From Jenna Orkin

He discovered the Watergate break-in, then died destitute and forgotten

Video shows inmates intervene after guard was choked with a pillowcase

Putin says large Russian grain harvest to support higher exports

Washington plans to prioritize sale of arms to counter China landing operation

Cash crisis amid China’s stalling economy: rural banks freeze accounts, regulators playing ‘pass the parcel’

Rail strike to halt 90% of ScotRail train services

33 top US hospitals sent website users' medical information, including their locations, to Meta: report

McDonald's agrees to pay France $1.3 billion to settle a case accusing it of tax invasion over a period of 10 years

European Commission recommends EU candidacy for Ukraine, moving the country closer to becoming a member

The dollar is heading for its biggest yearly gain against the yen in at least 30 years as the Bank of Japan holds fire on rate rises

UK approves Julian Assange extradition to the US to face hacking and espionage charges

 

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U.S. probing how American electronics wound up in Russian military gear

Fact check: Transcript of famous call from Flight 93 on 9/11 does not exist

Warren endorses Nadler in primary against Maloney

Dr. Anthony Fauci tests positive for Covid, is having mild symptoms

Latino Democrats vent their fury after foreboding special election loss in Texas

IEA Sees Oil Demand At Record High In 2023

Inside the Bitcoin Bust That Took Down the Web’s Biggest Child Abuse Site

Authorities in occupied part of Ukraine say everyone born there is now Russian, a new step to erase Ukrainian identity

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

Leaked documents show Amazon plans to expand into 5 new countries across Africa, South America, and Europe even as the company dials back in the US

Putin is winning the war over Ukraine — both on and off the battlefield

 

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EPA warns toxic ‘forever chemicals’ more dangerous than once thought

GALLERY: See the flood damage in Yellowstone Park

Murder-Suicides by Pilots Are Vexing Airlines as Deaths Mount

“TOP GUN: MAVERICK” IS MILITARY PROPAGANDA. OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS PROVE IT

Pope Francis says Ukraine war was ‘perhaps somehow provoked’

Texas Breaks Power Demand Record During June Heat Wave.

Some European Factories, Long Dependent on Cheap Russian Energy, Are Shutting Down

Millennials and Gen Zers are getting swindled by the biggest scam in higher education

Research shows that many master's degrees — including 62% of MBAs, by one estimate — have zero effect on a grad's lifetime earnings.

Biden officials worry their Russia sanctions were so powerful they also brought economic suffering to the US, report says

Duh

Judge rules US investors can now sue Deutsche Bank over its links to ultra-wealthy, high-risk clients such as Russian oligarchs and Jeffrey Epstein

 

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Libya Loses 1.1 Million Bpd As It Shuts Down Nearly All Its Oil Fields

An Interview with LaMDA

Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, recently signed an order to promulgate a set of trial outlines on military operations other than war, which will take effect on Wednesday.

The outlines will standardize, and provide the legal basis for Chinese troops to carry out, missions like disaster relief, humanitarian aid, escort, and peacekeeping, and safeguard China’s national sovereignty, security and development interests, experts said.
Japan Starting to Crack as Yen Tumbles With Stocks and Bonds

Tampon manufacturers are trying to ramp up production as US Senator labels shortages 'very troubling'

Banks are trying to create a world without cash — that would be a disaster for the economy

A "cashless society" would not only be a death blow to small business, it would eliminate what little privacy we have left.

Some European factories are being forced to shut down due to soaring global energy prices, report says

Google engineer believed chatbot had become an 8-year-old child. Experts say it's not sentient — just programmed to sound 'real'

Google engineer dismissed after claiming LaMDA AI is sentient. Seven experts told Insider it's unlikely — if not impossible.

Russia is cutting 40% of one key pipeline's natural-gas supply to Germany because a piece of equipment is stuck in Canada

Google lost the battle for machine learning to Meta, insiders say. Now it's betting the future of its own products on a new internal AI project.

 

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A Few Insights Based on CDC Data Regarding COVID and its Vaccines

Scientists are testing forgotten wheat varieties from across the world to find those with heat- and drought-tolerant traits

Amazon calls cops, fires workers in attempts to stop unionization nationwide

McDonald’s Shrinking Menu Means Healthier Foods Are Vanishing

Risk of UI Improper Payments, Including Those Due to Fraud,

Increased during the Pandemic 25

China is testing 3.5 million Beijing residents after a 'ferocious' COVID outbreak just days after easing restrictions on nightlife

Google lost the battle for machine learning to Meta, insiders say. Now it's betting the future of its own products on a new internal AI project.China and India now account for about 50% of Russia's seaborne oil exports, as Asian demand props up Moscow's energy revenues

The rich are fleeing from Russia, and more than 15,000 millionaires — 15% of the country's ultra-rich population — are expected to leave this year

Meta, Google, and Twitter are set to face huge fines if they don't tackle deepfakes and fake accounts on their platforms

 

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15 Homemade Organic Gardening Sprays That Actually Work

Japan Is Dropping a Gargantuan Turbine Into The Ocean to Harness 'Limitless' Energy

Google Engineer On Leave After He Claims AI Program Has Gone Sentient

Russia likely to seize all of Luhansk in coming weeks, U.S. official says

China calls U.S. a ‘bully,’ vows to ‘fight to the end’ for Taiwa

Biden: Zelenskyy didn’t want to hear US info

China launched the world's first AI-operated 'mother ship,' an unmanned carrier capable of launching dozens of drones

Why are gas prices so high? Because the US fracking boom is ending.

1. Dr. Oz says he'll fight to end illegal immigration

Dr. Oz family business fined millions for hiring unauthorized workers 

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Russia and China open cross-border bridge as ties deepen

How Christian home-schoolers laid the groundwork for ‘parental rights’

Uvalde shooting incident commander says he didn't know he was in charge, ditched his radios on purpose

Glyphosate weedkiller damages wild bee colonies, study reveals

Senior US officials have conveyed to Saudi Arabia that the US is prepared to move forward with a "reset" of the relationship, and effectively move on from the 2018 murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in order to repair ties with the key Middle East ally, senior US officials tell CNN.

Ship Jam in the North Sea

FDA investigated up to nine infant deaths linked to baby formula, documents show: report

A fracking boom made the US the world's biggest oil producer. Now its end is pushing gas prices much higher.

Biden is ripping up his plan to ostracize Saudi Arabia as the US desperately seeks a way out of its oil crisis

Biden: Zelenskyy 'didn't want to hear' US warnings on Russian invasion

Hannity suggested Trump pardon Hunter Biden after Jan. 6: report 

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Thousands of Afghan families remain severed after messy U.S. exit

Supreme Court allows ‘undated’ Pennsylvania ballots to be counted

Record heat to peak in Southwest through Saturday before swelling to the eas

WHO: COVID origins unclear but lab leak theory needs study

Gold refineries to be established in Saudi Arabia soon: Official

German airline Lufthansa is canceling 900 flights in July because of staff shortages

Warren Buffett's son met Zelenskyy in Kyiv this week — and offered to help rebuild Ukraine and support its people

Russia cuts interest rates for the 4th time in 2 months as oil sales ease the pain of sanctions

The US's top energy advisor urges India not to buy too much Russian oil — and says Moscow's revenues are now higher than before the war

China gets less oil from Saudi Arabia as the OPEC leader ships more barrels to other parts of Asia

Ukrainian special-ops forces double in size while training with US 

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Facebook’s ban on gun sales gives sellers 10 strikes before booting them

Small cancer drug trial sees tumors disappear in 100 percent of patients

American Woman Who Led ISIS Battalion Pleads Guilty

Israel Sends Navy To Escort Drilling Rig In Disputed Gas Field

Record UK Gasoline Prices See Biggest Daily Surge In 17 Years

Biden’s Approval Rating Sinks to New Low

Russian gold tycoon's $300-million superyacht is sailing to America after being seized in Fiji

Opening Bell: Oil prices are only going up

Russia arrested an Orthodox Church priest who said troops fighting Ukraine are going to hell, reports say

India is trying to strike new crude-oil deals with Russia — but Russia's oil giant Rosneft doesn't have any extra oil left, report says

European natural gas prices soar by almost 40% after fire at key US export terminal

 

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Note Yergin: Total participants in the DoD’s Highlands Forum number over a thousand, although sessions largely consist of small closed workshop style gatherings of maximum 25–30 people, bringing together experts and officials depending on the subject. Delegates have included senior personnel from SAIC and Booz Allen Hamilton, RAND Corp., Cisco, Human Genome Sciences, eBay, PayPal, IBM, Google, Microsoft, AT&T, the BBC, Disney, General Electric, Enron, among innumerable others; Democrat and Republican members of Congress and the Senate; senior executives from the US energy industry such as Daniel Yergin of IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates; and key people involved in both sides of presidential campaigns.

How the CIA made Google

Horses, he told me, were superior to the gas combustion engines that replaced them. They could be fed off the land, they produced manure, and they reproduced themselves. He said that farmers were reluctant to give up horses for tractors.

How a charming cabbie named Elmer Wyatt became a Watergate mole

The pocket of resistance that the Taliban doesn’t want to talk about

Rats wearing tiny backpacks with microphones are being trained to find earthquake survivors

Ukraine official: Turkey can’t guard exports

Armed man who sought to kill Brett Kavanaugh arrested near Supreme Court justice’s home

Bonds are having their worst year in four decades, but the head of global fixed income at JPMorgan Asset Management sees 3 opportunities in the market with a recession likely to hit in 2023

Oil prices are nowhere near their peak as Chinese demand hasn't fully returned yet, says top OPEC member

More than 90 Larry Nassar accusers, including Simone Biles, are suing the FBI for failing to pursue tips about his sex abuse

Harvey Weinstein faces 2 indecent assault charges in the UK, prosecutors say