From Jenna Orkin

1. World leaders react to Jacinda Ardern's shock resignation

Strikes, protests test French plan to raise retirement age

Parts of Greenland now hotter than at any time in the past 1,000 years, scientists say

China has called for Saudi Arabia to price oil sales in yuan, a move that could dent the dollar's dominance

Putin: Ukraine action aimed to end ‘war’ raging since 2014

USDA moves to crack down on ‘organic’ fraud After Supreme Court ruling, can jails show Christian television? AR-15 Style Rifle Marketed to Children A Hotter Planet Takes Another Toll on Human Health A new hypothesis about heat waves, redlining, and kidney stones. George Santos, Supporter of Anti-LGBTQ+ Laws, Participated in Drag Shows and Went by the Name “Kitara” in Brazil Meanwhile, he’s aligned himself with deeply bigoted members of the far right.

 

From Jenna Orkin

How Ukraine became a testbed for Western weapons and battlefield innovation

Can a severed finger unlock a phone? Answers to your security questions.

The ozone layer is on track to recover within decades as harmful chemicals are phased out, scientists report

Emmanuel Todd: «La Troisième Guerre mondiale a commencé»

Parts of Greenland now hotter than at any time in the last 1,000 years, scientists say

NYC’s Homeless Shelter Population Ballooned in 2022. How Will Leaders Address the Crisis This Year?

Election conspiracies behind plot to shoot at Democrats’ homes in N.M., police say

Ukrainian interior minister, top officials killed in helicopter crash

Single-use coffee pods are often better for the environment than regular filters. Yes, it’s true.

Missouri House adopts new dress code for women requiring covering of arms

 

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Skipped Showers, Paper Plates: An Arizona Suburb’s Water Is Cut Off

Earth currently experiencing Mass extinction, according to scientists | 60 

Siberia Sees Coldest Temperatures in Two Decades

Senior cardinal claims the Pope doesn’t talk enough about God and ‘has no phone contact with the Holy Spirit’ as he prepares to publish a book that could be a rallying call for Francis’s critics.

How dark money groups led Ohio to redefine gas as ‘green energy’

‘The Last of Us’ zombie fungus is real, and it’s found in health supplements

Helicopter crash near Kyiv kills 16, including Ukrainian interior minister

Greta Thunberg released after brief detention at German mine protest, police say

1. Chinese mole in FBI found after CIA spy network gutted

Doctors in China say they are discouraged from writing COVID-19 as the cause of death on death certificates

 

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Russian exercises with Belarus spark concerns in Ukraine

Ukraine War: US Provides Offensive Weapons for First Time 

Germany’s defense minister resigns after criticism over her handling of the war.

US military deepens ties with Japan and Philippines to prepare for China threat

Elite Metropolitan police officer David Carrick revealed as serial rapist

Arizona city cuts off a neighborhood’s water supply amid drought ‘The Last of Us’ zombie fungus is real, and it’s found in health supplements

World’s coldest air in 2023 was just recorded, and it's on the move to Canada

1. China's population is shrinking for the first time in 60 years

2. CIA director secretly met with Zelenskyy before invasion to reveal Russian plot to kill him as he pushed back on US intelligence, book says

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Following the availability and use of the updated (bivalent) COVID-19 vaccines, CDC’s Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD), a near real-time surveillance system, met the statistical criteria to prompt additional investigation into whether there was a safety concern for ischemic stroke in people ages 65 and older who received the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, Bivalent. 

Ukrainian refugees give up on crisis-hit NHS and travel home to war zone for medical treatment

Norway Replaces Russia As Germany’s Top Gas Supplier

From April 2020 through at least the end of 2021, Americans died from non-Covid causes at an average annual rate of 97 000 in excess of previous trends

Cardiovascular Manifestation of the BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine in Adolescents

FEMA fires group for nonsensical Alaska Native translations

Omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 possibly more likely to infect the vaccinated: officials

Trump suggested dropping a nuclear bomb on North Korea and blaming it on someone else in 2017, book claims

'The beginning of another kind of pandemic': Burned-out nurses say staffing shortages are only getting worse

1. An average 1,600 tech workers have been laid off every day of 2023

 

Nixon Threatened to Reveal the CIA's Involvement in the Kennedy Assassination

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More classified documents found at Biden’s Wilmington home, White House says

China’s Oil Demand Is Set To Hit A Record High In 2023

The gas stove regulation uproar, explained

China sharply revises death toll linked to covid outbreak to 60,000 from 37

Siberia Sees Coldest Air in Two Decades

Nixon Threatened to Reveal the CIA's Involvement in the Kennedy Assassination 

Shocking new Watergate-era tape reveals. - Roger Stone

John Judge: Transformational Servant Leader
	Cynthia McKinney

Nearly 60,000 have died of COVID in China since restrictions eased

		CDC investigating whether Pfizer COVID vaccine increases stroke risk for people over 65

1. Sam Bankman-Fried's secret 'backdoor' discovered

 

From Jenna Orkin

1. Each day in the US more than 60 million plastic water bottles are thrown away. Most end
   up in landfills or incinerators, and millions litter America’s streets, parks and waterways.
   How can America be spurred on to recycle more?
2. NYC grocery stores consider locking up food due to rampant theft; workers are 'traumatized'

3. Sweden finds rare earth deposits that could benefit Western consumers

4. Origins of Covid - from Director of National Intelligence

5. U.S. will begin ‘extraordinary measures’ to stay under debt limit

   Burning Man touts sustainability. Now it’s suing to block clean energy.

   Before shooting, backpack of Va. 6-year-old searched by school staffer

   Cancer death rate has decreased by 33% in 30 years Microsoft offering US employees unlimited vacation

6. Wife of Iowa Republican charged for casting 23 fraudulent votes

 

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Rep. Barbara Lee plans to run for Senate in 2024

Brits Want to See More Migrant Doctors and Nurses

Iran planning to extend area of operation to Panama Canal: Navy chief 

The city of Soledar, the scene of intense fighting in the past few days, has been taken under control by units of Russia’s Wagner private military company

China's New Artificial Sun 5 Times Hotter Than Sun

Scientists created male and female cells from the same person.

Peak Oil: Apocalyptic Environmentalism and Libertarian Political Culture

Prince Harry's book 'Spare' smashes records by selling an 'extraordinary' 1.4 million copies in a day, publisher says

Most armies ignore autistic people. Israel is calling them up.

An artist is stripping JK Rowling's name off Harry Potter books and reselling them to fans who oppose the author's vocal anti-trans rhetoric. A legal expert says it's not copyright infringement.

 

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2023: Expect a financial crash followed by major energy-related changes

Roubini - More War Means More Inflation

N.Y. county GOP leaders call for Rep. Santos’s resignation over fabrications

Everything you’ve been told about passwords is a lie

The hidden cost of gas stoves may change the way we cook and live COVID-19 strain 'Kraken' discovered, evolving India is forecast to overtake China as the world's most populous country within the next three months, Banning Non-Compete Clauses WEF Meeting January 16 Rep. George Santos was paid by a company that the SEC called a 'classic Ponzi scheme' but he never disclosed the payments as a candidate, report says

 

From Jenna Orkin

Ominous warning as Sweden reinstates civil duty in response to Russian threats

Russia Restores Output At Major Oil Project After Exxon’s Exit

Zelensky in Golden Globes speech: ‘There will be no third World War’

The last eight years have been the warmest on record, researchers say

Armenia Cancels Russian Military Drills 

French plan to raise retirement age by two years to 64

Rep. Katie Porter announces run for U.S. Senate in California

Satellite images show crowds at China’s crematoriums as covid surges

1. Goldman Sachs begins layoffs with 3,000 employees facing the cut

2. A judge sent Andrew Tate back to jail because he has enough money to flee Romania and never come back if released