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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, AUGUST 10

Russian Airbase In Crimea Goes Boom

Notable only because it is the editorial board. If Merrick Garland doesn’t give a solid, fast reason for raiding Trump’s home, he’s probably just re-elected him

White House Claims Biden Was Not Briefed on FBI Raid at Mar-a-Lago

Locusts Can Smell Cancer, And It Could Give Us a Brilliant New Way to Save Lives

Fish Oil Is Good! No, Bad! No, Good! No, Wait

How big is the housing shortage?

Urgent polio boosters for London children

China graft probes stem from anger over failed chip plans

Gas Prices See Fastest Decline in over a Decade, Down 83 Cents Since Mid-June

Think 9% Inflation Is Bad? Try 90%.

The Global Diesel Crunch Is Going To Get Worse

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, AUGUST 9

Russian Defence Research Expert on AFU performance, the effect of Western weapon supplies

Wagner Group on HIMARS

Mysterious Jets of Upside-Down Lightning Are Real, And We Just Got Our Best Look Yet

Inside the War Between Trump and His Generals

Judge who OK’d Mar-a-Lago raid Obama donor once linked to Jeffrey Epstein and Trump raid sparked by boxes of materials including Kim Jong Un letters, cocktail napkin

The Democrats’ New Inflation Bill Includes Tax Credits for Electric Vehicles That Don’t Exist

New IIHS Side-Impact Crash Test Shows Troubling Sedan, Wagon Results

Major test of first possible Lyme vaccine in 20 years begins

Basically, it looks like Hamas sat back and let Israel kills some of its rivals. Israel-Hamas understanding key to quick end to Gaza fighting

Netherlands to SHUT DOWN 11 200 farms to meet climate goals

“This is horrific,” New York City mayor says of Greg Abbott’s policy as second busload of migrants from Texas arrives

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, AUGUST 8

Donald Trump says FBI carried out ‘unannounced raid’ on Mar-a-Lago property

Corruption is sending shock waves through China’s chipmaking industry

The system of rolling holidays for different industrial areas is expected to reduce pressure on electricity demand as well as fuel oils for public transport, Hamid said. The South Asian nation, also the world’s No. 2 garments exporter after China, has resorted to power cuts to preserve fuel reserves amid war-induced energy price shocks, and separately approached multilateral lenders including the International Monetary Fund for loans to shore up its foreign reserves as import bills balloon.

The world’s least understood ignition source is causing devastating wildfires across Montana’s Powder River Basin.

One of the biggest textbook publishers is tired of not making any money when you buy a used textbook — and wants to explore using NFTs to get a cut

China builds watchtowers inside India-claimed lines

Wasted and not properly tracked are two separate things and this site is over hyping this a little bit. But it is a reminder that self censorship is alive and well on this subject. CBS News Censors Its Own Documentary Exposing How 70% of US Funding of Ukraine is Wasted

Maybe this seemed more consistent in the original German? Kevin Short, a professor who specializes in environmental education at the Tokyo University of Information Sciences, agrees that the loss of habitat is a major reason for increasing numbers of wild animal intrusions into urban areas.He also pointed out that due to Japan’s shrinking rural populations, there are fewer hunters to cull wildlife, resulting in an explosion in the number of bears, boars and monkeys in recent years.

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, AUGUST 6

Give it up for this French physicist who posted a photo of a sausage and had people believing it was a main sequence red dwarf star

When War Knocks on Your Door

Radical farmers pledge ‘hardest action ever’ after nitrogen talks

Alarming drop in testosterone levels in young men

The TB Vaccine Mysteriously Protects Against Lots of Things. Now We Know Why

The mystery virus that protects against monkeypox

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, AUGUST 4

Oldest DNA from domesticated American horse lends credence to shipwreck folklore

There is more coral cover on the Great Barrier Reef than ever recorded. We’ve had four bleaching events in the last seven years, and record hottest ever heat, the highest CO2 levels recorded since we invented ways to record CO2, and yet, despite all that, the reef is thriving.

Ukraine Forces Endangering Civilians: Amnesty

US Ratifies Finland, Sweden Accession to NATO

The United States says it’s watching ongoing Chinese military drills around Taiwan very closely, while condemning the latest series of ballistic missiles fired over the island as a severe provocation and escalation. The White House has ordered the Ronald Reagan carrier strike group to stay in the area.

What Do We Know About Russia’s Forcible Deportations of Ukrainians?

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, AUGUST 3

Taiwan’s Defense Ministry described the latest PLA actions as essentially a “maritime and aerial blockade.”

Germany’s Natural Gas Crunch Could Cause Supply Chains To Collapse

To be precise, the headline should have said Pentecostal churches. Spiritual union: why Gulf migrants are turning to evangelical Christianity

While the infrastructure act authorizes a pilot program to test collecting the personal information needed to charge drivers for their use of roads and highways, it doesn’t answer the far thornier questions about how to protect that data. Will only the feds track drivers? Will each state and locality that currently depends on fuel taxes also monitor drivers? If so, will the data be pooled? Will destinations be tracked along with mileage?

Four dead in South Africa protests over high power costs

IRANIAN PROXIES MAY ATTACK US IN RESPONSE TO IRAQI POLITICAL CRISIS

Kansans vote to uphold abortion rights in their state

Mauna Loa is the largest shield volcano on Earth (above water, at least) – and scientific data reveals more about what might be enough to set off future eruptions.

Newly Discovered Emails Confirm Joe Biden Obstructed Justice For His Son’s Foreign Business Deal