Data isn't just being collected from your phone. It's being used to score you ~tech privacy Article 873 words 22 votes
There are so many coronavirus myths that even Snopes can’t keep up ~health Article 1729 words 10 votes
The lights go out on Lebanon’s economy as financial collapse accelerates ~finance economics Article 1610 words 13 votes
US Postal Service memos detail ‘difficult’ changes, including slower mail delivery ~news usa politics Article 1442 words 24 votes
If we want any US vaccine to actually work, we have to prepare for it now ~health medicine Article 995 words 12 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
Supreme Court rules against Trump’s attempt to end DACA, a win for undocumented ‘Dreamers’ brought to US as children ~news usa politics Article 64 words 21 votes
Egypt thought it dodged the worst of the pandemic. But now hospitals are being overwhelmed ~health healthcare Article 8 votes
Brazil’s favelas, neglected by the government, organize their own coronavirus fight ~health healthcare Article 1190 words 7 votes
Trump administration to make it easier for hunters to kill bear cubs and wolf pups in Alaska — A ban against luring mothers from their dens with doughnuts and other treats will be lifted ~enviro conservation Article 774 words 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
European Union proposes $825 billion coronavirus rescue plan, giving Brussels power to raise money for first time ~finance Article 1487 words 12 votes
Chinese foreign minister warns US against taking the countries ‘to the brink of a new Cold War’ ~news china usa politics Article 701 words 10 votes
Saudi Arabia, other gulf states reimpose strict measures after coronavirus cases spike during Ramadan ~health Article 970 words 6 votes
Two churches reclose after faith leaders and congregants get coronavirus ~health Article 901 words 10 votes
Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine shows encouraging early results ~health medicine Article 1205 words 5 votes
Canada’s nursing home crisis: Eighty-one percent of coronavirus deaths are in long-term care facilities ~health healthcare Article 1793 words 3 votes
US President Donald Trump says he is taking hydroxychloroquine to protect against coronavirus, dismissing safety concerns ~health medicine Article 332 words 21 votes
New Zealand edges back to normal after quashing coronavirus in forty-nine days ~health Article 1463 words 26 votes
Never Trumpers will host their own ‘Republican convention’ during the RNC ~society politics Article 12 votes
US State Department Inspector General fired after investigating Secretary of State Mike Pompeo; Democrats decry ‘dangerous pattern of retaliation’ ~news usa politics Article 9 votes
Doctors express glimmers of hope as they try out new approaches against coronavirus ~health healthcare Article 1995 words 5 votes
Facebook is helping to set up a new pro-tech advocacy group ~tech social media facebook Article 1180 words 6 votes
Top Republican fundraiser and Donald Trump ally named postmaster general, giving US President new influence over Postal Service ~society politics Article 1312 words 8 votes
Scott Morrison is now very popular in Australia. He hasn’t earned that. ~society politics Article 819 words 10 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
Bill Gates: Here are the innovations we need to reopen the economy ~finance Article 1343 words, published Apr 23 2020 5 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
How the virus-stricken USS Theodore Roosevelt may help coronavirus researchers ~health Article 987 words 6 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
The anti-quarantine protests seem spontaneous. But behind the scenes, a powerful network is helping ~health Article 1840 words 11 votes
Tax change in US coronavirus package overwhelmingly benefits millionaires, congressional body finds ~finance Article 881 words 14 votes
South Dakota’s governor resisted ordering people to stay home. Now it has one of the nation’s largest coronavirus hot spots ~health Article 1813 words 8 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
New US face mask guidance comes after battle between White House and CDC ~health Article 852 words 10 votes
Social Security recipients who don’t usually file tax returns will automatically get $1,200 payments, Treasury says in reversal ~finance economics Article 1109 words 6 votes
Florida governor issues coronavirus stay-at-home order after heavy criticism ~health Article 776 words 14 votes
Social Security recipients who don’t usually file tax returns will automatically get $1,200 payments, Treasury says in reversal ~finance economics Article 1101 words 11 votes
Brazil’s densely packed favelas brace for coronavirus: ‘It will kill a lot of people.’ ~health Article 1405 words 7 votes
Blood banks narrowly averted a supply crisis. But they’re ‘worried about four weeks from now.’ ~health healthcare Article 1141 words 5 votes
Simple DIY masks could help flatten the curve. We should all wear them in public ~health Article 1397 words 13 votes