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World News
German group with far-right 'prepper' links trains civilians for combat
The Guardian - Philip Oltermann and Janina Findeisen
A network of elite German combatants with links to far-right “prepper” circles secretly trained civilians in “commando-like structures”, raising fears the group planned to build up a paramilitary fighting
15 hours ago
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Mauritania
Dozens of migrants drown off coast of Mauritania
pbs.org - Ahmed Mohamed, Associated Press
NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (AP) — Scores of migrants who swam through rough Atlantic Ocean waters to safety from a capsized boat while 58 others drowned …
2 days ago
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Florida
New Sea Level Rise Projections For Southeast Florida: Higher And Faster
wlrn.org - Nancy Klingener
New sea level rise projections for South Florida were released Wednesday. And the numbers are up. The Southeast Florida Climate Compact updates its …
2 days ago
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Business
A Facebook rumor about white vans is spreading fear across America
CNN - By Donie O'Sullivan, CNN Business
New York (CNN) — Terrifying rumors initially propelled by Facebook's algorithms have sparked fears that men driving white vans are kidnapping women all across the United States for sex trafficking and
3 days ago
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China
China Is Very Angry That Congress Pointed Out it Is Committing Massive Human Rights Abuses in Xinjiang
VICE - David Gilbert
For the second time in less than a week, Beijing has lashed out at Congress for what it calls foreign meddling in domestic affairs, after lawmakers in Washington passed a bill that paves the way for sanctions
3 days ago
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Cancer
Pennsylvania To Spend $3M To Study Possible Link Between Fracking And Spike In Childhood Cancer
cbslocal.com - CBS Pittsburgh
HARRISBURG (KDKA/AP) — Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf says his administration will spend $3 million on a pair of studies to explore the potential health …
November 22
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Free Syrian Army
12 children killed in 'bloodiest of days' in northwest Syria
CNN - By Kareem Khadder, Eyad Kouri and Eliza Mackintosh, CNN
(CNN) — Three separate attacks targeted busy marketplaces in northwest Syria, producing a brutal death toll Monday in the war-torn area, according to local volunteer and rights groups. At least 19 people
4 days ago
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Opinion
Family suicides in Turkey speak of a society that has lost hope
The Guardian - Elif Shafak
They were beautiful people. They did what they did because of poverty Fatih shopkeeper Fatih is known as one of the most conservative districts of Istanbul. Last week some people in the area saw a note
November 13
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China
China Is Using Blood From Minorities For Genetic Research
futurism.com
The country is taking DNA from its persecuted Uigher population. China is running a disturbing genetic experiment on its persecuted Muslim Uigher …
3 days ago
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News
Widely Respected Japanese Humanitarian Among 6 Killed In Afghanistan Attack
NPR - Paolo Zialcita
A prominent Japanese doctor who devoted his life to providing aid in Afghanistan was killed by unknown gunmen on Wednesday along with five Afghan colleagues. It's the second attack on aid workers in the
3 days ago
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Impeachment
Admit It: You Don’t Know How Impeachment Works. We Can Help.
The New York Times - Sarah Kerr, Natalie Reneau and Aaron Byrd
Explosive testimony. News media frenzies. A trial in the Senate. Here is how impeachment works – and how it has played out in the past.
November 15
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Opinion
Locking up extremists isn’t working in our cash-strapped prisons
The Guardian - Alan Travis
However long convicted terrorists are locked up, with the exception of a limited number, they are all going to have to be released eventually The contrast could not have been sharper. David Merritt, the
6 days ago
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World News
Did an American Billionaire Philanthropist Play a Role in the Imprisonment of Iranian Environmentalists?
The Intercept - Murtaza Hussain
In September 2017, a group of Iranian environmentalists working on Asiatic cheetah preservation with the Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation felt a …
November 27
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ICIJ
China Uses DNA to Map Faces, With Help From the West
The New York Times - Sui-Lee Wee and Paul Mozur
TUMXUK, China — In a dusty city in the Xinjiang region on China’s western frontier, the authorities are testing the rules of science. With a million or more ethnic Uighurs and others from predominantly
4 days ago
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Idlib
US forces kill jihadist leader in Syria with precision 'ninja' missile that chops up targets with blades
The Telegraph - By Josie Ensor and Raf Sanchez
US forces are thought to have killed a senior jihadist leader in northern Syria using a rarely deployed “Ninja” missile which attacks targets with precision sword-like blades. The Hellfire missile, or
3 days ago
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Opinion
How one girl's survival should inspire us all
CNN - Opinion by Mirza Dinnayi
(CNN) — In 2014, Lamya Haji Bashar was a 15-year-old woman in Kocho, a sleepy Yazidi farming village in northern Iraq. On Sunday, August 3, 2014, her life changed forever when ISIS swept through the ISIS
November 25
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Climate Change
Could climate tipping points lead to collapse of human civilisation? | New Scientist
newscientist.com - By Adam Vaughan
A team of influential scientists has warned that the world faces the risk of “an existential threat to civilization” due to mounting evidence that …
November 27
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Technology
The Hunt for Jeffrey Epstein’s Hidden Files
The New York Times
When a big bear of a man in flip-flops showed up with a bottle of Japanese whiskey promising to deliver evidence implicating some of the world’s richest and most powerful men in an epic cover-up of sexual
5 days ago
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GOP Has Become Russia's 'Most Important Global Asset' by Pushing 'Bonkers' Ukraine Conspiracy, Senator Says
newsweek.com
Democratic Senator Chris Murphy has hit out at the GOP for propagating conspiracy theories regarding Ukraine, describing the party as an "important …
5 days ago
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World News
Blocked roads then bullets: Iran's brutal crackdown in its City of Roses
The Guardian - Michael Safi
“What are you scared of?” the woman in the black coat shouts. “Help me to understand.” She marches up to a man in uniform guarding the petrol station. “You’re ruining us,” she screams, as the man walks
6 days ago
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CIA
CIA Whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling’s Life as an “Unwanted Spy”
The Intercept - Intercepted
Subscribe to the Intercepted podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, Radio Public, and other platforms. New to podcasting? Click here. House …
November 27
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Politics
How America Ends
The Atlantic - Yoni Appelbaum
A tectonic demographic shift is under way. Can the country hold together? Democracy depends on the consent of the losers. For most of the 20th century, parties and candidates in the United States have
6 days ago
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Florida Teenager Accused of Accidentally Killing Two Friends with a Single Shot While Playing with Gun
newsweek.com
A Florida teenager will reportedly face charges as an adult after being accused of fatally shooting two friends while playing with a firearm earlier …
November 28
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Donald Trump Running Military to Serve Interests of Fox News Rather Than the Country: CNN National Security Experts
newsweek.com
National security experts have said President Donald Trump is making military decisions as Commander-in-Chief based on what he sees on Fox News …
November 28
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Science
Could your next cell phone wreck our weather forecasts?
National Geographic - How to Accurately Predict Weather
Faint signals from water vapor power our super-accurate forecasts—and if we’re not careful, scientists warn, 5G could drown some of them out. In 2012, Hurricane Sandy came barreling down on the East Coast.
November 26
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Long-form Journalism
'A dizzying maze': how the UK immigration system is geared to reject
The Guardian - Written by Maya Goodfellow, read by Lucy Scott and produced by Esther Opoku-Gyeni
November 25
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Aviation
Critics slam FAA testing for airplane seat sizes
CBS News
The Federal Aviation Administration has started testing the safety of seat sizes on airplanes. But some say the tests are a "sham." Kris Van Cleave …
November 27
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With world leaders gathering in Madrid next week for their annual bargaining session over how to avert a climate catastrophe, the latest assessment issued by the United Nations said Tuesday that green …
News
‘Bleak’ U.N. Report on a Planet in Peril Looms Over New Climate Talks
The New York Times - Somini Sengupta
November 26
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Climate Change
Our Planet May Be Barreling Toward a Tipping Point
WIRED - Matt Simon
A thawing Antarctica, a transforming Amazon, and other devastating changes may be more likely than scientists previously believed. When we’re talking …
November 27