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New Zealand reports first death tied to Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine

Dept. of Gastronomy Save the Planet, Eat a Bug From 2011: Plentiful and protein-rich, insects are food in much of the world. Why not here?

A Royal Marine rescued animals from Afghanistan in a mission dubbed ‘Operation Ark.’ His staff was left behind.

Big Tech wants to build the ‘metaverse.’ What on Earth does that mean

Judge orders Cinci hospital to treat COVID-19 patient with Ivermectin, despite CDC warnings

CDC Requirements for Immigrant Medical Examinations: COVID-19 Technical Instructions for Civil SurgeonsJapan detects more Moderna vaccine contamination

The U.S. has witnessed 452 mass shootings in 41 different states (and Washington D.C.) in the 236 days of 2021.To put that number in perspective, the country had 393 by this date last year.

Mass Shootings in 2021

1. North Korea seems to be ramping up its nuclear arsenal by restarting a reactor that's been inactive for years, UN says

   88-year-old prof resigns mid-class when student refuses to wear mask
2. Hurricane Ida has knocked out power for all of New Orleans

Live Updates: Hurricane Ida makes landfall in Louisiana as a 'catastrophic' Category 4 storm

 

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In Los Angeles, price for admission at nation’s second-largest school district is a negative covid test — every single week

Inside US Afghanistan pullout, CIA opium ratline, pipeline conflict, new cold war

Concerns mount over Russia-Belarus military exercises

Meet the Non-Vaccines That Promise to Boost Covid Immunity

Bolsonaro Says Outcomes at Elections Include Victory or Death

'Forever prisoners': 39 remain at Guantanamo Bay 20 years after 9/11, including some who have never been charged

2 unvaccinated child daycare center employees were found dead at home from COVID-19 on the same day

The UK government worked hard to get 173 rescue cats and dogs out of Afghanistan but critics are asking why animals were priortized

Biden says a new attack at the Kabul airport is 'highly likely in the next 24-36 hours'

T-Mobile customers are left feeling frustrated as hacker comes forward, calling the company's security 'awful'

Revealed: Google struck secret deals worth "hundreds of millions" of dollars with developers like Activision

A Kansas man died waiting for an ICU bed while hospitals were filled to capacity with COVID-19 patients

US warns citizens of a 'credible threat' in the vicinity of Kabul airport

 

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Mom is stripped of parenting time over refusal to get COVID-19 vaccine

Fatal Traffic Crashes Surge Nearly 30% So Far This Year, With 6-Year-Old Brooklyn Girl Among Latest Victims

An elementary school teacher took off her mask for a read-aloud. Within days, half her class was positive for delta.

How U.S. Wars Abroad Are Intimately Tied to Police Brutality at Home

LED streetlights contribute to insect population declines: study

Comparing SARS-CoV-2 natural immunity to vaccine-induced immunity: reinfections versus breakthrough infections

More people are dying trying to cross the US-Mexico border than ever before. While Biden isn't building Trump's wall, his plans for the border could be just as harmful.

Biden's plan to increase border funding is a continuation of Trump's problematic policy, not a break from it.

As denying climate change becomes impossible, fossil-fuel interests pivot to 'carbon shaming'

Chinese media worker died in break room amid '996' work culture: state

Afghan evacuation flight pilot is the son of a Holocaust survivor

1. Biden says he has ordered a retaliatory strike on ISIS-K

Afghanistan's economy may be only weeks from collapse, according to a former UN official

 

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RFK assassin Sirhan wins parole with support of 2 Kennedys

How A Mother's Letter Inspired A Scientist To Revolutionize Consumer Microbiome Testing

Biden, Fauci discuss requiring COVID booster shots every 5 months

Ida predicted to strike Louisiana as major hurricane Sunday into Monday

The All-Seeing "i": Apple Just Declared War on Your Privacy - Snowden

Can Stimulating Brains Lead to Controlling Them?

China Ramps up Attacks on U.S. Over 'Cold War' Mentality

Justice Dept. to Close Troubled Jail Where Jeffrey Epstein Died

Having SARS-CoV-2 once confers much greater immunity than a vaccine—but no infection parties, please

A group founded by a Capitol riot defendant is prescribing an unproven COVID-19 treatment, ivermectin, through a telemedicine site for $90 a pop

The group, America's Frontline Doctors, charges $90 for a consultation, during which it says it can prescribe ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine.

New Zealand has extended its strict lockdown again as it tackles a Delta outbreak causing 70 new cases a day

A female mayor in Afghanistan hid in a car footwell to avoid the Taliban while trying to flee to Kabul airport

A Kabul hospital was so overwhelmed after the airport attack that staffers who finished their shifts came back to work through the night, NGO head says

 

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More than 7,000 American military personnel have died in the U.S.-led wars worldwide since 9/11, and as of 2015, another 50,000-plus had been wounded. An additional 30,000 active-duty personnel and veterans of these wars have died by suicide. More than 7,402 U.S. contractors were also killed, in Afghanistan and Iraq alone. The direct deaths in the wars were upward of 800,000, but Brown University’s Costs of War project, which supplied the data in this paragraph, found that several times that were killed indirectly through such causes as war-related disease and water shortages. As of last year, the wars have cost about $6.4 trillion, and there will be the future costs of service members’ long-lasting benefits. And finally, the wars have created at least 37 million refugees.

Japan suspends 1.63 million doses of Moderna over contamination

Mosque Bomber Uses Gender Dysphoria to Try to Reduce Sentence

An investigation by Connecting Vets reveals how a loosening of the Rules of Engagement in Afghanistan during the Trump administration designed to put pressure on the Taliban resulted in far more civilian casualties. 

Clinical efficacy of nitric oxide nasal spray (NONS) for the treatment of mild COVID-19 infection

The mountainous country is home to large deposits of copper, lithium, uranium, rare earths, and other metals and minerals. It is also home to substantial coal, oil, and gas reserves.

The CNN’s estimate of $1 trillion is an old one, made by geologists and U.S. military officials a decade ago. Another decade-old estimate, made by Afghanistan’s mining minister at the time, put the country’s mineral wealth value at up to $3 trillion. 

The Taliban Is Sitting On $1 Trillion In Natural Resources

1. Military planes at Kabul airport have been performing corkscrew landings and sending out flares to avoid potential missile attacks, report says

   China undercuts Kamala Harris' 1 million vaccine donation to Vietnam
2. CDC warns about Italian-style meats amid Salmonella outbreak

UK Armed Forces minister warns of 'imminent' attack at Kabul airport as early as Thursday morning

 

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Glacier melt is causing Earth’s crust to warp slightly, say scientists

Hillary Clinton Quietly Rescues Afghani Women On Charter Flights

Bill Gates Should Stop Telling Africans What Kind of Agriculture Africans Need

Harris, in Vietnam, gets a dose of China’s challenge to the U.S.

France detains Afghan evacuee, investigates possible Taliban linksMonsignor Jeffrey Burrill, former general secretary of the U.S. bishops’ conference, announced his resignation Tuesday, after The Pillar found evidence the priest engaged in serial sexual misconduct, while he held a critical oversight role in the Catholic Church’s response to the recent spate of sexual abuse and misconduct scandals.

US officials were furious when they found out 2 lawmakers secretly traveled to Kabul, report says

Oregon is the first state to bring back outdoor mask mandates for both vaccinated and unvaccinated people amid a sharp new rise in cases

J&J says a booster shot of its one-dose COVID-19 vaccine raises antibody levels, and could be given after 8 months

Oil spikes as deadly blaze in Mexico slashes output by 420,000 barrels per day

A man discovered passed out in a car in a 7-Eleven parking lot had a gun, drugs, and over 300 California recall ballots

UN's World Food Programme says 14 million people in Afghanistan are 'marching toward starvation' if no aid is provided

 

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Llama antibodies may neutralize COVID and help prevent infections, lab trial finds

Sweden prime minister’s abrupt resignation upends the country and its politics

Mark Bittman’s warning: the true costs of our cheap food and the American diet

Rogue truckies vow to block every major highway into every state during radical anti-lockdown strike - as they urge Aussies to 'stock up on groceries'

4,700 coronavirus cases have been traced to an outdoor music festival in southwest England. Officials say the mental-health benefits outweighed the risk.

1. The CIA director secretly met the Taliban's leader this week, report says

   The US Army is using a controversial facial-recognition technology that uses images from social media to identify people, documents show

   The UK accidentally evacuated someone on its no-fly list from Afghanistan, but is now letting them go

   Nearly 100 doctors from multiple South Florida hospitals staged a walkout to protest a surge in unvaccinated COVID-19 patients

   Fauci: COVID-19 can be brought under control by Spring 2022

   Crowds at Kabul airport can be seen from space

Airbnb says it will temporarily house 20,000 Afghan refugees

 

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Armed protests are picking up, and a new study says they're more likely to turn violent

Chinese Tactics, Army Techniques Publication (ATP) 7-100.3, August 9, 2021

("Training Today's Army for Tomorrow's Threats," Military Intelligence Professional Bulletin, Oct-Dec 2020

US families sue Deutsche Bank, Standard Chartered…

4 dead whales now found around San Francisco Bay in 9 days. Here's what we know.

July 2021 was Earth’s hottest month ever recorded, NOAA finds

The Middle East is running out of water, and parts of it are becoming uninhabitable

COLLEGE SPORTS INJECTED WITH MILLIONS IN FEDERAL COVID FUNDS

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES ARE FREE AND EFFECTIVE AGAINST COVID-19, BUT FEW PEOPLE ARE GETTING THEM

Back for good: the fine art of repairing broken things

22 dead, dozens missing after deadliest flood event in Middle Tennessee history

A local government in Australia killed its impounded dogs over coronavirus fears.

Ron Paul - The Secret Ronald Reagan Told Me about Gold and Great Nations 

Greece finishes wall on border with Turkey, amid fears of Afghan migrant crisis

 

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Prices of Medical Procedures With and Without Insurance

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Sound researchScientific innovations harness noise and acoustics for healing

As covid-19 surges in Mississippi, some people are ingesting an unproven livestock dewormer

Spain offers itself as hub for Afghans who collaborated with EU

Bin Laden warned in 2010 letter that Biden would ‘lead US into crisis’Coast Guard Sector Southeastern New England sets Port condition ZULU for Hurricane Henri

A Swedish drug dealer's bitcoin got $1.5 million more valuable while he was in prison. Now the government is reimbursing him.

The 2-year-old daughter of an interpreter for an American company was trampled to death as stampedes at Kabul Airport leave at least 7 dead, reports say

Elon Musk says we need universal basic income because 'in the future, physical work will be a choice'

Elon Musk is working on a "friendly" robot that can perform "dangerous, repetitive, and boring tasks" — and take jobs away from humans.

A disturbing 'zoo' theory may explain why we haven't yet discovered alien life

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Jesse Jackson and Wife Hospitalized with Covid

Can you mix and match vaccines? The Post answered your questions on coronavirus booster shots.

Exclusive: FBI finds scant evidence U.S. Capitol attack was coordinated - sources - Reuters

The multi-billion dollar giants that are melting away

The Taliban may pretend to show moderation – but the murderous reality is far different

CIA Won't Back an Afghan Resistance Anytime Soon, If Ever

Phew.

U.S. review of possible link between Moderna vaccine and uncommon side effect delays adolescent approval

Orlando urges residents to limit water use as liquid oxygen for treating the water supply is being diverted to hospitals for COVID-19 patients

Anti-vaxxers are refusing blood transfusions from vaccinated donors because they believe they're 'tainted,' report says

How lavender farms can help restore land that's been ruined by years of coal mining

Startups that want you to keep clothes for longer and waste less food are winning over investors backing the circular economy

Venture capitalists invested more than $300 million into circular-economy startups in 2021.

How a 12-year-old earned 106 ethers by creating an NFT collection and selling it out within a day

He deployed code from another NFT collection and customized it. Now, his ether wallet is worth about $322,346 based on ETH's price of $3,041. 

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COVID-19 outbreak shuts down entire police department in Illinois

History's Largest Mining Operation About to Begin

Many Hospitals With No Beds Left Are Forced To Send COVID Patients To Cities Far Away

Stanley Aronowitz, Who Taught Us Teaching Must Be Political, Has Passed

'They were very sick': Viral photo of people on floor at Florida clinic shows troubled scene

Israel, Once the Model for Beating Covid, Faces New Surge of Infections

Taliban in power may find themselves fighting Islamist insurgents

A Hell of Our Own Making, Reflections on the Road to Kabul By Edward Snowden

State Department officials warned in July that Afghan government could collapse soon after August 31 US troop withdrawal: WSJ

Afghans eligible to be evacuated were prevented from entering Kabul airport because some Taliban fighters couldn't read their documents, report says

Doctors in North Texas considered taking COVID-19 patients’ vaccination status into account when determining who gets ICU beds

A North Texas Critical Care Guidelines Task Force spokesperson has since rowed back on the memo on how to triage patients.

The summit of Greenland got rain, rather than snow, for the first time on record