From Jenna Orkin

Three Amazon tribesmen in Peru killed during protest against oil firm

How Satellites Tracked The Fateful Journey Of The Ship That Led To Mauritius’ Worst Oil Spill Disaster

More than 97,000 children tested positive for Covid-19 in the last two weeks of July, report says

Homes explode in Baltimore, killing 1 and injuring 3 others

Botswana diamond exports fall by two thirds on COVID-19

Chicago police return fire as looters hit Mag Mile, smashing windows and confronting officers

Mary Ferrell

We Need to Change Our COVID-19 Strategy

Belarus erupts in protest after opposition alleges rigged election

Saudi Aramco sees profit dives 50% for the first half of the year, but keeps its $75 billion dividend payout intact

 

From Jenna Orkin

The Bakken Boom Goes Bust With No Money to Clean up the Mess

Why Stuart Stevens Wants to Defeat Donald Trump

Americans Continue Giving Up Citizenship at Record Levels Reports Bambridge Accountants New York

Researchers created a test to determine which masks are the least effective

"Neck fleeces, also called gaiter masks and often used by runners, were the least effective. In fact, wearing a fleece mask resulted in a higher number of respiratory droplets because the material seemed to break down larger droplets into smaller particles that are more easily carried away with air."

Canada's last fully intact ice shelf has suddenly collapsed, forming a Manhattan-sized iceberg

More than 200 students in Georgia are quarantining after the district's first week open saw several test positive for coronavirus

Job diary: I've been a beekeeper for 4 decades, co-founded an urban bee non-profit, and now I work at a hotel connecting the community through beekeeping

Chicago teachers follow up a historic 2019 strike with a 2020 ultimatum: schools won't open in person

A 17-year-old high school student developed an app that records your interaction with police when you're pulled over and immediately shares it to Instagram and Facebook

 From Jenna Orkin

Portland mayor condemns rioters for 'attempting to commit murder'

Fighting Over Kashmir Could Blow Up the Planet

U.S. Government Contractor Embedded Software in Apps to Track Phones

Feds discover highly sophisticated cross-border tunnel outside Yuma

"Any Inbound Missile Will Be Seen As Nuclear" - Russia's Military Warns Amid Arms Treaty Talks

The story of how Manhattan Project workers tried to stop the atomic bombs 75 years ago

 

Google reportedly trains employees to avoid words like 'dominant,' 'unique,' and 'the leader' to protect the company against antitrust backlash

Facebook has cracked down on dozens of fake accounts posing as Black supporters for Trump

Fauci Warns COVID-19 Vaccine May Only Be "50% Or 60%" Effective 

'It's literally impossible to stop': Sturgis, South Dakota, braces for hundreds of thousands of bikers to arrive for an event in the middle of a pandemic

France and Germany pulled out of talks to reform the WHO because the US was trying to take control, according to a report

1. New York attorney general files lawsuit to dissolve the NRA
2. Air India Express plane crashes with 190 aboard

 From Jenna Orkin

Saudi Arabia, With China’s Help, Expands Its Nuclear Program

Everything at the grocery store is getting more expensive

Canada's last fully intact Arctic ice shelf collapses

Taibbi Review of Thomas Frank's "The People, No"   

One-third of Americans would refuse a COVID-19 vaccine: poll

America’s Unholy Crusade Against China

 

A top Saudi intelligence official who fled to Canada in 2017 is suing Mohammed bin Salman, saying the crown prince sent an elite squad to kill him 2 weeks after Khashoggi's death

Trump Signs Executive Order Banning TikTok, WeChat In 45 Days

Russian Igor Grechushkin abandoned boat with explosive cargo in Beirut

Germany will test all arrivals from 'risky' countries like the US as daily new cases top 1,000 for the first time in 3 months

Within 11 days of schools opening, dozens of students and teachers have gotten COVID-19: 'I truly wish we'd kept our children home'

5 Burger King locations in Iowa just sold for less than the price of a Whopper

 From Jenna Orkin

Councils can demolish contaminated buildings under powers to stop second coronavirus wave

Mayor Garcetti announces water and power will be shut off for nonessential L.A. businesses that don’t close

Hezbollah stockpiled chemical behind Beirut blast in London and Germany

NYC crime spree knocks on the doorsteps of America's ultra-rich

Kentucky town hires social workers instead of more officers - and the results are surprising

 

Key Wirecard 'Business Partner' Turns Up Dead In The Philippines After Mafia Links Exposed

Germany Suffers Biggest Jump In COVID-19 Case Since May; Philippines Passes Indonesia As Region's Biggest Outbreak: Live Updates

France and Spain have recorded their biggest daily spikes in new coronavirus cases in weeks

50 million face masks bought by the UK for NHS workers — from a company with links to a government adviser — have been recalled because they don't fit properly

An emergency medicine physician projects that if schools open in the fall, they'll close by the end of October with COVID-19 outbreaks

Over 80% Of Black Americans Don't Want To 'Abolish Police'

From Jenna Orkin

Republicans Aid Kanye West’s Bid to Get on the 2020 Ballot

Because they believe in his message.

Alan Lichtman Prediction for 2020 Election

New York City steels itself for Covid-19 to return in the fall

Protest leader Bush ousts 20-year US Rep. Clay in Missouri

Leaked bodycam video shows George Floyd brutally beaten before fatal arrest

Treasury Announces Record $112BN Quarterly Debt Sale, Unveils Tsunami Of New Bond Issuance

1. Beirut hospitals damaged, can't admit patients after blast

2. How we could use the method that helped send astronauts to the moon to figure out how to safely reopen schools

   Moderna has already struck deals to sell small quantities of its coronavirus vaccine for almost twice as much as rival shots. Here's how the upstart biotech is thinking about pricing its vaccine.

   I'm a journalist who lived through Kashmir's traumatic internet blackout, which started one year ago. Here's what it's like to have your freedoms ripped away for 213 days.

   Rep. Rashida Tlaib decisively defeats primary challenger Brenda Jones in Michigan

From Jenna Orkin

'Fingerprint' of the climate crisis in flooding that has left a third of Bangladesh under water

Price of Citizenship and Asylum Rises

Murders in Mexico, especially of women, grew during pandemic

US Pushing Lebanon Into Arms of Iran

Coronavirus Live Updates: N.Y.C. Health Commissioner Resigns After Clashes with Mayor Over Response

What Happened When a Public Institute Became a De Facto Lobbying Arm of the Timber Industry

Stories Of Economic Despair From America’s Worst Economic Downturn Since The Great Depression Of The 1930s

Water beetles can live on after being eaten and excreted by a frog

Those coronavirus vaccines leading the race? Don’t ditch the masks quite yet

Tornado Watch Issued For NYC As Isaias Approaches

Photos Of Stephen Hawking On Epstein's 'Pedo Island' Subject Of New Court Order

Survey suggests 2.5% of Italians have COVID-19 antibodies, which would be 6 times more than the official count of cases

45 Florida ICUs Have Zero Available COVID Beds; UCLA Says Only 8% Of Fall Classes Will Be In-Person: Live Updates

Records Of Prince Andrew's Location On Night Of Molestation Destroyed By Police

In Desperation Panic, Turkey Hikes Lira Overnight Rate To 1,024% To Crush Shorts As Currency Implodes

US police used excessive force at least 125 times in the 10 days after the police killing of George Floyd, according to a new report

Sotheby's Sales Plunge 25% Despite Bored Millennials Bidding Online 

From Jenna Orkin

Russia to Vaccinate in October After Shortened Trial

We may not know the results for days, and maybe weeks. So it’s time to rethink “election night.”

Nearly half of coronavirus patients at NYC hospital developed kidney issues

COVID-19 deaths spike 27 percent even as new cases decline 

Deutsche Bank Opens Review Into Personal Banker to Trump and Kushner

Baboons Armed with Knives in UK Safari Park

The former head of the FDA warned that the Northeast will likely get hit with another wave of coronavirus cases, saying the virus continues to 'rotate through different parts of the country'

Vietnam says the new strain of coronavirus behind its ominous COVID-19 spike is 3 times as contagious

Macau's Gaming Revenues Crash 94.5% In July As Recovery Hopes Dim 

TikTok is at the heart of a wild geopolitical dogfight which means Microsoft might buy it. Here's what's going on.

Russia Plans For First Mass COVID-19 Vaccinations In October Amid Global Skepticism

"Protecting NATO's Eastern Flank": Poland To Host 1,000 US Troops Leaving Germany

At least 516 people have been sickened in a salmonella outbreak linked to onions sold at grocery stores including Walmart and Kroger

From Jenna Orkin

COVID-19 Data Dives: Why Arguments Against SARS-CoV-2 Aerosol Transmission Don't Hold Water

AstraZeneca To Be Exempt from Vaccine Liability in Most Countries

Toilet to table: Michigan farmers feed crops with ‘toxic brew’ of human and industrial waste 

Apparently, This Ancient Japanese Technique From The 14th Century Allows People To Produce Lumber Without Having To Cut Down Trees

Hydroxychloroquine - Yale

Vallejo Police Officers Performed Ritual to Celebrate Each Time They Killed on the Job

COVID-19 leads to a spike in car thefts

Berlin protest over virus restrictions draws thousands

AFRICOM ordered to plan move out of Germany, latest pullout from key European ally

A Record Amount Of Physical Gold Was Just Delivered On COMEX, Here's Why

Joe Biden's vice presidential contender Rep. Karen Bass praised Scientology at a 2010 ceremony

A court ruled to vacate the Boston Marathon bomber's death penalty

All the biggest (and weirdest) ideas schools around the world are considering to get students back in classrooms

Don't panic about waning coronavirus immunity: Your T cells go to bat when antibodies disappear

July marked a record-breaking month for the US with over 25,000 coronavirus deaths

White House condemns Hong Kong for election postponement decision

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USDA official identifies some seeds sent around US from China

From Jenna Orkin

Could America split up?

Navajo Nation Sees Farming Renaissance During Coronavirus Pandemic

“Never Seen a Decline of this Magnitude” – ExxonMobil, Crashed by Covid, gets taste of looming Electric Vehicle Crisis

The World’s Largest Nuclear Fusion Reactor Is Finally Being Built

Revealed: super-rich donate to Cuomo as he rejects tax hikes for billionaires

How to Dodge the Sonic Weapon Used by Police (Popular Mechanics)

U.S. urges Pakistan to act after American charged with blasphemy shot in court

260 campers test positive for COVID-19 after stay at a Georgia YMCA camp

What We’ve Learned From the Newly Unsealed Jeffrey Epstein Documents

A 17-year-old in Tampa, Florida, has been arrested in connection with the massive Twitter hack that hijacked dozens of high-profile accounts

A DHS intelligence report showed the department had collected and analyzed messages between Portland protesters, a new report says

She sold her clothes, her furniture, and even her curtains to stay afloat. But now her rent is due tomorrow and like millions of Americans she has no way to pay.

Philippines' police have arrested 76,000 people for breaching lockdown as Duterte wages war on COVID-19 just like his war on drugs