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The Mystery of AS8003

Analysis: Syrian missile explodes near Israeli nuclear facility

What killing of Chadian president means for Egypt

This is the best attempt I have seen at legitimately engaging with the anti-mask argument and it is incredibly weak sauce. For one things, the starting point of the author is that N95s obviously work and uses as evidence medical professionals. The problem with that argument is that in my area at least almost every single medical professional who had direct interaction with patients came down with COVID….. There are a lot of other issues as well but I throw this out there for the sake of balance. The Science Behind Masks

Innocent man billed $4,000 for jail stay

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Sort of like the New York City lock downs. The upper class thought they could protect themselves by the pain they inflected on the lower classes. India’s urban affluent hit by new virus wave after dodging first

Is Northern Kazakhstan at Risk to Russia?

Twitter censors tweets critical of India’s COVID response

LGBT Activist Urges the Government to Fight ‘The Pernicious Power of Prayer’

Stranded sailor allowed to leave abandoned ship after four years

We paid researchers to find a crisis and we got what we paid for

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Why is Everything Liberal?

After years of fact-checkers claiming the contrary, Planned Parenthood finally admits its founder was a racist

Illinois’ Pension Bomb Has a Short Fuse
The COVID-19 Disaster That Did Not Happen in Texas

Fed Chair Powell says won’t allow ‘substantial’ overshoot of inflation target – April 8 letter to U.S. senator

White House formally backs bill to grant DC statehood

Connecticut lawmakers pass bill ending religious vaccine exemption

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“Do Not Enter:” Using OSINT to Monitor Russia’s Wargames in the Black Sea

A former cop’s thoughts on the verdict. His thoughts are all fair as far as they go but like most conservative media they leave out one glaring set of facts. At that is the police commanders and trainers called to the stand refused to stand behind what Chauvin did. Now that could just be due to fear of the mob, but it still should be mentioned. THOUGHTS ON THE CHAUVIN VERDICT

Vox on BLM

As a megadrought persists, new projections show a key Colorado River reservoir could sink to a record low later this year

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A Monkey/Man Embryo

First Venezuela, Now Ecuador: US Refiners Need A New Source Of Heavy Crude

China Mulls Deploying Troops to Afghanistan After U.S. Pullout

Gift from King Mohammed VI comes as the Lebanese army struggles to feed its soldiers

Starlink Internet service could be “fully mobile” by the end of the year

Babylon Bee CEO posted this to Instagram and they’re now threatening to ban him for “harmful false information” and “hate speech.”

There’s a single New Jersey deli doing $35,000 in sales valued at $100 million in the stock market

Always looking at the last disaster. What is the grid near you like? Severe weather this summer could cause another Texas power crisis

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To be fair, it is not yet proven that the new one is a fraud. But I can see why he might assume so. Journalists, Learning They Spread a CIA Fraud About Russia, Instantly Embrace a New One

Flywheels Turn Superconducting to Reinvigorate Grid Storage Potential

Canada sounds the alarm as cases overtake US and India’s health system has collapsed

Oregon newspaper deletes tweet identifying police shooting victim as a white person after online uproar

Eritrea admits its troops are still in Ethiopia’s Tigray region

Paper Uses ‘Breached’ Data To Dox Police Who Donated To Innocent Colleague Targeted By BLM; Twitter Promotes

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Headline oversells it. They are trying but no proof they have pulled it off. Drug Cartel Now Assassinates Its Enemies With Bomb-Toting Drones

Histamine-suppressing drugs found to reduce benefits of exercise

A question.

Social media again silences The Post for reporting the news

COVID might be linked to more blood clots than we thought

Scientific American joins trend, will call climate change ‘climate emergency’