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BirdLife International

+ The only recovery is a green recovery— As businesses wake from hibernation and the world eases itself into something close to normal, global attention turns to economic recovery – bu...
+ Wetland birds win battle against lead-based hunting— In Europe, every year, 20,000 tons of lead hunting ammunition is shot into our natural environment, and more than one million waterbirds die fr...
+ The Greater Prairie-chicken: playing chicken with extinction— Despite being over-hunted to the brink of extinction, this flamboyant member of the grouse family may now be starting to recover. Discover its ...
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LA Times Environment

+ Review: 'Scuse me while I 'Kiss the Ground': How soil might be Earth's climate change savior—The documentary "Kiss the Ground," narrated by Woody Harrelson, makes the case that by regenerating the Earth's soils, we can balance the climate and ...
+ Runway to roof: Chanel's $35-million solar-power play to help low-income Californians—The partnership between San Francisco-based Sunrun and the French brand aims to save 10,000 households $50 a month off electricity bills.
+ Op-Ed: California's burning; Americans are dying. I'm safe in Finland. Why would I ever go home? —I'm a Northern Californian but I find myself inching toward a status I never dreamed of: expat.
+ California's largest-ever fire threatens cannabis farms worth millions. Many won't evacuate—Authorities want communities to evacuate from the approaching August Complex fire, but some weed growers are staying put, with lucrative buds close to...
+ 'If you think it's bad now, just wait': California faces new fire threats, further straining resources—A new heat wave is building in California, bringing dangerous fire weather to parts of the already fire-scarred state. And fire season is just beginni...
+ 'If you think it's bad now, just wait': California faces threat of more infernos soon—A new heat wave is building in California, bringing dangerous fire weather to parts of the already fire-scarred state. And fire season is just beginni...
+ Californians divided on party lines about climate change's role in fires, poll finds —Despite widespread agreement among California voters that wildfires now pose a greater threat, large divisions remain over role of climate change
+ Tensions rise in Ecuador and Peru as Chinese fishing fleet moves south from Galapagos—A Chinese fishing fleet of roughly 300 vessels has been scooping up sea life near the Galapagos Islands and is now moving south into Peruvian waters.
+ Northern California and Bay Area face high winds, critical fire danger this weekend—Gusty offshore winds will lead to critical fire danger in parts of Northern California over the weekend. PG&E is watching to see if power shutdown...
+ Here is Newsom's plan to allow only zero-emissions car sales in California by 2035—Here are the key points of Gov. Gavin Newsom's plan to allow only zero-emissions car sales in California by 2035.
+ Sales of new gas-powered cars banned in California by 2035: What you need to know—California Gov. Gavin Newsom's executive order to ban new combustion cars by 2035 will reshape the California car market.
+ Newsom orders 2035 phaseout of gas-powered vehicles, calls for fracking ban—California would be the first U.S. state to mandate 100% zero-emission vehicles, though 15 countries have committed to phasing out gas-powered cars.
+ Volkswagen seeks to leave 'dieselgate' behind with all-electric compact SUV, the ID.4—Volkswagen, after its diesel emissions cheating scandal, goes all in on electric cars with no tailpipe emissions at all.
+ Los Angeles hid a methane leak for a year. Activists want the power plant shut down—Valley Generating Station helped L.A. avoid blackouts. But it operates in one of California's most polluted neighborhoods.
+ Fall in Southern California begins the race between rains and Santa Ana winds —The arrival of fall can mean some cooler temperatures, but also Santa Ana winds in Southern California
+ California grants western Joshua trees temporary endangered species protections —California officials have taken the unusual step of granting temporary endangered species status to the western Joshua tree.
+ Environmentalists plan lawsuit challenging Newsom over oil and gas drilling permits—The Center for Biological Diversity accused Newsom of being friendly to California's oil industry and issuing new permits without proper environmental...
+ Elon Musk expected to tout 'million-mile battery.' Here's what that means—Electric vehicle battery technology is advancing – but don't expect dramatic developments any time soon -- from Tesla or anyone else.
+ Fires continue to take a toll on California air quality—Officials issued another smoke advisory for part of Southern California through Monday afternoon and parts of the Sierra Nevada have foul air quality.
+ Column: Sharks moving north, redwood growth slowing, mosquitoes biting — this is California's altered state —We need to listen to nature's chorus about the alarming effects of climate change and act to reverse it, columnist Steve Lopez writes.
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Nature

+ Daily briefing: More heat means less ice, higher seas — and no going back—Nature, Published online: 24 September 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-02736-0Chilling findings about the vulnerability of the Antarctic ice sheet. Plus,...
+ Author Correction: Floating under a levitating liquid—Nature, Published online: 23 September 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2789-4Author Correction: Floating under a levitating liquid
+ Integration of innate immune signaling by caspase-8 cleavage of N4BP1—Nature, Published online: 24 September 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2796-5Integration of innate immune signaling by caspase-8 cleavage of N4BP1
+ Cells of the adult human heart—Nature, Published online: 24 September 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2797-4Cells of the adult human heart
+ How helping my international students succeed helped everyone—Nature, Published online: 24 September 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-02730-6By fixing a systematic problem in my exams, I helped all of my students — n...
+ Diversity in science: next steps for research group leaders—Nature, Published online: 23 September 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-02681-yMany institutions publicly pledged their commitment to inclusion after Blac...
+ The first-ever image of a black hole is now a movie—Nature, Published online: 23 September 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-02717-3Pictures created from old observations show the void’s stormy evolution ove...
+ ‘Apocalyptic’ fires are ravaging the world’s largest tropical wetland—Nature, Published online: 25 September 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-02716-4Infernos in South America’s Pantanal region have burnt twice the area of Ca...
+ Daily briefing: Songbirds didn’t have to shout during the ‘anthropause’—Nature, Published online: 25 September 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-02742-2Songbirds sang softer, better tunes when people stayed at home because of t...
+ Illustration: get your research the attention it deserves—Nature, Published online: 24 September 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-02660-3Three scientific artists explain how to create impact with attractive visua...
+ Making radiation oncology more personal—Nature, Published online: 23 September 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-02677-8The technology to fine-tune radiotherapy to an individual is here, but a la...
+ COVID research updates: The immune breakdown linked to dire illness—Nature, Published online: 25 September 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-00502-wNature wades through the literature on the new coronavirus — and summarizes...
+ Mapping carbon accumulation potential from global natural forest regrowth—Nature, Published online: 23 September 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2686-xA one-kilometre-resolution map of aboveground carbon accumulation rates of f...
+ The maternal microbiome modulates fetal neurodevelopment in mice—Nature, Published online: 23 September 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2745-3Small molecules that arise from the maternal gut microbiome in pregnant dams...
+ Light-driven post-translational installation of reactive protein side chains—Nature, Published online: 23 September 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2733-7A wide range of side chains are installed into proteins by addition of photo...
+ Host–microbiota maladaptation in colorectal cancer—Nature, Published online: 23 September 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2729-3This Review describes the interplay between host genetics, host immunity and...
+ Modulating TRADD to restore cellular homeostasis and inhibit apoptosis—Nature, Published online: 23 September 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2757-zThe adaptor protein TRADD is a regulator of both cellular homeostasis and ap...
+ COVID-vaccine results are on the way — and scientists’ concerns are growing—Nature, Published online: 25 September 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-02706-6Researchers warn that vaccines could stumble on safety trials, be fast-trac...
+ Shared yet dissociable neural codes across eye gaze, valence and expectation—Nature, Published online: 23 September 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2740-8The primate amygdala contains a shared neural circuitry for eye gaze and for...
+ Encounters with inequality lead to demands for taxes on the rich—Nature, Published online: 23 September 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-02526-8A field experiment reveals that people are more likely to demand that rich ...
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Reuters Environment

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Yale Environment 360

+ The World’s Largest Wind Turbines to Be Used for North Sea Project—The world’s largest offshore wind project — the 3.6-gigawatt Dogger Bank farm in the North Sea — announced it will be using the world's largest turbin...
+ Natural Debate: Do Forests Grow Better With Our Help or Without?—Nations around the world are pledging to plant billions of trees to grow new forests. But a new study shows that the potential for natural forest regr...
+ Ecuador’s Highest Court Will Allow Communities to Vote on Mining Projects—Ecuador’s Constitutional Court has ruled that communities have the right to vote on whether to allow large and medium-sized mining projects in their a...
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Breaking

ABC News

+ President Trump intends to pick Amy Coney Barrett for Supreme Court seat: Sources—A week after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, President Trump was homing in on a replacement for the iconic jurist, sources close to the president...
+ Barr briefed Trump on investigation into discarded Pennsylvania ballots —Attorney General Barr personally briefed President Trump on an investigation into a small number of discarded ballots in Pennsylvania, prior to it bei...
+ NASA astronaut plans to cast her ballot from space station—NASA astronaut Kate Rubins told The Associated Press on Friday that she plans to cast her next vote from space – more than 200 miles above Earth...
+ White House ordered to have sign language at virus briefings—A federal judge has ordered the White House to begin providing sign-language interpretation at White House coronavirus briefings starting Thursday [Ca...
+ Court revives House's challenge of Trump wall funding—A federal appeals court has revived a House challenge of President Donald Trump’s use of Defense Department money to build a border wall after D...
+ Minnesota halts COVID-19 study after reports of intimidation—Minnesota officials have stopped a COVID-19 testing study after multiple reports that state and federal public health workers were greeted by racial a...
+ Landlords suing to push back against eviction ban—Landlords are going to courts around the country, claiming that a national eviction moratorium unfairly strains their finances and infringes on their ...
+ 'So many bodies,' says ambulance driver as India struggles to stem COVID-19 deaths—India is seeing new coronavirus cases and deaths daily, but businesses have begun to reopen. [Category: International]
+ School, teen agree to end lawsuit over sexual assault note—The Cape Elizabeth School Department has agreed to remove any record of discipline against a student who posted a note about sexual assault last year ...
+ White House again criticizes FBI director for voting remarks—FBI Director Christopher Wray was the target of White House criticism for the second time in a week Friday as Chief of Staff Mark Meadows criticized r...
+ Obama endorses Warnock in crowded Georgia Senate race—Former President Barack Obama has added his name to the list of prominent Democrats endorsing the Rev. Raphael Warnock in Georgia’s special U.S....
+ LIVE: ABC News Live—24/7 coverage of breaking news and live events [Category: Live]
+ Queen Elizabeth II to trim costs as COVID-19 hits income—Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and her family are facing a 35 million pound ($45 million) hit from the coronavirus pandemic, partly due to a short...
+ Two more former paperboys come forward to allege sexual abuse by supervisor: Lawsuit—The complaint alleges that the misconduct was known among newspaper staff. [Category: US]
+ As COVID-19 cancels most youth sports seasons, some parents pursue legal action—As a few turn to lawsuits, expert says organized sports 'problematic at best.' [Category: Health]
+ North Korea issues rare apology after killing South Korean official at sea—North Korea sent an apology letter to South Korea’s presidential office on Friday. [Category: International]

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Africa

+ Tunisia: Psychiatrist Warns of Lockdown Dangers for Children—Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi stated that another lockdown is not in view in Tunisia - in spite of a climb in coronavirus infections. International f...
+ African Court of Justice Deems Gbagbo Worthy of Ivorian Presidency—The African Court of Human and Peoples' Rights ruled on Friday to reject the exclusion of former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo from the upcoming pr...
+ Senegal’s First Professional Surfer Khadjou Sambe is Making Waves—Undeterred by the postponement of the Olympic Games, Khadjou Sambe, Senegal's first professional surfer - male or female, trains when weather conditio...
+ UAE's market leading property developer Aldar, upbeat about real estate market recovery—The COVID-19 pandemic has sent ripples through global real estate markets. According to property advisory & investment firm, Jones Lang LaSal...
+ Hotel Rwanda 'Hero' Admits His Role in Armed Group for Diplomacy—An Appeal on Denied Bail The polarising hero of the oscar-nominated hit movie 'Hotel Rwanda,' Paul Rusesabagina — who is currently on trial on 13 ch...
+ Guinea-Bissau holds independence celebration despite virus threat —Guinea-Bissau held a big gathering in its capital to mark its 47th independence anniversary at a time when huge rallies are being discouraged as a mea...
+ Mali swears in interim president Ndaw—Mali on Friday swore in Bah Ndaw as its interim president. In his inauguration speech in the capital Bamako, the retired army Colonel pledged to en...
+ LeBron James unhappy with Breonna Taylor ruling—They are only one win away from the NBA finals after their Thursday victory over the Denver Nuggets, but a lot would be remembered about this day for ...
+ Senegalese Beach Cleanup Efforts—Environmental activist Medoune Ndoye alias Medza, has been on a mission for months to clean up the coastline of his native town Bargny in Senegal who...
+ Sudan begins cleaning up after devastating floods —Nearly 830,000 people have been affected by the devastating floods in Sudan, the UN Office for Humanitarian Affairs said on Thursday, even though floo...
+ Fighting Climate Change in Africa With Innovative Financing {Business Africa}—This week, Business Africa takes a journey across the continent telling stories of bounty harvests, debt relief and innovative financing solutions t...
+ French club Marseille launches rap outfit —Marseille took a historic step in the music industry on Thursday after the news that the French Ligue 1 club had launched a rap label alongside music ...
+ Guinea-Bissau holds independence celebration as virus threat remains —Guinea-Bissau held a big gathering in its capital to mark its 47th independence anniversary at a time when huge rallies are being discouraged as a mea...
+ Guinea's opposition urges ECOWAS intervention as vote looms —Guinea’s main opposition leader called on neighboring West African states to help to stop a political crisis in Guinea where President Alpha Conde is ...
+ #JerusalemaDanceChallenge Sweeps South Africa on Heritage Day—A Dancing Nation In South Africa, Heritage Day was celebrated to the rhythm of the famous hit by the South African DJ Master KG. Across the countr...
+ South African Airports Prep for International Flights —As South Africa will open its borders on October 1 following the public address given by President Cyril Ramaphosa highlighting the nations significa...
+ Senegalese Goalkeeper Édouard Mendy Signs €24M Contract with Chelsea—Senegalese football player, Édouard Mendy, has signed a 24 million euro five-year contract with Chelsea - making him the most expensive Ligue 1 goalke...
+ French bank probed for role in Sudan war crimes —French authorities have began probing banking giant BNP Paribas which is accused of aiding war crimes allegedly committed in Sudan's Darfur region. ...
+ Elumelu, Muyembe and Tambadou among world's most influential people - Time Magazine—Nigerian philanthropist Tony Elumelu is one of the most recognizable African names on Time Magazine's 100 most influential people list for 2020. Thr...
+ EU Might Train Mozambican Forces to Aid in Anti-Jihadist Resistance—Portuguese Foreign Minister Augusto Santos Silva asserted his certainty regarding the support the European Union will provide to Mozambique in trainin...
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CSM

+ Points of Progress: Zimbabwe bans mining in parks, and more—In good news this week: Coal mining companies can no longer extract resources from Zimbabwe’s largest nature reserve – plus more positive headlines. [...
+ Rising from pandemic, the business success stories of tomorrow?—After a plunge in March, the number of business applications by firms that are likely to hire employees is 12% ahead of last year’s pace. [Link to med...
+ At UN assembly quieted by a pandemic, the US-China clash is loud—The U.N. General Assembly is one place global issues of common concern are tackled. What happens to such efforts in a pandemic? What is left? [Link to...
+ Native American women shape how museums frame Indigenous culture—A Native American exhibition at the Field Museum in Chicago features the contributions of Crow, or Apsáalooke, women and proclaims: We are still here....
+ An embrace of law to curb China’s bullying—The Philippines has joined a chorus of nations asserting international law over Beijing’s claims to remote islands. [Link to media]
+ In Portland, a peaceful protest caravan rolls on—There’s a different side to Portland protests than shown on TV. Our reporter joined a twice-weekly peaceful protest caravan organized by the grandmoth...
+ Kim Jong Un apologizes to South Korea over shooting incident—In an unusual and rare move, North Korea leader Kim Jong Un apologized for the fatal shooting of a South Korea official on Friday. Mr. Kim’s apology i...
+ Louisville protesters: More must be done for Breonna Taylor—People in Louisville, Kentucky, took to the streets after no officers were charged in the killing of Breonna Taylor. The case has exposed the divide i...
+ During the coronavirus lockdown, some birds changed their tune—A study of white-crowned sparrows in San Francisco found that, as the city quieted, the birds began singing more softly and with a broader range. [Lin...
+ Federal judge gives census count another month—A California federal judge ruled that the census could continue its count through October, extending its most recent September deadline. The judge sai...
+ From sports violence to scandals, what’s a fan to do?—In “Loving Sports When They Don’t Love You Back,” Jessica Luther and Kavitha A. Davidson explain how to remain a fan while recognizing problems. [Link...
+ Supreme Court: Would Trump pick inevitably mean a sharp right turn?—With consolidated conservative majority, the slow chisel of legal change could accelerate on federal regulation and abortion and gun rights. [Link to ...
+ For Estonian women, military service increasingly attracts as a career—Women in Estonia are opting for professional soldiering in increasing numbers, despite being excused from mandatory service. Why? [Link to media]
+ Finding justice for Breonna Taylor—Like other cities following police violence, Louisville is relying on a local desire for social harmony and justice to drive needed reforms. [Link to ...
+ For Tibetan refugees, the India-China border rift is personal—Tibetan refugees in India hope that renewed global attention to the India-China border could bring greater recognition for their community. [Link to m...
+ EU proposes migration policy reforms for more equal distribution—The European Union is hoping to overhaul its migration policies and distribute the costs and responsibility of taking in migrants more evenly across t...

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HBR

+ How to Make 3D Printing Better—Inconsistent output has stymied widespread adoption. [Author: Richard A. D’AveniAnkush Venkatesh] [Category: Manufacturing, Technology, Digital Ar...
+ How VR Training Can Help Turn Employees Into Leaders - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM OCULUS FOR BUSINESS—Sponsor content from Oculus Business. [Category: Innovation, Productivity, Technology, Sponsor Content]
+ Introducing Season 6—Women at Work returns October 5 with candid conversations and practical advice that’ll help get you through the messiness of 2020. Plus, we have...
+ How to Harness the Digital Transformation of the Covid Era—Recommendations for policy-makers and businesses. [Author: Federica SaliolaAsif M. Islam] [Category: Economic development, Policy, Technology, Dig...
+ The Art of Communicating Risk—Trust that your customers can handle uncertainty — as long as you frame it the right way. [Author: Ann CleavelandJessica Cussins NewmanSteve...
+ AI Should Change What You Do — Not Just How You Do It—What’s possible now that wasn’t before? [Author: Mike Walsh] [Category: Technology, Digital Article]
+ Gravitas Is a Quality You Can Develop—Five tips to build it — in a way that’s authentic to you. [Author: Rebecca Newton] [Category: Leadership, Communication, Influence, Di...
+ How Work Management Software Has Helped Remote Workforces Succeed - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM CHERWELL—Sponsor content from Cherwell. [Category: Managing organizations, Productivity, Sponsor Content]
+ You Don’t Have to Pivot in a Crisis—How to stay the course. [Author: Daniel IsenbergAlessandro Di Fiore] [Category: Strategy, Crisis management, Entrepreneurship, Digital Article]
+ The Next Big Breakthrough in AI Will Be Around Language—Machine-generated coding and writing are within reach. [Author: H. James WilsonPaul R. Daugherty] [Category: Technology, Digital Article]
+ Give Job Applicants with Criminal Records a Fair Chance—It won’t erase the injustices of the U.S. criminal justice system, but it can help stop its reverberations. [Author: Margie Lee-Johnson] [Ca...
+ White Coats, Black Scientists—How scientific institutions can address systemic racism. [Author: Dr. Kevin M. IlekaCourtney L. McCluneyDr. Renã A. S. Robinson] [Category: Race, ...
+ Precision Medicine Can Help Manage Pandemics More Effectively - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS—Sponsor content from Siemens Healthineers. [Category: Innovation, Research & development, Sponsor Content]
+ Industrial Firms Need to Give Their Customers a Digital Experience—More than 40% of planned purchases are now made online. [Author: Darren PerryGavin McGrathHarpreet Singh] [Category: Innovation, Customers, Digita...
+ The Subtle Art of Saying No—Author Bruce Tuglan outlines strategies for declining work through which you won’t add value — and for delivering the right kind of “...
+ Is VR the Future of Corporate Training?—The pandemic has accelerated the need for alternative solutions. [Author: Jeremy Bailenson] [Category: Technology, Developing employees, Digital A...
+ How Green Is Your Software?—Data centers will consume 8% of the world’s energy by the end of the decade. [Author: Sanjay PodderAdam BurdenShalabh Kumar SinghRegina Maru...
+ 7 Strategies for Better Group Decision-Making—What we’ve learned from behavioral science. [Author: Torben EmmerlingDuncan Rooders] [Category: Decision making, Leading teams, Digital Arti...
+ The Uncertain Future of Corporate HQs—Do companies and cities still need each other? [Author: Richard Florida] [Category: Economics & Society, Workspaces, Digital Article]
+ Start Stopping Faster—Ending wasteful projects sooner will save money — and free you to pursue better opportunities. [Author: Darrell K. RigbySarah ElkSteve Berez...
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India ET

+ Kim Jong Un 'very sorry' over killing of South Korean, Seoul says—The fisheries official was shot dead on Tuesday by North Korean soldiers, and Seoul says his body was set on fire while still in the water, apparently...
+ Covid scientists find a turning point in critical cases—The work highlights the potential for interferon-based therapies to enlarge a slowly accumulating range of Covid-19 treatments.
+ China says WHO gave blessing for coronavirus vaccine emergency use programme—WHO chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan said in Geneva this month that national regulatory authorities could approve use of medical products within the...
+ Google, Facebook CEOs could face subpoena from Senate Panel—Under committee rules, if the ranking member doesn’t agree to a subpoena request from the chairman, the chairman can call for a full committee vote on...
+ USA: Democrats crafting new $2.4 trillion stimulus bill to spur negotiations—Pelosi and treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin both raised the prospect of resuming negotiations onany indication that they’ve moved closer to a comprom...
+ India, US, Japan, Australia hold meet on Indo-Pacific under Quad framework—The MEA said the officials reiterated their firm support for ASEAN-centrality and ASEAN-led mechanisms for the Indo-Pacific, and their readiness to wo...
+ UNGA: PM Modi to outline vision of multilateralism & call for effective response to Intl terror—The theme of the 75th UNGA is “The future we want, the United Nations we need, reaffirming our collective commitment to multilateralism – confronting ...
+ Mexico president López Obrador wants to pay US water debt, stay out of US election—López Obrador, who has established apparently friendly relations with the U.S. president, has said he would appeal for "understanding" from Trump if n...
+ DRDO completes key process relating to Pinaka rockets, launchers and related equipment—The DGQA is responsible for ensuring quality specifications and standards of all defence equipment. "An important milestone was achieved today when Au...
+ Positive pay system for cheque payments to come into effect from January 1, 2021: RBI—Under the positive pay system, the issuer of the cheque will be required to submit electronically, through SMS, mobile app, internet banking or ATM ce...
+ Bihar Opposition faces in-house shortcomings in tapping JDU-BJP anti-incumbency—The coalition primarily lacks an inspiring leadership — be it RJD’s Tejashwi Yadav or Congress’ Rahul Gandhi — to galvanise the rank and file on the b...
+ Bihar Opposition faces in-house inability to tap JDU-BJP anti-incumbency—The coalition primarily lacks an inspiring leadership — be it RJD’s Tejashwi Yadav or Congress’ Rahul Gandhi — to galvanise the rank and file on the b...
+ CAG pulls up former J&K govt on non-transparent expenditure—In 2017-18, the state government was dependent on grants-in-aid from the Centre to the extent of 47 per cent of revenue receipts during 2017-18. Grant...
+ ADB approves USD 570 million loans for urban projects in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh—It further said that through the project, water supply systems in at least eight project towns are expected to improve by 2027, with about 1,00,000 ho...
+ India rejects China's push at military talks on Ladakh standoff to start disengagement from south bank of Pangong Tso: Sources—Though differences and contrasting views between the armies of India and China on the disengagement process marked the talks, both sides were on the s...
+ Farm bills trigger a contest among Punjab parties to woo farmers—The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which had collapsed in Punjab after a spectacular debut, is hoping for a revival and its state chief Bhagwant Mann told ET ...
+ Trump lawyer faces tough questions from appeals court over president's tax returns—In response to a question by Circuit Judge Raymond Lohier, Consovoy could not offer a circumstance where he would view any request for documents as no...
+ Joe Biden's low-key campaign style worries some Democrats as Trump resumes large-scale rallies—Biden has had 22 days where he either didn't make public appearances, held only virtual fundraisers or ventured from his Delaware home. During the sam...
+ Federal judge says 2020 census must continue for another month—The judge sided with attorneys for civil rights groups and local governments that sued the U.S. Census Bureau, arguing that minorities and others in h...
+ India and Bangladesh to boost slew of projects at Sep 29 foreign ministers level meet—Foreign ministers of both the countries will lead their respective delegations in the meeting to be held on September 29 through virtual platform. An...
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LA Time National

+ 'I have no faith in the legal system.' Breonna Taylor's mother, attorneys gather in emotional protest —Breonna Taylor's mother says her daughter was failed by a lack of adequate investigation into the fatal shooting by Louisville police officers.
+ 'I really don't think he has done a great job': COVID-19 puts Florida at risk for Trump—COVID-19's spread in Florida jeopardizes Trump's reelection prospects in the crucial battleground state.
+ A nightmare comes true for 12 Hong Kongers arrested at sea, now in Chinese detention—What sparked Hong Kong's mass protests last year — fear of extradition to mainland China — has become a dark reality for 12 Hong Kong families.
+ In Israel, the Jewish High Holidays clash with a new coronavirus lockdown —In Israel, the holiest period on the Jewish calendar has coincided with the world's first reimposed national coronavirus lockdown.
+ A Pakistani father's ordeal: China seized his Uighur son and sent his daughters to an orphanage—China's oppression of Muslims reaches beyond Xinjiang into Pakistan. Why does it stay quiet?
+ 'A lot of hurt.' With no police charges in Breonna Taylor case, mourning blankets Louisville and nation—In Louisville, Ky., two police officers were recovering after being shot during protests after Breonna Taylor case grand jury returns. "Violence will ...
+ 'We are fighting for real democracy': Why protesters are taking on Thailand's king—Tattep Ruangprapaikitseree and other young activists want to rein in the monarchy and its military allies who have ruled Thailand since a 2014 coup.
+ Protests erupt after grand jury does not charge Louisville officers in killing of Breonna Taylor—The death of Breonna Taylor nearly slipped into obscurity. But protesters made it a national cause celebre. On Wednesday, a grand jury indicted only o...
+ 'These voices aren't going to stop': Hundreds in L.A. protest over Breonna Taylor case—Wednesday evening, the decision in Louisville, Ky., not to charge police officers with the death of Breonna Taylor prompted new outrage.
+ Tensions rise in Ecuador and Peru as Chinese fishing fleet moves south from Galapagos—A Chinese fishing fleet of roughly 300 vessels has been scooping up sea life near the Galapagos Islands and is now moving south into Peruvian waters.
+ Young adults are now the largest group of Americans getting COVID-19, CDC says—The median age of people with COVID-19 in the U.S. has declined, with adults in their 20s now accounting for more cases than people in any other age g...
+ 'Change the laws!': Celebrities rage over 'insulting' charge in Breonna Taylor case—Common, Kerry Washington, George Clooney, Viola Davis and others expressed anger and disbelief over Wednesday's grand jury decision in Breonna Taylor'...
+ College openings fueled 3,000 COVID-19 cases per day, researchers say—College reopenings around the country drove a coronavirus surge of about 3,000 new cases a day in the U.S., according to a draft study released this w...
+ Threats of arrest, job loss and surveillance. China targets its 'model minority'—China's forceful implementation of a new language policy in Inner Mongolia has drawn criticism, even from the Communist Party elite.
+ Door-knocking in the COVID era: When 'get out the vote' becomes 'get people help'—Door-knockers are finding a landscape changed by COVID-19. In Arizona they are lifelines for communities that could decide the presidential election.
+ The museum closed first. As in many states, New Mexico's small towns bear the brunt of the pandemic—As the federal government is cutting funding to states, municipalities like Lordsburg, N.M., are struggling with unemployment and a devastated tax bas...
+ Trump slams China in U.N. speech echoing his campaign themes—President Trump hit China unusually hard in a video address to a virtual United Nations General Assembly, with two audiences in mind: global and U.S. ...
+ More than 200,000 people have died of COVID-19 in the U.S.—Deaths from COVID-19 in the U.S. reach 200,000 as authorities across the country continue to struggle to curb its spread.
+ These gloves help fight COVID-19. But they're made in sweatshop conditions—U.S. trade bans are spurring labor reforms in Malaysia, which produces two-thirds of the world's disposable gloves.
+ Against rising intolerance, a transgender Indonesian woman finds acceptance in a remote village—Hendrika Mayora Victoria Kelan is being hailed as one of the only transgender public officials in Indonesia. The Southeast Asian nation is ranked amon...
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Latest UPI

+ Reports: President Donald Trump to name Amy Coney Barrett as Supreme Court nominee— President Donald Trump plans to nominate Judge Amy Coney Barrett to succeed Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court, unnamed sources familiar with t...
+ Kyle Rittenhouse to fight extradition to Wisconsin to face homicide charges— The defense team for Kyle Rittenhouse said it plans to fight his extradition from Illinois to Wisconsin to face two homicide charges for a shooting t...
+ Poll: Majority of Americans want 2020 winner to make Supreme Court nomination— A majority of Americans believe whoever is elected president in November should be the one to nominate the jurist to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg on t...
+ Store sells two jackpot-winning lottery tickets in two weeks— The Pennsylvania Lottery said an unusually lucky store in Montgomery County sold a $379,545 jackpot winning ticket just two weeks after selling a $1....
+ Space Force to start flying on reused SpaceX rockets— The U.S. Space Force will start to launch missions on reused SpaceX rockets next year to save millions of dollars, the service announced Friday.
+ Look: Antiques dealer seeking family from 100-year-old wedding photo— A West Virginia antiques dealer is trying to identify the people pictured in a nearly 100-year-old wedding photo so the item can be turned over to th...
+ In photos: Mourning Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg— Mourners honor the life and legacy of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died on September 18, 2020 at age 87. She had pancreatic ca...

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McClatchly All

+ Trump expected to nominate Amy Coney Barrett as next Supreme Court Justice—President Donald Trump is expected to nominate Amy Coney Barrett to be the next Supreme Court Justice after the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. … ...
+ Trump expected to nominate Amy Coney Barrett, a conservative Catholic, for Supreme Court seat—President Donald Trump is expected to name Amy Coney Barrett of Indiana as his nominee to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme ...
+ Some parents are sending kids with COVID-19 to class. What can schools do about it?—School officials across the country are sharing in frustration, disbelief, and worry over a problem many didn’t anticipate when reopening America’s cl...
+ President Trump: Black Lives Matter is destroying Black lives—In Atlanta, GA, President Trump touted his plan to boost economic opportunities for Black Americans while declaring that Black Lives Matter is 'destro...
+ ‘I am doing fine.’ Ron Paul appears to recover after an on-camera medical emergency.—Former congressman and Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, the father of Kentucky U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, appeared to have a medical emergency du...
+ People are hurting as unemployment boost runs out. Why don’t lawmakers have a deal?—The $300 a week unemployment benefit has expired. States and cities can’t get the federal funds they say they desperately need to help pay for police,...
+ President Trump says Joe Biden is more likeable than Hillary Clinton—At the 2020 Council for National Policy meeting in Arlington, VA, President Trump compared Joe Biden to Hillary Clinton. In a campaign style speech, T...
+ CDC forecasts 20,000 more coronavirus deaths by mid-October—About 20,000 more people will die from the coronavirus by mid-October, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention predicts. The CDC projects 214,0...
+ How a Coral Gables lawyer and an ex-Miami cop became cogs in massive alleged Ponzi scheme—John Gerant has played several roles in his life — Miami police officer, pilot, Realtor, drug trafficker and informant for the Drug Enforcement Admini...
+ Ginsburg becomes first woman to lie in state at U.S. Capitol—The late justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg became the first woman to lie in state at the United States Capitol on September 25, 2020. … Click to Conti...
+ If Biden wins over white Catholics, he could take the Rust Belt from Trump—Bianca Labrador is a pro-life Catholic who has always voted for Republican presidential candidates, including Donald Trump. It’s a decision she has co...
+ What is a PAC (Political Action Committee)?—Running a campaign for any office is expensive. That's where the campaign finance vehicle known as a Political Action Committee can help. Here's what ...
+ Ginsburg’s trainer does push-ups as late Supreme Court justice lies in state—Bryant Johnson, the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s personal trainer, does push-ups as Ginsburg lies in state in the U.S. Capitol on September 25, 2020. &#...
+ Police respond to scene of Paris knife attack—At least two people were injured in a knife attack near the former offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris on September 25. … Click to Contin...
+ Tillis says he has ‘grave concerns’ about voting by mail in NC after board settlement—U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis said Thursday he has “grave concerns” about North Carolina’s absentee by-mail system, less than two days after he said he had so...
+ Donald Trump riles up thousands of supporters at Jacksonville rally—As Florida counties began sending out domestic ballots Thursday, the president landed in Jacksonville to reiterate the claim he’s been making to voter...
+ Trump wants new national holiday as part of outreach to Black America—President Donald Trump will pursue the creation of a federal holiday for Juneteenth, which commemorates the cessation of slavery, a top adviser said T...
+ Witness signature now required on SC absentee ballots, federal appeals court rules—An injunction by a Columbia federal judge to allow easier absentee voting during the coronavirus pandemic was overturned Thursday by a three-judge pan...
+ Trump won’t commit to peaceful transfer of power — so what could happen if he loses?—Recent comments from President Donald Trump have revived a hot-button question regarding the Nov. 3 election:What happens if he loses but refuses to l...
+ Birx says role on White House COVID-19 task force is not ‘diminished’ at Auburn visit—Dr. Deborah Birx, the coordinator of the White House coronavirus task force, said Thursday she has no plans to leave her position after sources close ...
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NYT

+ How Trump and Biden Are Courting the Catholic Vote—Joseph Biden’s supporters are highlighting his Catholic faith and values while President Trump, with a Supreme Court selection looming, is operating o...
+ ’12 More Years’ Crowd Chants as Trump Jokes in Atlanta—President Trump complained that when he jests about serving more than two terms, he is accused of being “a dictator.” Here’s the latest.
+ Outdoor Dining in N.Y.C. Will Become Permanent, Even in Winter—The program has become a vital lifeline and allowed more than 10,000 restaurants and bars to take over sidewalks, streets and other public spaces. [Ca...
+ Florida Lifts State Restaurant Restrictions: Live Covid-19 Updates—Two former leaders of a Massachusetts veterans’ home were indicted on charges of criminal neglect related to the deaths of at least 76 residents. Isra...
+ Trump Selects Amy Coney Barrett to Fill Ginsburg’s Seat on the Supreme Court—The president’s nomination of Judge Barrett, a favorite of conservatives, to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, will kick off a furious and unpreced...
+ Daily Distortions: What Went Viral This Week—Reports of missing children and stories from a right-wing satire site made up the week’s most highly engaged stories on social media.
+ Would Amy Coney Barrett on the Supreme Court Cost the G.O.P. the Senate?—Mitch McConnell has a tricky needle to thread. [Category: Elections, Senate, Elections, State Legislature, Presidential Election of 2020, ActBlue, Dem...
+ Making History, Ginsburg Is Honored at a Capitol Divided Over Replacing Her—Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg lay in state in Statuary Hall in a ceremony choreographed to allow the women of Congress to honor her legacy and the examp...
+ Supreme Court, Florida, ‘Father of the Bride’: Your Friday Evening Briefing—Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.
+ New York Threatens Coronavirus Lockdown for Orthodox Jewish Areas—Community leaders said residents have resisted the rules in part because of the influence of President Trump, whose views on masks have been embraced....
+ To Conservatives, Barrett Has ‘Perfect Combination’ of Attributes for Supreme Court—Judge Amy Coney Barrett is regarded as the leading contender to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. [Category: Barrett, Amy Coney, Supreme Court (US)...
+ Ginsburg, Obama and the Lunch That Could Have Altered Supreme Court History—President Obama met with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, hinting at retirement, but the art of nudging justices off the court is politically delicate and...
+ Alphabet Settles Shareholder Suits Over Sexual Harassment Claims—Google’s parent company was hit with a wave of lawsuits after The New York Times reported that an accused executive had received a $90 million exit pa...
+ Ruth Bader Ginsburg Breaks One Final Barrier—Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg became the first woman and the first Jewish American to lie in state in the United States Capitol. Catch up here.
+ White House Hits F.B.I. for Pushing Back on False Claims of Voter Fraud—The White House chief of staff belittled the F.B.I. director after President Trump baselessly claimed mail-in ballots were a “scam.” Here’s the latest...
+ ‘I Feel Sorry for Americans’: A Baffled World Watches the U.S.—From Myanmar to Canada, people are asking: How did a superpower allow itself to be felled by a virus? And why won’t the president commit to a peaceful...
+ Trump’s Corona Coronation—“There won’t be a transfer, frankly. There will be a continuation.” How could the president makes his intentions any clearer? [Category: United States...
+ Her Study Center Was Bombed. She Still Topped Afghanistan’s National University Exam.—Shamsea Alizada’s story of persistence is a reminder of advances in girls’ education in Afghanistan — and their vulnerability as the government negoti...
+ Are Republican Judges Putting Their Thumbs on the Electoral Scale?—Recent decisions certainly suggest as much. [Category: Appeals Courts (US), Ex-Convicts, Twenty-Sixth Amendment (US Constitution), Coronavirus (2019-n...
+ Coronavirus Schools Briefing—It’s back to school — or is it?
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NYT Africa

+ A Hopeful Forecast: More Accurate Long-Term Weather Predictions—Improving technology could make it possible to better anticipate weather conditions weeks in advance, especially in the tropics. [Category: Weather, S...
+ 356 Elephants Dropped Dead. Did This Bacteria Poison Them?—Some conservationists accepted the explanation provided by Botswana’s government, but others raised doubts. [Category: Elephants, Wildlife Die-Offs, B...
+ Moussa Traore, Longtime President of Mali, Is Dead at 83—He seized power in a military coup in 1968 and ruled for 22 years, before being overthrown in another coup. [Category: Deaths (Obituaries), Mali, Coup...
+ First Famines of Coronavirus Era Are at World’s Doorstep, U.N. Warns—The top U.N. relief official said parts of Yemen, South Sudan, northeast Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo are at risk, “endangering the li...
+ Mali Appoints New President After Military Coup—Regional leaders have insisted the West African country return to civilian rule. The new interim president is a retired colonel and former defense min...
+ ‘Coloured Lives Matter’: A South African Police Shooting Like No Other—He was a young man from the projects gunned down by officers near his home. But race is complicated in South Africa, and so is his story. [Category: S...
+ To Protest Colonialism, He Takes Artifacts From Museums—Mwazulu Diyabanza will appear in a Paris court this month after he tried to make off with an African treasure he says was looted. France and its attit...
+ How a Savior of Rwanda, Paul Rusesabagina, Became Its Captive—Paul Rusesabagina went from the world’s most famous Rwandan to a prisoner of his political nemesis, President Paul Kagame, whose government accuses th...
+ Le Héros d’‘Hotel Rwanda’ Pris au Piège de L’Homme Fort du Pays—Paul Rusesabagina, le plus célèbre des Rwandais, est le prisonnier de son ennemi juré, le président Paul Kagame. L’ancien hôtelier est accusé de meurt...
+ Capturing the Faces of Climate Migration—A Times Magazine series examines how climate change will force millions worldwide to move. Recently, Meridith Kohut photographed people on the front l...
+ Rwanda Hints It Tricked ‘Hotel Rwanda’ Dissident Into Coming Home—President Paul Kagame said that the arrested critic Paul Rusesabagina, now facing terrorism charges, was not kidnapped from Dubai but had been lured t...
+ Paul Rusesabagina, 'Hotel Rwanda' Hero, Gives Jailhouse Interview—Paul Rusesabagina, who mysteriously disappeared from Dubai last month and then resurfaced as a prisoner in Rwanda, says he believed he was being flown...
+ A Nigerian State Plans to Castrate Convicted Child Rapists—A harsh new law to punish those who rape children in the state of Kaduna has drawn praise from some, and accusations of “legislative sadism” from othe...
+ Afghan Migrants Charged With Arson in Fires that Destroyed Lesbos Camp—Four men are accused of involvement in the blazes at the Moria camp that left 12,000 migrants without shelter. [Category: Greece, Lesbos (Greece), Mid...
+ U.S. Military Seeks Authority to Expand Counterterrorism Drone War to Kenya—Draft rules for potential airstrikes, drawn up after a Shabab attack at a base in January, are said to be limited and would require Kenyan assent. [Ca...
+ Truck Bomb in Somalia Kills 3 and Wounds 3, Including a U.S. Soldier—No one has claimed responsibility for the attack, but the Shabab have carried out similar attacks across the Horn of Africa nation. [Category: Somalia...
+ More Than 50 Dead After Gold Mines Collapsed in Eastern Congo—Heavy rains triggered landslides that fell the mines. [Category: Landslides and Mudslides, Mines and Mining, Congo, Democratic Republic of (Congo-Kins...
+ George Bizos, Anti-Apartheid Lawyer Who Defended Mandela, Dies at 92—A champion of human rights, he represented his client and friend in the so-called Rivonia trial of leaders of the African National Congress in the 196...
+ Ethiopian Region Holds Local Elections in Defiance of Prime Minister—The government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed postponed elections this year because of the coronavirus, but the restive northern region of Tigray went a...
+ Conny Nxumalo, Advocate for South Africa’s Poor, Dies at 53—Years after helping to draft legislation that reversed apartheid-era social policies, her work exposed her to the coronavirus. She died of complicatio...
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Spiegel

+ Germans Disappointed By Coronavirus Tracking App: Lots of Work But Little Utility—Officials touted it as an important weapon in the fight against the pandemic, but there have been numerous glitches and shortcomings with Germany's co...
+ QAnon's Inexorable Spread Beyond the U.S.: The Most Dangerous Cult of Our Times—The bizarre, pro-Trump cult known as QAnon has been gaining followers in the United States for months. Now, the conspiracy theory has begun spreading ...
+ Predicting Refugee Movements? There's an App for That - A New Approach to Humanitarian Aid—According to an algorithm, the coronavirus pandemic could trigger a million people to leave their homes in the Sahel region. Such forecasts could help...
+ Mushroom Expert Merlin Sheldrake: "Fungi Can Teach Us a New Way of Looking at the World"—Fungi's role in our world has been vastly underestimated, says biologist Merlin Sheldrake. They can even make decisions, just like us. [Link to media]
+ Spain’s COVID Resurgence: The Difficult Fight against the Second Wave—The Spanish government imposed a tough coronavirus lockdown in the spring, but now, new infections are rising faster than anywhere else in the EU. The...
+ The Tesla Factory Near Berlin: Elon Musk Shows the Germans How to Move Quickly—Tesla is racing ahead with construction of its new factory just outside of Berlin. All that's left for German carmakers is to watch and learn. [Link t...
+ Harvard Philosopher Michael Sandel on the Trump Phenomenon—Critics of U.S. President Donald Trump claim he has brought ruin to the United States. For Harvard philosopher Michael Sandel, that charge is too easy...
+ Europe's Refugee Disaster: Merkel Losing Her Patience with Lack of EU Solidarity—The German government feels it has been left in the lurch by most of its EU partners on asylum policy. Even refugee hardliner Horst Seehofer, Germany'...
+ German Health Expert on Second Wave of COVID-19: More Deaths in 6 To 8 Weeks—German politician Karl Lauterbach, a member of parliament and one of the country’s leading voices on the coronavirus, warns in an interview that cases...
+ Bill Gates on COVID-19: "It's Mind-Blowing That We're Not Further Along!"—He has invested vast sums of money in the search for a coronavirus vaccine, but is also a favorite target of conspiracy theorists. In an interview, Bi...
+ German Zoo Fire in Krefeld: The Life and Death of Massa the Gorilla—When Massa the gorilla died at age 49 in a tragic fire earlier this year at the zoo in Krefeld, Germany, he was one of the oldest gorillas in Europe. ...
+ Racism and Corona: An Uphill Battle for Italy's Beach Vendors—Beach vendors in Italy have been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic. The country has seen a massive drop in tourism and the poor state of the econom...
+ Germany Unable to Reach Agreement on Sanctions against Russia—The German government wants to stand up to Moscow following the attempted murder of opposition activist Alexei Navalny. But suspending construction of...
+ Childbirth in the Pandemic: How COVID-19 Is Indirectly Killing Mothers and Babies—Since the beginning of the pandemic, the rate of death among women and infants during or shortly after birth has risen considerably. The virus has cau...
+ Rise and Fall of Spain's Former King Juan Carlos—After the end of the Franco era, King Juan Carlos I helped his country become wealthy and democratic. Today he is exiled, with his legacy clouded by p...
+ The Moria Catastrophe and the EU's Hypocritical Refugee Policy—The fire in the Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos has revealed the full hypocrisy of the European Union's refugee policy. Pressure is g...
+ Germany Must Set a Positive Example in Latest Refugee Crisis—The European Union's refugee policies are not only inhumane, they are stripping the bloc of one of the few things that sets it apart many other powers...
+ Cold Corona Comfort: Germany Braces for the Second COVID-19 Wave—In Germany, the number of coronavirus infections is once again on the rise, but the disease is killing fewer people. Still, epidemiologists warn that ...
+ "Rock Bottom": Navigating the Corona Crisis with Pianist Extraordinaire Igor Levit—In March, pianist Igor Levit agreed to allow DER SPIEGEL to follow him during his corona-lockdown house concerts and beyond. He didn't know at the tim...
+ Germany: Stimulus Measures Have Bucked the Corona Crisis—Berlin has earmarked more than 1 trillion euros in cash and loans to help the country escape the worst economic consequences of the coronavirus pandem...
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Telegraph Spain

+ London lockdown rules: The latest Covid-19 restrictions, and what Sadiq Khan has said— [Category: topics:people/sadiq-khan, topics:in-the-news/uk-coronavirus-lockdown, topics:places/london, topics:people/boris-johnson, topics:things/pan...
+ New lockdown rules for Cardiff, Swansea and North England - and local restrictions expected for London and Leeds— [Category: topics:in-the-news/uk-coronavirus-lockdown, topics:places/glasgow, topics:in-the-news/coronavirus, topics:places/greater-manchester, story...
+ Football team apologises for 'severely misjudged' decision to sign convicted domestic abuser— [Category: topics:things/football-transfers, structure:news, structure:news/uk-news, storytype:standard] [Link to media]
+ Decision in Julian Assange extradition case won't be made until after US election— [Category: structure:news, topics:events/us-election, structure:news/uk-news, topics:people/julian-assange, topics:things/law-and-order, storytype:st...
+ Andrew Neil turns down BBC to head up new television channel— [Category: structure:news, topics:organisations/media-and-telecoms, topics:organisations/bbc, structure:news/uk-news, storytype:standard] [Link to me...
+ Police officer shot dead at station in Croydon named as Matt Ratana— [Category: topics:things/crime, topics:organisations/metropolitan-police-service, structure:news, structure:news/uk-news] [Link to media]
+ Bluetooth heart monitor implant for Southampton firefighter in UK first— [Category: topics:things/hospitals, structure:news, topics:things/heart-health, structure:news/uk-news, storytype:standard] [Link to media]
+ Could schools close again if Covid-19 cases continue to rise?— [Category: topics:in-the-news/schools-reopening, topics:things/teachers, topics:organisations/primary-schools, topics:things/secondary-education, top...
+ New self-isolation law: What are the rules?— [Category: topics:things/self-isolation, topics:in-the-news/uk-coronavirus-lockdown, topics:things/coronavirus-qa, topics:in-the-news/coronavirus, st...
+ What are the new social distancing rules, and when will it end?— [Category: topics:in-the-news/uk-coronavirus-lockdown, topics:things/pandemics-epidemics, topics:things/social-distancing, topics:in-the-news/coronav...
+ Friday evening news briefing: Police officer shot dead at station in Croydon by detainee— [Category: topics:things/crime, structure:news, structure:news/uk-news, storytype:standard] [Link to media]
+ How many coronavirus cases have there been in your area? Use our tool to find out— [Category: topics:in-the-news/uk-coronavirus-lockdown, topics:in-the-news/global-health-security, topics:in-the-news/coronavirus, storytype:standard]...
+ UK Covid-19 cases and deaths: how the UK is coping with a second wave— [Category: topics:organisations/world-health-organisation, topics:in-the-news/global-health-security, structure:data-story, topics:organisations/depa...
+ Britons face ever-shrinking holiday map as Poland joins quarantine watch list— [Category: topics:in-the-news/Travel-ban, structure:news, structure:travel, structure:content-tbn, topics:in-the-news/coronavirus] [Link to media]
+ What Donald Trump needs to do to win the 2020 election— [Category: topics:people/donald-trump, topics:places/usa, topics:events/us-2020-election, topics:things/us-politics, storytype:standard]
+ Kamala Harris: how the Tony Blair of San Francisco made her name and became Joe Biden's VP pick— [Category: topics:people/joe-biden, topics:people/kamala-harris, topics:events/us-election, topics:organisations/democrats, topics:things/us-politics...
+ US election debates schedule: What time are Donald Trump and Joe Biden going head-to-head next week?— [Category: topics:people/joe-biden, topics:organisations/republicans, topics:things/us-politics, topics:organisations/democrats, topics:people/donald...
+ Two injured in Paris attack near the former offices of Charlie Hebdo— [Category: structure:news/world-news, topics:things/charlie-hebdo, structure:news, topics:places/europe, topics:places/france, topics:places/paris, s...
+ Donald Trump vs Joe Biden: How do the Republican and Democratic policies compare in the US election race?— [Category: topics:people/joe-biden, topics:people/donald-trump, topics:events/us-2020-election, topics:people/mike-pence, topics:things/us-politics, ...
+ US election poll tracker: Will Donald Trump or Joe Biden win 2020 presidency?— [Category: topics:people/joe-biden, topics:people/donald-trump, topics:events/us-2020-election, structure:data-story, topics:things/us-politics, stor...
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Politics

Aljazeera

+ Some 3,500 companies sue over Trump-imposed Chinese tariffs—They are challenging what they call the unlawful escalation of the US trade war with China via imposition of tariffs. [Category: News]
+ Parisians react to attack near Charlie Hebdo’s former offices—Knife attack comes three weeks after start of high profile trial over 2015 assault on the satirical newspaper. [Category: News]
+ Military aircraft carrying aviation students crashes in Ukraine—Reports said most of those on board the plane were students at an aviation university run by the defence ministry. [Category: News]
+ Indian gov’t ‘sponsors Islamophobia’, Pakistan PM tells UN—In UNGA speech, Pakistani leader also denounces India's moves to cement control of Muslim-majority Kashmir [Category: News]
+ Breonna Taylor’s family demands release of evidence in case—Taylor's family is demanding the release of all body camera footage, police files and court transcripts. [Category: News]
+ US landlords sue over COVID-19 eviction ban as tenants struggle—Advocates worry that overturning these bans could cause homelessness to spike and force people into crowded shelters. [Category: Economy]
+ Masks in short supply as COVID-19 and fires sweep US West Coast—Masks have been hard to find even as air quality in West Coast states ranges from merely unhealthy to hazardous. [Category: Economy]
+ Is Pakistan’s military interfering in politics?—PM Imran Khan's party denies getting help from the army to win the 2018 election. [Category: TV Shows]
+ US teen charged in Kenosha shootings fights extradition—Kyle Rittenhouse is charged in connection with shootings that killed two people at protests in US state of Wisconsin. [Category: News]
+ ‘Give diplomacy a chance’: Greece PM invites Turkey for talks—Speaking at the UN, Greek PM calls for a solution with Ankara over oil and gas drilling in the eastern Mediterranean. [Category: News]
+ Google to block political ads after US election polls close—The policy, which is designed to block all advertisements related to the election, also applies to YouTube. [Category: News]
+ Pope Francis: COVID-19 crisis a chance to ‘come out better’—In UN speech, pontiff calls for 'change of direction', urging world leaders to reform economic and social systems. [Category: News]
+ Hello skies: Boeing’s 737 MAX return to air gets boost in Europe—Test flights and a round of simulator sessions conducted this month went well, a European aviation official has said. [Category: News]
+ Facebook critics start rival, independent ‘oversight board’—The critics warn Facebook is already being used to undermine the US elections. [Category: News]
+ Queen Elizabeth II reports $45m hit in income amid pandemic—Lack of income from visitors to royal buildings is likely to bring a general funding shortfall of $19m over three years. [Category: Economy]
+ Abbas: Israel normalisation ‘violation of just and lasting’ peace—Mahmoud Abbas calls for international conference early next year to 'launch a genuine peace process'. [Category: News]
+ Ruth Bader Ginsburg honoured in historic US Capitol ceremony—Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the first woman and first Jewish person to lie in state in the Capitol. [Category: News]
+ At least 16 migrants feared dead in shipwreck off Libya: IOM—Three bodies recovered and 13 missing; 22 survivors returned to detention camp in Libya, UN agency reports. [Category: News]
+ ECOWAS to uphold Mali sanctions until civilian PM appointed—ECOWAS bloc had slapped sanctions on Mali after the military coup that toppled President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita. [Category: News]
+ US stocks tread water as uncertainty clouds outlook—Investors are coming to grips with a downshifting economic recovery and stalled government aid. [Category: News]
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BBC

+ Ukraine military plane crash: Cadets among at least 22 people killed—The aircraft, carrying air force cadets, was on a training flight when it came down near Kharkiv.
+ Ukraine military plane crash: Cadets among 20 people killed—The aircraft, carrying air force cadets, was on a training flight when it came down near Kharkiv.
+ Paris attack: Stabbing near Charlie Hebdo office 'an act of terror'—Two people were seriously wounded near the former offices of satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo.
+ Coronavirus: 'Avoid all but necessary travel across NI-Donegal border'—The chief medical officers met to discuss the rise in coronavirus cases in Donegal and the north west.
+ Paris attack: Two people stabbed near former Charlie Hebdo office—Two suspects are arrested after the incident near the scene of the deadly 2015 attack on the magazine.
+ European Commission to challenge Apple tax bill verdict—EU court ruling that the tech giant does not have to pay hefty back taxes to Ireland goes back to court.
+ Paris attack: Two hurt in stabbing near former Charlie Hebdo office—A suspect is arrested after the incident near the scene of the deadly 2015 attack on the magazine.
+ Charlie Hebdo: Two hurt in stabbing near magazine's former office—Two people are wounded in Paris near the scene of the deadly 2015 attack on the magazine.
+ Cardinal Becciu: Vatican official forced out in rare resignation—Cardinal Becciu has left his post and given up his rights as cardinal, the Holy See has confirmed.
+ The German medical students who want to learn about abortion—Lack of training is restricting access to abortion in Germany, but students are trying to change that.
+ Coronavirus: Are the lockdown restrictions too strict?—Some people, including scientists, believe the hard lockdown measures can be confusing.
+ Super Cup: Bayern Munich 2-1 Sevilla (AET) - Javi Martinez scores extra-time winner—Javi Martinez scores the winner in extra time as Bayern Munich come from behind to beat Sevilla in the Uefa Super Cup.
+ Cardinal Becciu: Vatican official resigns unexpectedly—Cardinal Becciu has left his post and given up his rights as cardinal, the Holy See has confirmed.
+ Coronavirus: Helsinki airport trials sniffer dogs as Covid-19 detectors—A team of 15 specially trained sniffer dogs has started work at Finland's biggest airport.
+ Germany far right: Intelligence chief forced out amid criticism—Christof Gramm has faced criticism for his efforts to tackle links between the army and extremism.
+ Covid: UK sees highest number of coronavirus cases since mass tests began—Latest figures show 6,634 new coronavirus cases across the UK, taking the total to 416,363.
+ Alexei Navalny has 'bank accounts frozen and flat seized'—Russia's key opposition figure, recovering from a poisoning, has had his assets frozen, his team says.
+ Maya Gabeira: The extreme surfer who went back to tame a monstrous wave—Record-breaking surfer Maya Gabeira on why she "wasn't ready to give up" after almost drowning.
+ Coronavirus: Marseille 'astonished' by new French lockdown rules—The government is set to close all restaurants and bars, prompting anger from local officials.
+ France street harassment: Strasbourg woman attacked 'for wearing skirt'—The woman in Strasbourg says she was attacked in broad daylight by three men for wearing a skirt.
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CBC Politics

+ Trudeau warns of 'climate reckoning' in UN address, urges shake-up of global establishment— Prime Minister Justin Trudeau warned world leaders on Friday of an impending "climate reckoning" and called on countries to join force...
+ O'Toole, Blanchet met with dozens of supporters before testing positive for COVID— Erin O’Toole says his COVID diagnosis shows the need to remain “extremely vigilant” in keeping the virus at bay. But social media post...
+ A new era for military search-and-rescue begins with the Kingfisher— A procurement saga more than 16 years in the making came to an end today with the arrival in Comox, British Columbia of the Royal Cana...
+ Liberals, NDP reach deal on sick leave, avoiding immediate election— The Liberal government will expand the number of people who can access the sick days, clearing the way for New Democrats to support th...
+ With no successful vaccine candidates yet, Canada signs deal to secure 20M more COVID-19 doses— Canada has signed an agreement to secure another 20 million vaccine doses as the global race for a COVID-19 vaccine intensifies. [Aut...
+ Canada signs deal to secure 20M more COVID-19 vaccine doses, though none have been proven successful yet— Canada has signed an agreement to secure another 20 million vaccine doses as the global race for a COVID-19 vaccine intensifies. [Aut...
+ Ottawa prepares to squeeze big U.S. tech firms over loss of revenue for Canadian news outlets— Advocates for Canada’s news media sector have welcomed the federal government’s clearest pledge yet to push web giants for compensatio...
+ Green Party leadership candidate Annamie Paul to run in Toronto Centre by-election— Green Party leadership candidate Annamie Paul will also run as the party's candidate in the upcoming byelection for Bill Morneau's vac...
+ Federal government wants to restore regional flights by subsidizing airlines— The federal government is finalizing a plan to subsidize airlines in order to re-establish flights to regional airports across the cou...
+ Army commander orders Canadian soldiers to call out racism in the ranks— The commander of the Canadian Army has issued a new order that requires troops to report racism and hateful conduct when they witness ...
+ House of Commons pays tribute to former prime minister John Turner— Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and representatives of the other political parties paid tribute in the House of Commons to former Libera...
+ Liberals enrich some COVID-19 benefits in new bill, urge all MPs to support it— The federal government tabled legislation today to provide what it's calling a "safe bridge" for Canadians who are still experiencing ...
+ 1 month after cyberattack, some CRA online services remain unavailable— More than a month after the Canada Revenue Agency took its website offline in the wake of a major cyberattack, the federal tax collect...
+ Canada denounces Lukashenko's inauguration in Belarus, preparing sanctions over human rights violations— Canada, along with the United States and United Kingdom, has condemned the inauguration of Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko and ...
+ Alberta premier says federal throne speech stomps into provincial jurisdiction— Alberta Premier Jason Kenney sees grounds for more constitutional challenges, should the federal Liberal government follow through wit...
+ Parliament resumes full operations today with debate on throne speech— The fate of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's minority Liberal government hangs in the balance as Parliament resumes all normal operatio...
+ Public health officials call for tighter restrictions, warn COVID-19 could spiral out of control— Infectious disease experts say Canadian health authorities must tighten restrictions again or hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-1...
+ A throne speech long on language and ambition, short on specifics— However grandly it's staged, a throne speech is a difficult thing to judge. Just ask the opposition parties. [Author: Aaron Wherry] [C...
+ As caseloads spike in four provinces, Trudeau warns that pandemic will be worse this fall— In a rare televised national address, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took to the airwaves to warn that Canada is at a "crossroads" as C...
+ Throne speech breathes new life into an old, empty promise: a national child-care program— A number of Canadian governments have claimed to want to tackle the equity issue of affordable child care head-on, and in Wednesday's ...
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Electronic Intifada

+ Why is AOC honoring an Israeli war criminal?—Painting Yitzhak Rabin as a martyr for peace is a grotesque distortion of reality. [Category: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Yitzhak Rabin, Americans for P...
+ Stranded in Gaza —The closure of Rafah crossing is forcing families to remain apart. [Category: COVID-19, Rafah crossing, Mahmoud Moussa, Palestinian Central Bureau of ...
+ British police may deploy Israeli drone used to kill Palestinians—Elbit’s Hermes 900, “proven” in assaults on Gaza, may be used for surveillance in UK. [Category: Elbit, drones, UK police, NetPol, Palestine Act...
+ Anti-Zionism versus anti-homophobia?—Author contends that radical pinkwatching undermines solidarity with queer Palestinians. [Category: pinkwashing, Sa'ed Atshan, Haneen Maikey, Alqaws, ...
+ Adding pandemic to injury—Palestinians injured during Great March of Return protests have suffered treatment delays and cancellations. [Category: Gaza siege, COVID-19, Gaza hea...
+ US Muslim groups face pressure over ties to Israel-friendly Emgage—American Muslims for Palestine imposes “prohibition” on relationships with Emgage. [Category: Emgage, Emgage Action, American Muslims for Palestine, H...
+ YouTube, Zoom and Facebook censor Leila Khaled for Israel—Supporters of Palestinian rights and academic freedom push back against attacks. [Category: Israel Lobby, Leila Khaled, rabab abdulhadi, censorship, Z...
+ Israel makes hundreds of Palestinians homeless during pandemic—Israel successfully bullies EU into reducing aid to Palestinians in Area C. [Category: demolitions, home demolitions, house demolitions, Area C, Europ...
+ Trump adviser falsely accuses Ocasio-Cortez of anti-Semitism—Boris Epshteyn, Jewish Voices for Trump co-chair, uses anti-Palestinian Newsweek to attack progressive congresswomen. [Category: Boris Epshteyn, Jewis...
+ Darker shadows of shared supremacy—Popular culture has imagined Zionism as an extension of the American frontier. [Category: Amy Kaplan, Richard Spencer, zionism, Abiel Abbot, Exodus, L...
+ Pandemic strains Rafah's health services—Gaza's southernmost city is still waiting for a new hospital. [Category: Muna al-Shaer, Abu Yousef al-Najjar hospital, COVID-19, Rafah, European Gaza ...
+ ICC closes door on Gaza flotilla probe—Prosecutor chastised for neglecting obligation to establish truth. [Category: International Criminal Court, Mavi Marmara, Fatou Bensouda, Union of Com...
+ Emgage has "no courage" on Palestine, says ex-employee—Latest statement by pro-Biden Muslim group fails to stem growing criticism. [Category: Emgage, Emgage Action, Rashida Tlaib, Khurrum Wahid, Linda Sars...
+ Disaster in Gaza's darkness —Nobody views fire that killed three boys as an isolated event. [Category: Omar Huzeen, Nuseirat refugee camp, COVID-19, Al Mezan, Issam Younis]
+ Racist to deny us right to oppose Zionism, British Palestinians tell Labour—Open letter to party against “shrinking space” for Palestinians. [Category: UK, Labour Party, zionism, anti-Zionism, British Palestinians, Labour witc...
+ 84 percent of Canadians want war crimes probe into Israel —Poll shows public disagrees strongly with Justin Trudeau. [Category: Canada, Justin Trudeau, International Criminal Court, BDS, Liberal Party of Canad...
+ Protests and rockets as Gulf states sign deals with Israel—Contents of agreements remain undisclosed. [Category: Abraham Accords, Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Abdullatif bin Rashid Alzayani, United Arab Emira...
+ Amid criticism, scholar Homi Bhahba pulls out of Israel conference—Israeli academic group “complicit in whitewashing, justifying and perpetuating” oppression, say Palestinians. [Category: Homi Bhabha, academic boycott...
+ TUC calls for Israel sanctions to "end apartheid"—Historic Trades Union Congress motion condemns “system of apartheid” in West Bank. [Category: TUC, BDS, annexation, sanctions, apartheid, BNC, Palesti...
+ How Israel lit match for deadly fire —Nuseirat bakery blaze claimed 22 lives. [Category: Gaza blockade, Gaza siege, Nuseirat refugee camp, Nuseirat fire, closure]
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Euractiv

+ The Brief, powered by ESA – China’s climate gift—EU climate diplomacy is mostly geared towards convincing big polluting countries to go green. This week, that partly paid off when China pledged to go...
+ Mayor: Cities are the atoms in the organism of the EU—Mario Rajn, the mayor of Križevci, a medieval city of 20,000 people northeast of Croatia's capital is pushing for his city to become energy independen...
+ Mayor: cities are the atoms in the organism of the EU—Mario Rajn, the mayor of Križevci, a medieval city of 20,000 people northeast of Croatia's capital is pushing for his city to become energy independen...
+ Greece short of friends in Europe as Erdogan steps up pressure—The decision to postpone the EU council meeting solved – for the time being – one thorny EU question, writes Denis MacShane. What to do about Turkey’s...
+ Police association head: ‘Zero tolerance’ for right-wing extremism—The recent discovery of right-wing police chat groups has led many to ask how these tendencies in the police force can be counteracted. Oliver von Dob...
+ Grounded Boeings set to get all clear from EU regulator—The European Union’s Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) is gearing up to give Boeing’s 737 MAX aircraft a clean bill of health in November, the regulator’s...
+ Handbook on the racial equality directive—This Handbook on the Racial Equality Directive was drafted in response to a lack of awareness on the topic of non-discrimination – the rights, bodies ...
+ DRS has the potential to deliver full circularity for beverage packaging in the EU [Promoted content]—EFBW and UNESDA are calling for a wide deployment of well-designed deposit return systems to meet the collection and rPET targets of the EU Single Use...
+ Press association raps von der Leyen for ‘too much English’ communication—The Association of European Journalists has complained to Commission President Ursula von der Leyen that the EU executive uses the English language “o...
+ Agrifood Brief: A State of the Agricultural Union—Welcome to EURACTIV's AgriFood Brief, your weekly update on all things Agriculture & Food in the EU. [Category: agrifish council, agrifood brief, ...
+ Digital Brief: EU/UK data transfers, EU police facial recognition, dark web—Welcome to EURACTIV’s Digital Brief, your weekly update on all things digital in the EU. You can subscribe to the newsletter here. “While the ...
+ Cyprus watchdog raps cash-for-passport process—Cyprus's audit office said on Thursday (24 September) thousands of passports could have been granted without proper authorisation under the island's c...
+ Kenya’s WTO candidate says she will focus on climate change if selected—Kenya's candidate to become the next head of the World Trade Organisation pledged on Thursday to integrate climate change issues into the WTO agenda i...
+ EU farmers boss: Farm to Fork to be revised, if negative impact was proved—The European Commission's new food policy should be reviewed if a future impact assessment shows that it will negatively affect farmers, the newly-ele...
+ Chinese business group reacts to EU plan against state-backed foreign buyers—The European Commission's plan to fence off the EU's industrial crown jewels from state-backed foreign buyers may breach WTO rules, lobbying group the...
+ Chinese lobby group slams EU plan against state-backed foreign buyers—The European Commission's plan to fence off the EU's industrial crown jewels from state-backed foreign buyers may breach WTO rules, lobbying group the...
+ UN, Britain plan online climate summit in December—The United Nations and Britain will host an online climate summit in December, the fifth anniversary of the Paris climate agreement, in a last-ditch b...
+ German intelligence chief quits over rising far-right extremism—In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about the political spat between the UK and Italy, Germany's military agency head resigning, and so ...
+ EU warns virus epidemic worsening, as restrictions ramp up—The European Union raised the alarm on Thursday (24 September) over the coronavirus pandemic, saying it is worse now than at the March peak in several...
+ Bulgaria smells ‘hybrid operations’ under COVID-19 cover—The COVID-19 crisis has been used as a cover for hybrid operations in the EU, the Bulgarian Interior Ministry stated on Thursday (24 September). EURAC...
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Havana

+ Cuba to ratify its commitment to integration today at CELAC regional event—Cuba will ratify today the commitment to Latin American and Caribbean unity, political agreement and peace at the Meeting of Foreign Ministers of the ...
+ French association highlights Diaz-Canel´s speech at UN—The Cuba-France Cooperation Association (CubaCoop) highlighted today the defense of multilateralism, solidarity and peace expressed by Cuban President...
+ Cuba criticizes new US restrictive measure against Americans—A senior Cuban official described today as new measure of aggression the announced disposition of the United States government to further restrict the...
+ Cuba reports 48 cases of Covid-19—The Cuban health ministry reported today 48 new positive cases of SARS-CoV-2, coronavirus that causes COVID-19, for a total of 5,270 in the country. ...
+ Speech by the Cuban president at the UN General Assembly—Cuban president Miguel Mario Diaz-Canel Bermudez participated Tuesday at the General Debate of the 75th Regular Session of the UN General Assembly. R...
+ Cuba reports 81 new cases for COVID 19 and one death—Cuba studied 8,175 samples, accumulating 554,425 and 5,222 positive ones (0.94%). The country registered today 81 new positive cases of SARS-CoV-2 cor...
+ Cuba reports 50 new cases, same number of medical discharges and one death—Cuba reported Monday 50 new positive cases of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, which causes COVID-19, for a total of 5,141 in the country, one death and 50 new...
+ Cuban president to participate at UN General Assembly—Cuban president Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez will speak on September 22 at the General Debate of the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly...
+ Cuba reports 57 cases of Covid-19— The Cuban health ministry reported 57 new positive cases of SARS-CoV-2, coronavirus that causes COVID-19, for a total of 4,933 in the country. ...
+ Cuban FM affirms military expenditure hinders development—Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez affirmed today that the global military expenditures hinder the right to development and the peoples' welfare. ...
+ Cuba reports 73 cases of Covid-19—The Cuban health ministry reported 73 new positive cases of SARS-CoV-2, coronavirus that causes COVID-19, for a total of 4,876 in the country. Read M...
+ Cuba is elected member of ECOSOC bodies despite maneuver by the United States—Cuba has been elected to occupy several seats in subsidiary bodies of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) as of January 2021, repo...
+ Diaz-Canel criticizes US lack of commitment to the world—Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel criticized the United States' lack of commitment to the world, as expressed in its opposition to the United Nations ...
+ Cuba reports 77 cases of Covid-19—The Cuban health ministry reported 77 new positive cases of SARS-CoV-2, coronavirus that causes COVID-19, for a total of 4,803 in the country. Read M...
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Le Monde

+ The Durand Line: the elephant in the room—On 8 September, a former senior US State Department official tweeted a remark on the long-standing border dispute between Afghanistan and Pakistan, un...
+ The era of the icebreaker—Icebreakers are crucial to developing Arctic trade routes being opened up by global warming. Russia is expanding its nuclear fleet, China invites tend...
+ Losing Tibetanness—China has moderated its once repressive policy on Tibet, with conditions. Local people are now free to observe their religion and culture, provided th...
+ Australia's angry summers—Last year was the world's second hottest, closing the warmest decade on record. Australia's summer 2019-20 began with unprecedented heat and drought a...
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libcom

+ Movie Review: 'SAVAGE' (2019)—savage pic.jpg A review of a movie about gang life in Aotearoa. ...
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Mondoweiss

+ The ‘people’s army’ — Gantz sells ‘miracle’ of a discriminatory army to US Jews—The Friends of the Israel Defense Forces held an on-line gala last week. The FIDF is an American nonprofit that raised $132 million in 2018, including...
+ This Rosh Hashanah I remember hiking in Israel when I still believed the myths—It was a beautiful fall day here in Chicago this year on Rosh Hashanah, so I did what I do during most of these pandemic days–I took a walk arou...
+ Stricter lockdowns in Israel met by anti-Netanyahu protests—The Latest: 217,899 tested positive for COVID-19 in Israel; 1,412 deaths 48,282 Palestinians tested positive for COVID-19; 327 Palestinian deaths Brea...
+ Normalizing the abnormal—The official Arab World seems to be intent on betraying the Palestinian people through an ongoing process of normalization that was launched by the la...
+ Hamas, Fatah agree to hold elections in the coming months—After more than a decade of political strife, rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas have agreed to hold elections for the first time in Palestine...
+ When foreigners move to Palestine—I FOUND MYSELF IN PALESTINE Stories of Love and Renewal from around the Globe Edited by Nora Lester Murad 256 pp. Olive Branch Press. $20 The main tit...
+ Power politics in support of Israeli apartheid — Can we accept this new ‘normal’?—The U.S. brokers “normalization” agreements between Israel and two Arab states, and corporate media gushes. But this is no time to get sta...
+ Mike Pompeo is trying to provoke U.S. conflict with Iran to boost his own presidential aims, not just Trump’s—Mike Pompeo, the U.S. Secretary of State, is already running for president in 2024. To that end, he is trying to provoke Iran into a conflict in the d...
+ Adelson is pro-choice but he’s pouring millions into GOP for a higher cause—The news that Sheldon and Miriam Adelson have given $50 million to Mitch McConnell’s Senate Leadership Fund this cycle and that the Adelsons are...
+ Censoring Palestine—Tech Giants Disappear Event Featuring Leila Khaled Yesterday San Francisco State University was set to sponsor an online event titled “Whose Nar...
+ Big Tech’s dangerous attack on free speech and academic freedom: Zoom, Facebook, and YouTube censor SF State Palestine class—Editor’s Note: The following statement was issued on September 23, 2020 by Palestine Legal. Mondoweiss occasionally publishes press releases and...
+ Pro-Palestine groups hold digital day of action to protest Facebook censorship—On September 23, Jewish Voice for Peace, Palestine Solidarity Campaign UK, The Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy, 7amleh, and a number of other...
+ Zoom cancels panel featuring Leila Khaled amid protests from pro-Israel groups—Zoom has announced that it will deny its services to San Francisco State University (SFSU) today and block an online panel featuring Leila Khaled from...
+ Palestinians face constant COVID-19 testing shortage—As the coronavirus continues to spread across the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), local news this week was inundated with warnings of testing ki...
+ Don’t be hoodwinked by Trump’s UAE-Israel ‘peace deal’—“HUGE breakthrough today,” crowed Donald Trump on twitter as he announced the new peace deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (...

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NYT Human Rights

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Open Democracy

+ COVID-19 is a litmus test for the rule of law in Armenia—The global pandemic has thrown up rule-of-law challenges for Armenia's post-revolutionary government.
+ Coronavirus and securitization of migration in South America: The Venezuelan journey—The pandemic has deepened the vulnerability of Venezuelan migrants in South America, especially in Ecuador, Peru, Chile and Colombia.
+ Who protects Colombians?—Massacres, murders, police shooting at civilians. Colombia, country of magical realism, seems to have become the new epicenter of violence in Latin Am...
+ Why isn’t Donald trumpeting his foreign policy record?— Afghanistan, North Korea, ISIS, Israel and the Gulf States: they’re at best partial successes, but that never stopped him before.
+ Revealed: Electoral Commission’s private concerns about Russian Tory donors—UK elections watchdog alerted staff to 'interesting donations' from Lubov Chernukhin – and queried other Tory Russian donations. Opposition ...
+ Labour lost because of a fudge in which we all participated—Two years on from the crucial moment for Labour’s Brexit policy - here’s what we got wrong
+ The transformation of housing into financial assets normalizes misery in the cities of the Americas—It is crucial to become aware of the advance of financial speculation on poor housing in the Americas, says Saskia Sassen, interviewed by José Zepeda ...
+ How the far right took over the mainstream—While white male voters tend to still make up a large proportion of far-right parties and right-wing extremist organisations in Europe, a more worryin...
+ Time is ticking to stop the EU-Mercosur trade deal—For the Commission to remain steadfast in supporting this deal, whilst simultaneously tabling an increase of the EU’s 2030 climate target, is entirely...
+ Stop peddling fear of climate migrants—Beating the anti-immigrant drum does nothing to help climate action
+ Italy’s populist developments after the September vote—The 5SM has now won a key battle against the establishment while being an active member of it. The League has also gained.
+ The nature of Europe—Historically, were the five days it took the leaders of the EU member states to agree to the new bonds a confirmation of Europe at its best ?
+ Threats to social innovation—In which the author, personally hurt, is forced to re-open the dustbin of history.
+ COVID-19 hasn’t killed sexual harassment at work – it’s just moved online—The increase in working from home has given sexual predators new tools with which to threaten, intimidate and abuse women, advocates warn.
+ Out with predatory capitalism, in with a Life Economy—I helped to develop the Death Economy; now I want to usher in its mirror image.
+ Brazil's Bolsonaro attacks enemies real and imagined at the UN General Assembly—This was a speech delivered squarely to foreign investors and his domestic supporters. While Brazil's president has seen his polling numbers grow...
+ Saweto's daughter fights for justice in the Peruvian Amazon—Diana Ríos Rengifo took on the defense of the Peruvian Amazon in the fight against illegal loggers after the murder of her father, a well-known Asheni...
+ Next year in Jerusalem: the Serbian Embassy and Kosovo go on a pilgrimage with Trump—The Trump administration’s Christmas wishlist for one corner of the Eastern Mediterranean.
+ Yes, there is hope—There are increasing numbers of experiences putting collaborative methods for hope and dialogue into practice.
+ Meet the young people using Instagram to fight Italy’s racism—Amid Italy’s flourishing Black Lives Matter movement, young people of colour are making waves and demanding change. Italiano.
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Open secrets

+ NFL owners give nearly 9-1 to Republicans, including Trump— (Tim Warner/Getty Images) As week three of the National Football League’s season begins, players are still kneeling during the national anthem...
+ Outside spending in 2020 election surpasses $1 billion, on track to break records— (Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Outside spending in federal races has already surpassed $1 billion with over a month t...
+ As Senate races ramp up, so does outside spending by top super PACs— Outside spending by top Senate super PACs, including the Mitch McConnell-tied Senate Leadership Fund and the Chuck Schumer-tied Senate Majority PAC ...
+ Top presidential super PACs boosted by ‘dark money’ donations— (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images) “Dark money” groups have spent more and become more opaque this election cycle, pushing money to be spent ...
+ ‘Dark money’ groups gear up for Supreme Court battle as 2020 election nears— Screenshot of Demand Justice ad “Donald Trump has hijacked our Supreme Court.”Captured via YouTube “Dark money” groups are projec...
+ Amid deal talks, TikTok, WeChat turn to lobbyists for US support— (Illustration by Chesnot/Getty Images) As tensions heat up between President Donald Trump and the popular social media platform TikTok, the ap...
+ Biden outraised Trump 3-1 in August, erasing Trump’s cash advantage— Pictured is Democratic nominee Joe Biden. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) In a matter of months, Democratic nominee Joe Biden erased President Don...
+ Senate candidates spend record sums on online ads— Jaime Harrison, the Democratic Senate nominee in South Carolina (Sean Rayford/Getty Images) It isn’t only presidential hopefuls spending big t...
+ Tight rematch in Miami-area congressional race draws big money— Rep. Donna Shalala (D-FL) (Andrew Harnik-Pool/Getty Images) Despite favoring Hillary Clinton in 2016, Florida’s 27th Congressional District...
+ Biden, Democratic groups target Latinos with Spanish language ads— Screenshot of Joe Biden ad “Dicen Mucho” – captured via YouTube In 2016, 62 percent of Latino voters in Florida voted for H...
+ Will Bloomberg’s history of backing winners boost Biden in Florida?— (Mario Tama/Getty Images) Former New York City mayor and presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg committed to spend at least $100 million to ...
+ ‘Dark money’ groups pouring millions into 2020 political ads with even less disclosure— Shot from America First Action Super PAC ad “Scott.” – captured via YouTube “Dark money” groups that keep their donors secre...
+ Dark money groups pouring millions into 2020 political ads with even less disclosure— Shot from America First Action Super PAC ad “Scott.” – captured via YouTube “Dark money” groups that keep their donors secre...
+ Giuliani associate sanctioned over foreign interference in 2020 election— President Donald Trump’s lawyer and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani talks to journalists outside the White House on July 1, 2020. (Ch...
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Prauge Monitor

+ Prymula: Capacity of ventilators in Prague's hospitals almost reached—Prague Daily Monitor Roman Prymula, the Minister of Health, told journalists that the ...
+ Prague is preparing gyms for Covid-19 patients—by Irina Nikolaeva | Prague Daily Monitor Zdeněk Hřib, the Mayor of Prague, stated that the city is ready to provide gyms and one dormitory for the in...
+ Czechia refuses to recognize Lukashenko as legitimate president—by Irina Nikolaeva | Prague Daily Monitor Alexander Lukashenko secretly and unexpected...
+ Czech Film Review: Invention for Destruction—by Lee Robert Adams | Prague Daily Monitor Sometimes when digging back through the dec...
+ Cold weather is arriving in Prague—by Irina Nikolaeva | Prague Daily Monitor The week promises to be warm, however, durin...
+ Pepper de Callier: Things to Think About —Prague Leadership Institute "The greatest good you can do for another is not just to s...
+ In Search of Prague—by Ileana Lobkowicz | Prague Daily Monitor The El Camino Leads to Prague: Meet Prague's patron saint of Spanish tapas. read more
+ Covid-19 in the Czech Republic: Prymula expects 8000 cases a day—by Irina Nikolaeva | Prague Daily Monitor Roman Prymula, the government's representati...
+ Become Digital: Customers: Handle with care—by Ladislav Poledna | Prague Daily Monitor Choosing the right courier service is vital...
+ Rules for mass events in Czech Republic will be changed—by Irina Nikolaeva | Prague Daily Monitor From Friday, The Ministry of Health bans all indoor mass events for more than 10 people. Exceptions are exhi...
+ Here is how to motivate the youngest ones to learn languages—Lingua Centrum The school year has begun bringing us a lot of responsibilities. For ma...
+ How to choose the right method of language teaching? Better to combine approaches —Lingua Centrum According to Simona Škurková, Director of the Lingua Centrum Language School, the most effective way in modern adult education is to co...
+ Czech Republic updates the self-quarantine rules—by Irina Nikolaeva | Prague Daily Monitor Health Minister Adam Vojtěch introduced the new rules of self-quarantine which will be in operation from thi...
+ Alan Riach: Karel Capek and what the Czech people can teach us in Scotland—The National Professor of Scottish Literature at Glasgow University Alan Riach takes us back to Italy in the 1920s with Karel Capek and asks, what was...
+ Vojtěch resigns, Prymula becomes minister of health—by Irina Nikolaeva | Prague Daily Monitor The Health Minister Adam Vojtěch announced his resignation yesterday. He will be replaced by epidemiologist ...
+ Hřib encourages citizens to download the eRouška—Prague Daily Monitor Due to the concerning epidemiological situation, the Mayor of Pra...
+ Breakdown of Bitcoin investment – What you need to know?—Prague Daily Monitor The world of cryptocurrencies has really made its mark in the general market as more and more people are expressing their interes...
+ Two Hour School celebrates first anniversary with new courses for kids—Two Hour School The international educational program in English for children attendin...
+ Foreign drivers should be more cautious on Czech roads—by Irina Nikolaeva | Prague Daily Monitor In several days, the Czech police will start distributing flyers to foreign drivers. According to the statis...
+ Czech Film Review: The Teacher —by Lee Robert Adams | Prague Daily Monitor How does an oppressive regime empower indiv...
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Preuvian Times

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Pro Publica

+ The COVID-19 Charmer: How a Self-Described Felon Convinced Elected Officials to Try to Help Him Profit From the Pandemic— by Vianna Davila, Jeremy Schwartz and Lexi Churchill ...
+ Electionland 2020: North Carolina Mail Voting, In-Person Voting Starts, Naked Ballots and More— by Rachel Glickhouse, ProPublica, and Joshua Eaton , Lauren Rosenthal and Thy Anh Vo for ProPublica ...
+ Gov. Gavin Newsom Says California Is Cracking Down on Oil Spills. But Our Reporting Shows Many Are Still Flowing.— by Janet Wilson , The Desert Sun ...
+ This Billionaire Governor’s Companies Have Now Reached $140 Million in Lawsuit Settlements and Judgments Over Unpaid Bills— by Ken Ward Jr. and Alex Mierjeski ...
+ Foreign Hackers Cripple Texas County’s Email System, Raising Election Security Concerns— by Jack Gillum, Jessica Huseman, Jeff Kao and Derek Willis ...
+ When Is a Meeting Not a Meeting and a Lawmaker Not a Lawmaker? When It’s Lori Lightfoot’s Chicago.— by Mick Dumke ...
+ Before Limiting Ballot Drop Boxes to One Per County, Top Ohio Election Officials Secretly Consulted Promoter of Debunked Voting Fraud Fears— by Mike Spies and Jake Pearson ...
+ In North Carolina, Black Voters’ Mail-In Ballots Much More Likely to Be Rejected Than Those From Any Other Race— by Sophie Chou, ProPublica, and Tyler Dukes , WRAL News ...
+ Trump’s Vaccine Czar Refuses to Give Up Stock in Drug Company Involved in His Government Role— by Isaac Arnsdorf ...
+ How Criminal Cops Often Avoid Jail— by Andrew Ford , Asbury Park Press ...
+ What Happens to New Jersey Officers Charged With Official Misconduct? We Gathered the Cases to Find Out.— by Andrew Ford , Asbury Park Press ...
+ New Jersey Law Says Criminal Cops Should Go to Jail. Records Reveal They Often Don’t.— by Andrew Ford , Asbury Park Press ...
+ He Wanted to Fix Rural America’s Broken Nursing Homes. Now, Taxpayers May Be on the Hook for $76 Million.— by Max Blau for Georgia Health News ...
+ Correos electrónicos muestran que la industria empacadora de carnes redactó el borrador de una orden ejecutiva para que las plantas permanecieran abiertas— por Michael Grabell y Bernice Yeung ...
+ Foreign Masks, Fear and a Fake Certification: Staff at CSL Plasma Say Conditions at Donation Centers Aren’t Safe— by J. David McSwane ...
+ What the Photos of Wildfires and Smoke Don’t Show You— by Elizabeth Weil and Lisa Larson-Walker ...
+ ICE deportó a la mujer que acusó a unos guardias de agresión sexual a pesar de que las autoridades federales aún investigaban el incidente— por Lomi Kriel ...
+ Her Stepfather Admitted to Sexually Abusing Her. That Wasn’t Enough to Keep Her Safe.— by Nadia Sussman ...
+ Oil Companies Are Profiting From Illegal Spills. And California Lets Them.— by Janet Wilson , The Desert Sun, and Lylla Younes, ProPublica ...
+ Electionland 2020: USPS Mailers, Pandemic Voting, Get Out the Vote Efforts and More— by Rachel Glickhouse, ProPublica, and Thy Anh Vo , special to ProPublica ...
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Rabble

+ Canada is no longer calling the shots when it comes to equitable global access to the COVID-19 vaccine—Adam R. Houston Srinivas Murthy "Canada's vaccine strategy is all about ensuring that Canadians will be able to get a vaccine once it is r...
+ Doug Ford should take a serious shot at himself—Politics in Canada Doug and the people. He's for the people, he says, but so's everyone, en principe. Now it's at a point where he should t...
+ Throne speech has much to offer the labour movement if promises come through, experts say—Chelsea Nash In this week's speech from the throne, a new slogan seems to have been adopted by Justin Trudeau's government: "build back bet...
+ Throne speech: Trudeau government signals important changes, but may buckle to demands of elites—Bruce Campbell As it should, the coronavirus pandemic took centre stage in the Liberal government's speech from the throne. Getting through...
+ Donald Trump's racist immigration policies fuel horrific abuses of women in U.S. detention centres—US Politics "He's the uterus collector," a detained immigrant woman told Dawn Wooten, a nurse at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement...
+ Voluntary organizations and member disputes take another trip to the Supreme Court—CommonCauses According to a June 2020 Statistics Canada study, in 2018 more than 12.7 million people in Canada volunteered for charities, n...
+ That's a wrap—Matthew Adams Dear readers, Thank you! We've been computing all of your donations from the past two and a half months, and guess what? You...
+ That's a wrap—Matthew Adams Dear readers, Thank you! We've been computing all of your donations from the past two and a half months, and guess what? You...
+ Trudeau rallied Canadians to fight the second wave of COVID-19 but his throne speech lacked detail—September 24, 2020 Trudeau rallied Canadians to fight the second wave of COVID-19 but his throne speech lacked detail Based on the sp...
+ Trudeau rallied Canadians to fight the second wave of COVID-19 but his throne speech lacked detail—Karl Nerenberg If taking over network air time for a prime ministerial address should only be done when there is a significant national cri...
+ What the phrase 'big labour' really means—September 23, 2020 What the phrase 'big labour' really means "Big labour" paints a picture of power hungry unions ...
+ What the phrase 'big labour' really means —Chelsea Nash Last month, the new owners of TorStar published a letter to their readers in which they declared that, despite their own polit...
+ Multiculturalism is not decolonization—Khadijah Kanji This article is the fourth and final installment in a four-part series addressing the myths that conflate multiculturalism a...
+ It's time to address the systemic social injustices exposed by COVID—Ken Theobald In late July, Toronto Public Health produced socio-demographic data covering the first phase of COVID-19. That data was shocki...
+ 'John Ware Reclaimed' is empowering and uplifting—Doreen Nicoll Is it possible to love someone who died before you were born? Cheryl Foggo proves it is in her brilliantly conceived document...
+ Throne speech will provide contrast to the frightful spectacle in the U.S.—September 23, 2020 Throne speech will provide contrast to the frightful spectacle in the U.S. Some Ottawa insiders have speculated th...
+ Are tar sands expansion and Canada's high carbon emissions anti-Black?—Bianca Mugyenyi As attention is focused on climate-change-fuelled fires ravaging California and Oregon, a series of "natural" disasters hav...
+ Riding high in the polls, B.C.'s NDP premier calls a snap election—David J. Climenhaga VICTORIA -- Strangely, all those conservatives who are anxious to get us back to school and business as soon as possibl...
+ Pandemic has cleared the way for Doug Ford's plans to privatize education—Jason Kunin In the spring of last year, Premier Doug Ford launched a surprise attack on public education by announcing a series of cuts, di...
+ Back to school in an uncertain climate —David Suzuki The global pandemic has created a unique and challenging back-to-school season. Many parents, guardians and teachers are strug...
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Raw Story

+ Lincoln Project likens Lindsey Graham to an abused dog for being ‘violently out-raised’ in South Carolina re-election campaign—Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is facing a huge fundraising shortage — despite being an incumbent Republican senator running in South Carolina. As h...
+ Trump has selected Judge Amy Coney Barrett to replace RBG on the Supreme Court: NYT—President Donald Trump is to announce on Saturday that he will nominate Judge Amy Coney Barrett as an Associate Justice on the United States Supreme C...
+ Trump attacks Biden for not holding rallies during pandemic: ‘This guy never goes out’—With just 39 days until the US election, President Donald Trump ramped up his campaigning with back-to-back events Friday in battleground states ̵...
+ First person cured of HIV dying from blood cancer: partner—Timothy Ray Brown, the American once known as “the Berlin patient” who in 2008 became the first person to be cured of HIV, is terminally i...
+ GOP senator proposes ‘Orwellian’ bill nullifying all mail-in ballots not counted with-in 48 hours: report—A new bill proposed by Republican Sen. Rick Scott is “entirely unworkable,” Slate reported Thursday evening, but demonstrates the GOP̵...
+ Lincoln Project drops new ad targeting ‘hypocritical Republican Senators’ pushing Trump’s SCOTUS pick—The anti-Trump Republican PAC Lincoln Project dropped a new ad this Friday, this time targeting President Trump’s upcoming announcement of his p...
+ ‘I feel sorry for Americans’ — The world grieves for the US because of Trump’s disastrous presidency—Reading non-U.S. publications is an excellent way to gauge what other countries are thinking about life in the United States under the Trump Administr...
+ The 9 discarded ballots were tossed because Republicans won their lawsuit requiring them to not be counted: report—Major news is coming in over the “case” of the nine “discarded” ballots from Luzerne County, Pennsylvania that President Donal...
+ Trump argues BLM protests are ‘destroying many Black lives’: ‘It’s really hurting the black community’—Speaking before a “Black Voices for Trump Coalition” rally in Atlanta, President Donald Trump lashed out at Americans who have protested p...
+ Anti-masker doctor flashes gun during video chat: ‘I’d rather be carrying a gun than masking up’—A California physician is the subject of controversy after he appeared in a video waving a handgun, saying he’d rather carry a concealed weapon ...
+ Illinois Republican urged to drop out of the race following ‘despicable’ racist and anti-gay remarks—In Illinois, one of the Republicans who is seeking reelection is Rep. Amy L. Grant, who has been running against Democratic challenger Ken Mejia-Beal ...
+ Democrats’ actions this week suggest they have no real intention to save our democracy—Democrats in Congress have done little more than pay lip service to bipartisanship in the week since the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Even ...
+ ‘The election that could break America’: Inside how Trump and the GOP could steal the vote—As President Trump refuses to commit to accepting the results of the upcoming election, we speak to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Barton Gellman, ...
+ McConnell is getting blasted for hypocrisy – but the truth is even more sinister—Since at least Robert Taft’s heyday, the Republican Party has faced a conundrum. Things sounding just great to Republicans tend to sound just terrible...
+ ‘Hail Hitler’ messages found on phone of suspect accused of gunning down Black man: court records—The cellphone of a white defendant charged with the shooting death of a Black man in Moreno Valley, California, contained racial slurs about African A...
+ Trump ignites a new war over education and the meaning of patriotism—On Thursday, President Trump announced that he would be creating a “patriotic education” initiative called the “1776 Commission” that will develop a “...
+ ‘This is how you normalize a madman’: Scholars, press watchdogs call on corporate media to treat Trump like the authoritarian threat he is—Major news outlets failed the American people, critics say, when they chose to bury coverage of President Donald Trump’s Wednesday comment that ...
+ Mother of Kenosha gunman Kyle Rittenhouse receives standing ovation at GOP event in Wisconsin—Highlights from a Republican women’s event in Waukesha, WI., have left many Twitter users appalled by the series of events that unfolded. Bulwark host...
+ Governors could be killing people just to help Trump’s campaign—Are red state governors getting their people killed to help Donald Trump’s re-election chances? This is an incredibly ghoulish question that would be ...
+ Ancient microbial life used arsenic to thrive in a world without oxygen—Billions of years ago, life on Earth was mostly just large slimy mats of microbes living in shallow water. Sometimes, these microbial communities made...
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Shadow Proof

+ ‘Essentially Dead’: Doctor Who Visited Assange In Ecuador Embassy Testifies At Extradition Trial—Dr. Sondra Crosby, who visited WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at the Belmarsh prison and in the Ecuador embassy in London, testified during his extr...
+ Doctor Diagnosed Julian Assange With Asperger’s Syndrome—WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome, a form of autism, while detained in the Belmarsh high-security prison i...
+ US Prosecution Accuses Assange Of Exaggerating Symptoms Of Depression—During the extradition trial for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, James Lewis, the lead prosecutor, strongly suggested Assange reads the British Medi...
+ Trump Jr. Fixer: Everyone In WikiLeaks Deserve The Death Penalty—When Richard Grenell, one of President Donald Trump’s closest envoys in Europe, was the ambassador to Germany, Grenell reportedly brokered a dea...
+ A Guide To Journalists And Organizations Covering Assange Trial For Those Upset About Lack Of Media Coverage—Diagnosing why establishment media institutions are not covering WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s extradition trial in London has become incre...
+ Khaled El Masri Stands Up To CIA Intimidation, Supports Assange During Extradition Trial—Khaled El Masri, a survivor of CIA kidnapping, torture, rendition, and detention, submitted testimony in support of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange d...
+ Assange’s Extradition Trial: Court Hears About History Of Political Prosecutions Under Espionage Act—“There has never, in the century-long history of the Espionage Act, been an indictment of a U.S. publisher under the law for the publication of ...
+ Good Ellsberg, Bad Assange: At Extradition Trial, Pentagon Papers Whistleblower Dismantles False Narrative—Opponents of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange often hold up Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg as an example of someone who was responsible...
+ Witnesses At Extradition Trial Say Assange Could Spend Rest Of His Life In US Prison—During an extradition trial, witnesses for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s legal team said he could spend the rest of his life in a federal p...
+ At Assange Trial, Prosecution Invokes Human Rights Court Decision That Downplayed Abusive Supermax Prisons—The legal team for Julian Assange strongly believes if the WikiLeaks founder is extradited to the United States he will be detained in harsh and abusi...
+ Trump’s ‘War On Journalism’ Takes Center Stage At Julian Assange’s Extradition Hearing— In the last half-century, journalists James Bamford, Ben Bradlee, Seymour Hersh, and Neil Sheehan were each threatened with prosecution under the Esp...
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SHOAH

+ UK: Open Letter to the UK Prime Minister—Open Letter to the UK Prime Minister, Mr Boris Johnson, the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, Robert Buckland QC, the Secretary of S...
+ Trump’s Mideast Mirage—By Eric Margolis The Trump administration, desperate for some good news, just manufactured its own news by confecting a ‘peace’ deal between Israel an...
+ Administration Sued for Records Detailing U.S. Role on Behalf of Glyphosate-maker Bayer in Pressuring Thailand to Reverse Plan to Ban Pesticide—By Center For Biological Diversity The Center for Biological Diversity sued the administration for public records detailing the U.S. government’s effo...
+ UK: Open Letter to the UK Prime Minister—Open Letter to the UK Prime Minister, Mr Boris Johnson, the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, Robert Buckland QC, the Secretary of S...
+ Trump’s Mideast Mirage—By Eric Margolis The Trump administration, desperate for some good news, just manufactured its own news by confecting a ‘peace’ deal between Israel an...
+ Administration Sued for Records Detailing U.S. Role on Behalf of Glyphosate-maker Bayer in Pressuring Thailand to Reverse Plan to Ban Pesticide—By Center For Biological Diversity The Center for Biological Diversity sued the administration for public records detailing the U.S. government’s effo...
+ Fronte Popolare (Popular Front – Italy): Solidarity with the political prisoners of the anti-racist struggle in the USA!—Liberation Download PDF flyer Note from the PSL: We are deeply appreciative of the many solidarity statements we have received from around the country...
+ Syracuse reverend jailed after being beaten by police—ANSWER Syracuse Download PDF flyer Originally posted on SyracuseAnswer.org Dr. Lemorris Dexter, local Reverend and President of the Syracuse chapter o...
+ Pompeo, Trump unleash new phase of aggression vs. China—Ken Hammond Download PDF flyer On July 22 Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered the latest blast of aggressive rhetoric against China in a speech a...
+ Six teacher deaths at start of fall semester heighten public health concerns—Stephanie Kenefic Download PDF flyer Originally posted on RedsInEd.org As schools across the country begin to reopen this fall, news of teacher d...
+ U.S. cops kill at 100 times rate of other capitalist countries—Richard Becker Download PDF flyer (This article was first published in Liberation News in January 2015. According to multiple sources, reported police...
+ Movements in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe: Free the Denver anti-racist organizers!—Liberation Staff Download PDF flyer Note from the PSL: We are deeply appreciative of the many solidarity statements we have received from around the c...
+ Communist Party of Turkey: Justice for George Floyd! Solidarity with the uprising!—Communist Party of Turkey Download PDF flyer The following solidarity statement was issued by the International Relations Department of the Communist ...

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Sputnik

+ Trump to Name Amy Coney Barrett as US Supreme Court Nominee - Report —US President Donald Trump will nominate Judge Amy Coney Barrett, of the US Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, to fill the seat of late Associate Ju...
+ Venezuela to Cooperate With Russia While Developing Domestic Weapons, Maduro Says—BUENOS AIRES (Sputnik) - Venezuela will continue military cooperation with Russia, China, and Iran despite its plans to develop its own armament syste...
+ Conservative US Supreme Court May Support State Push to 'Get Around the Law' on Abortion - Experts—Following the death of US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, it seems likely that US President Donald Trump will get to nominate a third justi...
+ Japanese PM Says Ready to Meet Kim Jong-Un Without Preconditions—A chairman of the Japanese Liberal Democratic Party Yoshihide Suga was confirmed last week as the country's new Prime Minister, after his predecessor,...
+ FDA Warns Parents of TikTok ‘Benadryl Challenge’ After US Teen Dies, Several Hospitalized—The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a public service warning over the “Benadryl Challenge,” a deadly TikTok trend that encourages imp...
+ Trudeau Announces Vaccine Deal as Canada Surpasses 150,000 COVID-19 Cases—TORONTO (Sputnik) - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday announced that his government has entered into an agreement with British pharmace...
+ US Should Stop Blaming China Over Coronavirus Pandemic, Take Responsibility, Envoy to UN Says—UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) - The US government should stop blaming China for spreading the novel coronavirus and take responsibility for the way it hand...
+ Already Challenged by Fleet Size Goals, Pentagon Expected to Ask for 530-Ship Navy—According to files from an upcoming report, the US Navy is looking at expanding far beyond its already-ambitious goal of 355 ships, with some proposal...
+ Video: Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Personal Trainer Did Push Ups in Front of Her Casket—Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died last week due to complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer at the age of 87. A private memorial ceremony for he...
+ Video: US Woman Shocked With Taser, Arrested at Son's Football Game After Forgoing Mask—An Ohio woman has been charged with trespassing and may face additional charges after she resisted arrest and refused to adhere to a school’s mandator...
+ Kazakh Rail Business Defies Pandemic to Supply Russia—By the end of 2020, Kazakh rail and sections manufacturer ARBZ will have organised the delivery of 50,000 tons of rails to Russian Railways according ...
+ This Week in Pictures: 19 - 25 September—From the presidential inauguration in protest-hit Belarus to demonstrations against Julian Assange's extradition to the United States, from a bodybuil...
+ Thai Pup Ups the Ante With Water Exercises—A water-loving pooch from Ratchaburi, Thailand, recently demonstrated that the perfect way to spruce up water exercises for man’s best friend is to cr...
+ NASA Spacecraft to Touch Down on Asteroid Bennu in October Sampling Maneuver—The US’ National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is on the verge of pulling off its first attempt at landing a spacecraft on an asteroid w...
+ Pentagon Reveals Landing Gear Mishap Forced F-15 to Fire Missiles Into Sea in 2019 Emergency Landing—An internal report from the Oregon Air National Guard has cast new light upon a February 2019 incident in which an F-15C Eagle unloaded its entire mis...
+ UK Got 'Offensive Cyber Capabilities', Top Military Official Reportedly Admits—Describing the number of cyber attacks the British military has to deal with daily, Gen. Sanders reportedly compared it to the WWII Blitz. [Category: ...
+ Pelosi Says Americans Can Punish Republicans for Fast-tracking SCOTUS Pick by Voting Early—President Trump has promised to reveal his nominee for the Supreme Court seat left vacant by the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Saturday, hinting that th...
+ Unseen Footage of Michael Jackson's Meeting With Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe Unveiled—The legendary singer reportedly visited Zimbabwe to discuss the development of a hotel which, however, was “never built”. [Category: Society] [Link to...
+ Video of Police Arresting a Suspect in Stabbing Attack Near Charlie Hebdo's Office Released—The man whose description matched that provided by victims and witnesses of the attack was detained by security forces on the steps of the Bastille Op...
+ Greece Urges Turkey to Resolve Disagreements Through Diplomacy—MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in his speech to the 75h United Nations General Assembly called on Turkey to solve the iss...
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Strategic Culture

+ Is Steven Bannon Still Advising Trump? U.S. President Leads the Country Into Dangerous Waters With Latest Iran Move—Trump looks at the reporter and an opaque gaze of confusion and vulnerability takes over his face as he mutters that he didn’t know Ruth Bader Ginsbur...
+ What’s the Difference Between ‘Villain’ Assange & ‘Intrepid’ Woodward?—The next time you see a mainstream-media talking-head fawn over Woodward, just remember that if they had any backbone, any moral core, they would be f...
+ America Is Finished—About twenty years ago The Atlantic published a piece by Jeffrey Tayler named “Russia is finished” subtitled “The unstoppable descen...
+ Will Michele Flournoy Be the Angel of Death for the American Empire?—Medea BENJAMIN, Nicolas J. S. DAVIES If the Democrats manage to push Joe Biden over the finish line in November’s election, he will find himself presi...
+ United Nations 75 Years Old… Back to the Future—The United Nations was formed after the worldwide defeat of fascism and at the birth of a Cold War. Seventy-five years later those pernicious currents...
+ The Chickens Have Come Home to Roost—As ye sow, so shall ye reap, is another, Biblical way of expressing the common American adage from the title. The recent passing of U.S. Supreme Court...
+ VIDEO: The Propaganda Campaign Against Russia Is Gathering Momentum—Russia does everything that any normal sovereign power should do. The problem is that Washington doesn’t want any competition for their global m...
+ Corona-fied: Employers Spying on Remote Workers in Their Homes—Steven HILL The future of work is here, ushered in by a global pandemic. But is it turning employment into a Worker’s Paradise of working at home? Or ...
+ Xi, Putin Vow Peaceful Progress as Trump Bristles With Backward Belligerence—How fitting on the 75th anniversary of establishing the United Nations after the defeat of fascism and the birth of multilateralism, we should revisit...
+ MSM Promotes Yet Another CIA Press Release As News—Caitlin JOHNSTONE The Washington Post, whose sole owner is a CIA contractor, has published yet another anonymously sourced CIA press release disguised...
+ Are You Feeling Safer? ‘War of the Worlds’ Pits U.S. and Israel Against Everyone Else—The media being focused on an upcoming election, coronavirus, fires on the West Coast and burgeoning BLM and Antifa unrest, it is perhaps no surprise ...
+ VIDEO: The Creeping Socialism Republicans Cannot Understand—Republicans have double standards when it comes to “Socialism” they are apt to point out the poverty of nations like Venezuela and Cuba but neglect to...
+ With Ginsburg’s Death Cue the Last Stand of American Marxists—For all of the bad things that have happened in 2020 don’t for a second believe that 2021 won’t be infinitely worse. It has been clear to me for month...
+ ‘Confirmed’ Has Become a Meaningless Word in Mainstream News Reporting—Caitlin JOHNSTONE Last week Politico published a major exclusive report that the “Iranian government is weighing an assassination attempt against the ...
+ Two Paradigms Clash: Offers for U.S.-China-Russia Partnership That Won WWII or Hellish Plunge Into WWIII—The Pentagon’s new military report on China released on September 1st has demonstrated that the outdated and deadly Cold War mentality which has wroug...
+ As Assange Faces Extradition, the State of U.S. Prisons Grows Worse—John KIRIAKOU The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is in a state of chaos. Leadership changes, Covid-19, and criminal activity on the part of BOP offi...
+ And Then What? – We Daren’t Not Look Into the Abyss—Secular Millenarianism – the belief that some transformative catharsis in history has the power to expunge the crimes and follies of the past – has a ...
+ Coming Soon to a U.S. Neighborhood Near You? Regime-Change Foot Soldiers Parading as Social Justice Warriors—Is the ‘Trump regime’ about to get a taste of the color revolution tactics that America has employed in the past against “illiberal” foreign governmen...
+ Boris Johnson Is Failing So Badly Because He Still Thinks Like a Newspaper Columnist, a Disastrous Weakness During This Crisis—Patrick COCKBURN Twenty years ago, a novelist went to see his publisher to discuss his proposal to write a dystopian novel set in Britain in 2020 wh...
+ Biden: Stop Making Sense—Joe Biden seems to think that the key to victory in November is to stop making sense. Examples abound, but the latest concerns the Middle East. On Sep...
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TASS

+ Russian diplomats declared persona non grata leave Bulgaria — embassy—On Wednesday, the Bulgarian Prosecutor’s Office accused two employees from the Russian trade mission of espionage [Category: FOREIGN POLICY, Russian P...
+ Seventeen more coronavirus patients die in Moscow in past day — crisis center—To date, 1,136,048 coronavirus cases have been confirmed in Russia [Category: World, CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC] [Link to media]
+ Russian senior diplomat discusses Fatah-Hamas contacts with Palestinian politicians—The Russian side reiterated its unfailing readiness to help restore Palestinian unity on the platform of the Palestine Liberation Organization [Catego...
+ No grounds to put situation around Navalny for UNSC discussion — Russian envoy—"This is not the topic on the agenda of any United Nations body," he said [Category: World] [Link to media]
+ An-26 military plane crashes in northeastern Ukraine, casualties reported—A total of 18 people were killed and two seriously injured, Ukraine’s Interior Ministry said [Category: Emergencies ] [Link to media]
+ Belarusian PM highlights importance of Russia’s support amid Western pressure—Roman Golovchenko noted that Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin had visited Minsk in early September [Category: World, CRISIS IN BELARUS]
+ WHO representative says hopes Russia will avoid tough anti-COVID lockdowns—To date, 1,136,048 coronavirus cases have been confirmed in Russia, with 934,146 patients having recovered from the disease [Category: Society & C...
+ Germany impedes pre-investigation probe into Navalny incident, Moscow says— [Category: Russian Politics & Diplomacy, NAVALNY'S ALLEGED POISONING]
+ Russia discusses green economy at international forums, says Deputy Foreign Minister—The green decisions taken in the European Union, which remains the Russia’s largest trade partner, can eventually lead to major economic and financial...
+ WHO advises vaccination because it helps cope with several viruses more easily—The new vaccines that have been created on the basis of "absolutely new technologies" have eased the risky side effects of vaccination that existed 50...
+ Russian fighter scrambled to intercept two US strategic bombers over Baltic Sea—Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov told a briefing on Friday after the completion of the Kavkaz-2020 military dri...
+ Russia prepared and conducted Caucasus 2020 drills in maximum transparency—A total of 1,000 servicemen from six foreign states take part in the events [Category: Military & Defense]
+ Syrian experience was used during Kavkaz-2020 exercise—Chief of Russia's General Staff Valery Gerasimov stressed that a new combat formation - mobile echelon - was shown in action alongside the performance...
+ Russia can be proud of its healthcare system , says WHO envoy—Melita Vujnovic said she'd like to "see other countries to have the same number of medical staff, such hygiene and such equipment" [Category: Society ...
+ Italy’s Stefano Domenicali to be in charge of FIA Formula One racing starting next year—Earlier, he headed the Ferrari [Category: Sport] [Link to media]
+ NATO’s military activity observed 20-30 km off Russian borders — top brass—As an example of NATO’s increased activities near the Russian borders, the chief of the general staff cited NATO aircraft flights and the presence of ...
+ Russian lawmakers call on Berlin to create joint working group for Navalny investigation—On September 2, Berlin claimed that having examined Navalny's test samples, German government toxicologists had come to the conclusion that the blogge...
+ Russian diplomat says online/offline 2020 UNGA format impeded response to opponents— [Category: Russian Politics & Diplomacy]
+ Russia’s Rublev roams into ATP Hamburg tennis tournament’s semifinals—The Russian routed Spain’s Roberto Bautista Agut in their quarterfinals clash on Friday [Category: Sport] [Link to media]
+ This week in photos: An Italian fashion show, gorilla twins, and Trump hugs granddaughter—Take a look at the world in pictures from TASS photo gallery [Category: Editors choice, Society & Culture] [Link to media]
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The Plum Line

+ Get ready for a tsunami of disinformation when Trump declares victory—Google just took new steps to limit the damage. Facebook is still lagging.
+ Democrats finally grasp the importance of the Supreme Court — when it’s almost too late—Finally, the court has become more important to Democrats' votes than to Republicans'.
+ Trump tries one more pre-election scam—If you gave your life savings to Trump University, you'll love the Trump health care plan.
+ Intercepted GOP robocalls expose how Trump hopes to corrupt the election—Kimberly Guilfoyle and Lara Trump inadvertently give away the scam.
+ How Democrats could falter on health care—If the Supreme Court doesn't strike down the ACA, it could take the wind out of the sails of reform.
+ The Republican war on democracy is just getting started—If they win this election, they'll have to pull out all the stops to maintain minority rule.
+ Trump openly told us exactly what he intends to do—Let's be clear on what Trump's awful 'transfer of power' remarks really mean.
+ Adam Schiff’s warning: This is ‘how you see democracies come to an end’—Democrats roll out a new anti-corruption blueprint even as Trump's corruption mounts.
+ Trump is counting on the Supreme Court to help him steal the election—It's the most important reason he needs that sixth conservative justice in place before November.
+ The GOP’s own star witness just blew up Trump’s ‘Hunterghazi’ smear—Another effort to validate Trump's favorite smear of Joe Biden crashes and burns.
+ Donald Trump Jr. is actively helping his father corrupt the election —Let's get real about what Trump's eldest son is really up to here.
+ How Joe Biden is holding on to his image as a moderate—Soothing rhetoric, withholding judgment on procedural changes, and promising a better-managed government.
+ Republicans are handing Democrats a reason to undertake massive reform—Repairing the destruction the GOP caused will require a herculean effort — and sweeping reforms.
+ The hidden reason Trump’s ‘October surprise’ will likely fail—Why Trump's 'hail mary' strategy will be undermined by his own pathologies.
+ We may get 2008 level turnout among young voters. That’s bad for Trump.—How Trump may be rallying Obama-level turnout among young voters — against himself.
+ Even Republicans don’t buy Trump’s spin on the pandemic—Only a tiny number of people believe him when he says no country has done as well as us.
+ Nightmare ahead: Imagine the damage a 6-3 conservative Supreme Court could do—That's an argument the GOP is happy to lose, because it distracts us from the real issues at stake.
+ Trump’s latest Supreme Court spin unmasks the GOP’s vile game—As always, Trump reveals the GOP's base motives in broad daylight.
+ This new pro-Trump talking point is one of their most cynical lies yet—Why should we ignore the Kremlin's help for Trump? Because it would make people worry about the integrity of the election!
+ Trump: America’s perfection shall not be questioned, except by me—What we all want to hear, he thinks, is that racism is over and we should hate anyone who says otherwise.
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TomDispatch

+ Tomgram: Nick Turse, One Hundred Seconds Till the Apocalypse—Whether you’re reading this with your morning coffee, just after lunch, or on the late shift in the wee small hours of the morning, it’s 1...
+ Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, (Un)Civil War?—When it rains, pieces of glass, pottery, and metal rise through the mud in the hills surrounding my Maryland home...
+ Tomgram: Engelhardt, A Vote for the Apocalypse—It was August 2017 and Donald Trump had not yet warmed up to Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s portly dictator...
+ Tomgram: Robert Lipsyte, Stop Dribbling and March!—Last year, when LeBron James described some of President Trump’s public statements as “laughable and scary,” Fox News commentator La...
+ Tomgram: Mattea Kramer, Isolation and Opioids During the Pandemic—In our new era of nearly unparalleled upheaval, as a pandemic ravages the bodies of some and the minds of nearly everyone, as the associated...
+ Tomgram: Mandy Smithberger, Ending the Pentagon's Pandemic of Spending—The inadequate response of both the federal and state governments to the Covid-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on the United States, creating...
+ Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, What Have They (and We) Learned?—It’s only mid-afternoon and Army Lieutenant General Victor Constant has already had a bad day...
+ Tomgram: Engelhardt, The Great, Great Fall—The year was 1991 and the United States was suddenly the globe’s lone superpower, its ultimate hyperpower, the last and greatest of its kind, th...
+ Tomgram: Michael Klare, Artificial (Un)intelligence and the U.S. Military—With Covid-19 incapacitating startling numbers of U.S. service members and modern weapons proving increasingly lethal, the American military...
+ Tomgram: Erin Thompson, Breaking the Bronze Ceiling—On August 26, 2020, Alice in Wonderland will get some company...
+ Tomgram: Belle Chesler, Will Public Schools Survive Covid-19?—Seventeen years ago, against the advice of my parents, I decided to become a public school teacher...
+ Tomgram: Dilip Hiro, Donald Trump Is Losing His Tech War with Xi Jinping—For the Trump administration’s senior officials, it’s been open season on bashing China...
+ Best of TomDispatch: Beverly Gologorsky, My Neighbor, War—I’m a voracious reader of American fiction and I’ve noticed something odd in recent years...
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UPI International

+ British royal family to face $45M shortfall due to pandemic— The royal family said it plans to cut expenses after projecting a $45 million shortfall to their finances in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
+ ‘Rude’ South Korea penguin invited to attend parliament— A South Korean penguin character with a reputation for making curt remarks and sneering at its boss has been requested to take part in a parliamentar...
+ Bah Ndaw sworn in as interim president of Mali— Former Mali defense minister Bah Ndaw was sworn in as interim president Friday, taking over after a coup overthrew leader Ibrahim Boubacar Keita last...
+ Chinese citizen journalists remain in detention, reports say— Chinese citizen journalists arrested in February while reporting on the spread of the coronavirus in Wuhan are on hunger strike and under residential...
+ Kim Jong Un apology for South Korean death not enough, defector says— A high-profile North Korean defector and lawmaker said a tougher South Korean response is needed in the wake of the slaying of a South Korean officia...
+ EU takes $15B Apple-Ireland antitrust case to Court of Justice— The European Union said Friday it will appeal a court decision that dismissed a claim against Apple that said Ireland unlawfully granted billions in ...
+ At least 2 stabbed in Paris near site of 2015 Charlie Hebdo attack— French police arrested a man Friday after they say he stabbed at least two people outside the former offices of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, wh...
+ Watch live: Pope and leaders of Canada, Japan speak at U.N. General Assembly— Pope Francis and the leaders of Canada, Japan, Australia and the Palestinian Authority will deliver remarks Friday at the 75th United Nations General...
+ Kim Jong Un apologizes for killing of South Korean official— North Korean leader Kim Jong Un apologized for the killing of a South Korean fisheries official earlier this week, saying he was "very sorry" for dis...
+ German bishops announce higher payments to Catholic abuse victims— A conference of German Catholic bishops introduced a new model on Thursday to pay survivors of abuse within the church, which could pay each more tha...
+ TikTok applies for Chinese license to export technology— TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, requested permission from Beijing to export its technology, as the company's executives work furiously to push th...
+ Hamas, Fatah agree to 'unified vision' for Palestinian state— Leading Palestinian rival groups Hamas and Fatah on Thursday agreed to a unified vision in their fight for a Palestinian nation.
+ South Korea president says creative content key to nation’s future— South Korean President Moon Jae-in said his country is enjoying a "renaissance" in digital media following the success of bands like BTS and the Osca...
+ European Commission seeks to regulate cryptocurrencies— The European Commission revealed Thursday it plans to regulate cryptocurrencies in an effort to make them safer for owners and investors.
+ Japan urges South Korea to stop seizure of Nippon Steel assets— Japan's chief cabinet secretary warned against the liquidation of assets belonging to Japan's Nippon Steel and Sumitomo Metal Corp. in South Korea.
+ Report: North Korea defector group committed fraud— North Korean defector-led groups in the South are under increased scrutiny amid allegations some of the organizations committed financial fraud as gr...
+ Watch live: Libya, Yemen leaders speak at U.N. on Day 3 of debate— The leaders of several Middle Eastern nations will deliver prerecorded speeches Thursday at the 75th United Nations General Assembly.
+ North Korea shot, burned missing South Korean official, military confirms— North Korea fatally shot a missing South Korean fisheries official and burned his body earlier this week, defense officials confirmed Thursday, conde...
+ Hong Kong police arrest pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong— Prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong was arrested Thursday on suspicion of participating in an illegal protest last year, according...
+ Antarctic Ice Sheet to melt, raise sea levels by 8.5 feet even under Paris Agreement— The Antarctic Ice Sheet will suffer irreversible ice loss raising ocean levels by 8.5 feet even if the world meets global warming goals laid out by t...
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Washington Post

+ COVID-19 can’t crush human rights, UN gathering declares—In a diminished spotlight caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, leading human rights defenders are urging people in these fractured times to connect throug...
+ Pope to UN: Use COVID crisis to come out better, not worse—Pope Francis is urging world leaders to use the coronavirus emergency as an opportunity to reform the injustices of the global economy and the “perver...
+ Two stabbed in Paris knife attack outside former Charlie Hebdo offices—The attack comes amid a historic trial of accused accomplices in a deadly 2015 attack on the satirical newspaper.
+ Two stabbed in knife attack outside former Charlie Hebdo offices—The attack comes amid a historic trial of accused accomplices in a deadly 2015 attack on the satirical newspaper.
+ The pandemic pushes hundreds of millions of people toward starvation and poverty—Financiers and traders on Wall Street may be starting to feel optimistic, but for most people the gloom is only deepening.
+ London police officer fatally shot inside police station—It is rare for a British police officer to be killed in the line of duty.
+ Palestinian leader calls for new peace process in UN speech—Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has called for an international conference early next year to “launch a genuine peace process” while criticizing t...
+ Japan’s new PM says stable Japan-China ties key to region—New Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga says he and Chinese President Xi Jinping have agreed in talks to work closely together by holding high-leve...
+ Turkey orders dozens arrested, including members of pro-Kurdish party, over deadly 2014 protests—The orders came amid a government crackdown that has removed dozens of elected Kurdish mayors.
+ Turkey orders dozens arrested, including members of pro-Kurdish party, in deadly 2014 protests—The orders came amid a government crackdown that has removed dozens of elected Kurdish mayors.
+ Vatican cardinal pushes back after pope fires him in scandal—The financial scandal that toppled Cardinal Angelo Becciu, one of the Vatican’s most powerful Vatican officials, is mounting with evidence that he dir...
+ Tokyo Olympics and IOC find mostly minor areas to ‘simplify’—Tokyo Olympic organizers have announced several “simplification” changes for next year’s postponed games but with few large cost-savings
+ Mali swears in transitional president and vice president—Mali’s transitional president and vice president were sworn into office, more than a month after a coup in the West African nation
+ Japan’s newly minted prime minister steps into UN limelight—Japan’s new prime minister is considered something of a lightweight on foreign policy issues and has spent much of his career in the shadows
+ Israeli leaders bicker as virus lockdown goes into effect—Israeli lawmakers cannot agree on legislation governing a tightened nationwide lockdown, prompting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to propose a stat...
+ Giant rat wins animal hero award for sniffing out landmines—A rat has for the first time won a British charity’s top civilian award for animal bravery, receiving the honor for searching out unexploded landmines...
+ Turkey arrests dozens, including members of pro-Kurdish party, in connection with deadly 2014 protests—The arrests came amid a government crackdown that has removed dozens of elected Kurdish mayors.
+ Multiple people injured in knife attack outside former Charlie Hebdo offices—The attack comes amid a historic trial of accused accomplices in a deadly 2015 attack on the satirical newspaper.
+ ’Tis the season for travel in China. But virus fears cast a shadow over festivities.—Domestic tourist sites are clamoring to draw visitors, while officials warn of the risks of new virus outbreaks during Golden Week.
+ Japan Catholic Church sued for damages in alleged sex abuse—A woman has filed a suit against the Roman Catholic Church in Japan alleging that a priest raped her four decades ago, as the church’s unfolding world...
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Washington Post

+ Barr told Trump about investigation into discarded Pennsylvania ballots that president seized on as evidence of widespread fraud—At issue are nine ballots found this month in an election office trash can in Luzerne County, Pa., that had been thrown out by a contractor, officials...
+ Trump expected to nominate Amy Coney Barrett to fill Ginsburg seat, kicking off Supreme Court fight weeks before election—Senate Republicans plan to move the nomination quickly and Democrats have little chance to block the nominee, but a bitter Senate battle looms in the ...
+ Election: Trump courts minority voters in Florida, Georgia; Biden pays respects to Ginsburg—On Friday, the president plans to stage events in Florida, Georgia and Virginia and hold a fundraiser at his hotel in Washington.
+ More data show erosion of a Republican advantage on the economy—Voters still prefer Trump — but new analysis and polling shows Democrats with an advantage on the issue.
+ Election live updates: Trump courts minority voters in Florida, Georgia; Biden pays respects to Ginsburg—On Friday, the president plans to stage events in Florida, Georgia and Virginia and hold a fundraiser at his hotel in Washington.
+ The House seats most likely to flip in November—Less than six weeks out from the election, House Republicans have a chance to just pick up a handful of seats. But so do Democrats.
+ Supreme Court vacancy spotlights Roe v. Wade—Activists from both sides have been galvanized by the prospect that a newly conservative Supreme Court could overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark aborti...
+ Biden’s claim that Trump’s tax bill gave companies ‘a reward for offshoring jobs’—The Democratic nominee is a fierce critic of Trump's tax bill, but a key charge is not confirmed in the data.
+ Trump’s escalating attacks on election prompt fears of a constitutional crisis—The president’s continuing threats have prompted election and law enforcement authorities nationwide to prepare for an unprecedented clash.

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SciTech

Arc Technica Science

+ Rare case of black licorice poisoning kills man in Massachusetts—Enlarge / Bulk black licorice candy. (credit: Getty | Andia) Because 2020 hasn’t provided enough extraordinary ways to die, the universe offers...
+ Space Force says it will fly on a used Falcon 9 rocket for the first time—Enlarge / A Falcon 9 rocket launches the GPS III-03 mission in June, 2020. (credit: SpaceX) On Friday, the US Space Force said it would launch ...
+ Rocket Report: Starship pops on purpose, Delta IV Heavy ready to try again—Enlarge / Firefly tests the first stage of its Alpha rocket. (credit: Firefly Aerospace) Welcome to Edition 3.17 of the Rocket Report! Weather ...
+ Trump may reject FDA’s stricter regulations for COVID-19 vaccine—Enlarge / The Food and Drug Administration headquarters in White Oak, Maryland. (credit: Getty | Congressional Quarterly) President Donald Trum...
+ Not-so-hostile takeover: Human Y chromosome displaced the Neanderthals’ version—Comparison of Modern Human and Neanderthal skulls from the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. (credit: hairymuseummatt) We know that Neanderth...
+ Russia offers its untested COVID-19 vaccine for free to UN officials—Enlarge / Russian President Vladimir Putin address the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly, via teleconference call, in Moscow on Se...
+ NASA wants a big budget increase for its Moon plans. Is Congress biting?—Enlarge / NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine says that competition is good for the Artemis Moon program. (credit: NASA) The odds of NASA sendin...
+ Chitin could be used to build tools and habitats on Mars, study finds—Enlarge / Scientists mixed chitin—an organic polymer found in abundance in arthropods, as well as fish scales—with a mineral that mimics the propert...
+ US has topped 200,000 COVID-19 deaths—and many more to come—Enlarge / Transporter Morgan Dean-McMillan prepares the body of a COVID-19 victim at a morgue in Montgomery county, Maryland, on April 17, 2020. (cr...
+ US COVID-19 deaths just topped 200,000—Enlarge / Transporter Morgan Dean-McMillan prepares the body of a COVID-19 victim at a morgue in Montgomery county, Maryland, on April 17, 2020. (cr...
+ Blogger who trashed Fauci online “retires” after being ID’d as NIH staffer—Enlarge / Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, wears a Washington Nationals protective mask aft...
+ Arctic sea ice hits second-smallest summer extent on record—Enlarge (credit: NASA) One sign of the transition from summer to fall in the Northern Hemisphere is the annual minimum point in Arctic sea ice ex...
+ Arctic sea ice hits 2nd smallest summer extent on record—Enlarge (credit: NASA) One sign of the transition from summer to fall in the Northern Hemisphere is the annual minimum point in Arctic sea ice ex...
+ 156 countries commit to fair COVID-19 vaccine access, but US won’t join—Enlarge / World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends a press conference organized by the Geneva Association...
+ The story of cheaper batteries, from smartphones to Teslas—Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty) At today's "Battery Day" event, Tesla is expected to unveil new technologies that will drive the company's p...
+ A German rocket startup seeks to disrupt the European launch industry— Artist's concept of the Spectrum rocket launching. [credit: ...
+ Here’s how DOE’s first crop of risky energy tech has done—Enlarge / Former Energy Secretary Ernst Moniz speaks at an ARPA-E event in 2016. (credit: DOE / Flickr) In 2009, the US Department of Energy st...
+ When building an embryo, timing is everything—The repeated light and dark pattern you can see down the side of this embryo is caused by the presence of somites. (credit: Flickr user Lunar Caustic)...
+ What’s in wildfire smoke, and how dangerous is it?—Enlarge / Juniper Hills, CA, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020 - A fire engine drives into air thick with smoke along Juniper Hills Rd. as the Bobcat Fire ad...
+ CDC dramatically restores COVID-19 testing advice marred by political meddling—Enlarge / The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters stands in Atlanta, Georgia, US, on Saturday, March 14, 2020. (credit: Ge...
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Ars Technica Software

+ Alphabet, shareholders settle in lawsuits over sexual harassment at Google—Enlarge / Google's corporate headquarters. (credit: Alex Tai | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images) Alphabet, Google's parent company, sai...
+ Microsoft boots apps out of Azure used by China-sponsored hackers—Enlarge / Computer chip with Chinese flag, 3d conceptual illustration. (credit: Steve McDowell / Agefotostock) Fortune 500 companies aren’t the...
+ Microsoft boots apps used by China-sponsored hackers out of Azure—Enlarge / Computer chip with Chinese flag, 3d conceptual illustration. (credit: Steve McDowell / Agefotostock) Fortune 500 companies aren’t the...
+ One of this year’s most severe Windows bugs is now under active exploit—(credit: Pixabay) One of the highest-impact Windows vulnerabilities patched this year is now under active exploitation by malicious hackers, Micr...
+ T-Mobile hits back at AT&T and Verizon after spectrum-hoarding accusations—Enlarge / T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert speaks during a keynote at CES 2020 in Las Vegas on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020. (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg) ...
+ “LokiBot,” the malware that steals your most sensitive data, is on the rise—Enlarge (credit: Christiaan Colen / Flickr) Federal and state officials are seeing a big uptick in infections coming from LokiBot, an open source...
+ Old TV set interfered with village’s DSL Internet each day for 18 months—Enlarge / An old television set. (credit: Getty Images | Jeffrey Coolidge) A 400-resident village in Wales suffered 18 months of DSL Internet o...
+ A tip from a kid helps detect iOS and Android scam apps’ 2.4 million downloads—Enlarge (credit: Silas Stein/picture alliance via Getty Images) Researchers said that a tip from a child led them to discover aggressive adware a...
+ Feds issue emergency order for agencies to patch critical Windows flaw—Enlarge (credit: Sebastian Kahnert/picture alliance via Getty Images) The US Department of Homeland Security is giving federal agencies until mid...
+ Traders set to don virtual reality headsets in their home offices—Enlarge (credit: Thomas Barwick / Getty Images) Spare bedrooms and living rooms could soon become part of vibrant trading floors as one of the wo...
+ Companies can track your phone’s movements to target ads—Enlarge (credit: Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images) Google and Apple have taken steps this year they say will help users shield themselves fr...
+ Telegram messages are a focus in newly uncovered hack campaign from Iran—Enlarge / Rampant Kitty has been targeting Telegram like a feline to twine. (credit: Check Point) Researchers said they have uncovered an ongoi...
+ Wayback Machine and Cloudflare team up to archive more of the Web—Enlarge / Screenshot of the Internet Archive's home page, including the WayBack Machine's search box. (credit: Internet Archive) The Internet A...
+ Comcast shut off Internet to hundreds, saying they were illegally connected—(credit: Comcast) Comcast says that a broadband reseller illegally sold Comcast Internet service in residential buildings in the Denver area and ...
+ A bevy of new features makes iOS 14 the most secure mobile OS ever—Enlarge / From left to right: iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11 Pro Max. (credit: Samuel Axon) Eleven months ago, Apple CEO Tim Cook declared...
+ Patient dies after ransomware attack reroutes her to remote hospital—Enlarge (credit: Andrew Malone / Flickr) A woman seeking emergency treatment for a life-threatening condition died after a ransomware attack crip...
+ Hammer drops on hackers accused of targeting game and software makers—Enlarge / The Department of Justice seal as seen during a press conference in December 2019. (credit: Samuel Corum | Getty Images) For more th...
+ AT&T wants to put ads on your smartphone in exchange for $5 discount—Enlarge / An AT&T sign outside a company office in New York City. (credit: Getty Images | Roberto Machado Noa ) AT&T CEO John Stankey s...
+ Boeing hid design flaws in 737 Max jets from pilots and regulators—Enlarge / A Boeing 737 MAX jet lands following a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) test flight at Boeing Field in Seattle, Washington, on June 2...
+ Oracle’s TikTok non-acquisition seeks Treasury, White House approval—Enlarge / The TikTok logo displayed on a smartphone, with logo of parent company ByteDance in the background. (credit: Sheldon Coope | SOPA Images ...
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Computer Weekly

+ Forensic expert questions US claims that Julian Assange conspired to crack military password
+ Forensic expert questions US claims that Assange conspired to crack military password
+ Covid-19 has changed how we think about cyber security forever
+ Gartner: Balance safety, privacy and productivity when employees return to the workplace
+ ‘Not unjust’ to extradite WilkiLeaks founder Julian Assange, court hears
+ Third-party code bug left Instagram users at risk of account takeover
+ Can banks solve money laundering puzzle through technology?
+ Top five ways backup can protect against ransomware
+ Government blasted over ‘reckless’ contact-tracing security
+ Race to patch as Microsoft confirms Zerologon attacks in the wild
+ WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has Asperger syndrome and depression, court hears
+ Public admires security professionals, but doesn’t want their jobs
+ What's involved in VPN maintenance and management?
+ Video gamers barraged with cyber attacks
+ US agencies warn of election disinformation and cyber attacks
+ Activision shoots down data breach claims
+ GDS reviewing Cloud First policy post-Schrems II
+ Scam mobile apps spreading via rogue TikTok accounts
+ WikiLeaks published unredacted cables after password was disclosed in book
+ Trump implicated in plans to prosecute Assange over war leaks
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dangerous

+ App note: Impedance characteristics of bypass capacitor— App note from ROHM Semiconductors about different type of bypass capacitors impedance and some tip when replacing them. Link here (PDF) There...
+ App note: BA1117 dropout voltage— App note from ROHM Semiconductors about linear regulator dropout voltage. Link here (PDF) The dropout voltage is the difference between the i...
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Dark Reading

+ 6 Things to Know About the Microsoft 'Zerologon' Flaw—Until all domain controllers are updated, the entire infrastructure remains vulnerable, the DHS' CISA warns. [Link to media]
+ Navigating the Asia-Pacific Threat Landscape: Experts Dive In—At next week's virtual Black Hat Asia, threat intelligence pros will discuss the threats local organizations should prioritize and how they can prepar...
+ Getting Over the Security-to-Business Communication Gap in DevSecOps—Application security in a DevOps world takes more than great teamwork among security, developers, and operations staff. [Link to media]
+ COVID-19: Latest Security News & Commentary—Check out Dark Reading's updated, exclusive news and commentary surrounding the coronavirus pandemic. [Link to media]
+ RASP 101: Staying Safe With Runtime Application Self-Protection—The dream of RASP is to empower applications to protect themselves. How close do current implementations get to living the dream? Here's what to know....
+ WannaCry Has IoT in Its Crosshairs—The wide variety of devices attached to the Internet of Things offers a rich target for purveyors of ransomware. [Link to media]
+ Malware Attacks Declined But Became More Evasive in Q2—Most of the malware used in attacks last quarter were designed to evade signature-based detection tools, WatchGuard says. [Link to media]
+ Bluetooth Security Weaknesses Pile Up, While Patching Remains Problematic—Turns out, creating wireless ecosystems for a vast number of different architectures, configurations, and use cases is hard. [Link to media]
+ Critical Instagram Flaw Could Let Attackers Spy on Victims—A now-patched remote code execution vulnerability could be exploited with a specially sized image file, researchers report. [Link to media]
+ Solving the Problem With Security Standards —More explicit threat models can make security better and open the door to real and needed innovation. [Link to media]
+ CrowdStrike Agrees to Acquire Preempt Security for $96M —CrowdStrike plans to use Preempt Security's conditional access technology to strengthen its Falcon platform. [Link to media]
+ CrowdStrike Agrees to Acquire Preemptive Security for $96M —CrowdStrike plans to use Preemptive Security's conditional access technology to strengthen its Falcon platform. [Link to media]
+ Microsoft Warns of Attackers Now Exploiting 'Zerologon' Flaw—The Security Intelligence team at Microsoft is tracking newly waged exploits in the wild. [Link to media]
+ Since Remote Work Isn't Going Away, Security Should Be the Focus— [Link to media]
+ Gaming Industry Hit With 10B+ Attacks In Past Two Years—Criminals scored big with credential stuffing and web app attacks, yet many gamers seem unfazed. [Link to media]
+ Shopify's Employee Data Theft Underscores Risk of Rogue Insiders—The e-commerce platform has alerted more than 100 merchants of a data breach, highlighting the danger of malicious insiders. [Link to media]
+ Google Cloud Debuts Threat-Detection Service—Lockdown economics are driving a threat-intelligence business boom. Chronicle Detect is Google's answer to monitoring so much log data created by the ...
+ India's Cybercrime and APT Operations on the Rise—Growing geopolitical tensions with China in particular are fueling an increase in cyberattacks between the two nations, according to IntSights. [Link ...
+ Microsoft's Azure Defender for IoT Uses CyberX Tech—Azure Defender for IoT is built to help IT and OT teams discover IoT and OT assets, identify critical flaws, and detect malicious behavior. [Link to m...
+ My Journey Toward SAP Security—When applications are critical to the business's core functions, the CISO and their staff better get the security right. [Link to media]
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Hack a Day

+ Autodesk Blinks, Keeps STEP File Export in Free Version of Fusion 360—Good news, Fusion 360 fans — Autodesk just announced that they won’t be removing support for STEP file exports for personal use licensees ...
+ Xbox Controller Gets Snap On Joystick from Clever 3D-Printed Design— Ball and socket linkages make for smooth operation. People making DIY controls to enhance flight simulators is a vibrant niche of engineering and h...
+ Road Pollution Doesn’t Just Come from Exhaust—Alumni from Innovation Design Engineering at Imperial College London and the Royal College of Art want to raise awareness of a road pollution source w...
+ Ask Hackaday: Is Windows XP Source Code Leak a Bad Thing?—News comes overnight that the Windows XP source code has been leaked. The Verge says they have “verified the material as legitimate” and t...
+ Hackaday Podcast 086: News Overflow, Formula 1/3 Racer, Standing Up For Rubber Duckies, and Useless Machine Takes a Turn—Hackaday editors Elliot Williams take Mike Szczys peruse the world of hacks. There was so much news this week that we lead off the show with a rundown...
+ Candy Slide Keeps Halloween Spooky and Socially Distant—Pandemic got you down about the prospects for Halloween this year? While you may not be able to do the Monster Mash with all your friends and family, ...
+ This Week in Security: uTorrent Vulnerable, Crowd-Sourcing Your Fail2Ban, and Cryptographers at Casinos—The uTorrent client was recently updated to fix a null pointer dereference (CVE-2020-8437), discovered by [whtaguy]. Triggering the dereference simply...
+ Hacking A Cheap Action Cam Into A Dashcam With A Microcontroller—Repurposing commodity electronics is one of the true forms of hacking, and it’s always the simple little hacks that lead to big ones. [Everett] ...
+ Adding WiFi To The Acorn Electron—In the continuing quest by countless hobbyists to allow every 1980s 8-bit home computer to experience the joys of an online experience that doesn̵...
+ DIY Grout Cleaning Machine Does A Good Job—Cleaning tiled floors can be a drag. Getting the tiles themselves clean is bad enough, but often dealing with the grouted joints in between requires m...
+ Robotic Worm uses NinjaFlex Filament—If you think about building a moving machine, you probably will consider wheels or tracks or maybe even a prop to take you airborne. When [nwlauer] fo...
+ Plaster Annealing 3D Prints for Strength—[Stefan] is always trying to make stronger 3D prints. Annealing can strengthen prints, but often at the expense of the part’s exact dimensions. ...
+ 3D-Printed Adapter Keeps Your Guitar In Tune And In Style—If you like building or upgrading guitars, you may have already learned the valuable lesson that the devil absolutely is in the detail when it comes t...
+ Textmeter Tells Its Tale—One time-proven method to make a lesson memorable is to make it a story, but that is not easy if your core material is the repair log of a rotted out ...
+ In Praise Of The DT830, The Phenomenal Instrument You Probably Don’t Recognise For What It Is—If we had to make a guess at the single piece of electronic bench equipment owned by the highest proportion of Hackaday readers, it would not be a bud...
+ Roller-Based Robot Hand Grasps—In a recent International Conference on Robotics and Automation paper, [Shenli Yaun] and some others from Stanford discuss the design of a roller-base...
+ Dynamic Soaring: 545 MPH RC Planes Have No Motor—The fastest remote-controlled airplane flight ever recorded took place in 2018, with a top speed of 545 miles/hour. That’s 877 km/h, or Mach 0.7...
+ 3D Print a Piece of Nintendo History Before the Real One is Gone—Nintendo wasn’t always in the videogames business. Long before Mario, the company was one of the foremost producers of Hanafuda playing cards in...
+ ESP32 Vulnerability affects Older Chips—There is a scene from the movie RED (Retired, Extremely Dangerous) where Bruce Willis encounters a highly-secure door with a constantly changing lock ...
+ Apollo DSKY Replica Looks the Part—It’s hard to say what exactly it is about the Apollo DSKY that captures so many hackers’ imaginations. Whatever it is, the “Display ...
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Network World

+ Government cybersecurity agency warns of Windows Server exploit—The federal government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a rare emergency directive to federal government agencies ...
+ Cisco turns out security patches 25 high-threat flaws for IOS, IOS XE —If you are a security admin with lots of systems running Cisco IOS and IOS XE software today is decidedly not your day.Cisco this week posted 25 “High...
+ Still not dead: The mainframe hangs on, sustained by Linux and hybrid cloud—The mainframe has been declared “dead”, “morphed” and “transformed” so many times over the years sometimes it’s sometimes hard to believe the Big Iron...
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Parabolic Arc

+ Cygnus to Carry Variety of Life & Physical Science Investigations to Space Station— The U.S. Cygnus space freighter is pictured as the Canadarm2 robotic arm, guided by NASA astronaut Jessica Meir with fellow Flight Engineer Christina...
+ Five Launches Scheduled Over Three Days— Falcon 9 payload shroud. (Credit: SpaceX) Things are about to get very busy, with four American launches and a Russian one planned over a three-...
+ UK Dumps Idea of Creating Independent Satellite Navigation System— LONDON (UK Government PR) — New options for a UK satellite navigation and timing capability programme to support the nation’s critical inf...
+ NASA Publishes Mammoth Economic Impact Study— At 2,670 pages, the report is more than twice as long as the first edition of War & Peace. WASHINGTON (NASA PR) — NASA released Fri...
+ T4i Won Contract from ESA for REGULUS Propulsion System Evolution— REGULOUS propulsion (Credit: T-4i) PADUA, Italy (T4i PR) — T4i, a company providing customized and off-the-shelf propulsion systems, is e...
+ 2020 Arctic Sea Ice Minimum at Second Lowest on Record— In the Arctic Ocean, sea ice reached its minimum extent of 1.44 million square miles (3.74 million square kilometers) on Sept. 15 – the second-...
+ Isotropic Systems Signs Contract with SES GS to Initiate Multi-Orbit Trials of Next-Gen Multi-beam Antenna Technologies for U.S. Military— READING/RESTON, 24 September 2020 (SES GS PR) – SES Government Solutions (SES GS), a fully-owned affiliate of SES, and Isotropic Systems, a lead...
+ To the Moon! U.S. Space Force’s Operational Area Just Got Much Larger— The Moon seen from the International Space Station. The image was taken by ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli during his second mission to ‘MagISStra&...
+ Stratolaunch Conducts Wind Tunnel Tests on Talon-A Vehicle—Testing components of the @Stratolaunch Talon-A aerodynamic design at @UW Kirsten Wind Tunnel. One step closer to advancing high-speed tech through in...
+ NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Begins its Countdown to TAG—by Brittany EnosUniversity of Arizona A historic moment is on the horizon for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission. In just a few weeks, the robotic OSIRIS-RE...
+ SES Becomes Microsoft Azure Orbital Founding Connectivity Partner— LUXEMBOURG, 22 September 2020 (SES PR) – SES today announced it has joined as the medium Earth orbit (MEO) connectivity partner for Microsoft A...
+ BlackSky Announces Next Generation Dual Payload Satellite Architecture to Deliver High Resolution and Nighttime Imaging Capabilities— HERNDON, Va. , September 24, 2020 (BlackSky PR) – BlackSky, a leading provider of global monitoring services, geospatial intelligence and satell...
+ Trump Fills Key NOAA Posts with Global Warming Skeptics— An aircraft drops chemicals on wildfire at Vandenberg Air Force Base. (Credit: USAF) by Douglas MessierManaging Editor With the West Coast a...
+ Shotwell, Koch and Meir Make Time’s 100 Most Influential People List— Gwynne Shotwell SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell and NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir have made Time magazine’s list of Th...
+ Blue Origin Scrubs New Shepard Launch— New Shepard launch (Credit: Blue Origin webcast) UPDATE: The New Shepard NS-13 mission with NASA’s Tipping Point experiment is now slated...
+ Warming Temperatures are Driving Arctic Greening— When Arctic tundra greens, undergoing increased plant growth, it can impact wildlife species including reindeer and caribou. (Credits: Logan Berner/N...
+ The Artemis Files: Bold Dreams and Busted Budgets— Artist’s rendering of an ascent vehicle separating from a descent vehicle and departing the lunar surface. (Credit: NASA) For NASA’s...
+ Plans Underway for New European Polar Ice and Snow Topography Mission— CRISTAL satellite (Credit: ESA) PARIS (ESA PR) — Monitoring the cryosphere is essential to fully assess, predict and adapt to climate var...
+ NASA’s OSIRIS-REx to Asteroid Bennu: “You’ve got a little Vesta on you…”— During spring 2019, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft captured these images, which show fragments of asteroid Vesta present on asteroid Bennu’s surface. T...
+ Space Health Institute Awards 5 Grants to Mitigate the Effects of Space Radiation on Healthy Human Cell-Derived Organs-On-A-Chip— An astronaut holds a tissue chip. (Credits: NASA/Josh Valcarcel) HOUSTON (NASA PR) — The Translational Research Institute for Space ...
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Scientific American

+ Fruit Flies Plug into the Matrix—A new budget-friendly virtual-reality system helps researchers study the brains of small animals -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com [Ca...
+ Bird Brains Are Far More Humanlike Than Once Thought—The avian cortex had been hiding in plain sight all along. Humans were just too birdbrained to see it -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com ...
+ Is There Life on Venus? These Missions Could Find It—Following a tantalizing discovery, these spacecraft could be headed to Earth’s twisted twin in search of the truth -- Read more on ScientificAm...
+ COVID-19 Testing Lab Shows How Colleges Can Reopen Safely—More than 100 colleges in the Northeast have partnered with the Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard to test their students and staff -- Read more o...
+ The Most Vulnerable Ransomware Targets Are the Institutions We Rely On Most—Many vital public institutions such as hospitals and fire stations lack cybersecurity to ward off popular malware -- Read more on ScientificAmerican....
+ Powerful New Observatory Will Taste Neutrinos' Flavors—The Chinese JUNO experiment will aim to answer a mystery about the particles’ mass -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com [Category: ...
+ 3-D Printing inside the Body Could Patch Stomach Ulcers—In vivo bioprinting might also help repair hernias and treat infertility -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com [Category: Health, Biotech,...
+ For Math Fans: A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Number 42—Here is how a perfectly ordinary number captured the interest of sci-fi enthusiasts, geeks and mathematicians -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com ...
+ Can an Algorithm Help Solve Political Paralysis?—As faith in government hits historic lows, organizers in the U.K. are trying a new math-based approach to democracy. Would it work in the bitterly div...
+ Earthquake Sounds Could Reveal How Quickly the Ocean Is Warming—A new way of measuring the temperature of the seas could fill in gaps left by limited direct monitoring -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com ...
+ Population Density Does Not Doom Cities to Pandemic Dangers—Crowding, connections among communities and other factors seem to better explain infection and mortality rates -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com...
+ Global Biodiversity Is in Free Fall—A U.N. report reveals that countries worldwide have failed to meet key conservation targets set for 2020 -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com ...
+ How New Mexico Controlled the Spread of COVID-19—The state went after the disease with widespread testing and science-based targets. Now it is in better shape than its neighbors -- Read more on Scie...
+ Venus Might Host Life, New Discovery Suggests—The unexpected atmospheric detection of phosphine, a smelly gas made by microbes on Earth, could spark a revolution in astrobiology -- Read more on S...
+ Photos Show Massive Wildfires Devastating Oregon and California—Record-setting blazes fueled in part by climate change have destroyed homes and upended live across the West -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com ...
+ Mail-Sorting Machines Are Crucial for the U.S. Postal Service—An expert explains how automation enables quick deliveries—which will include ballots for November’s election -- Read more on ScientificA...
+ Why Trump-Favoring Voters Ignored a Deadly Hurricane Warning—Rush Limbaugh and other conservative pundits’ “hurricane skepticism” in 2017 may have influenced individuals’ decision to pack...
+ Nine COVID-19 Myths That Just Won't Go Away—From a human-made virus to vaccine conspiracy theories, we rounded up the most persistent false claims about the pandemic -- Read more on ScientificA...
+ SpaceX's Dark Satellites Are Still Too Bright for Astronomers—The company’s attempts to dim the spacecraft in its megaconstellation fall short of eliminating disruptions to the world’s ground-based ob...
+ Emotional Labor Is a Store Clerk Confronting a Maskless Customer—The preeminent sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild discusses the control over one’s feelings needed to go to work every day during a pandemic ...
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Security Affairs

+ Source Code of Windows XP, Server 2003 leaked—The source code for Microsoft’s Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 operating systems was published as a torrent file on bulletin board website 4...
+ Twitter warns developers of possible API keys leak—Twitter is warning developers that their API keys, access tokens, and access token secrets may have been exposed in a browser’s cache. Twitt...
+ Cisco fixes 34 High-Severity flaws in IOS and IOS XE software—Cisco patched 34 high-severity flaws affecting its IOS and IOS XE software, some of them can be exploited by a remote unauthenticated attacker. C...
+ Fortinet VPN with default certificate exposes 200,000 businesses to hack—According to SAM Seamless Network, over 200,000 businesses are using Fortigate VPN with default settings, exposing them to the risk of a hack. In ...
+ CISA says federal agency compromised by malicious cyber actor—Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) revealed that a hacker breached a US federal agency and exfiltrated data. Cybersecurity a...
+ Polish police shut down major group of hackers in the country—Polish police dismantled a major group of hackers that was behind several criminal activities, including ransomware attacks, and banking fraud. Po...
+ Alien Android banking Trojan, the powerful successor of the Cerberus malware—Security researchers spotted a new strain of Android malware, dubbed Alien, that implements multiple features allowing it to steal credentials from 22...
+ Instagram RCE gave hackers remote access to your device—Facebook has addressed a critical vulnerability in Instagram that could lead to remote code execution and turn the smartphone into a spying device. ...
+ Hackers are using Zerologon exploits in attacks in the wild—Microsoft is warning of threat actors that are actively using the Windows Server Zerologon exploits in attacks in the wild. Microsoft has publishe...
+ Microsoft, Italy and the Netherlands agencies warn of EMOTET campaigns—Experts worldwide warn about a surge in the Emotet activity, this time the alerts are from Microsoft, Italy and the Netherlands agencies. Two week...
+ Data for 600K customers of U.S. fitness chains Town Sports leaked online—The database containing personal information of over 600,000 clients of the US fitness chain Town Sports was exposed on the Internet. US fitn...
+ Rogue employees at Shopify accessed customer info without authorization—E-commerce platform provider Shopify revealed that two members of its support staff accessed customer information without authorization. E-commer...
+ HOW OPERATORS USE SANDVINE TO BLOCK INDEPENDENT MEDIA IN EGYPT—Researchers at Qurium Media Foundation published a report that provides insight on how Sandvine DPI performs the blocking, and how it can be detected....
+ Samba addresses the CVE-2020-1472 Zerologon Vulnerability—Samba team has released a security patch to address the Zerologon issue in the Microsoft Windows Netlogon Remote Protocol (MS-NRPC). Samba team ha...
+ HOW DO PROVIDERS IMPLEMENT INTERNET BLOCKING IN BELARUS?—Researchers at Qurium Media Foundation analyzed the blocking implemented by four different operators in Belarus. September 23, 2020 Qurium anal...
+ Group-IB detects a series of ransomware attacks by OldGremlin—Researchers from threat hunting and intelligence firm Group-IB have detected a successful attack by a ransomware gang tracked as OldGremlin. Group...
+ Russia-linked APT28 targets govt bodies with fake NATO training docs—Russia-linked cyberespionage group APT28 uses fake NATO training documents as bait in attacks aimed at government bodies. The Russia-linked cybe...
+ CISA’s advisory warns of notable increase in LokiBot malware—US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning of a notable increase in the use of LokiBot malware by threat actors since July ...
+ Operation DisrupTor: police arrested 179 vendors engaged in the sale of illicit good—A global police sting dubbed Operation DisrupTor targeted vendors and buyers of illicit goods on the dark web, Europol announced. A coordinated op...
+ German investigators blame Russian DoppelPaymer gang for deadly hospital attack—The investigation of German authorities on the recent attack on the Dusseldorf hospital reveals the possible involvement of Russian hackers. Last ...
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Security Magazine

+ Government cybersecurity agency warns of Windows Server exploit—The federal government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a rare emergency directive to federal government agencies ...
+ Cisco turns out security patches 25 high-threat flaws for IOS, IOS XE —If you are a security admin with lots of systems running Cisco IOS and IOS XE software today is decidedly not your day.Cisco this week posted 25 “High...
+ Still not dead: The mainframe hangs on, sustained by Linux and hybrid cloud—The mainframe has been declared “dead”, “morphed” and “transformed” so many times over the years sometimes it’s sometimes hard to believe the Big Iron...
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Space Ref

+ Earth from Space: Tarawa, Kiribati—The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the Tarawa Atoll in the Republic of Kiribati - a remote Pacific nation threatened by rising seas. [Aut...
+ NASA Space Station On-Orbit Status 24 September, 2020 - October Will be Busy—October is shaping up to be a busy traffic period as the International Space Station gears up for a space delivery, a crew exchange and a commercial c...
+ They're Re-Painting The Immense Flag On The VAB—Painting of the U.S. flag continues on the 525-foot-tall Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASAâs Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sept. 17, 2020. ...
+ Preparing Radish Seeds For Space—Karl Hasenstein, the principal investigator for the Plant Habitat-02, or PH-02, plants radish seeds in seed carriers for the Addvanced Plant Habitat (...
+ Nighttime Orbital View Of Post-Tropical Storm Teddy—NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite provided an infrared image of Post-tropical cyclone Teddy over the province of Newfoundland, Canada in the early morni...
+ Solving The Strange Storms On Jupiter—At the south pole of Jupiter lurks a striking sight--even for a gas giant planet covered in colorful bands that sports a red spot larger than the eart...
+ Behold The Helix Nebula As Seen By Four Telescopic Eyes—When a star like the Sun runs out of fuel, it expands and its outer layers puff off, and then the core of the star shrinks. [Author: Keith Cowing] [Ca...
+ Houston Seen From Orbit At Night—This oblique view of Houston, Texas, was taken from the International Space Station as it orbited above northern Louisiana. [Author: Keith Cowing] [Ca...
+ New Chronology of the Saturn System—A new chronology for the moons of Saturn has been developed by Planetary Science Institute Associate Research Scientist Samuel W. Bell. [Author: Keit...
+ Io Casts A Shadow On Jupiter—Jupiter's volcanically active moon Io casts its shadow on the planet in this dramatic image from NASA's Juno spacecraft. [Author: Keith Cowing] [Categ...
+ School Bus-Size Asteroid to Safely Zoom Past Earth—A small near-Earth asteroid (or NEA) will briefly visit Earth's neighborhood on Thursday, Sept. 24, zooming past at a distance of about 13,000 miles (...
+ Astronomers Discover An Earth-sized "pi planet" With A 3.14-day Orbit—In a delightful alignment of astronomy and mathematics, scientists at MIT and elsewhere have discovered a "pi Earth" -- an Earth-sized planet that zip...
+ Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko Has An Aurora—Data from NASA instruments aboard the ESA (European Space Agency) Rosetta mission have helped reveal that comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko has its own ...
+ Asteroid Bennu May Have Rocks From Asteroid Vesta On Its Surface—In an interplanetary faux pas, it appears some pieces of asteroid Vesta ended up on asteroid Bennu, according to observations from NASA's OSIRIS-REx s...
+ Asteroid Ryugu's Rocky Past—The asteroid Ryugu may look like a solid piece of rock, but it's more accurate to liken it to an orbiting pile of rubble. [Author: Keith Cowing] [Cate...
+ NASA Is Practicing SLS Assembly—Technicians with NASA's Exploration Ground Systems rehearse booster stacking operations inside the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at the agency's Ken...
+ Herschel And The Uranian Moons—More than 230 years ago astronomer William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus and two of its moons. [Author: Keith Cowing] [Category: Uranus, Uranu...
+ Solar Storm Forecasts For Earth Improved With Help From The Public—Solar storm analysis carried out by an army of citizen scientists has helped researchers devise a new and more accurate way of forecasting when Earth ...
+ NASA JSC SpaceCast Weekly 18 September, 2020—SpaceCast Weekly is a NASA Television broadcast from the Johnson Space Center in Houston featuring stories about NASA's work in human spaceflight. [Au...
+ This Week at NASA - A Record Atlantic Storm Season and More—Observing a record Atlantic storm season, smoke from western fires seen moving east, and the start of a new solar cycle ... a few of the stories to te...
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Tech Dirt

+ Content Moderation Case Study: Twitter's Algorithm Misidentifies Harmless Tweet As 'Sensitive Content' (April 2018)— Summary: While some Twitter users welcome the chance to view and interact with "sensitive" content, most do not. Twitter utilizes algorithms to detec...
+ China Blocks Wikimedia From WIPO... Because There's A Taiwanese Wikimedia Chapter— The World Intellectual Property Organization, WIPO, who has a long history of poor decision making despite its crucial role in helping to define stan...
+ How To Be Funny And Not A Jerk In A Cease And Desist Notice, From The Doobie Brothers— I've written about famed classic rock band The Doobie Brothers before. As a person who is very much a fan of the band's music, I was rather disappoin...
+ ICE Is Hauling In More Data Than Ever And Palantir Is Helping It Turn Data Into Detainments— ICE has gotten bigger and bolder under the Trump Administration. The minimal constraints placed on it by previous administrations have been removed, ...
+ Daily Deal: The All-In-One Mastering Organization Bundle— The All-In-One Mastering Organization Bundle has 5 courses to help you become more organized and efficient. You'll learn how to organize all your dig...
+ Josh Hawley Is A Lying Demagogue Who Has Built A Fake Fantasy World About 'Evil Big Tech'— What's up Senator Hawley? What's bugging you today? Yesterday, Hawley went to the floor of the Senate to try to sneakily move forward one of his many...
+ Senator Blumenthal Warns AT&T Not To Make Wireless Privacy A Luxury Option— Last week, we discussed how outlets like Reuters were making a big stink about a new proposal by AT&T to dole out "wireless discounts for adverti...
+ EU Still Asking For The Impossible (And The Unnecessary): 'Lawful Access' To Encrypted Material That Doesn't Break Encryption— A few months ago, Techdirt wrote about a terrible bill in the US that would effectively destroy privacy and security on the Internet by undermining e...
+ Woof: Jack Daniels Takes Fight Over Doggy Chew Toy To The Supreme Court— Back in April, we wrote about a trademark dispute between Jack Daniels and VIP Products LLC. At issue was a doggy chew toy made as clear parody of th...
+ If Patents Are So Important To Innovation, Why Do Innovative Companies Keep Opening Up Their Patents Rather Than Enforcing Them?— To hear many politicians (and, tragically, many academics) tell the story, patents and patent policy are keys to innovation. Indeed, many studies try...
+ The Need For A Robust Critical Community In Content Policy— Over this series of policy posts, I’m exploring the evolution of internet regulation from my perspective as an advocate for constructive reform. It i...
+ FBI Tracks Down Cop Car Firebomber Using Info The FBI Claims Is Way Less Useful Than An Encryption Backdoor— For all of the DOJ and FBI's protestations that Apple (and others) just aren't doing enough to help out the federal government, the company actually ...
+ Daily Deal: The Complete Google Cloud Course Bundle— The Complete Google Cloud Course Bundle has 2 video courses and 8 eBooks to help you master one of the most powerful cloud platforms out there. You'l...
+ Justice Department Releases Its Dangerous & Unconstitutional Plan To Revise Section 230— Every day it's something new. The latest is that the Justice Department has come out with its official proposal to revise Section 230. As you may rec...
+ FCC Keeps Using Bogus Data To Claim It's Closing The 'Digital Divide'— We've noted repeatedly that despite a lot of breathless pearl clutching from U.S. leaders and regulators about the "digital divide," the United State...
+ 'Make Him A Suspect:' Documents Show Rochester PD's Response To Officers' Killing Of An Unarmed Black Man— Before the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin touched off protests across the nation, the Rochester (NY) Police Depa...
+ Company Owning 'Evel Knievel' Rights Sues Disney Over 'Toy Story 4' Amalgam Parody Character— Evel Knievel, it seems, is as litigious in death as he was in life. The famed motorcycle stuntman found his way into our pages previously, having mis...
+ Content Moderation Case Study: Twitter Freezes Accounts Trying To Fact Check Misinformation (2020)— Summary: President Trump appeared on Fox News’ “Fox & Friends” and made some comments that were considered by many experts to be misinformation r...
+ Busting Still More Myths About Section 230, For You And The FCC— The biggest challenge we face in advocating for Section 230 is how misunderstood it is. Instead of getting to argue about its merits, we usually have...
+ California Cities Voting On Ridiculous Resolution Asking Congress For Section 230 Reform... Because Of Violence At Protests?— I attended an Internet Archive event (virtually, of course) yesterday, and afterwards one of the attendees alerted me to yet another nefarious attack...
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Tech News World

+ Cybersecurity Conundrum: Who's Responsible for Securing IoT Networks?— Surely spurred by the work-from-home necessities of 2020, people have connected a multitude of non-business devices to their corporate networks, m...
+ Lenovo Expands Linux-Ready Computer Line— As the next step in its Linux expansion program, Lenovo has launched Linux-ready ThinkPad and ThinkStation PCs pre-installed with Canonical's Ubun...
+ Hucksters Rake In $500K With Android, iOS Adware Scam Apps— Seven scamware apps found in Google Play and Apple's App Store corralled more than half a million dollars for their developers, according to Avast...
+ Cloud Gaming Revenues to Soar to $12B by 2025— According to gaming experts, 2021 is shaping up to be a big year for cloud gaming. When markets grow, it can be at the expense of others in the ma...
+ Nvidia + Arm Will Dramatically Change the Technology Landscape— Nvidia last week announced they are buying Arm, which will result in some exciting changes. This merger will open up opportunities for the company...
+ Do's and Don'ts for SMB Cybersecurity Safety— The stampede from offices to working from home has strained IT security teams to their limits. As a result, SMBs find they need to get more bang f...
+ Apple Reveals New Watches, Muscular Tablet at Online Event— Apple pulled the wraps off two new Apple Watches, two iPads and several services bundles at an event Tuesday held online. The new watches include ...
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TMC

+ HawkEye 360 Among Top Teams to Participate in AFWERX DoD Commercial Space Partnerships Challenge and EngageSpace
+ AFWERX Announces Hazardous Software Among Top Teams Selected to exhibit at EngageSpace (September 29-30) The Premier Event for the Space Industry
+ Intelsat Cloud Connect Service Enables Enterprise Users to Securely and Reliably Access the Cloud Anywhere, Anytime
+ AFWERX Announces BridgeComm Among Top Teams Selected to Exhibit at EngageSpace (September 29-30), the Premier Event for the Space Industry
+ Intelsat Finalizes Satellite and Launch Vehicle Contracts for U.S. C-band Spectrum Transition
+ Maxar Awarded Contract to Build Sixth Geostationary Communications Satellite for Intelsat in 2020
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UFO Sightings

+ Man Becomes A Believer After Witnessing Green Flying Saucer in The Dark Sky—A man has been left baffled after he and a friend observed a UFO in the sky. He was at the Prescot house of his [...] [[ This is a content summary on...
+ Indiana: I received UFO sighting report from 1973—This UFO report was submitted to me through our website. It happened back in 1973 (20th October) in northwest Indiana.... [[ This is a content summar...
+ UFOs flying near a plane over Manchester, UK 21-Sep-2020—Witness recorded these 2 UFOs that were flying near a plane over Manchester, UK on 21st September 2020. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my w...
+ U.S. Air Force General on UFOs – ‘I’ve had those cases and reported them’—The U.S. Pacific Air Forces head said he had observed some mysterious things in the sky, but not sure if extraterrestrials have... [[ This is a conte...
+ UFO Photographed Over the Queen Mary 2 Cruise Ship in Torquay—For many, 2020 is the most unusual year in living memory, and it seems that we’ve seen and been through a lot of strange things.... [[ This is a cont...
+ Fast-Moving UFO Recorded on Video Zipping Through Over Pennsylvania—A UFO sighting video has emerged, showing a sliver object flying at incredible speed through the skies adjacent to a passenger... [[ This is a conten...
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UPI Science

+ Reports: President Donald Trump to name Amy Coney Barrett as Supreme Court nominee— President Donald Trump plans to nominate Judge Amy Coney Barrett to succeed Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court, unnamed sources familiar with t...
+ Kyle Rittenhouse to fight extradition to Wisconsin to face homicide charges— The defense team for Kyle Rittenhouse said it plans to fight his extradition from Illinois to Wisconsin to face two homicide charges for a shooting t...
+ Poll: Majority of Americans want 2020 winner to make Supreme Court nomination— A majority of Americans believe whoever is elected president in November should be the one to nominate the jurist to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg on t...
+ N.C. Supreme Court reduces 3 death row inmates' sentences to life— The North Carolina Supreme Court on Friday reduced three death row inmates' sentences to life in prison after they appealed under a now-defunct law t...
+ Israel tests new sea-to-sea missile— The Israeli Navy tested a sea-to-sea missile for use in protecting Mediterranean Sea natural gas platforms, the Israel Defense Force announced on Fri...
+ British royal family to face $45M shortfall due to pandemic— The royal family said it plans to cut expenses after projecting a $45 million shortfall to their finances in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
+ Spy planes join B-52 bomber in exercise over Black Sea— A U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber joined Ukrainian fighter planes this week and five NATO intelligence planes in an exercise over the Black Sea this week.
+ Alphabet agrees to eliminate arbitation in sexual misconduct claims— Google's parent company, Alphabet, agreed to spend $310 million over the next 10 years on diversity programs and hand over greater oversight to its b...
+ Obama unveils second round of endorsements— Former President Barack Obama on Friday released his final political endorsements of 2020, giving his support to 111 Democratic candidates in state a...
+ Alliant Technosystems gets $37.6M contract to upgrade Stryker cannons— The Defense Department announced a $37.6 million contract for production of Stryker Medium Caliber Weapons cannons with Alliant Techsystems Operation...
+ Marine Commandant Gen. David Berger calls for troop realignment in Indo-Pacific region— U.S. Marine Corps strategy in the Indo-Pacific region requires a restructuring of its array of forces, Commandant Gen. David Berger said.
+ Watch live: Ruth Bader Ginsburg lies in state at U.S. Capitol— Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and running mate Kamala Harris visited the U.S. Capitol on Friday to honor Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader...
+ ‘Rude’ South Korea penguin invited to attend parliament— A South Korean penguin character with a reputation for making curt remarks and sneering at its boss has been requested to take part in a parliamentar...
+ Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, wife test positive for COVID-19— Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam and first lady Pamela Northam have both tested positive for COVID-19 and are now in isolation, his office said Friday.
+ Future U.S. Navy fleet could include more than 500 ships— The U.S. Navy fleet, with a current target of 355 ships by 2030, could increase to more than 500 ships, documents supporting the Future Navy Force St...
+ Federal Reserve President James Bullard: Good 3rd quarter would put U.S. near 'sort of full recovery'— The U.S. economy has bounced back surprisingly quickly from the shock of the COVID-19 pandemic and could be within reach of a greater recovery by the...
+ Bah Ndaw sworn in as interim president of Mali— Former Mali defense minister Bah Ndaw was sworn in as interim president Friday, taking over after a coup overthrew leader Ibrahim Boubacar Keita last...
+ Chinese citizen journalists remain in detention, reports say— Chinese citizen journalists arrested in February while reporting on the spread of the coronavirus in Wuhan are on hunger strike and under residential...
+ U.S. adds 44,000 COVID-19 cases; new outlook sees 3,000 deaths a day by 2021— The United States added more than 40,000 COVID-19 cases and almost 1,000 deaths on Thursday, as Dr. Anthony Fauci said the country is still in the "f...
+ SEC fines BMW $18 million for inflating U.S. sales figures— Federal regulators have fined German luxury automaker BMW $18 million for inflating retail sales figures in the United States.
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Wired

+ Covid Vaccines in Phase III, New Risk Calculators, and More Coronavirus News—Catch up on the most important updates from this week. [Category: Science, Science / Health]
+ 'Bill & Ted Face the Music' Strikes the Perfect Note—The first Bill & Ted movie in 30 years is a fitting tribute to the series that came before. [Category: Culture, Culture / Culture Podcast]
+ All the PS5 Games Sony Has Revealed So Far (With Trailers)—From a new Spider-Man game to 'Horizon: Forbidden West', here are the titles you can expect for the next-gen console. [Category: Gear, Gear / Products...
+ The Best Chrome Extensions to Prevent Creepy Web Tracking—Ad trackers follow you everywhere online—but it doesn’t have to be that way. [Category: Security, Security / Security Advice]
+ PS5 Games Revealed (With Trailers): Every Game Sony Has Announced—From a new Spider-Man game to 'Horizon: Forbidden West', here are the titles you can expect for the next-gen console. [Category: Gear, Gear / Products...
+ The Business of the Internet Is Stuck in Trump's Swamp—Plus: Silicon Valley’s reaction to Snowden, journalists’ relationships with their subjects, and an unpleasant surprise for hikers. [Category: Business...
+ Twitter’s Sexual Fascination With a Not-Sexual Octopus Movie—This week, Netflix's My Octopus Teacher got a reputation for being a very different movie than it is. Here's why. [Category: Culture, Culture / Cultur...
+ Sony A8H 4K OLED Review: A Love Letter to the Home Theater—The company's latest TV is a love letter to the home theater, a display defined by its otherworldly vibrance. [Category: Gear, Gear / Products / Telev...
+ The Messy Feud Over Who Controls TikTok—This week, we discuss how the fight over the app might shape US tech policy and US-China relations for years to come. [Category: Gear, Gear / Gadget L...
+ How Teachers Can Foster Community in Online Classrooms—Remote learning doesn't have to mean distracted, disconnected students. Here's what you can do to build calm and trust. [Category: Gear, Gear / How To...
+ Why Is It So Hard to Study Covid-Related Smell Loss?—Patients have long reported the sudden inability to smell. But restrictions on in-person exams are complicating efforts to figure out what's going on....
+ The Ring Always Home Cam Flies Around Inside Your House—Look at this freaking drone. [Category: Gear, Gear / Gear News and Events]
+ Federal Executions During Covid-19 Put Innocent Lives at Risk—The current wave of executions is increasing the likelihood that lawyers, observers, and correctional staff could be infected. [Category: Culture, Cul...
+ Facebook Busts Russian Disinfo Networks as US Election Looms—The campaigns primarily targeted countries outside the US. But the same mechanisms could be used in “hack and leak” operations like those that roiled ...
+ Everything Amazon Just Announced—Like That Crazy Home Drone—The company debuted a gaggle of new stuff, including several round Echos and a cloud gaming service. [Category: Gear, Gear / Gear News and Events]
+ Alexa Now Has Its Own Questions for You—A new feature from Amazon allows the intelligent assistant to ask users to clarify requests, such as “Dim the lights.” [Category: Business, Business /...
+ How the Pandemic Transformed This Songbird’s Call—When the San Francisco Bay Area locked down, urban noise levels plummeted. In response, the white-crowned sparrow changed its tune. [Category: Science...
+ Go Ahead, Try to Sneak Bad Words Past AI Filters—for Research—A new Facebook project pits humans against algorithms, to expose the systems' weaknesses and help make them better. [Category: Business, Business / Ar...
+ Inside the Twitter Hack—and What Happened Next—On July 15, Twitter melted down. On Election Day, that's not an option. [Category: Security, Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks]
+ How Twitter Survived Its Biggest Hack—and Plans to Stop the Next One—On July 15, Twitter melted down. On Election Day, that's not an option. [Category: Security, Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks]
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Wired Science

+ Covid Vaccines in Phase III, New Risk Calculators, and More Coronavirus News—Catch up on the most important updates from this week. [Category: Science, Science / Health]
+ Why Is It So Hard to Study Covid-Related Smell Loss?—Patients have long reported the sudden inability to smell. But restrictions on in-person exams are complicating efforts to figure out what's going on....
+ How the Pandemic Transformed This Songbird’s Call—When the San Francisco Bay Area locked down, urban noise levels plummeted. In response, the white-crowned sparrow changed its tune. [Category: Science...
+ A Trump-Biden Debate Without Climate Change Is Inexcusable—The West is on fire, the Gulf Coast is under water, and voters want candidates to talk about the environment. [Category: Science, Science / Environmen...
+ Can a Genetically Modified Bug Combat a Global Farm Plague?—Biotech company Oxitec has created a caterpillar with self-destructing eggs in an attempt to curb agricultural damage. But will other pests simply mov...
+ Meet Curly, the Curling Robot That Beats the Pros—Curling is one of the world's most precise sports. An ice-going, stone-throwing robot just mastered it. [Category: Science, Science / Robots]
+ The Cool Physics of a Supersonic Baseball—For one thing, let's build a model of air drag and how it affects the ball differently when it's traveling faster and slower than the speed of sound. ...
+ Where Was the Battery at Tesla’s Battery Day?—Elon Musk made big promises at Tesla’s highly anticipated event. But a prototype never appeared, and it was unclear what the company had actually achi...
+ How to Watch Tesla’s Battery Day Event—and What to Expect—After months of delays, Tesla’s much-hyped Battery Day is finally upon us. Here’s what the company might reveal. [Category: Science, Science / Environ...
+ To Make Fairer AI, Physicists Peer Inside Its Black Box—After repurposing facial recognition and deepfake tech to study galaxies and the Higgs boson, physicists think they can help shape the responsible use...
+ Instagram's Founders Explain Their Covid-Charting Obsession—In their first post-Facebook project, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger built rt.live, which state officials can use to plan their reopening. [Category: ...
+ Does a Millipede Have a Penis? Well ... Define 'Penis'—From gonopods to pedipalps, nature has a lot of ways to get gametes where they need to go. [Category: Science, Science / Environment]
+ A New Tool Detects Counterfeit Whiskey—Without Wasting a Drop—Bogus booze has been infiltrating the market, so physicists found a way to test for authenticity while keeping the precious bottles sealed. [Category:...
+ Could a Century-Old TB Shot Protect Against Other Respiratory Diseases?—A trial in Greece shows a long-used tuberculosis vaccine may cut respiratory infections, raising hopes for similar protection against Covid-19. [Categ...
+ Colds Nearly Vanished Under Lockdown. Now They’re Coming Back—The return of non-Covid respiratory illnesses is putting a new strain on testing supplies around the world—and is a preview of what’s in store for the...
+ Mathematical ‘Hocus-Pocus’ Saved Particle Physics—Renormalization, a technique that helps bridge the big and the small, has become perhaps the single most important advance in theoretical physics in 5...
+ Mathematicians May Have Figured Out How ‘Stone Forests’ Form—An NYU team thinks it's finally unlocked the secret to how these mysterious landforms get their interesting shape. [Category: Science, Science / Envir...
+ What’s Causing the Mass Bird Die-Off in the Southwest?—Thousands of migrating birds have died, perhaps starved by drier conditions related to climate change or by having to fly inland to avoid wildfire smo...
+ The 943-Dimensional Chess of a Trustworthy Covid-19 Vaccine—Scientists want public confidence. The White House wants an October Surprise. The FDA wants to avoid looking political. Big Pharma wants a win. You’re...
+ What’s in Wildfire Smoke, and How Dangerous Is It?—Blazes on the West Coast are spewing a haze clear across the country. Along the way, the complex chemistry of what we inhale gets even more complex. [...
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Local

Alamogordo Daily News

+ 'A godsend': Thrive's 2020 Day of Caring sends volunteers into the community—Thrive's 2020 Day of Caring continued this year even with COVID-19 public health restrictions in place. ...
+ Thrive's Day of Caring 2020—Thrive's Day of Caring 2020 [Author: Alamogordo Daily News] [Link to media]
+ Hard times in Otero County: Resources are available for struggling small businesses—How the Otero County Economic Development Council can help small businesses during the COVID-19 economic downturn. ...
+ Business briefs: Garcia retires from Senior Center—Business news from Alamogordo and Otero County. [Author: Alamogordo Daily News] [Link to media]
+ 48-hour Flash Sale: Subscribe now— [Author: Alamogordo Daily News] [Link to media]
+ We're ready: Exercise Agile Reaper sends Holloman MQ-9s to California—About 40 Airmen from Holloman Air Force Base took part in a training mission called Exercise Agile Reaper at a Naval Station Point in California. ...
+ Exercise Agile Reaper—Exercise Agile Reaper [Author: Alamogordo Daily News] [Link to media]
+ Sept. 25 last day for small businesses in Otero County to apply for CARES Act grant funds—U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich said in a August news release that the funding would be instrumental in southeast New Mexico economic recovery from the pand...
+ How COVID-19 will affect voting in the 2020 General Election—Changes to voter precincts and health updates due to the COVID-19 public health crisis are affecting the Nov. 3 General Election in New Mexico. ...
+ Thinking about a summer job for 2021? The U.S. Forest Service is hiring—Season workers are needed for wild land fire, recreation, forestry, wildlife and archeology. [Author:...
+ The Pregnancy Help Center gets ultrasound machine from Knights of Columbus—The Pregnancy Help Center, 1222 North White Sands Boulevard #B, received an ultrasound machine from the Knights of Columbus Sept. 19. ...
+ The Pregnancy Help Center—The Pregnancy Help Center received an ultrasound machine from the Knights of Columbus [Author: Alamog...
+ Enchanted delivery: Monthly subscription boxes bring New Mexico goods to your doorstep—Displaced New Mexicans or current residents will soon have a way to have a box of New Mexico-grown products shipped directly to their doorsteps. ...
+ Lincoln National Forest schedules 3 clean-up days this fall—The Lincoln National Forest has scheduled clean-up events on all three ranger districts throughout the forest. &nb...
+ Alamogordo Public Schools requests funding be based on pre-COVID-19 enrollment—The APS School Board approved a resolution requesting school funding be calculated based on enrollment to account for COVID-19 enrollment reductions. ...
+ Alamogordo Public Schools Budget Shortfall—Alamogordo Public Schools Budget Shortfall [Author: Alamogordo Daily News] [Link to media]
+ APS expected to lose $5 million in state funding due to CARES Act swap—APS received a memo from NMED reporting that the district is set to lose $5,297,371 in State Equalization Guarantee funding fir fiscal year 2020-2021....
+ Alamogordo man found guilty of first-degree murder in 2018 fatal shooting—Ignacio Galindo, of Alamogordo, was found guilty for the murder of Daniel Martinez and 10 other charges from a shooting on August 17, 2018. ...
+ Alamogordo man Ignacio Galindo arrested in homicide—Ignacio Galindo is arrested in August 2018 in the shooting death of Daniel Martinez. [Author: Alamogo...
+ 2020 Census: New Mexico's future in the balance?—Billions of federal dollars could be at stake for the next decade if New Mexico is undercounted in the 2020 Census, according to a Congressman. ...
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Carlsbad Current Argus

+ Lujan Grisham continues opposition to proposed nuclear waste facility near Carlsbad as public comment period closes—The waste would be brought to the facility via rail from generator sites across the country. [Author: Car...
+ New Mexico Department of Health confirms 7th COVID-19 death in Eddy County—An elderly Eddy County man was confirmed Tuesday by the New Mexico Department of Health as the seventh person to die from COVID-19 this year. &#...
+ WIPP utility shaft faces delay while legal challenge seeks to halt construction—The DOE sought an extension of a 180-day permit to construct at utility shaft at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. &nbs...
+ Oil and gas leaders discuss industry's struggles amid COVID-19 at Energy Summit—Billy Munn of Chase Energy said oil and gas companies in the Permian Basin need to find new ways to operate during the lower price market. ...
+ Carlsbad Mayor's Energy Summit goes virtual—The 2020 edition of the annual Carlsbad Mayor's Energy Summit was held virtually at the Pecos River Village Conference Center. ...
+ Artesia man charged with criminal sexual contact of 11-year-old girl—Robert James Blanco was arrested by Artesia police Sept. 18 after allegedly displaying his genitalia while an 11-year-old girl was doing homework. ...
+ Robert Defer through the years as CEO of the Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce—With his retirement from the Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce as its CEO, here's a look back of some of the recent milestones in Robert Defers time on the...
+ A history of teamwork: Robert Defer retires as CEO of Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce—As he leaves the post as a leader of Carlsbad's business community, Defer said he plans to hike more, fly fish more and just get some time to reflect....
+ New Mexico oil and gas permits challenged as Permian Basin ozone levels rise—From 2017 to 2019 Eddy County recorded an average of about 79 parts per billion (ppb) of ozone, records show, while the NAAQS was set at 70 ppb. ...
+ Eddy County chooses third party to administer CARES Act money—Eddy County has chosen the Carlsbad Department of Development to handle affairs of CARES Act money for businesses outside of Carlsbad and Artesia. ...
+ Cleanup day coming to the Queen area of Eddy County—Four entities have come together to clean up portions of the Guadalupe Ranger District of the Lincoln National Forest on Oct. 3 for Queen Up the Guads...
+ Carlsbad City Council approves $1M grant to replace aging water meters—The Carlsbad City Council approved the first of many steps to replace sever thousand water meters in the City service area by approving a grant applic...
+ Former oil and gas well pad becomes campground south of Carlsbad—The Bureau of Land Management partnered with EOG Resources to convert a former well pad into a campground near Carlsbad Caverns. ...
+ Oil and gas well pad converted into campground for southeast New Mexico visitors—The site is off National Parks Highway at about mile marker 10, located between Carlsbad Caverns and Guadalupe Mountains national parks. &...
+ 48-hour Flash Sale: Subscribe now— [Author: Carlsbad Current-Argus] [Link to media]
+ Carlsbad school board reviews Pecos Connections Academy ahead of charter application renewal—The review examined several service and educational aspects of Pecos Connections Academy (PCA) for compliance with New Mexico Public Education charter...
+ 2020 Christmas on the Pecos in Carlsbad opens Nov. 27—Carlsbad holiday goers are in for a treat later this year as Christmas on the Pecos is set. COVID-19 practices will be observed during the event. ...
+ Investments grow in the Permian Basin as oil and gas market shows signs of recovery—Drilling and completion operations in the Columbia project were completed and extraction operations were expected to begin by the end of 2020. ...
+ $41K grant to help fund CISM training for Carlsbad Fire Department—Efforts to fund CISM training at the department began in 2019 with the Carlsbad Mental Health Awareness Group. &nb...
+ Eddy County to spend $168K to comply with body camera requirements—Tuesday the Eddy County Board of County Commissioners approved $168K of funding for new equipment and software. &n...
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Deming Headlight

+ 2 men arrested after gunfire wounds innocent bystander, narrowly misses 2 young children—One bullet hit a bedroom wall only inches above two sleeping children, ages 2 and 8. [Author: El Paso...
+ Police investigating dead body found in Central El Paso—The story is developing. Check back for updates. [Author: El Paso Times]
+ After Ginsburg's death, high stakes for Texas' legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act—After Ginsburg's death, high stakes for Texas' legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act [Author: Co...
+ EPISD delays return of in-person classes to end of October because of rise in COVID-19 cases—El Paso Independent School District is postponing the return to in-person classes after El Paso County reported an increase in COVID-19 cases. &...
+ Have you seen El Paso's most wanted fugitives for week of Sept. 27, 2020?—Anyone with information on the profiled fugitives should call 915-566-8477. Callers may remain anonymous and are eligible for a cash reward. ...
+ El Paso most wanted fugitives for the week of Sept. 27, 2020—If you help find El Paso's most wanted fugitives for this week, you could get a reward. Call 915-566-8477. &...
+ El Paso Bishop visits Juarez migrant shelters amid COVID-19 pandemic—Amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, El Paso Catholic Bishop Mark Seitz visited three Juarez migrant shelters and provided aid, medical supplies ...
+ El Paso Bishop finds desperation, hope during visit to Juárez migrant shelters—COVID-19 has compounded life for asylum seekers in Juárez. This week, El Paso Catholic Bishop Mark Seitz visited three shelters and delivered aid. ...
+ From Thomas Motor to Casa Ford, 103 years of one El Paso Ford company—Read about the history of a longtime auto dealership: from Thomas Motor to Casa Ford. [Author: El Pas...
+ Navy veteran who was deported years ago allowed back home to El Paso, becomes US citizen—Frank De La Cruz went to war in the Navy, then came home. He was arrested for driving while intoxicated, and the government kicked him out. ...
+ El Paso County Sheriff's Office seeks sex offender convicted of soliciting girl for sex—The victim was a 14-year-old girl, authorities said. [Author: El Paso Times] [Link to media]
+ El Paso Walmart shooting victims' names to be unveiled at Crime Victims' Memorial event—Victims of the Walmart shooting will be part of the 2020 "Reading of the Names" ceremony remembering El Paso crime victims. ...
+ Together in life, 'dancing in heaven'; funeral honors 3 children killed in El Paso crash—The small Loera children were playful, happy siblings who were always together, even in death. [Autho...
+ El Paso coronavirus update: City reports 154 new COVID-19 cases, 7 deaths announced—Here is the latest news on the coronavirus in El Paso. We'll be updating this story throughout the day. News tip? Email borderland@elpasotimes.com. ...
+ La Perla bar inside Plaza Hotel Pioneer Park—La Perla bar and restaurant Wednesday, Sept. 23, inside the Plaza Hotel Pioneer Park in El Paso. La Perla will open Sept. 24 to hotel guests. &#...
+ Throwing shade on the Sun City? Some H-E-B cola can wraps cut off El Paso in Texas logo—Some El Pasoans are feeling disrespected by the Texas grocery store chain, H-E-B. Find out why. [Auth...
+ El Paso police arrest dad, car driver accused of fleeing in collision that killed 3 kids—The father was arrested on murder charges in a crash that killed three of his children in Northeast El Paso. ...
+ At the six-month mark, El Pasoans face headaches and heartache over U.S.-Mexico border restrictions—Borderland residents adapt to record waits six months into travel restrictions at the U.S.-Mexico border, put in place to slow the spread of COVID-19...
+ 3 shot, 4 arrests made in gunfight at home on Newland Court in El Paso's Lower Valley—Wounded El Paso shooting suspects were arrested after showing up at the same hospital as a victim. [A...
+ Authorities: El Paso woman killed in West Side home in murder-suicide case—A woman was killed in her West El Paso home before was her husband was found dead in a suicide in an Upper Valley field. ...
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El Paso Times

+ 2 men arrested after gunfire wounds innocent bystander, narrowly misses 2 young children—One bullet hit a bedroom wall only inches above two sleeping children, ages 2 and 8. [Author: El Paso...
+ Police investigating dead body found in Central El Paso—The story is developing. Check back for updates. [Author: El Paso Times]
+ After Ginsburg's death, high stakes for Texas' legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act—After Ginsburg's death, high stakes for Texas' legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act [Author: Co...
+ EPISD delays return of in-person classes to end of October because of rise in COVID-19 cases—El Paso Independent School District is postponing the return to in-person classes after El Paso County reported an increase in COVID-19 cases. &...
+ Have you seen El Paso's most wanted fugitives for week of Sept. 27, 2020?—Anyone with information on the profiled fugitives should call 915-566-8477. Callers may remain anonymous and are eligible for a cash reward. ...
+ El Paso most wanted fugitives for the week of Sept. 27, 2020—If you help find El Paso's most wanted fugitives for this week, you could get a reward. Call 915-566-8477. &...
+ El Paso Bishop visits Juarez migrant shelters amid COVID-19 pandemic—Amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, El Paso Catholic Bishop Mark Seitz visited three Juarez migrant shelters and provided aid, medical supplies ...
+ El Paso Bishop finds desperation, hope during visit to Juárez migrant shelters—COVID-19 has compounded life for asylum seekers in Juárez. This week, El Paso Catholic Bishop Mark Seitz visited three shelters and delivered aid. ...
+ From Thomas Motor to Casa Ford, 103 years of one El Paso Ford company—Read about the history of a longtime auto dealership: from Thomas Motor to Casa Ford. [Author: El Pas...
+ El Paso Walmart shooting victims' names to be unveiled at Crime Victims' Memorial event—Victims of the Walmart shooting will be part of the 2020 "Reading of the Names" ceremony remembering El Paso crime victims. ...
+ Navy veteran who was deported years ago allowed back home to El Paso, becomes US citizen—Frank De La Cruz went to war in the Navy, then came home. He was arrested for driving while intoxicated, and the government kicked him out. ...
+ El Paso County Sheriff's Office seeks sex offender convicted of soliciting girl for sex—The victim was a 14-year-old girl, authorities said. [Author: El Paso Times] [Link to media]
+ El Paso coronavirus update: City reports 154 new COVID-19 cases, 7 deaths announced—Here is the latest news on the coronavirus in El Paso. We'll be updating this story throughout the day. News tip? Email borderland@elpasotimes.com. ...
+ Together in life, 'dancing in heaven'; funeral honors 3 children killed in El Paso crash—The small Loera children were playful, happy siblings who were always together, even in death. [Autho...
+ El Paso police arrest dad, car driver accused of fleeing in collision that killed 3 kids—The father was arrested on murder charges in a crash that killed three of his children in Northeast El Paso. ...
+ Authorities: El Paso woman killed in West Side home in murder-suicide case—A woman was killed in her West El Paso home before her husband was found dead in a suicide in an Upper Valley field. ...
+ La Perla bar inside Plaza Hotel Pioneer Park—La Perla bar and restaurant Wednesday, Sept. 23, inside the Plaza Hotel Pioneer Park in El Paso. La Perla will open Sept. 24 to hotel guests. &#...
+ Throwing shade on the Sun City? Some H-E-B cola can wraps cut off El Paso in Texas logo—Some El Pasoans are feeling disrespected by the Texas grocery store chain, H-E-B. Find out why. [Auth...
+ At the six-month mark, El Pasoans face headaches and heartache over U.S.-Mexico border restrictions—Borderland residents adapt to record waits six months into travel restrictions at the U.S.-Mexico border, put in place to slow the spread of COVID-19...
+ 3 shot, 4 arrests made in gunfight at home on Newland Court in El Paso's Lower Valley—Wounded El Paso shooting suspects were arrested after showing up at the same hospital as a victim. [A...
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Las Cruces Sun

+ President Trump tweet about border wall hints at possible visit to New Mexico—The tweet from President Trump responded to a comment by Fox News contributor Tammy Bruce about primary election voting trends in New Mexico. &#...
+ New Mexico climatologist: Dry areas in US Southwest getting drier—From the Colorado River to the Rio Grande, water managers in the West are being forced to reconsider contingency plans. ...
+ No injuries reported in pickup truck fire—No injuries reported in Telshor truck fire Friday. [Author: Las Cruces Sun-News] [Link to media]
+ Las Cruces filmmaker to debut '915' documentary on El Paso mass shooting—In the two-hour movie titled "915," "every angle is scrutinized, examined, asked and I think it's a two hour film that will really inform people." ...
+ Atomic Aggies build, launch rocket despite coronavirus challenges—It is rocket science! Despite not competing in Spaceport America Cup due to COVID-19, NMSU's Atomic Aggies still made two successful rocket launches. ...
+ Demand surges for absentee ballots across New Mexico—The number of absentee ballot requests already exceeds those cast in the June 2 primary. [Author: Las...
+ Udall, Heinrich hold up Trump judicial appointments—New Mexico's Democratic senators have placed the judicial confirmations for two U.S. District Court vacancies on hold until after the Nov. 3 election....
+ Fatal hit-and-run suspects in custody—Las Cruces Crime Stoppers is offering a reward of up to $1,000 for information that helps police locate the occupants of a vehicle that struck and kil...
+ New Mexico governor warns against 'COVID fatigue' as cases increase following Labor Day—As transmission of COVID-19 increases around the state, the governor warned against slacking on public health guidance. ...
+ Las Cruces residents protest 'no justice' in Breonna Taylor case—Residents gathered Wednesday to protest what they viewed as unjust treatment of the officers involved in the death of Breonna Taylor. ...
+ As it happened: Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham warns against 'COVID fatigue' at news conference—A live blog of the New Mexico governor's press conference on Sept. 24, addressing a recent uptick in COVID-19 cases in the state. &#...
+ Reward offered for info on fatal hit-and-run suspects—Las Cruces Crime Stoppers is offering a reward of up to $1,000 for information that helps police locate the occupants of a vehicle that struck and kil...
+ Watch live: Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham provides updates on COVID-19 in New Mexico—Live blog of the governor's press conference. [Author: Las Cruces Sun-News] [Link to media]
+ Changing court, Legislature set stage for NM abortion clash—The state law at issue makes it a crime for an abortion provider to end a woman's pregnancy, except in certain circumstances. ...
+ Lujan Grisham wants longer Census count if Biden wins—The comments came at a recent meeting of the governor's advisory council on racial injustice. [Author...
+ Albuquerque aims to save spirit of annual international hot air balloon fiesta—Mayor Tim Keller said Wednesday he wants to keep the tradition alive by inviting local pilots to launch from city parks, golf courses and other open s...
+ Enrollment drop could hurt funding for New Mexico schools—School funding in New Mexico is determined by the number of students enrolled at the 40-day mark. The state's two largest districts have seen declines...
+ Animal Services to conduct drive-thru vaccination clinic at Telshor 12—ASCMV will host a drive-thru vaccination clinic. Here's what you need to know [Author: Las Cruces Sun...
+ VIN etching event in Las Cruces for UTVs, side-by-sides, motorcycles—Las Cruces residents with a properly licensed UTV, side-by-side or motorcycle are welcome to attend. [Aut...
+ Centennial Volleyball holds outdoor practice with masks—Centennial Volleyball holds outdoor practice with masks [Author: Las Cruces Sun-News] [Link to media]
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NMSU News

+ NMSU celebrates National Hispanic Heritage Month with virtual events—NMSU celebrates National Hispanic Heritage Month with virtual events Date: 09/25/2020 Writer: Carlos Andres Lopez, 575...
+ NMSU Office of Experiential Learning to host 22nd annual Graduate and Professional School Fair —NMSU Office of Experiential Learning to host 22nd annual Graduate and Professional School Fair Date: 09/25/2020 Writer: ...
+ NMSU professor named Soil Science Society of America Fellow—NMSU professor named Soil Science Society of America Fellow Date: 09/25/2020 Writer: Jane Moorman, 505-249-0527, jmoor...
+ NMSU Extension presents youth webinar on skills for success beginning Oct. 1 —NMSU Extension presents youth webinar on skills for success beginning Oct. 1 Date: 09/24/2020 Writer: Jane Moorman, 5...
+ After additional feedback, Gateway to NMSU project moves forward with combined design—After additional feedback, Gateway to NMSU project moves forward with combined design Date: 09/24/2020 Writer: Justi...
+ NMSU Extensions NM EDGE delivers classes, graduation online—NMSU Extensions NM EDGE delivers classes, graduation online Date: 09/23/2020 Writer: Jane Moorman, 505-249-0527, jmoo...
+ NMSUs Electrify New Mexico sheds light on opportunities for beneficial electrification—NMSUs Electrify New Mexico sheds light on opportunities for beneficial electrification Date: 09/23/2020 Writer: Sara ...
+ November ballot includes funding for NMSU agricultural modernization—November ballot includes funding for NMSU agricultural modernization Date: 09/23/2020 Writer: Amanda Bradford, 575-646...
+ NMSU professor on regional panel discussing impact of COVID-19 on higher ed—NMSU professor on regional panel discussing impact of COVID-19 on higher ed Date: 09/22/2020 Writer: Minerva Baumann, ...
+ NMSU launches program to support minority students with $1 million grant from USDA—NMSU launches program to support minority students with $1 million grant from USDA Date: 09/22/2020 Writer: Carlos And...
+ NMSU Extension to host sustainable agriculture webinar series beginning Oct. 1—NMSU Extension to host sustainable agriculture webinar series beginning Oct. 1 Date: 09/21/2020 Writer: Jane Moorman, ...
+ NMSU researcher co-authors article on damaging effects of social isolation due to COVID-19—NMSU researcher co-authors article on damaging effects of social isolation due to COVID-19 Date: 09/21/2020 Writer: Ad...
+ NMSU Arrowhead Centers Innoventure program to host K-12 Business Pitch competition—NMSU Arrowhead Centers Innoventure program to host K-12 Business Pitch competition Date: 09/18/2020 Writer: Cassie Mc...
+ NMSU professors join global network researching emerging infectious diseases—NMSU professors join global network researching emerging infectious diseases Date: 09/17/2020 Writer: Minerva Baumann,...
+ NMSU to award posthumous degree to beloved Las Cruces educator—NMSU to award posthumous degree to beloved Las Cruces educator Date: 09/17/2020 Writer: Amanda Bradford, 575-646-3223,...
+ New state 4-H leadership team planning virtual workshops for club members—New state 4-H leadership team planning virtual workshops for club members Date: 09/16/2020 Writer: Jane Moorman, 505-2...
+ Startup launches child safety app with mentorship from NMSU Arrowhead Center—Startup launches child safety app with mentorship from NMSU Arrowhead Center Date: 09/15/2020 Writer: Cassie McClure, ...
+ NMSU selects counties for pilot program designed to strengthen rural economies —NMSU selects counties for pilot program designed to strengthen rural economies Date: 09/15/2020 Writer: Jane Moorman,...
+ NMSU researcher part of study on New Guineas rich plant diversity—NMSU researcher part of study on New Guineas rich plant diversity Date: 09/14/2020 Writer: Jane Moorman, 505-249-0527...
+ NMSU Museum receives NAGPRA grant to consult Native American tribal groups—NMSU Museum receives NAGPRA grant to consult Native American tribal groups Date: 09/14/2020 Writer: Amanda Adame, 575-...
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Silver City Sun News

+ Fishing report: There's good catfish fishing at Lake Roberts with liver and worms—Planning a fishing trip this week? Here's a look at what baits and lures fish are taking in New Mexico this week. ...
+ Silver City Museum to present two bilingual virtual readings in October—The readings are one way to capture the imaginations of all ages with important lessons on diverse cultures and traditions. &#...
+ There's a little drummer boy in all of us—Do you see what I see in this well-known carol? There's a little drummer boy in all of us. [Author: Silve...
+ New Mexico agency to provide more help for child care access—It's unclear how many families may have been disqualified because they did not fall within the previous definitions. &...
+ New Mexico taps federal loans to pay unemployment—The state is contemplating a decision on when to reinstate a requirement that unemployment beneficiaries actively look for work. ...
+ New Mexico council to explore equity in environmental protections—At issue is including minority communities in decisions about access to natural resources and environment protections. &...
+ WNMU drive-thru expo offers training and guidance for mine workers—Mine employees and contractors are invited to the WNMU Silver City campus, where advisors will provide services and give personal consultations. ...
+ Enchanted delivery: Monthly subscription boxes bring New Mexico goods to your doorstep—Displaced New Mexicans or current residents will soon have a way to have a box of New Mexico-grown products shipped directly to their doorsteps. ...
+ New Mexico targets complaints at nursing homes and long-term care facilities—New Mexico's state ombudsman will review complaints about nursing homes and long-term care facilities and refer to other agencies. &...
+ Finding silver linings in year filled with clouds—For every cloud there is a silver lining. This is a year of clouds and seemingly few silver linings. But they are there. ...
+ Grant County programs get funding to provide youth access to the outdoors—The grant will support transformative outdoor experiences that foster stewardship and respect for New Mexico's land, water, and cultural heritage. &...
+ Chiricahua Apache Nation president to give virtual talk—Silver City and the Gila Forest are at the center of the Nde Benah — traditional homelands of the Chiricahua Apache. ...
+ New Mexico GOP wants ethics complaint tossed—Republican leaders want a newly formed ethics commission to dismiss a complaint filed against one of their members. &n...
+ During pandemic, a privately run detention center sought to find new migrants to detain—A private detention center in southern New Mexico sought to increase the numbers of detainees within its facility during the public health emergency. ...
+ Workshop to cover promoting business in challenging holiday season amid COVID-19—"We know that businesses are challenged right now and getting ramped up for the holiday season will be different this year." &...
+ Grant County's Southwest Solid Waste Authority gets grant for tire shredder—Grant County's Southwest Solid Waste Authority was awarded $227,000 to purchase a tire shredder for scrap tire management. &...
+ Western New Mexico University Cultural Affairs to host virtual fall season—The Western New Mexico University Cultural Affairs fall season is being offered virtually and completely free. &nb...
+ 'Hundreds of thousands, if not millions': New Mexico sees massive migratory bird deaths—Biologists from New Mexico State University and White Sands Missile Range report 'hundreds of thousands, if not millions' of birds dying statewide. ...
+ New Mexico rolls out new supplemental unemployment benefit of $300 per week—New Mexico was among the first state's to receive approval for the new unemployment benefits channeled through FEMA. &...
+ City of Lordsburg firefighters resign en masse after pay delayed—A change in how volunteer firefighters receive stipends led to a delay and a mass resignation this week. ...
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ARRL News

+ The K7RA Solar Update—Tad Cook, K7RA, Seattle, reports: Up until September 23, we saw 32 consecutive days with no sunspots. Then new sunspot group AR2773 appeared, which ha...
+ Phil Temples, K9HI, Appointed as New England Division Vice Director—ARRL President Rick Roderick, K5UR, has appointed Phil Temples, K9HI, of Watertown, Massachusetts, as New England Division Vice Director. He succeeds ...
+ Special Event Operation to Honor Amateur Radio Software Award Recipient
+ Hams Help Find Kids by Monitoring FRS Radios
+ International Telecommunication Union Releases 2020 ITU Radio Regulations
+ Former West Virginia Section Manager Karl Thompson, K8KT, SK —Former West Virginia Section Manager Karl Thompson, K8KT, of Charleston, West Virginia, died on July 28. He was 80. Thompson served as West Virginia S...
+ AMSAT Announces Board of Directors Elections Results—After counting the ballots, AMSAT has announced its Board of Directors. In order of votes received, Mark Hammond, N8MH (707); Paul Stoetzer, N8HM (703...
+ KM4BLG Wins the September 2020 QST Cover Plaque Award
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dx Zone

+ Guide to HF Contesting—Operating Aids/Beginner's GuidesHF contesting is a rising aspect of amateur radio that can be enjoyed (at any level) throughout the year. There are HF...
+ Battery Specialists—Shopping and Services/BatteriesBattery Specialists is the wholesale supplier of batteries. [Author: author@dxzone.com]
+ Marinette & Menominee Amateur Radio Club—Ham Radio/Clubs/North America/USA/WisconsinMarinette & Menominee Amateur Radio Club website ham radio news. [Author: author@dxzone.com]
+ Ham and CB Radio—Radio Equipment/Reviews and ComparisonsWeb site dedicated to articles relating to Ham and CB Radios and antennas, reviews and classifieds. [Author: au...
+ CQ WW RTTY DX Contest 2020—CQ WW RTTY DX Contest - September 26-27, 2020, Contest Rules and RTTY Software [Author: author@dxzone.com]
+ Basics of Anderson PowerPole Connectors—Technical Reference/Coax Cables and ConnectorsHow to build and secure Anderson Power Pole Connectors properly [Author: author@dxzone.com]
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hfRadio

+ Solar Report 2315 25 Sep 2020—Solar Flux: 73 | Ap: 17 | Kp 3
+ Observed Space Weather 2315 25 Sep 2020—Space weather for the past 24 hours has been minor. Geomagnetic storms reaching the G1 level occurred.
+ Forecast Space Weather 2315 25 Sep 2020—No space weather storms are predicted for the next 24 hours.
+ Flares 2315 25 Sep 2020—(0000 UTC) 6h hi B4.7(0020Z 09/24) 24h hi B4.7(0020Z 09/24)
+ Sunspots 2315 25 Sep 2020—SSN: 0 (09/24/2020)
+ Solar Wind 2315 25 Sep 2020—Solar Wind: 485 km/s @ 10.0 protons/cm3 Bz: 2020 Sept 25 2305Z at -1.5 nT
+ Global Conditions 2315 25 Sep 2020—Global HF Propagation Conditions for 2200Z on 25 Sep, 2020 High Latitude: Fair-Normal Middle Latitude: Normal Low Latitude: Normal
+ Solar Report 2230 25 Sep 2020—Solar Flux: 73 | Ap: 17 | Kp 3
+ Observed Space Weather 2230 25 Sep 2020—Space weather for the past 24 hours has been minor. Geomagnetic storms reaching the G1 level occurred.
+ Forecast Space Weather 2230 25 Sep 2020—No space weather storms are predicted for the next 24 hours.
+ Flares 2230 25 Sep 2020—(0000 UTC) 6h hi B4.7(0020Z 09/24) 24h hi B4.7(0020Z 09/24)
+ Sunspots 2230 25 Sep 2020—SSN: 0 (09/24/2020)
+ Solar Wind 2230 25 Sep 2020—Solar Wind: 484 km/s @ 10.0 protons/cm3 Bz: 2020 Sept 25 2226Z at -0.3 nT
+ Global Conditions 2230 25 Sep 2020—Global HF Propagation Conditions for 2200Z on 25 Sep, 2020 High Latitude: Fair-Normal Middle Latitude: Normal Low Latitude: Normal
+ Solar Report 2125 25 Sep 2020—Solar Flux: 73 | Ap: 17 | Kp 3
+ Observed Space Weather 2125 25 Sep 2020—Space weather for the past 24 hours has been minor. Geomagnetic storms reaching the G1 level occurred.
+ Forecast Space Weather 2125 25 Sep 2020—No space weather storms are predicted for the next 24 hours.
+ Flares 2125 25 Sep 2020—(0000 UTC) 6h hi B4.7(0020Z 09/24) 24h hi B4.7(0020Z 09/24)
+ Sunspots 2125 25 Sep 2020—SSN: 0 (09/24/2020)
+ Solar Wind 2125 25 Sep 2020—Solar Wind: 466 km/s @ 10.0 protons/cm3 Bz: 2020 Sept 25 2121Z at -4.9 nT
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kb6nu

+ Online Tech Class #4 complete!— We wrapped up online class #4 last night. This was a fun class to teach. They were all engaged and asked good questions. I don’t know yet how t...
+ If my radio has an SWR meter, why do I need an antenna analyzer?—On the Amateur/Ham Radio subreddit, a poster asks: I’m new to HF and reading my FT-450D manual while waiting for the supplies to build a dipole, and I...
+ New ham gear on the ISS generating some excitement—The ham gear that was recently installed on the International Space Station is generating a lot of excitement in the amateur radio world. This first e...
+ Amateur radio videos: nanoVNA edition—Here are a couple of videos on how to use the NanoVNA. The first is from Alan, W2AEW, who does such a great job with his videos. One cool thing to not...
+ TAPR 2020 Digital Communications Conference videos now online—The The 39th Annual TAPR/ARRL Digital Communications Conference (DCC) was held on September 11 and 12, 2020. Like nearly all conferences this year, it...
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South Gate Club

+ September RadCom Basics available—Issue 18 September 2020 of the RSGB newcomers publication RadCom Basics is now available online for members
+ Phil Temples, K9HI, appointed as New England Division Vice Director—ARRL President Rick Roderick, K5UR, has appointed Phil Temples, K9HI, of Watertown, Massachusetts, as New England Division Vice Director. He succeeds ...
+ Former West Virginia Section Manager Karl Thompson, K8KT - SK—Former West Virginia Section Manager Karl Thompson, K8KT, of Charleston, West Virginia, died on July 28. He was 80. Thompson served as West Virginia S...
+ Ofcom decision on Radio 1 Dance and BBC Sounds—Ofcom has decided not to require the BBC to conduct a public interest test in relation to Radio 1 Dance, a new 24-hour dance music stream that will la...
+ Aliens from space ?—It was like the opening scene from a movie: cars pulled over on a busy freeway, with everyone gawking in disbelief at what they were seeing
+ DX News from the ARRL—The American Radio Relay League's round-up of the forthcoming week's DX activity on the amateur radio bands
+ Tony's 10m Band Report—Well, we don’t seem to be past the minimum just yet despite the appearance of the a few correctly polarised spots a couple of week back. Just look at ...
+ ARISS direct contact with schools in Turkey—An ARISS educational school contact is planned for Chris Cassidy KF5KDR with students at five schools in Turkey
+ Online Full ham radio exams now available—From today, Thursday, Sept 24, the RSGB are allowing Full amateur radio online exams to be booked. All 3 levels of exam required to get a HAREC certif...
+ South Eastern Amateur Radio Group—Irelands biggest radio club, the South Eastern Amateur Radio Group continues to meet weekly on the zoom platform on Monday nights, with great numbers ...
+ HD1X special callsign—Members of the HCDX Group will be active as HD1X from a remaining tropical rainforest from Chocó eco-region (Grid FI09iv), promoting the biodiversity ...
+ INDEXA election results—Dick Williams, W3OA, Secretary-Treasurer of International DX Association (INDEXA), sent out the following election results
+ Amateur Radio Software Award—Claus, AE0S, reminds everyone that special event station K1A will be active for the 'Amateur Radio Software Award' between September 25th and October ...
+ RSGB release Board Proceedings for August—The RSGB has released the proceedings for the August 15 Board meeting where concern was expressed that just two Societies [RSGB and DARC] were providi...
+ LOTW user guide—If you are a new user or planning to use "Logbook of The World" (LoTW), Gary, ZL2IFB, has put together an easy step-by-step guide or should we say man...
+ The Space Weather Woman—A Coronal Hole, A Bright Region and A Red Planet - The latest space weather forecast from Dr Tamitha Skov WX6SWW
+ Aurora Cometalis: The Northern Lights of Comet 67P—Researchers have discovered another reason to visit comets: The icebergs from deep space have their own auroras
+ TV set knocks out Openreach broadband—Openreach VDSL-2 broadband is known for causing interference to radio reception but in this case a TV set was knocking out the broadband and it took O...
+ Copper Plated—'Following the French discovery of 7 MHz RF benefitting the growth of plants in last week’s news, we have more……..'
+ The Day of the YL's Memorial Contest (7th-8th November 2020)—This contest is in memory of Carine DUBOIS. F5ISY. She developed the YL contest and did not ever see it to the end. Carine F5ISY passed away November...
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War, Drugs, Security

Antiwar

+ WWII Was Not Fought To Save Anyone From Death Camps—If you were to listen to people justifying WWII today, and using WWII to justify the subsequent 75 years of wars and war preparations, the first thing...
+ How Do Democrats and Republicans Differ on Palestine and Israel?—The polarized nature of American politics often makes it difficult to address fundamental differences between the country’s two main political rivals,...
+ The Guardian Is Silent About the US Using the Paper To Jail Assange—Julian Assange is not on trial simply for his liberty and his life. He is fighting for the right of every journalist to do hard-hitting investigative ...
+ US War Crimes in Yemen: Stop Looking the Other Way—The longstanding involvement of the United States in the conflict in Yemen is facing renewed scrutiny. On September 16, State Department officials tes...
+ Iraq Daily Roundup: Three Killed—Three people were killed in new attacks. The post Iraq Daily Roundup: Three Killed appeared first on Antiwar.com Original. [C...
+ Redefining Anti-Semitism on Facebook—Given that Facebook has 2.7 billion users and is the world’s largest and arguably most influential media platform, it comes as no surprise that right-...
+ NATO Continues Forever as ‘North America and the Others’—The Washington foreign policy community is in permanent uproar over Donald Trump. There is no greater sacred cow than American troop deployments. When...
+ Will Michele Flournoy Be the Angel of Death for the American Empire?—If the Democrats manage to push Joe Biden over the finish line in November’s election, he will find himself presiding over a decadent, declining empir...
+ The Syria Boondoggle: Who’s Ready to Die in Vain?—Mark my words: an American soldier will soon die for next to nothing in Syria. Here’s a mission that takes all the absurdity of America’s post-9/11 wa...
+ Provocative US Air and Sea Maneuvers at Russia’s Borders—This past weekend, Russian state television on two major channels devoted substantial news segments of their week in review programs to the ongoing ga...
+ The War on Assange Is a War on Truth—It is dangerous to reveal the truth about the illegal and immoral things our government does with our money and in our name, and the war on journalist...
+ Stephen F. Cohen: In Memoriam—On Friday, 18 September, professor Steve Cohen passed away in New York City and we, the "dissident" community of Americans standing for peace ...
+ Lebanon Slides Toward the Sectarian Brink Again—More than a month ago Beirut suffered a massive explosion at its port, killing scores of people, wounding thousands, leaving hundreds of thousands hom...
+ Israel-UAE Deal Requires New US-Funded Arms Race—Fresh off of signing a peace deal with the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Israel submitted a list of demands to the US for a substantial amount of arms, ...
+ Iraq Daily Roundup: 11 Killed—Eleven people were killed and seven were wounded in the latest violence. The post Iraq Daily Roundup: 11 Killed appeared firs...
+ Iraq Daily Roundup: Seven Killed—Seven people were killed in Iraq. The post Iraq Daily Roundup: Seven Killed appeared first on Antiwar.com Original. [Category...
+ September 14, 2001: The Day America Became Israel—This article is dedicated to the memory of an activist, inspiration, and recent friend: Kevin Zeese. Its scope, sweep, and ambition are meant to match...
+ The ‘Desaparecidos’ of Palestine: Gantz Escalates Israel’s War on the Dead—On September 2, the Israeli government approved a proposal that allows the military to indefinitely withhold the bodies of Palestinians who have been ...
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Def Talk

+ US DOD Anticipates Significant Troop Reduction in Afghanistan—DefenceTalkDefenceTalkBased on the current conditions in Afghanistan, the Defense Department expects there will be fewer than 5,000 U.S. military serv...
+ Riptide UUV-12 Launches BAE Into Medium Unmanned Undersea Vehicle Market—DefenceTalkDefenceTalkBAE Systems has unveiled the newest addition to its unmanned undersea vehicle (UUV) portfolio, the Riptide™ UUV-12. The 12” diam...
+ India tests new French fighter jets in skies near China border—DefenceTalkDefenceTalkIndia’s new French Rafale jets have flown “familiarisation” flights above the border region contested with Chi...
+ Creating Cross-Domain Kill Webs in Real Time—DefenceTalkDefenceTalkTwo DARPA-developed technologies – a novel decision aid for mission commanders and a rapid software integration tool – played a ...
+ China ‘must back off’, says Taiwan—DefenceTalkDefenceTalkTaiwan on Tuesday demanded that China “back off” and accused it of threatening peace, after a Beijing official rejec...
+ Taiwan scrambles fighters again, as China says independence ‘doomed to fail’—DefenceTalkDefenceTalkTaiwan said it scrambled fighters and deployed anti-missile systems Monday after Chinese military jets entered its air defence z...
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Defense One

+ Ep. 77: Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger— [Category: Ideas]
+ Today's D Brief: 500-ship Navy?; USAF chief, USMC commandant, interviewed; Russian info ops, blocked; And a bit more.— [Category: Threats]
+ My Brother Austin Asked Me to Go to Syria With Him. Four Months Later, He was Taken—Ask about Austin Tice. Bring him home. [Category: Ideas]
+ The Blob Meets the Heartland—Foreign policy should work better for America’s middle class. [Category: Ideas]
+ Inside the Army’s Fearless, Messy, Networked Warfare Experiment—Big steps reveal plenty about the bigger ones to come — including the need for battlefield coders. [Category: Science & Tech]
+ Ep. 76: Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown, Jr.—“We have more classified programs than the other services," Brown said. But “We need to articulate that risk, maybe a little bit better than we have i...
+ Exclusive: Interview with Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger—Watch Defense One's interview on building the future force, racism in the ranks, integrating women, and working with Congress. [Category: Policy]
+ Biden defense predictions; Boeing, Northrop join forces; US F-35s on British carrier, and more— [Category: Business]
+ Lebanon Needs More than US Sanctions—Hezbollah must go. Here's how the international community can help develop a democratic and secular system that works for the people. [Category: Ideas...
+ Foreign Hackers Cripple Texas County’s Email System, Raising Election Security Concerns—The malware attack, which sent fake email replies to voters and businesses, spotlights an overlooked vulnerability in counties that don’t follow best ...
+ Today's D Brief: Protests spread anew; Armed civilians gather to ‘help police’; Gen. Berger, live; Election-data firm, hacked; And a bit more.— [Category: Threats]
+ Three Ways to Clean Up the Toxic Minefields of Social Media —Safeguarding the social media ecosystem from hate speech and disinformation is all about tracking data and empowering users. [Category: Ideas]
+ Today's D Brief: More than 200K US dead of COVID; New election-security warning; Russian disinfo quotes Trump; DHS chief’s confirmation hearing; And a bit more.— [Category: Threats]
+ A $13 Billion Contract for ICBMs: What’s the Rush?—The deal needs closer scrutiny — as does the purported need for new long-range ballistic missiles at all. [Category: Ideas]
+ The United States Has Become a Disaster Area—Hurricanes in the Gulf, fires in the West, the coronavirus everywhere—the country is a mess. [Category: Ideas]
+ To Deter China, Extend New START—A new arms race with Russia will drain funds from the forces that influence and deter Beijing. [Category: Ideas]
+ Today's D Brief: Violence spikes in Afghanistan; Bad TikTok deal; AI’s ‘black boxes’; Wearable COVID detectors; And a bit more.— [Category: Threats]
+ The US Military’s Latest Wearables Can Detect Illness Two Days Before You Get Sick—Some 400 troops are testing the devices, trained on nearly a quarter million cases to detect COVID and a whole lot more. [Category: Science & Tech...
+ Could Trump Assassinate A World Leader and Get Away With it?—Maybe. Scholars explain why the answer is as murky as the law. [Category: Policy]
+ Analysis: How Trump’s TikTok Deal Helps China—The deal doesn’t really address data or privacy concerns. It does help regimes attack U.S. companies. [Category: Science & Tech]
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Defense Update

+ IAI Expands Tactical UAS Footprint with BlueBird Aerosystems Acquisition—The deal leverages BlueBird's major contract award for delivering 70 VTOL UAS to a European customer. It also helps broaden IAI's portfolio of VTOL pr...
+ IAI Expands Tactical UAS Footprint with BlueBird Aersystems Acquisition—The deal leverages BlueBird's major contract award for delivering 70 VTOL UAS to a European customer. It also helps broaden IAI's portfolio of VTOL pr...
+ GDLS Showcases a New Tracked Chassis for a 10-ton Military Robot—General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS) has unveiled a tracked robotic platform (TRX) designed to meet the US Army’s ‘Robotic Combat Vehicle - Medium’ cl...
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Global Research

+ Video: Covid-19 and the Derogation of Fundamental Human Rights. Constitutional Lawyer Rocco Galati—Renowned Canadian Constitutional lawyer Rocco Galati characterizes the COVID Operation as “the biggest example of misinformation and lies on a global ...
+ Does the PCR Test Detect the Virus?—“Scientists are doing an awful lot of damage to the world in the name of helping it. I don’t mind attacking my own fraternity because I am ashamed of ...
+ Sinophobia, Lies and Hybrid War”: The Nation which Unleashed This Plague…” according to Donald Trump at the UN General Assembly—This article was originally published on Asia Times. It took one minute for President Trump to introduce a virus at the virtual 75th UN General Assemb...
+ Assange’s Thirteenth Day at the Old Bailey: Mental Health, Managed Risk and Publication Chronologies— The lion’s share of today’s Old Bailey proceedings in Julian Assange’s extradition trial was spent on battles over mental health and dire risk. The ...
+ Mali Opens Its Doors to Russia—With strict pressure from the African Union (AU) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the August coup leaders have installed an...
+ Selected Articles: The RT-PCR Test is Totally Unreliable, It Does not Detect the Virus.—If you look to Global Research as a resource for information and understanding, to stay current on world events, or to experience honesty and transpar...
+ The Death of Andre Vltchek, a Passionate Warrior for Truth—“If the world is upside down the way it is now, wouldn’t we have to turn it over to get it to stand up straight?” – Eduardo Galeano, Upside Down, 1998...
+ Covid-19: How Likely Is a Second Wave?—Executive Summary Evidence presented in this paper indicates that the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 pandemic as an event in the UK i...
+ Mounting Unemployment in America: Over One Million UI Claims for 27 Straight Weeks, Unprecedented US Economic Collapse—Nothing remotely like what’s gone on since January ever happened before in the US. For the 27th straight week, over one million working-age Americans ...
+ Over One Million UI Claims for 27 Straight Weeks, Unprecedented US Economic Collapse—Nothing remotely like what’s gone on since January ever happened before in the US. For the 27th straight week, over one million working-age Americans ...
+ How Lethal is Covid-19? Young and Healthy Majority Need to be Allowed to Live—In view of recent controversies caused by an article in The Irish Times on Saturday, September 12th, I think it is important to articulate my position...
+ Trump Regime War on Cuba by Other Means—Unlawful US sanctions on nations, entities and individuals are weapons of war by other means. Since taking office in January 2017, Trump imposed sanct...
+ American Space Force Installs Military Base in the Persian Gulf to Monitor Iran—The sixth and newest branch of the U.S. Armed Forces now has an overseas base. A squadron of 20 soldiers has been sent to an air base in Al Udeid, whi...
+ Travel and Tourism Industry in Crisis: 74% of Hotels in the US On the Verge of Bankruptcy. Survey—Nearly three-quarters of hotels will have to lay off more employees than they already have during the coronavirus pandemic if they don’t receive addit...
+ China Ramps Up U.S. Crude Oil Imports as Elections Near—China has been buying a lot of U.S. crude oil lately, perhaps in a belated attempt to fulfill some of the energy import quotas agreed with Washington ...
+ Your Man in the Public Gallery: Assange Hearing Day 16—On Wednesday the trap sprang shut, as Judge Baraitser insisted the witnesses must finish next week, and that no time would be permitted for preparatio...
+ The Dying Planet Report 2020—The World Wildlife Foundation, in collaboration with the Zoological Society of London, recently issued an eye-popping description of the forces of hum...
+ As the Amazon Burns, What Happens to Its Biodiversity?—Studies show that where fire is on the increase in Amazonia, biodiversity is altered, with unique rainforest flora and fauna — and vital ecological se...
+ Hack Reveals UK’s Propaganda Campaign to Drive Syrian Regime Change—When I reported on the leak of Integrity Initiative documents back in 2018/19 which exposed the extent of the UK’s propaganda war against Russia, I di...
+ An Anonymous Nurse Speaks Out: The RT-PCR Test is Totally Unreliable, It Does not Detect the Virus.—An Anonymous Nurse SPEAKS OUT! Just a shame they can’t put their name to it out of fear of losing their job. This is from a nurse. *** I work in the h...
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Janes

+ New European Parliament report warns against defence spending cuts—Insisting that no EU country alone can protect itself against the threats facing Europe today, members of the European Parliament (MEPs) warn that nat...
+ PLAGF seen using AV500 reconnaissance UAV in night-time exercise—Chinese state-owned television has released footage showing what appears to be a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) AV500 unmanned aerial vehicle (U...
+ Lessons learned: Project Convergence hiccups prompt US Army to examine network tweaks—US Army officials gathered at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona, on 23 September to watch an experimental sensor-to-shooter demonstration that included mul...
+ Blighter Surveillance Systems launches new counter-drone radar—The UK’s Blighter Surveillance Systems has launched the A800 3D unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) detection radar, designed for land, air, and sea surveil...
+ Bulgaria receives first two Su-25s upgraded and overhauled by Belarus—The Bulgarian Air Force (BuAF) took delivery of its first pair of Su-25 close air support aircraft that were overhauled and upgraded by and received a...
+ Lockheed Martin to perform ‘unique sea trials' of F-35 for non-US customers—The United States Department of Defense (DoD) has contracted Lockheed Martin to conduct aircraft carrier trials of its F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike ...
+ Analysing scenarios for intra-Afghan peace talks and US troop withdrawal—Peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban began on 12 September in the Qatari capital Doha, the first official such talks between the ...
+ India selects Kongsberg Maritime AUVs for new hydrographic vessels—India has selected the HUGIN autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) from Kongsberg Maritime for the new class of hydrographic survey vessels it ordered f...
+ Pentagon seeks 'dynamic' solutions for 5G mid-band spectrum operations—The US Department of Defense is soliciting industry input on how Pentagon leaders can further exploit the range of contiguous-spectrum bandwidth, set ...
+ Australia confirms AIC audit is ready for implementation—The Australian Department of Defence (DoD) has issued more details about the new audit programme it will introduce to ensure foreign contractors compl...
+ aunav.NEO UGV breaks cover—Spanish company aunav has launched a new explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) robot that it claims to be the first unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) in the w...
+ PLAGF troops seen using new tandem-rotor UAV—Chinese state-owned television has released footage showing that the People’s Liberation Army Ground Force (PLAGF) is either testing or already operat...
+ Return of Sudanese mercenaries from Libya poses risks of destabilisation to Darfur—Sudanese mercenaries have benefited from fighting in Libya by accruing financial wealth, improving their military capabilities, and strengthening co-o...
+ Curtiss-Wright to buy communications firm PacStar—US industrial conglomerate Curtiss-Wright has agreed to acquire military communications equipment supplier Pacific Star Communications (PacStar) for U...
+ US Marine Corps Commandant says traditional amphib ships still needed, but service will focus on new smaller fleet—Although the US Marine Corps (USMC) will still use traditional relatively large amphibious-centric US Navy (USN) ships for operations, the service is ...
+ Lukasiewicz-PIAP unveils Hunter UGV—Warsaw-based Łukasiewicz Research Network-Industrial Research Institute for Automation and Measurements PIAP (Łukasiewicz-PIAP) has revealed a prototy...
+ US Navy checks inventory to help US Marine Corps implement Force Design 2030 plan—The US Navy (USN) is combing through its existing inventory of weapons, equipment and systems to help the US Marine Corps (USMC) implement the USMC’s ...
+ NATO reviews proposals for new centre of excellence on space—With NATO having declared space as an operational domain last November, the allies are now preparing to add a new space-focused centre of excellence (...
+ EU's top military official warns of faltering means for capability development—National capitals’ weak support for their Permanent Structured Cooperation in Defence (PESCO) projects, combined with deep provisional cuts to the Eur...
+ India successfully flight-tests Hypersonic Technology Demonstration Vehicle—India’s government-run Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully flight-tested its Hypersonic Technology Demonstration Vehicle...
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National Interest

+ The Russian Empire Once Had a Circular Battleship—Peter Suciu History, Eurasia Interesting. Here's What You Need To Remember: The concept of a circular battleship actually wasn’t entirely Russian....
+ Good Bye Javelin Anti-Tank Missile, Hello Spike Missile—Charlie Gao Security, Middle East Israel is known to make many powerful weapons and the Spike missile is one of their best. Key point: This missil...
+ Iran is Still Flying the Shah's Old American F-4s Fighters —Caleb Larson Security, Middle East Iran, which lacks access to many foreign arms, keeps what good tech it can--even if it is old. Here's What You ...
+ Russia's Plan to Win a Land War With NATO—Peter Suciu Security, Eurasia Fortunately for the world as a whole no one ever had the chance to give this plan an actual go. Here's What You Need...
+ Could Donald Trump Shock the World on North Korea in a Second Term?—Jihwan Hwang Security, Asia One thing is for sure: anything can happen. Editor's Note: The following is part of a new symposium here in Korea Watc...
+ Is Samsung’s 8K Q900 Series HDTV Really Worth $2,700?—Ethen Kim Lieser Technology, Where is the 8K content? Ticket to 8K Universe: Being early to the party is an apt description of what 8K HDTVs are...
+ Is Barrett Firearms Model 82 the Ultimate Sniper Rifle?—Peter Suciu Security, Americas It is well regarded and has been used by the military in combat since the First Gulf War. Key point: Good sniper ri...
+ LG’s 55-Inch B9 Series: The Value King of OLED HDTVs—Ethen Kim Lieser Technology, Even compared to the high-end CX models—which feature Dolby Vision IQ, Nvidia G-Sync and Filmmaker Mode—if it is only...
+ LG’s 55-Inch B9 Series: The Value King of OLED HDTVs—Ethen Kim Lieser Technology, Even compared to the high-end CX models—which feature Dolby Vision IQ, Nvidia G-Sync and Filmmaker Mode—if it is only...
+ Don’t Send This Aircraft Carrier to the Persian Gulf —James Holmes Security, Middle East That’s my advice to senior decisionmakers who appear set on deploying the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS D...
+ Don't Send This Aircraft Carrier to the Persian Gulf —James Holmes Security, Middle East That’s my advice to senior decisionmakers who appear set on deploying the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS D...
+ Castle Bravo: The Most Powerful Nuke Ever Detonated by the United States—Paul Richard Huard Security, Asia From the moment the device detonated, many of the observers knew something had gone spectacularly wrong. Key Poi...
+ Google Fiber: You Can Now Use Your Own Router—Stephen Silver Technology, If you can get the service, that is. Google Fiber is an Internet service launched by Google in 2010, first in Kansas ...
+ The Next President Could Implement a Cacophony of Controversial Policies—Michael Oren Security, Americas Much like war, engagement is a tool that must be used wisely and sparingly, especially when it can only cause harm....
+ How the U.S. Military is Prioritizing Great-Power Competition—Michael O'Hanlon, Adam Twardowski Security, Americas A careful examination of deployments of carrier battle groups and amphibious ready groups on a...
+ I Just Watched the U.S. Military Wage the War of the Future —Kris Osborn Security, Americas America is combining a wide variety of weapon systems and domains in order to take on any threat. Yuma Proving Grou...
+ North Korea Needs to Stop Acting Crazy —Doug Bandow Security, Asia After the killing of a South Korean official who apparently was attempting to defect, Seoul announced that Kim wrote a l...
+ Unrest in Belarus and Russia’s Response—TNI Staff Security, Europe Are developments in Belarus likely to spiral into violence, or are they on a path toward stability? Are development...
+ The U.S. Army Wants to Link F-35 Stealth Fighters to Ground Forces—Kris Osborn Security, Americas It would help create a truly networked, high-tech, cross-domain military. Imagine an F-35 stealth fighter jet using...
+ Russia Scrambled Su-27 Fighters to Intercept B-52s Over the Black Sea—Peter Suciu Security, NATO vs. Russia tensions rising? In late August in a single-day mission, six B-52 bombers took part in the "Allied Sky" fl...
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Understanding War

+ Belarus Warning Update: Lukashenko Softens His Opposition to Protests, Seeking Leverage against Increased Russian Pressure—September 14, 2020, 6:00 pm EDT By Mason Clark Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi, Russia, o...
+ Belarus Warning Update: Lukashenko Tries to Control Protests Ahead of Meeting with Putin— September 13, 2020, 6:00 pm EDTBy Mason ClarkLukashenko’s campaign to expel and detain opposition leaders is failing to disrupt increasingly ada...
+ Belarus Warning Update: Lukashenko Resists Moscow’s Pressure for Economic Integration— September 10, 2020, 8:45 pm EDT By George Barros Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko likely assesses his position against the proteste...
+ Warning: Lukashenko Begins Targeting the Kremlin Ahead of Meeting Putin— September 9, 2020, 6:00pm EDT Belarus Update By George BarrosBelarusian authorities formally imprisoned opposition leader Maria Kolesnikova – t...
+ Belarus Warning Update: Russia and Belarus Prepare for October Exercises in Belarus— September 25, 2020 5:30 EDT by George Barros Russia’s Western Military District (WMD) is likely preparing for more exercises in Belarus.&nbs...
+ Warning: Russia Escalates in Eastern Syria—Warning: Russia Escalates in Eastern Syria By: Eva KahanKey Takeaway: Russia is scaling up pressure against US forces in eastern Syria. Rus...
+ Belarus Warning Update: Russian Force Deployment to Belarus is Likely Imminent— September 17, 2020 7:15 pm EDT By George BarrosThe Kremlin will likely deploy Russian conventional military forces into Belarus on a long-term ...
+ Warning: Lukashenko Expels Opposition Leaders to Support Kremlin Information Operation — September 8, 2020, 7:20 pm EDT By George Barros and Mason Clark Belarusian authorities are holding Belarusian opposition leader Kolesnik...
+ Warning: Russia’s Kavkaz-2020 Military Exercise— September 25, 2020, 3:00 pm EDT By Mason Clark and George Barros with Madisyn GoodBallet, Joseph Kyle, Owen Lee, Savannah Modesitt, and Paisley Turne...
+ Warning: Belarusian Security Forces Likely Kidnap Opposition Leader Kolesnikova— September 7 5:00pm EDT Belarus Update By: Mason Clark Unidentified men abducted opposition leader Maria Kolesnikova and two of her staf...
+ Belarus Warning Update: Putin is Setting Conditions for a Long-term Continuous Russian Military Presence in Belarus— September 24, 2020 6:30 PM EDT By George Barros Russian President Vladimir Putin is setting conditions for the long-term continuous presence...
+ Belarus Warning Update: Lukashenko and the Kremlin Vie for Control over Future Russian Weapons in Belarus — September 16, 2020, 5:45 pm EDT By George Barros and Mason ClarkThe Kremlin qualified Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko’s claim he requ...
+ Warning: Putin is Setting Conditions for a Long-term Continuous Russian Military Presence in Belarus— September 24, 2020 6:30 PM EDT By George Barros Russian President Vladimir Putin is setting conditions for the long-term continuous presence...
+ Putin Remains Dissatisfied with Lukashenko’s Concessions — September 23, 2020, 6:30 pm EDT By George BarrosBelarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has not fully capitulated to Russian President Vladim...
+ Belarus Warning Update: Putin Sends Airborne Troops to Belarus Exercise—and a Message to Lukashenko—September 15, 2020, 5:00 pm EDT By George Barros Moscow has modified the prescheduled Slavic Brotherhood military exercises in Belarus to demons...
+ Warning: Belarusian Security Forces Escalate Violence against Protesters but Large Protests Continue—September 6, 2020, 5:00 pm EDT By Mason Clark Belarusian Interior Ministry personnel without insignia, possibly including Russians, seriously beat ...
+ Warning: Security Personnel in Green Uniforms without Insignia Appear in Minsk— September 5, 2020, 6:15 EDT By George Barros Security personnel wearing unmarked green uniforms appeared in Minsk for the first time on September 5...
+ Belarus Warning Update: Russia Deploys a Third Battalion Tactical Group to Belarus— September 22, 2020, 5:00 pm EDT By George BarrosRussia deployed a battalion tactical group (BTG) from the 217th Airborne Regiment of the I...
+ The Kremlin Deploys a Brigade-Sized Force to Belarus Near Polish Border— September 21, 2020, 6:15 EDT By George Barros The Kremlin significantly expanded its military presence in Belarus to facilitate a brigade-sized...
+ Warning: NEXTA Actively Encourages Belarusian Security Service Defections—September 20, 2020 4:30 EDTBy George Barros The NEXTA Telegram channel is actively encouraging Belarusian security service defections. Large scal...
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UPI Defense

+ Israel tests new sea-to-sea missile— The Israeli Navy tested a sea-to-sea missile for use in protecting Mediterranean Sea natural gas platforms, the Israel Defense Force announced on Fri...
+ Spy planes join B-52 bomber in exercise over Black Sea— A U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber joined Ukrainian fighter planes this week and five NATO intelligence planes in an exercise over the Black Sea this week.
+ Alliant Technosystems gets $37.6M contract to upgrade Stryker cannons— The Defense Department announced a $37.6 million contract for production of Stryker Medium Caliber Weapons cannons with Alliant Techsystems Operation...
+ Marine Commandant Gen. David Berger calls for troop realignment in Indo-Pacific region— U.S. Marine Corps strategy in the Indo-Pacific region requires a restructuring of its array of forces, Commandant Gen. David Berger said.
+ Future U.S. Navy fleet could include more than 500 ships— The U.S. Navy fleet, with a current target of 355 ships by 2030, could increase to more than 500 ships, documents supporting the Future Navy Force St...
+ USS 'Woody' Williams conducts training exercises with Senegalese navy— The USS Hershel 'Woody' Williams conducted passing and communications exercises with the Senegalese naval counterpart patrol vessel Kedougou this wee...
+ Military to remove identifying information from promotion applications— Top military officials are working to remove all personally identifying information from promotions packets, according to Army Gen. Mark Milley, chai...
+ Super Hornet makes emergency landing after engine fire in Virginia— A Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet experienced an engine fire Monday, forcing it to make an emergency landing at Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia.
+ USS Delbert Black to be commissioned at Port Canaveral Saturday— The USS Delbert Black will be commissioned Saturday.
+ BlackSky to upgrade high resolution, nighttime imaging satellite tech for DoD— BlackSky announced plans on Thursday to expand its network to include satellites that can provide high-resolution and nighttime images for the Depart...
+ Air Force awards $38M in contracts for upgrades to airfield in Iceland— The Air Force has awarded three contracts totaling $38 million to improve the airfield at Naval Air Station Keflavik in Iceland.
+ Military medical personnel dealing with COVID-19 return home— About 740 military personnel stationed in Texas and California to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic have returned to home units, the Army said on Wedne...
+ U.S. Marine F-35Bs land on deck of carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth— Ten U.S. Marines F-35B fighter planes arrived on the British aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth to begin exercises in the North Sea, the Marines an...
+ Marines officially roll out new M18 handgun— The U.S. Marine Corps officially began fielding the M18 Modular Handgun, its first new service pistol in 35 years, it announced on Wednesday.
+ U.S. Air Force gets into gaming with 'Command Clash' competition— "Command Clash," a six-part esports competition between 29 service members at multiple bases, begins this weekend, the U.S. Air Force announced Wedne...
+ House approves Medal of Honor for Sgt. 1st Class Alwyn Cashe, who saved seven in Iraq— A House bill passed this week brings Army Sgt. 1st Class Alwyn Cashe, who died in 2005 after sustaining injuries in Iraq, a step closer to the Medal ...
+ Navy's fifth annual cybersecurity event goes online— The Navy is holding the first track of its fifth annual HACKtheMACHINE competition this week.
+ Military children born overseas get automatic citizenship -- again— Military children who are not American citizens will be able to obtain citizenship automatically, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has annou...
+ Norfolk Shipyard commander relieved for 'loss of confidence'— Capt. Kai Torkelson, commanding officer of the Norfolk Naval Shipyard, was fired Monday "due to a loss of confidence in his ability to command," the ...
+ Space Force, NASA announce new collaboration agreement— NASA and the U.S. Space Force have signed a collaboration agreement that includes plans for expanded lunar exploration.
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Wired Security

+ The Best Chrome Extensions to Prevent Creepy Web Tracking—Ad trackers follow you everywhere online—but it doesn’t have to be that way. [Category: Security, Security / Security Advice]
+ Facebook Busts Russian Disinfo Networks as US Election Looms—The campaigns primarily targeted countries outside the US. But the same mechanisms could be used in “hack and leak” operations like those that roiled ...
+ Inside the Twitter Hack—and What Happened Next—On July 15, Twitter melted down. On Election Day, that's not an option. [Category: Security, Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks]
+ How Twitter Survived Its Biggest Hack—and Plans to Stop the Next One—On July 15, Twitter melted down. On Election Day, that's not an option. [Category: Security, Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks]
+ A Tip From a Kid Helped Uncover a Slew of Scam Apps—After a girl reported a suspicious TikTok profile, researchers detected aggressive adware in apps that had been downloaded 2.4 million times. [Categor...
+ CryptoHarlem’s Founder Warns Against ‘Digital Stop and Frisk'—On Day 2 of WIRED’s virtual conference, hacker Matt Mitchell cautions that law enforcement routinely trawls social media to surveil protestors. [Categ...
+ 179 Arrested in Massive Global Dark Web Takedown—Operation Disruptor is an unprecedented international law enforcement effort, stemming from last year’s seizure of a popular underground bazaar called...
+ Think Twice Before Using Facebook, Google, or Apple to Sign In Everywhere—So-called single sign-on options offer a lot of convenience. But they have downsides that a good old fashioned password manager doesn't. [Category: Se...
+ The Cheating Scandal That Ripped the Poker World Apart—Mike Postle was on an epic winning streak at a California casino. Veronica Brill thought he had to be playing dirty. Let the chips fall where they may...
+ The iOS 14 Privacy and Security Features You Should Know—The latest update for your iPhone and iPad will make them safer than ever. [Category: Security, Security / Security Advice]
+ A Bluetooth Flaw Leaves Billions of Devices Vulnerable—Indictments against Iranian hackers, a Veterans Affairs data breach, and more of the week's top security news. [Category: Security, Security / Securit...
+ A Patient Dies After a Ransomware Attack Hits a Hospital—The outage resulted in a significant delay in treatment. German authorities are investigating the perpetrators on suspicion of negligent manslaughter....
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Breitbart

+ Reports: Donald Trump Intends to Pick Amy Coney Barrett to Replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg—Several media outlets are reporting that President Donald Trump will, on Saturday, announce that he will nominate Judge Amy Coney Barrett to be the ne...
+ Poll: More Disapprove of Black Lives Matter Protests than Approve, Support Plunges from 54% to 39%—Support for Black Lives Matter has plunged from 54 percent to 39 percent, and those who disapprove of the movement now outnumber those who approve it,...
+ Democrat Insider: Anti-Trump Postal Workers in GOP Neighborhoods Throw Mail-In Ballots in the Garbage—A Democrat operative says the United States Postal Service (USPS) workers who despise President Trump will sometimes help election fraudsters by throw...
+ CDC Data Shows High Virus Survival Rate: 99%-Plus for Ages 69 and Younger, 94.6% for Older—The CDC recently updated its estimated Infection Fatality Rate (IFR) parameters to include age-specific data showing the vast majority of people who c...
+ FNC's Napolitano on PA Discarded Ballots: Prosecutors Feeding 'Fuel to the Fire' with Trump Mention—Fox News legal analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano discussed the case of nine discarded military ballots found in Pennsylvania on Friday with comments cri...
+ Donald Trump Announces Comprehensive 'Platinum Plan' for Black Americans—President Donald Trump announced Friday his "Platinum Plan" for black Americans at a campaign event in Atlanta, Georgia. [Author: Charlie Spiering ...
+ Video: College Students Reject SCOTUS Pick - Before Announcement—In interviews with Campus Reform this week, students pushed back against President Donald Trump's pick to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the S...
+ Tom Cotton Confident Trump Will Peacefully Transfer Power in 2025—"I am confident that we will have a peaceful transfer of power in January 2025 when Donald Trump finishes his second term," Tom Cotton said. [Author: ...
+ Watch: Voters Tell CNN Why They Are Supporting President -- Trump 'Is Bringing Us Together'—Friday on CNN's "New Day" during a segment titled "Pulse of the People," anchor Alisyn Camerota spoke with three supporters of former Vice President J...
+ Nolte: 0-43 Climate Alarmists Want 'Lockdowns' to 'Halt Climate Change'—Climate alarmists are 0-43 with their climate hoaxes, and now, they're floating the idea of using hoax #44 as an excuse to lock us all down again. [Au...
+ Watch — Dan Crenshaw Recruits Congressional Candidates to 'Save Texas' in Campaign Ad—Watch Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) as he recruits congressional candidates in an effort to "save Texas" in a campaign ad. [Author: Alana Mastrangelo ] ...
+ 'We Caught 'em Cold' — Donald Trump Reacts to Major Steele Dossier Development—President Donald Trump on Friday celebrated new revelations in the development of the notorious Steele Dossier used by the FBI to spy on the his 2016 ...
+ Sen. Warner: 'It's So Undignified' Trump Is Trying to 'Jam Through' SCOTUS Nominee—Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) said Friday on MSNBC's "Andrea Mitchell Reports," that it was "undignified" for President Donald Trump to push a replacemen...
+ Watch -- Cuban American Whose Family Escaped Communism: AOC Should ‘Look into the Faces’ of People like My Parents—A Cuban American attending President Trump’s rally in Jacksonville, Florida, on Thursday said America "rescued” her parents from communist Cuba and th...
+ Watch — Trump Supporter: I’m a Single Lesbian Mom and ‘None of My Rights Have Been Taken’—A supporter of President Donald Trump who identified herself as a single lesbian mother pushed back on the leftist narrative that his administration i...
+ Mansour and Pinkerton: The Democrats’ 7-Step Strategy to Win the Election Using Vote-by-Mail Chaos—We see a seven-step Democratic strategy emerge to win the election by unleashing chaos in our voting system, violence in our streets, and a legal figh...
+ Pelosi: 'Why Bother' Holding a Presidential Debate? -- Trump 'Isn't Committed to Our Constitution'—With many criticizing 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden of hiding in his basement for the majority of his campaign, presidential debates ...
+ Report: Gun Sales Surge 80 Percent in Seven Swing States—Gun sales have been up nationwide for months but are specifically up in seven swing states as the November 3, 2020, election approaches. [Author: A...
+ Blue State Blues: The Trumpian Virtues—Whether he leaves office in 2021 or 2025, Trump has brought several unique qualities to the presidency that his successors ought to emulate. [Author: ...

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Common Dreams

+ Amy Coney Barrett is Being Illegitimately Jammed Through Senate to Pack The Court, Strip Away Rights and Freedoms—______________________________
+ Fossil Fuel Production Cannot Expand as Part of a Fair Energy Transition, Urges New International Coalition—______________________________
+ Demand Justice Statement on Anticipation of Amy Coney Barrett—______________________________
+ The G7 Finance Ministers Have Decided to Support Debt Relief for Poor Countries Fighting Coronavirus—______________________________
+ Patriotic Millionaires Launch "Knives Out" Campaign on SCOTUS Nomination —______________________________
+ Joining Trump to Undermine Election Results, GOP Senator Proposes Nullifying All Mail-In Ballots Not Counted Within 48-Hour Window—Julia Conley, staff writer A new bill proposed by Republican Sen. Rick Scott is "entirely unworkable," Slate reported Thursday eve...
+ 'Our Right to Privacy Is at Stake': Jayapal Leads Demand for White House Answers on Possible Illegal Mass Surveillance—Brett Wilkins, staff writer "We are concerned that the executive branch may, once again, be using questionable legal theories of executive auth...
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