Hercule Poirot turns 100: The strange case of the Belgian detective ~books Article 890 words 11 votes
College newspaper reporters are the journalism heroes for the pandemic era ~news journalism usa Article 1137 words 5 votes
Dwindling ranks and declining public trust plague police agencies amid summer of protests ~life work Article 1805 words 8 votes
The pandemic has put the future on fast-forward, with one notable exception: The drive-in cinema ~movies Article 608 words, published Sep 7 2020 12 votes
Woodward book: Trump says he knew coronavirus was ‘deadly’ and worse than the flu while intentionally misleading Americans ~health Article 2333 words 30 votes
Goodbye to the ‘Pret economy’ and good luck to whatever replaces it ~finance Article 791 words 11 votes
National Hurricane Center nailed track forecast for Laura within a mile and three days in advance ~enviro Article 858 words 9 votes
Home ownership is the West’s biggest economic-policy mistake. It is an obsession that undermines growth, fairness and public faith in capitalism leaders ~finance economics Article 1071 words, published Jan 16 2020 23 votes
The recession is over for the rich, but the working class is far from recovered ~finance economics Article 2019 words 7 votes
Millennials slammed by second financial crisis fall even further behind ~finance economics Article 63 words 15 votes
The extraordinary story of Thomas Quick, the Swedish serial killer who never existed ~life Article 398 words, published Jul 27 2020 4 votes
There are so many coronavirus myths that even Snopes can’t keep up ~health Article 1729 words 10 votes
Spreading rock dust on the ground could pull carbon from the air, researchers say ~enviro climate change Article 940 words 14 votes
Hottest Arctic temperature record probably set with 100°F/37°C reading in Siberia ~enviro climate change Article 835 words 9 votes
Twitter labels Donald Trump video tweet as "manipulated media" as it cracks down on misinformation ~tech social media Article 278 words 13 votes
Telecommuting requires new interpersonal skills, especially if you’re trying to stay on the boss’s radar. So what’s the best approach? ~life work.remote Article 796 words 7 votes
Egypt thought it dodged the worst of the pandemic. But now hospitals are being overwhelmed ~health healthcare Article 8 votes
Nearly half of commercial retail rents were not paid in April and May ~finance business Article 1787 words 9 votes
Scores of testing sites forced to close because of vandalism in civil unrest ~health healthcare Article 1225 words 7 votes
Protests over death of George Floyd disrupt Minneapolis, and beyond ~news usa.mn.minneapolis Article 550 words 77 votes
Chinese foreign minister warns US against taking the countries ‘to the brink of a new Cold War’ ~news china usa politics.usa Article 701 words 10 votes
Two churches reclose after faith leaders and congregants get coronavirus ~health Article 901 words 10 votes
US President Donald Trump says he is taking hydroxychloroquine to protect against coronavirus, dismissing safety concerns ~health medicine Article 332 words 21 votes
The need for software testing: Neil Ferguson's unstable epidemiologic model ~tech Article 319 words 10 votes
New Zealand edges back to normal after quashing coronavirus in forty-nine days ~health Article 1463 words 26 votes
Doctors express glimmers of hope as they try out new approaches against coronavirus ~health healthcare Article 1995 words 5 votes
Russia’s Covid death toll could be seventy per cent higher than official figure ~health Article 692 words 11 votes
US President Trump flouts coronavirus protocols as security experts warn of need to protect the President from a lethal threat ~health Article 12 votes
Rays of hope—Arab states are embracing solar power ~enviro energy.renewable Article 624 words 8 votes
Number of nursing homes in the US with publicly reported cases of the coronavirus soars ~health healthcare Article 1581 words 7 votes
The US wants Mexico to keep its defense and health-care factories open. Mexican workers are getting sick and dying ~finance Article 1934 words 9 votes
There has not been a single instance of a child under ten transmitting the coronavirus, even in contact tracing carried out by World Health Organization ~health Article 248 words 10 votes
US deaths soared in early weeks of pandemic, far exceeding number attributed to COVID-19 ~health Article 2816 words 7 votes
Warnings of worsening hunger, malaria emerge as coronavirus cases spike 40% in Africa ~health Article 10 votes
Severe limits on coronavirus testing in Brazil are hiding the true scale of the outbreak, with researchers suggesting actual case numbers are 8-16 times higher than reported ~health healthcare Article 1404 words 10 votes
Coronavirus outbreaks at Mexico’s hospitals raise alarm, protests ~health healthcare Article 1365 words 5 votes
Aggressive testing, contact tracing, cooked meals: How the Indian state of Kerala flattened its coronavirus curve ~health Article 1213 words 5 votes
Thousands of Zoom cloud recordings have been exposed on the web because of the way Zoom names its recordings in unprotected AWS buckets ~tech security privacy amazon.web services Article 1179 words 24 votes
Despite having the highest death toll so far, Italy's coronavirus deaths are far higher than reported, with thousands dying but never being tested ~health Article 101 words 8 votes