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“Fact-Checking” Takes Another Beating

Total U.S. Deaths Over The Past 7 Years and COVID-19

Ontario is now handing out tickets for SHAKING HANDS

A Storm Is Brewing In Asian LNG Markets

COVID: India’s ‘white fungus’ infections raise new health concerns

Guardians of the Wall: Rehabilitating Law & Order in Israel

The Texas Mask Mystery

Explainer: What is ‘black fungus’ that is hitting India’s COVID-19 patients?

Exploring Gen Z’s Ambitious and Anxiety-Fuelled Pursuit of Straight A’s Across YouTube, TikTok, Discord, and Twitter

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New Research Suggests Number of Kids Hospitalized for COVID Is Overcounted

Hamas fighter with American citizenship killed in recent Gaza conflict

Clickbait is a winner: The most cited articles in top science journals turned out to be flops

US, South Korea Scrap Bilateral Missile Guidelines

Why Lukashenko diverted a plane to catch Belarusian blogger

Pennies In Bags of Water Make Flies Flee

Duterte’s daughter Sara in focus as his presidency winds down

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The Driver Who Miraculously Evaded an Armed Robbery Attempt Tells All

My responses to The Washington Post’s article and Daily Beast’s questions about accusations from The Intercept that I have “endangered” their writers.

Texas Becomes Third State To Pass Free-Range Kids Law

Overdose deaths in San Francisco are at an all-time high

Fauci’s Latest COVID-19 Flip-Flop May Be His Most Disturbing Yet

21 Runners Die While Competing in Chinese Ultramarathon

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Deadly Fungi Are the Newest Emerging Microbe Threat All Over the World

The Oldest U.S. Ally Has Turned Migrants Into A Political Weapon

Argentina’s beef-export ban to stoke steak prices worldwide

Old news but new to me. Argentina’s Army must comply with 1% quota for trans individuals

Reporters fume at White House ‘quote approval’ rules

Iran forming secretive new militias in Iraq

Epstein guards admit to falsifying records, will skirt jail time in deal with prosecutors

Building on Tradition — 1,400 Years of a Family Business

Former Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, 63, on his empathy for the Taliban, his bitter disappointment with the former protective power, the United States, and why he considers the EU as his role model.

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Report: USPS ‘Internet Covert Operations Program’ Is ‘Much Broader in Scope Than Previously Known’

Gaza war ‘scorecard’: Both sides say they won, here’s what they did

Pennsylvania Voters Strip Governor’s Powers

Ex-FBI Director Gave $100K to Biden Trust, Sought ‘Profitable’ Work With Joe Biden Through Hunter

Digital US Dollars

Are Palestinians gaining in court of world opinion?

Will the Mormon Moderation Persist?

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India: Deadly ‘black fungus’ surges among COVID-19 patients

Cheers and fireworks as Palestinians celebrate Gaza ceasefire

All kinds of good arguments for doing this but just imagine if Trump had done this. Scoop: Biden to waive sanctions on company in charge of Nord Stream 2

‘Out of control’: Organized crime drives S.F. shoplifting, closing 17 Walgreens in five years

Could Burundi Be Designated A State-Sponsor Of Terrorism?

Germany bans male chick culling from 2022

UFOs Aren’t Real

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Pennsylvania Voters Approve Restrictions on Governor’s Emergency Powers

Israel’s very popular on Chinese social media—thanks to China’s online Islamophobia

Known Stock Market Leverage Hits WTF High. Out the Other Side of Its Mouth, the Fed Warns About Hidden Leverage that Blew up Archegos

Taliban has ‘surrounded’ five Afghan provincial capitals

The IEA May Have Given OPEC A Huge Gift

Trump faces New York state criminal investigation, increasing indictment threat

IN MY HOUSE, WE BELIEVE THAT SCIENCE IS REAL:

Advance and be recognized

We Found Joe Biden’s Secret Venmo. Here’s Why That’s A Privacy Nightmare For Everyone.

A Giuliani Wants Andrew Cuomo’s Job…

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‘Sightings all over the world’: Another former federal official discusses UFOs, upcoming congressional report

Apple’s Security Compromises in China Outlined in New Report

Inside the Military’s Secret Undercover Army

Study: Simple surgical procedure reduces stroke risk in people with AFib

The decline and fall of the Associated Press

How epidemiologists try to fool us with flawed statistical practices

Nuclear reactions at Chernobyl are spiking in an inaccessible chamber

California Nurses’ Association pressuring the state to reject CDC’s mask guidance

Justices decline to give police more power to search homes without warrant