Affidavit: FBI feared Pennsylvania would seize fabled gold ~humanities.history Article 1065 words 6 votes
Jeff Bezos plans to go to space aboard Blue Origins first crewed flight in July ~space spaceflight.commercial spaceflight.crewed Article 21 votes
Ex-owners of polluting Italian steel plant convicted ~enviro pollution Article published May 31 2021 7 votes
Study seeks origins of ghost nets that haunt Hawaii’s shores ~enviro pollution.water Article published May 27 2021 5 votes
Court orders Royal Dutch Shell to cut net emissions by 45% by 2030 ~enviro climate change Article 664 words 8 votes
Joe Biden: “Great day for America;” Vaccinated can largely ditch masks ~health Article 504 words 23 votes
Ransomware gang threatens release of DC police records ~tech privacy security.cyber Article 447 words 10 votes
China’s ruling Communist Party has opened a new front in its long, ambitious war to shape global public opinion: Western social media ~tech social media facebook Article 3237 words 13 votes
Facebook to lift Australia news ban after government agrees to amendments to proposed legislation requiring them to pay publishers ~tech facebook social media Article 6 votes
US hospitals still ration medical N95 masks as stockpiles swell ~health healthcare Article 1967 words 4 votes
An ephemeral artwork made with thousands of footsteps in the snow has captured attention near Finland's capital of Helsinki ~arts art.public art.ephemeral Article 256 words 19 votes
Italy takes action against TikTok following girl’s death ~tech social media Article 246 words 5 votes
Norway hires Ståle Solbakken to replace Lars Lagerbäck as coach of the national football team – Lagerbäck leaves after failing to qualify for next year's European Championship ~sports.football Article 182 words 4 votes
New York 22nd district race up in air as county finds fifty-five uncounted ballots ~news usa.ny politics.usa Article 492 words 12 votes
GM will recall about seven million US pickup trucks and SUVs from the 2007-2014 model years to replace potentially dangerous Takata air bag inflators ~transport Article 962 words 12 votes
Estonia's far-right minister resigns over Biden remarks ~news estonia usa politics.usa Article 527 words 12 votes
Finland's interior minister summoned an emergency meeting after patient records at a private Finnish psychotherapy center were accessed by hackers ~tech privacy security Article 547 words 5 votes
Finnish carrier Finnair will start selling business class airplane food in supermarkets in a move to keep its catering staff employed ~transport Article 371 words 8 votes
Danish veterinarians and farmers have begun culling at least 2.5 million minks in northern Denmark after coronavirus has been reported in at least sixty-three farms ~health Article 426 words 6 votes
Finland has deployed coronavirus-sniffing dogs at the Nordic country's main international airport – a four-month trial of an alternative testing method ~transport Article 460 words 9 votes
UN weather agency calls a new record low temperature in the Northern Hemisphere – -69.6°C (-93°F) was recorded almost three decades ago in Klinck, Greenland ~science Article 308 words 5 votes
Denmark's left-leaning parties have agreed to change the country's sexual violence laws to allow sex without explicit consent to be prosecuted as rape ~news denmark politics crime law Article 162 words 21 votes
US gives first-ever OK for small commercial nuclear reactor ~enviro Article 659 words, published Sep 2 2020 19 votes
Denmark suspends Lars Findsen, head of the country's foreign intelligence service – Danish Defense Intelligence Service had initiated operations that were contrary to Danish law ~news denmark politics law Article 267 words 9 votes
US Justice Department says Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants ~life education.higher Article 760 words 10 votes
AMC Theatres to offer fifteen-cent tickets for older films on first day of reopening ~movies Article 298 words 8 votes
US President Donald Trump issues executive orders taking effect in forty-five days that ban "transactions" with Chinese owners of TikTok (ByteDance) and WeChat (Tencent) ~tech social media Article 303 words 19 votes
Outbreak hits Norway cruise ship MS Roald Amundsen – traveling from port to port along Norway's western coast, the virus may not have been contained onboard ~health Article 440 words 11 votes
The Church of Sweden has more female than male priests for the first time – a sign of huge strides for gender equality since women were first allowed to be ordained in 1960 ~humanities religion Article 525 words 8 votes
The Chinese government is engaging in a widespread, systematic campaign of forced birth control and sterilization on Uighurs and other minorities ~news china.xinjiang Article 3251 words 48 votes
Police in Greenland have detained a man in connection with the vandalism of a statue of a Danish colonizer that was doused with red paint ~news denmark.greenland crime Article 171 words 2 votes
Greta Thunberg has hope for climate, despite leaders' inaction ~enviro climate change Article 676 words 7 votes
Four major US publishers sue Internet Archive for copyright infringement, alleging that it has illegally offered more than a million scanned works to the public ~books libraries Article 665 words 30 votes
Sweden football coach Janne Andersson has signed a contract extension through to UEFA Euro 2024 ~sports.football Article 140 words 6 votes
Boston Marathon canceled for the first time in its 124-year history ~sports Article 722 words 8 votes