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Republicans decry impeachment as ‘boring’ in an attempt to swiftly dismiss charges against Trump

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Why a question about Ukraine sent Mike Pompeo into a rage

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The mystery of India's 'missing 54' soldiers

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World’s largest twin-engine jet takes to the air

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Car with hidden drugs sold at police auction

bbc.com - Thailand's anti-drugs authority has apologised after it accidentally auctioned off a car hiding tens of thousands of amphetamine tablets. A buyer paid 586,000 baht ($19,000; £14,500) for the Honda CR…

The tiger ‘gift’ that horrified Polish rescuers

bbc.com - Nine emaciated and distressed tigers transported from Italy to the Poland-Belarus border are safe now, but the case exposed a cruel, shadowy trade in exotic animals destined for Asia. The discovery l…

Scientists to search for relatives of extinct Galapagos tortoises

news.yahoo.com - Quito (AFP) - A scientific expedition to the Galapagos Islands will spend ten days searching for relatives of two tortoise species believed to be extinct, including those of the archipelago's Lonesom…

Alan Dershowitz: How He's Infected by Trump's Madness | DCReport.org

dcreport.org - Alan Dershowitz agreed last week to be on Donald Trump’s defense team—in whatever form. So the need to highlight him as a potential personification of a wider, shared psychosis with the president has…

Insect extinctions caused by pesticides will 'affect the way the planet functions', NZ scientist warns

tvnz.co.nz - A Kiwi scientist is calling on New Zealand to crack down on pesticide use or risk losing the insects that keep us all alive. Without action to stop the extinctions, the consequences will be felt by e…

Strengthening coronavirus surges across China as authorities mobilize response; third case confirmed in U.S.

washingtonpost.com - Street view after Wuhan government announced to ban nonessential vehicles in downtown area to contain coronavirus outbreak, on the second day of the Chinese Lunar New Year, in Wuhan, Hubei province, …

Farewell Europe: the long road to Brexit

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The Long War Against Slavery

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Republicans Feign Anger at Schiff ‘Head on Pike’ Speech to Justify Cowardice

nymag.com - “A Trump confidante tells CBS News,” the network reported Friday, “that Republicans senators have been warned, ‘vote against the president and your head will be on a pike.’” That night, Adam Schiff q…

Trump, Impeachment, and the Short-Term Thinking of the G.O.P.

newyorker.com - In the dazed aftermath of the 2016 election, as a vast portion of the country tried to come to terms with the fact that a fixture of the tabloids and of reality TV would be the next President of the …

Hillary Clinton: Mark Zuckerberg Has ‘Authoritarian’ Views on Misinformation

theatlantic.com - Listening to Clinton, I was struck by how remarkably similar her account was to something Zuckerberg had once told me. Facts, Zuckerberg had suggested, are best derived from foraging many opinions, i…

A Twist in the 2,000-Year-Old Mystery of Herculaneum

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Stress Really Does Make Hair Go Gray Faster

nytimes.com - The researchers found that the sympathetic nerve cells released a neurotransmitter called noradrenaline that was taken up by nearby melanocyte stem cells. Then a series of events unfolded in quick su…

Northeast apple production suffering from Climate Change

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Bill Gates Foundation Predicted 65 million deaths via Coronavirus in a simulation ran just three months ago.

offgridsurvival.com - In late 2019, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation co-hosted a pandemic exercise that simulated a global coronavirus outbreak. The findings are extremely disturbing in light of the current Coronavir…


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