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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JULY 24, 2023

Fierce fighting has resumed near Kupiansk, in an area Ukraine had liberated last Fall and around a river that’s considered a barrier.

Israel’s Knesset adopts first judicial overhaul bill despite US warnings

Brazil’s 2023 soybean crushing set for record highs driven by oil, meal demand

Oil Prices Climb To Multi-Month High As Market Eyes Tightening

Google’s newest proposed web standard is… DRM?

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JULY 23, 2023

Russia and Iran’s ‘unprecedented’ military ties worried the US, but it’s starting to look like Russia can’t hold up its end of the deal

Israeli Pilots’ Letter Sends Shockwaves Across Military and Political Arenas

All eyes on Türkiye as olive, olive oil production in Europe threatened by drought

East African economies are staring at a fresh spike in food prices and a further deterioration in inflation outlook in the wake of adverse weather conditions that have heavily impacted the region, compounded by the collapse of a crucial grain export deal between Russia and Ukraine last week.

Biden Administration Rule Would Ban Nearly All Portable Gas-Powered Generators

“Like, I’ve lost count of the number of times that somebody has said to me of a specific organization that has been turned upside down on this, “Oh, the deputy director has a trans child.” Or, oh, the journalist on that paper who does special investigations has a trans child. Or whatever. The entire organization gets paralyzed by that one person. And it may not even be widely known at that organization that they have a trans child. But it will come out, people will have sort of said quietly, and now you can’t talk truth in front of that person, and you know you can’t, because what you’re saying is: “You as a parent have done a truly, like, a human rights abuse level of awful thing to your own child that can not be fixed.

Spiral brain-computer interface slips into ear canal with no loss of hearing

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JULY 22, 2023

Huge Explosions Rock Crimean Ammo Depot

Wagner mutiny: Junior commander reveals his role in the challenge to Putin

Igor Strelkov orchestrated the downing of a passenger jet over Ukraine. Today, he was arrested for criticizing Putin on social media.

New War With Azerbaijan ‘Very Likely:’ Armenia PM

The Party Line. Beijing unrattled despite weak Q2

The deindustrialization of Germany: Within the next 15 years, about 30 percent of Germany’s workforce will reach retirement age.

Fed launches new payments system that lets you send money in seconds

Investigators Obtain Biden Financial Records Showing ‘Transactions From Ukraine And Russia’: Oversight Chairman

Something in space has been lighting up every 20 minutes since 1988. We have no explanations for this sort of slow repeat.

Two-faced star with helium and hydrogen sides baffles astronomers

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JULY 21, 2023

Russia’s Spies Say Putin Faces More Coups

U.S. Now Pushing To Deliver F-16s “As Fast As Possible”

Why Belgium may be about to break up

Japan’s digital ID program is a complicated mess

80 Million Americans To Face 105 Degree Heat This Weekend: National Weather Service

A total of 1,380 people involved in the lawsuit were “arrested and/or subjected to force by NYPD officers.” Each will walk away with roughly $10,000 for their actions in the riots that rocked Brooklyn and Manhattan.

Relocating To Austin Can Save High-Income New Yorkers $250,000

Computer chip with built-in human brain tissue gets military funding

Landmark Trial Suggests Hearing Aids Help Reduce Cognitive Decline

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JULY 20, 2023

The White House and Pentagon say Ukraine is now using donated cluster munitions and they are already making a difference.

A Sobering Analysis Of Ukraine’s Counteroffensive From The Front

What happened to China’s missing foreign minister?

Public releases the Proximal Origin documents. What they show, and why they’re historic

This Blood Type Could Make You More Vulnerable to COVID-19

A Cracked Piece of Metal Healed Itself in an Experiment That Stunned Scientists

Extracting a Clean Fuel From Water – A Groundbreaking Low-Cost Catalyst

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JULY 19, 2023
The Truth About Russia’s Mysterious Winged Glide Bombs

Russia’s Counter-Battery Radar Shortage Worsening

Morocco and Western Sahara: A new conflict brewing?

NY has been closing peaker plants down without replacing them.

Florida malaria outbreak still going with local cases now at 7

“Like A Bomb Went Off”: Pfizer Plant In North Carolina Destroyed By Tornado

New York to distribute flyers telling migrants at U.S.-Mexico border to ‘consider another city’

Top Scientists Misled Congress About Covid Origins, Newly Released Emails And Messages Show Related: “In Their Labs”: Fifteen Illuminating Passages in The Proximal Origin Chats and Emails

I bet you thought this had already happened: Biden administration suspends funds to Wuhan lab over failure to provide COVID-related info

Study shows dogs can detect COVID-19 faster, better than most PCR tests

It doesn’t matter if you exercise every day or squeeze it all into the weekend. If you do the recommended 150 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity a week, you’ll get heart benefits, a new study finds.

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JULY 18, 2023

With Ukrainian personnel and equipment losses mounting, the U.S. defense secretary has promised more Bradleys and Strykers will be delivered.

In June 2023, Russia’s expert community descended into a public debate about the wisdom of preemptive nuclear use. The exchange occurred against the backdrop of Ukraine’s counteroffensive and betrayed a fear that Russia might lose the war — if not imminently, then over time. The debate about nuclear use marked a qualitative shift compared to previous Russian debates in that select voices flirted expressly with nuclear strikes against European countries, expressing considerable confidence that the United States would not retaliate in kind.

Russia tightens health protocols on flights from Egypt after reports of unidentified disease. Symptoms include body aches, fever, and, in some cases, vomiting and nausea.

Mounting Deficits Force Euro Minsters To Cut Energy Support Measures

U.S. soldier crossed into North Korea ‘willfully and without authorization,’ Austin says

Homes evacuated after train carrying hazardous materials derails in Pennsylvania

Aging infrastructure poses additional challenges. The Gulf Coast salt caverns that make up the reserve were initially designed with a 25-year lifespan. As such, the risk of cavern dissolution increases with each drawdown and refill. Maintenance issues, along with the ballooning costs of the $1.4 billion modernization program, add further strain to the already troubled reserve. Related: As a result, onshore oil inventories estimated at 980 million barrels at the end of June are just 20 million barrels below an all-time record in August 2020. Thus, China’s oil inventories are much larger than that of the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) which President Biden depleted to keep gasoline prices in check before the mid-term election last year. The SPR stands at 347 million barrels from a capacity of more than double that amount—the lowest level since 1983.

eGenesis has started transplanting gene-edited pigs’ hearts into infant baboons—and humans may be next.

AI writing detectors are flagging the U.S. Constitution, one of America’s most significant legal documents, as a piece of AI-generated text.

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JULY 17, 2023

Kyiv Claims Massive Russian Buildup Near Kharkiv

Russia’s Kerch Strait Bridge Has Been Badly Damaged

Ships no longer safe in Black Sea, Russia says after quitting grain deal

Israel Military Using New AI System in Combat Operations

Netanyahu had more than a little sun stroke — and no chain of succession has been established

European Natural Gas Prices Plunge As Norwegian Supply Rises

Evacuations Ordered in Pennsylvania After 40-Car Train Derails

Teamsters president says he’s asked the White House not to intervene if UPS workers go on strike

The authors were able to reproduce this phenomenon in response to a four-week treadmill training protocol in an animal model of early-stage Parkinson’s disease, and to demonstrate, for the first time, how this neurotrophic factor determines the beneficial effects of physical activity in the brain.

Our universe could be twice as old as current estimates, according to a new study that challenges the dominant cosmological model and sheds new light on the so-called “impossible early galaxy problem.”