How fast are people returning to pre-COVID lifestyles? ~health Article 325 words, published May 11 2020 3 votes
What will it take to prevent a new Great Depression in the USA? Around $10,000,000,000,000 (ten trillion dollars). ~finance economics Article 505 words 9 votes
Two churches reclose after faith leaders and congregants get coronavirus ~health Article 901 words 10 votes
It’s time to get on the bidet train, America ~health Article 2065 words, published May 5 2020 19 votes
Nearly a third of small, independent farmers are facing bankruptcy by the end of 2020, new survey says ~food Article 2137 words 6 votes
US President Donald Trump says he is taking hydroxychloroquine to protect against coronavirus, dismissing safety concerns ~health medicine Article 332 words 21 votes
Pulling seven G's in an F-16 and going supersonic with US Air Force Thunderbirds ~science physics Video 29:57 4 votes
Explosive whistleblower complaint by ousted US Health and Human Services official says he was pressured to give contract to Donald Trump-friendly pharma firm ~health Article 615 words, published May 5 2020 11 votes
The coming disruption - Scott Galloway predicts a handful of elite universities and tech companies will soon monopolize higher education ~humanities education.higher Article 2536 words, published May 11 2020 6 votes
America’s largest media labor union launches historic advocacy campaign to save industry: "having robust news operations at the local and state level is fundamentally good for democratic stability." ~news journalism usa Article 649 words 12 votes
Remdesivir distribution causes confusion, leaves some US hospitals empty-handed ~health healthcare medicine Article 1052 words, published May 14 2020 4 votes
Here’s what an antitrust case against Google might look like: Two DOJ veterans lay out a roadmap for cracking down on the company’s digital advertising juggernaut ~tech google Article 717 words 4 votes
Venezuela alleges proof of Juan Guaidó's involvement in foiled coup plot, a legal invoice regarding past due payment to Silvercorp USA ~news venezuela usa Link 3 votes
A military contractors’ report circulating on Capitol Hill claims to have evidence that COVID-19 escaped from a Chinese lab. It’s filled with information that’s just plain wrong. ~health Article 2259 words 5 votes
Does “The Case Against Socialism” hold up? It does not. A brief look at Rand Paul’s new book. ~books reviews Article 16 528 words 9 votes
Redditor finds unsecured surveillance cameras seemingly placed by the US government ~misc Link 29 votes
US Navy releases new UFO incident reports: This is about newly-released written incident reports, not the grainy videos that made headlines several weeks ago ~space Article 15 votes
Coal industry will never recover after coronavirus pandemic, say experts ~enviro climate change energy Article 1308 words 24 votes
How New York suffered nearly ten times the number of deaths as California ~health Article 11 354 words 6 votes
United Launch Alliance launches robotic X-37B space plane on sixth classified mission ~space spaceflight.military Link 7 votes
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sues Betsy DeVos over “reprehensible” new sexual assault rules ~news usa Article 872 words 5 votes
Ameelio, a startup backed by the Mozilla's 'Fix the Internet', aims to provide free video calls and messaging to prisoners in the US where video calls can cost as much as $25 for 15min ~tech Link 11 votes
US State Department Inspector General fired after investigating Secretary of State Mike Pompeo; Democrats decry ‘dangerous pattern of retaliation’ ~news usa politics.usa Article 9 votes
A spectacularly bad Washington Post story on Apple and Google’s exposure notification project ~health Link 3 votes
2020 looks like the year US renewables first out-produce coal ~enviro energy.renewable Article 10 votes
An inmate's love for math leads to new discoveries: Published in the journal Research in Number Theory, he showed for the first time regularities in the approximation of a vast class of numbers ~science mathematics Link 8 votes
Biden names Ocasio-Cortez, Kerry to lead his climate task force, bridging Democrats’ divide ~enviro climate change Link 13 votes
Pandemic bills are so big that only money-printing can pay them ~finance economics.macro Article 6 votes
IKEA's shopping malls arm Ingka Centres plans US entry in major play ~finance business Article 778 words 6 votes
The great 5G conspiracy - Part of a series on conspiracy thinking in America ~humanities Article 5662 words 6 votes
The confessions of Marcus "MalwareTech" Hutchins, the hacker who stopped WannaCry and was arrested by the FBI in 2017 ~tech internet security.cyber Article 13 662 words 33 votes
Two suspects charged with murder in Ahmaud Arbery killing ~news crime usa.ga.brunswick Article 76 words 12 votes
US Appeals court rules against Donald Trump on Emoluments Clause ~news law usa politics.usa Article 9 votes
A hacker is trying to break Ohio’s tool for reporting workers who quit during the pandemic ~tech Article 339 words, published May 8 2020 23 votes