than 1,600 Cornell students test positive for COVID-19 

 

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The assassination of Bobby Kennedy: Was Sirhan Sirhan hypnotized to be the fall guy? Laurie Garrett - How HIV and COVID-19 Variants Are Connected 

The U.S. built a hospital for Iraqi children with cancer. Corruption ravaged it.

What if the Doomsday Glacier Collapses?

Flood from illegal coal mining traps 21 people in China

Germany Sends Warship Into South China Sea for First Time in Almost 20 Years

U.S. Blacklists Dozens of Chinese Entities Over Surveillance, Military Work

During preventive maintenance checks on the primary circuit of reactor number 1 of the Civaux Nuclear Power Plant (in the Vienne Department of France), scheduled as part of its ten-yearly in-service inspection, some defaults were detected close to the welds on the pipes of the safety injection system (SIS[1>) circuit. 

An Amazon driver was told she would be fired if she stopped delivering packages during tornado warnings: report

Hypersonic missiles are real —and they'll make wars harder to prevent

COVID cases are breaking records in an all-time surge in 4 countries known to have the biggest Omicron outbreaks

 

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Six dead giraffes: Kenya drought horror captured in single picture

An Oregon company is going public to raise money for nuclear power ambitions

How the Pentagon Started Taking U.F.O.s Seriously For decades, flying saucers were a punch line. Then the U.S. government got over the taboo.

The race to defuse Congo’s carbon bomb

The magazine story that made Elizabeth Holmes famous could now help send her to prison

Did Sirhan Really Kill Robert Kennedy?

IBM and Samsung Unveil Semiconductor Breakthrough That Defies Conventional Design

Amnesty: War Crimes By Both Taliban and US

New York City Considers Banning Gas From New Buildings

China and Russia have deployed hypersonic missiles that could start World War III. But it's the smaller conflicts that pose the biggest threat.

• While ballistic missiles travel in soaring, predictable parabolic arcs, like punted footballs, hypersonic missiles are more like speedy hockey pucks that keep low and change direction in an instant.
• The high velocity means more damage; the maneuverability and lower altitude make them harder to track and intercept.
• But for the Pentagon, the scariest thing about hypersonic weapons is that China and Russia have already deployed them in the field, while the United States is still developing them.

 

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JFK Assassination Records - 2021 Additional Documents Release

A "talking" cat is giving scientists insight into how felines think

‘Our Democracy Is in Perilous Decay, and We Can Turn It Around’

Gas prices near record highs as Berlin rejects pipeline from Russia

Judge: Trump's tax returns can be released to Congress

Norway bans serving of alcohol in bid to halt Omicron outbreak

89 People Killed by Mystery Disease in South Sudan

Second Log4j vulnerability discovered, patch already released
We looked at what conditions receive the most research funding compared with the leading causes of death in the US. Here's what we learned from 2021

The diseases that killed the most people in the US, including heart disease, cancer, and COVID-19, often didn't receive the most research funding.

Amazon Ring patents describe cameras recognizing skin texture, odor

A US Navy warship blasted a floating target with a laser in the Middle East

The SEC could be the last, best hope to keep members of Congress from insider trading. The agency already has one Republican senator on its radar.

Congress and top Capitol Hill staff have violated the STOCK Act hundreds of times. But the consequences are minimal, inconsistent, and not recorded publicly.

 

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Crucial Antarctic ice shelf could fail within five years, scientists say

Arctic temperature soared to an unprecedented 100 degrees in 2020, scientists confirm

Climate change has destabilized the Earth’s poles, putting the rest of the planet in peril

Israeli airstrikes in Syria targeted chemical weapons facilities, officials say

Julian Assange has a stroke in Belmarsh prison: Fiancée blames extreme stress caused by US extradition battle

Most Amazon workers who died in warehouse tornado were not sheltering in the 'designated location,' the company said

2 doses of Pfizer's vaccine cut the risk of hospitalization by 70% during Omicron surge in South Africa, study finds

First, Barbados said goodbye to the Queen and dubbed Rihanna a 'national hero.' Now, it wants to give money to its citizens forever.

Some of the same members of Congress pushing to restrict cigarettes and vapes are quietly investing in tobacco giants

Donald Trump Jr. texted Meadows to have Trump call off January 6 riot 

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Israeli airstrikes in Syria targeted chemical weapons facilities, officials say

Between 2012 and 2019, the number of bachelor’s degrees awarded annually in English fell by twenty-six per cent, in philosophy and religious studies by twenty-five per cent, and in foreign languages and literature by twenty-four per cent. In English, according to the Association of Departments of English, which tracked the numbers through 2016, research universities, like Brown and Columbia, took the biggest hits. More than half reported a drop in degrees of forty per cent or more in just four years.

“DON’T LOOK UP” IS AS FUNNY AND TERRIFYING ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING AS “DR. STRANGELOVE” WAS ABOUT NUCLEAR WAR

Establishment of a humanized swine model for COVID-19

A Chinese military drill could turn into full-scale attack, Taiwan warns

I'm an AI researcher who's worked for Google and Khan Academy — if we don't change who we hire for these jobs, we're all in big trouble.

AI Ethics job listings are ignoring the humanities and social science skills that might actually help critically examine how data is collected.

22 Democrats hailed as environmental champions have personally pumped money into companies that rely on fossil fuels

As the pandemic raged, at least 75 lawmakers bought and sold stock in companies that make COVID-19 vaccines, treatments, and tests

Amazon worker not allowed to leave warehouse as tornado came: partner

1. 'Large wave' of Omicron cases coming to US, says Biden official

 

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Deadly Collapse at Amazon Warehouse Spotlights Phone Ban

Scientists Find Bacteria That Eat and Breathe Electricity

California Vineyards Use Owls Instead of Pesticides

A century of tragedy: How the car and gas industry knew about the health risks of leaded fuel but sold it for 100 years anyway

Harnessing the energy of the ocean to power homes, planes and whisky distilleries

Buildings Made of “Moss-Growing Concrete” Could Remove More CO2 and Air Pollution than Thousands of Trees

US, Israel defense chiefs discuss Iran as nuclear talks falter

1. The next age of the internet could suck power away from Big Tech while living on the same backbone as cryptocurrencies. Here's what to know about Web3.

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

   A lab worker at Taiwan's leading research institute tested positive for COVID-19 after a mouse that had been infected with the virus bit her

   A Carnival cruise passenger fell overboard near the Mexican coast 

 

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The Maine Farmer Saving the World’s Rarest Heirloom Seeds

This Amazon program has funneled thousands to anti-vax activists during the pandemic

Hundreds of people are fired, online learning set to return amid vaccine resistance at nation’s second-largest school district

Russia Scrambles Fighter Jet to Escort U.S. Spy Plane Over Black Sea - TASS

Halliburton says the world is entering a period of oil scarcity

Manhattan Record Rent Surge

Iran Claims IAEA Cameras at Atomic Site May Have Been Hacked

2021 has been a record-breaking year for venture capital

27 basic and guaranteed income programs where cities and states give direct payments to residents, no strings attached

California could get an $18 minimum wage. Experts outline how it could get rid of worker shortages and cause a 'ripple effect' throughout the country.

 

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Researchers in Japan use ostrich cells to make glowing COVID-19 detection masks

House Approves Post-Trump Curbs on Presidential Power

Trump White House records can be released in Jan. 6 probe pending Supreme Court review, appeals court rules

Supreme Court says Texas abortion providers may proceed with challenge of six-week ban, leaves law in effect for now

Starbucks workers in Buffalo vote to unionize; cafe is first company-owned store in U.S. with union

The Coronavirus Attacks Fat Tissue, Scientists Find

New York City Lawmakers Pass Bill Letting Some Noncitizens Vote

US authorities win their latest bid to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

Amazon has two secret projects to mitigate problems that caused the big AWS cloud outage this week — one has been in the works for years but was de-prioritized by top execs

At least 70 people are feared dead in Kentucky after severe weather created tornadoes across several states

 

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The Secret History of the U.S. Diplomatic Failure in Afghanistan

‘It Cannot Get Any Worse’: Cornell Professors Decry Energy Costs of NY Bitcoin Mining

Life insurance payouts spiked in 2020 — largest rise since 1918 flu pandemic

Carbon Emissions That Don't Officially Exist

From "The Devil's In the Details" File

The loss of future carbon uptake due to the removal of forests, even the plumes chugging out of a biomass plant’s smokestacks—these did not go on the books."

Low-profile heiress who ‘played a strong role’ in financing Jan. 6 rally is thrust into spotlight How can schools detect potentially violent students? Researchers have an answer.

Scientists monitoring earthquake swarm off Oregon coast. More than 50 quakes recorded

Omicron Four Times More Transmissible Than Delta in New Study

Capitol Hill staffer arrested after bringing gun to House of Representatives building, Capitol police say

Inflation in November was the highest it's been in nearly 40 years