Countries with more female politicians pass more ambitious climate policies, study suggests

From Jenna Orkin

Who Targeted Ukraine Airlines Flight 752?

'This is not how sequoias die. It’s supposed to stand for another 500 years'

The New U.S. Trade Deal Is Climate Sabotage

Has the World Economy Reached Peak Growth?

Parnas said he is speaking out because he is afraid of William Barr

FBI: Saudi government ‘almost certainly’ helps its citizens escape prosecution in US for serious crimes

Earth shattering... that the FBI finally admits it.

Countries with more female politicians pass more ambitious climate policies, study suggests

Amazon is working to develop biometric scanners to link handprints to credit cards, allowing shoppers to buy with the swipe of their palm

A new collection of personal photos show Giuliani's 'fixer' Lev Parnas with Trump's inner circle, despite claims they don't know each other

Scientists found a new way to get 'forever chemicals' linked to cancer out of our water. They're in the bloodstreams of 99% of Americans.

Mystery Chinese Virus Has Likely Infected Over 1,700 As It Sweeps Across China And Japan

From Jenna Orkin

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

Federal court dismisses ‘Climate Kids’ lawsuit

Ukraine’s Leader Rejects Premier’s Resignation Over Leaked Audio

ELECTORAL COLLEGE OVERWHELMINGLY FAVORS REPUBLICANS, ABOLISHING ENTIRE SYSTEM ONLY REMEDY: STUDY

Civil Forfeiture of Life Savings

Australia bushfires: Scorched animals treated with New Zealand's golden mānuka honey

Study: U.S. Fossil Fuel Subsidies Exceed Pentagon Spending

Germans now ‘obsessed’ with refugee porn after country took in more than a million migrants

Life Copies Drama: The Spin-Off
My review/reminiscence on my father's relationship with playwright Shelagh Delaney

The Sanders campaign looked into whether Warren could serve as vice president and treasury secretary at the same time, according to report

Travelers from China are being screened at US airports for a mysterious new virus that's killed 2 and sickened dozens

Elon Musk says he plans to send 1 million people to Mars by 2050 by launching 3 Starship rockets every day and creating 'a lot of jobs' on the red planet

From Jenna Orkin

U.S. warship transits Taiwan Strait less than week after election

After more than 48 hours of silence, Pompeo says State will investigate possible surveillance of ex-US ambassador

Emails Reveal U.S. Justice Dept. Working Closely with Oil Industry to Oppose Climate Lawsuits

Fed Fuels Rise in Assets Via ‘Derivative’ of QE, Kaplan Says

Iran rocket attack on Iraqi military base injured 11 US service members, official reveals

Huge Debt Got Us Hooked on Petrodollars — and on Saudi Arabia

The Wood Wide Web

Amazon Juggernaut Forces Retail Giants To Flee Times Square

The 20 countries facing population collapse

87% Of Participants At Goldman Conference Say Trump Will Get Re-elected

Trump Goes After Bloomberg: Starting March 1, BLS Will Ban Lockup Computers, Hitting HFT Revenues

From Jenna Orkin

How China Is Practicing—and Perfecting—an Amphibious Invasion of Taiwan

Iran Military Suggests US Disruption Of Radar Caused Downing Of Airliner Despite New Video

Lawsuit Claims Epstein Trafficked Girls in Caribbean Until 2018

The attorney general of the Virgin Islands says Mr. Epstein and his associates used a database to track victims as young as 11 years old.

DECLARATION OF A STATE OF EMERGENCYDUE TO POTENTIAL CIVIL UNREST AT THE VIRGINIA STATE CAPITOL

Naomi Klein: A fundamentally new economic system is the only way to save society and the planet

Wombats are the heroes of the Australian fires, sheltering animals in their burrows

Cuba found to be the most sustainably developed country in the world

Mystery SARS-Like Virus Spreads To Japan

Jeff Bezos is visiting India amid protests and a government investigation into Amazon — here's what his trip has been like so far

Turkish Jets Violate Greek Airspace A Record 91 Times In A Single Day

'Barr had to have known everything': Giuliani associate Lev Parnas alleges AG Barr was 'basically on the team' to pressure Ukraine

From Jenna Orkin

Ocean temperatures hit record high as rate of heating accelerates

Russia announces plan to ‘use the advantages’ of climate change

Insider Trading by Mar-a-Lago Guests Before Soleimani Killing

This Year Will Mark the Lowest Solar Activity in Over 200 Years

Pompeo says Soleimani killing part of new strategy to deter U.S. foes

Warren, Van Hollen Ask SEC To Investigate Insider Trading By Mar-A-Lago Guests Before Soleimani Airstrike

The person who posted the video showing the Ukrainian plane being taken down by an Iranian missile has been arrested

A newly revealed letter from Rudy Giuliani — Trump's own lawyer — destroys the president's last defense in Ukraine scandal

The Navy cryptically said it has top-secret UFO briefings that would cause 'exceptionally grave damage' to US national security if published

Text messages show a Giuliani associate discussing how to stalk 'that b---h' Marie Yovanovitch in Ukraine in a bid to get her fired

Michael Bloomberg's campaign confirms it hasn't been hacked after tweeting about meatballs, tattoos, and setting wild animals loose on the Democratic debate stage

Germany To Cut 400,000 Auto Jobs In Next Decade As Car Production Crashes

Saudi Arabia Carried Out Record Number Of Executions In 2019

Global Births & Population of Potenial Mothers...Down, Down, Down

From Jenna Orkin

6,000 Dead From Measles Outbreak In Congo, WHO Says

Will alleged CIA misbehavior set Julian Assange free?

Trump authorized Soleimani's killing 7 months ago, with conditions

‘We are going to have a horrible time,’ Jim Rogers tells Boom Bust as global debt skyrockets

Scientists Found Ancient, Never-Before-Seen Viruses in a Glacier

Australia's bushfire smoke will do a full lap of the earth: NASA

Global Births & Population of Potenial Mothers...Down, Down, Down

Aleutian volcano spews up ash cloud, prompting warning to pilots

Sabancaya Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: continuous ash emissions to 24000 ft (7300 m)

The solution to the plastic waste crisis? It isn’t recycling

Turkey Muscles-In On Israel-Greece-Cyprus EastMed Gas Pipeline Deal

Thousands of angry Indians are planning to disrupt a visit from Jeff Bezos by staging mass protests over Amazon's disruption of retail

Exposure to flame retardants is causing US kids to lose millions of IQ points. They're more damaging than lead or mercury.

And...

Burger King is trolling Prince Harry with a job offer after he and his wife announced their intent to step back from their roles in the royal family

From Jenna Orkin

Revealed: US listed climate activist group as ‘extremists’ alongside mass killers

Russia Releases Damning Evidence Of The U.S. Smuggling Syrian Oil

Emails Reveal U.S. Justice Dept. Working Closely with Oil Industry to Oppose Climate Lawsuits

US Expels Saudi Servicemen Over Extremist Ties And Pedophilia In Wake Of Pensacola Shooting

The U.S. Spends $2,500 Per Person on Health Care Administrative Costs. Canada Spends $550. Here's Why

Iran Says De-Escalation 'Only Solution' As Anti-Government Protests In Tehran Turn Bloody

Philippines Taal Volcano Spews Mega Ash Cloud - Evacuations Underway, Flights Canceled 

Sen. Cory Booker drops out of the 2020 presidential race less than a month before Iowa caucuses

Pro-Trump broadcaster Sinclair is 'benefiting tremendously' from Michael Bloomberg's record ad spending

Trump Allies Propose New Network To Compete With Fox

At least 30 US hospitals entered bankruptcy in 2019 – and there's no end in sight to the financial instability crisis

China's latest move in its Uighur crackdown is forcing Muslims to redecorate their homes to make them look more Chinese

From Jenna Orkin

Greenland’s Ice Melt Rate Has Now Accelerated To A Whopping 234 Billion Tons Of Ice Lost Per Year

Qld Govt says it owns rainfall once it hits the ground on your property

Aboriginals Have the Answer (CNN!)

The Oceans We Know Won’t Survive Climate Change

'Like sending bees to war': the deadly truth behind your almond-milk obsession

Louisiana greenlights huge pollution-causing plastics facility in 'Cancer Alley'

Farmers Are Buying 40-Year-Old Tractors Because They're Actually Repairable

The US reportedly sent secret messages to Iran via Swiss intermediaries, urging not to retaliate too strongly and further provoke Trump

"If The US Does That, It'll Lose Iraq Forever" - Trump Threatened To Cut Off Baghdad's Access To Its NY Fed Cash

Michael Bloomberg says he'll spend big to defeat Trump, even if that means supporting Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren

World's Tallest Geyser Breaks Eruption Record

"I Am Ready, Able & Willing To Defend Myself": Mob Rat Sends Threatening 'Open Letter' To Former Associates

Iranians marched in fiery protests to demand Ayatollah Khamenei's resignation after officials shot down a commercial plane

A severe winter storm is ripping through the US, killing 9 and cancelling more than 1,500 flights

US Tried (And Failed) To Kill Soleimani's "Guy On The Ground In Yemen"

"I'd Like To See Them Call Me": How Trump Used An Encrypted Swiss Fax Machine To Defuse The Iran Crisis

Comedian Adam Carolla's new documentary accidentally reveals that a lot of conservative 'free-speech warriors' are just free-speech tourists

'"No Safe Spaces" rehashes left-wing campus "snowflake" outrages. It says nothing about President Donald Trump and conservative attacks on free speech."

Putin & Merkel Urge All Parties Back To Iran Deal - Vow To Preserve "By All Means"

The Politics Behind Banning Russia From The Olympics

Goldman Sachs is going through a huge transformation under CEO David Solomon. Here's everything you need to know.

From Jenna Orkin

Trump reportedly told associates he killed Qassem Soleimani because he was under pressure from GOP senators before his impeachment trial

Google Quietly Expands in New York in Wake of Amazon’s Stumble

Ron Paul: US Wants to ‘Own Iran’ Like the US Did When the Shah Was in Power

Pain, cancer, death: Michigan families devastated by toxic chemicals in their water

The shadowy Iranian spy chief who helped plan Benghazi (Archive on Suleymani)

In Shocking Rebuke To Beijing, Taiwan's Pro-Independence President Wins Landslide Re-election

Iran's military says it thought the Ukrainian passenger plane it shot down was an enemy missile

Sustainable clothing brand Outerknown is donating 100% of today's profits to help wildfire relief efforts in Australia

US population growth is the lowest its been since 1918. Here's why that's terrible news for the economy.

The US is building its first new particle collider in decades on Long Island. Stephen Hawking called the technology a 'time machine.'

Residents of San Francisco's Treasure Island believe nuclear contamination has made them sick for years. The site is getting 8,000 new homes.

The sick residents are all psychos, you see.

From Jenna Orkin

Images from Australia

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Firefighter charged with starting 17 blazes in Australia while on bail ‘for serious sex offences’ tracked by ankle tag

The Evangelicals Who Pray for War With Iran

Report: Israeli F-35 Strike Against Iranian Target in Syria Kills Eight

Transporting nuclear wastes across Australia in the age of bushfires

Trump takes credit for decline in cancer deaths. The American Cancer Society says he's wrong

MacDill Air Force Base briefly locked down, authorities searching for suspect

Jeffrey Epstein: Jail CCTV erased by 'technical errors'

'American Oligarchs' Reveals How Trump, Kushner Families Learned To Work The System

Ship seized in $1.3 billion cocaine bust is owned by JP Morgan Chase

So much for renouncing links to his former life. The word "Royal" is embedded in the very website that supposedly launches the independent Prince.

India's top court has declared the record-breaking 159-day-long Kashmir internet blackout illegal

I went inside Seattle's soon-to-close, 90-year-old Macy's store and found the building is already being taken over by Amazon