Category Archives: Daily Digest

• After Delays, Republicans Rolled Out A New Pandemic Relief Bill. Democrats Balked
• A troubling pandemic thought: Are THESE the good old days?
• Ohio’s businesses were all for mask mandates. Then politics got in the way.
• One question still dogs Trump: Why not try harder to solve the coronavirus crisis?
• House Passes Bill To Create Smithsonian American Latino Museum
• Mayors ask Congress to ban deployment of militarized federal agents in cities as Trump mulls sending in more
• Ballot Condom for Safe Voting
• Three things every kid should learn about debt
• How Police Unions Fight Reform
• Offshore wind in Europe won’t need subsidies much longer
• States are warning people about suspicious packages of seeds that appear to be from China

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• FAANG is slashing software engineering jobs during COVID-19
• Three Injured as Rival Armed Militias Converge on Louisville
• An Air Force Special Operations Surveillance Plane Is Lurking Near Portland During Federal Crackdown
• The Small Biz Double-Dip: Temp Companies Got Cheap Government Money, Got Paid by Clients for the Same Workers
• We’re Publishing Thousands of Police Discipline Records That New York Kept Secret for Decades
• ‘I am someone’s daughter too’: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s speech denouncing Republican’s sexist slur, in full
• The Daily: The Mistakes That New York Made
• Scientists in China believe new drug can stop pandemic ‘without vaccine’
• A Texas hospital overwhelmed by the coronavirus may send some patients home to die
• ‘Trump owes us an apology.’ Chinese scientist at the center of COVID-19 origin theories speaks out
• Can Coronavirus Cause Heart Damage?
• FDA says at least 77 hand sanitizer products may be toxic
• Why This Year’s Locust Invasion Is Setting Off Global Panic

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• Federal agents sent to Seattle area; Mayor Durkan seeks assurances they won’t crack down on protesters
• Public Transit Officials Fear Virus Could Send Systems Into ‘Death Spiral’
• Car Insurance Rates to Be Studied for Racial Bias
• The Atlantic: A Vaccine Reality Check
• Sentinel surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater anticipates the occurrence of COVID-19 cases
• Texas county stores bodies in trucks as state sets one-day record for COVID-19 deaths
• The Fat Emperor: Viral Impacts Explained – The PANDA Pandemic Data & Analytics Group
• A Novel Approach to Treating COVID-19 Using Nutritional and Oxidative Therapies
• The Beginning Of The End For Gas Flaring
• China floods and Japan downpour blamed on Indian Ocean hot spot
• Yangtze deluge tests limits of Three Gorges Dam
• As Summer Takes Hold, So Do the Jumping Worms

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• How Helping People Affects Your Brain
• Love Is Medicine for Fear
• Walmart turning 160 of its parking lots into drive-in theaters
• Supreme Court ruling ‘reaffirmed’ sovereignty
• Pawtucket woman, 86, creates stuffed animal zoo on front lawn
• NASA Names Headquarters After ‘Hidden Figure’ Mary W. Jackson
• VLT Telescope Captures First-Ever Image of a Multi-Planet System around a Sun-like Star
• With Covid-19, a Seismic Quiet Like No Other
• To Navigate Risk In a Pandemic, You Need a Color-Coded Chart
• The Influenza Masks of 1918

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• In North Carolina, unpaid electric and water bills are driving families and cities to the financial brink
• Trump threatens to deploy federal agents to Chicago and other U.S. cities led by Democrats
• Morgan Stanley Is First US Bank to Measure How Dirty Its Investments Are
• Novavax executives stand to collect millions even if covid-19 vaccine doesn’t work
• Why America is running out of aluminum cans
• Impact of children’s loneliness today could manifest in depression for years to come
• Why Covid-19 might just be the end of the penny
• Countering COVID-19 impacts on children from low-income households
• Lung, immune function in kids could protect from severe COVID-19
• The Quarterly, 2Q2020: Rural Industries Adapt to Coronavirus Reality
• Arms industry: Gun buys up 95%, ammo 139%, sales to blacks jump 58%
• World population likely to shrink after mid-century, forecasting major shifts in global population and economic power
• Wells Fargo plans $10 billion in cuts, posts first quarterly loss since 2008
• Renewable Energy Is Seizing Market Share During The Pandemic
• First active leak of sea-bed methane discovered in Antarctica

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• As Trump Threatens Secret Police Deployment Nationwide, Democrats Debate Expanding Surveillance Powers And New Money For DHS
• Federal officers use gas, force on hundreds gathered in downtown Portland Tuesday
• “The jobs aren’t there”: Why cutting off enhanced unemployment benefits would leave workers in the lurch
• Extra $600 in jobless benefits ends in days. It could prove “disastrous.”
• Save your money – Don’t go to College
• Buying your local newspaper out from a chain: attractive in theory, tougher in practice
• Coronavirus Infections Far Higher Than Confirmed But Most Americans Still Not Exposed
• Covid-19 may cause PRIAPISM: infected 62-year-old man suffers from four-hour erection
• Perspective: The New Stability
• Op-Ed: As a restaurant server, I’m risking my life to serve you during the pandemic. Please remember that

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• Trump plans to send federal law enforcement personnel to Democratic-led U.S. cities
• ‘Not made of steel’: Navy vet recounts beating by fed officers
• Trump consults Bush torture lawyer on how to skirt law and rule by decree
• Wall Street Is Throwing Billions at Once-Shunned Gold Miners
• Deepfake used to attack activist couple shows new disinformation frontier
• Hospitals Are Suddenly Short of Young Doctors — Because of Trump’s Visa Ban
• Coronavirus Vaccine Tracker
• Civil War vaccination kits, discovered in a drawer, yield genetic clues to how smallpox was defeated
• Nat Gas Prices Crash As U.S. Exports Fall
• World’s Largest Producer Of Small Gasoline Engines Files For Bankruptcy
• The Climate Expert Who Delivered News No One Wanted to Hear

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• The Fed Is Going To Buy Stocks
• More clashes in Mexico over repaying U.S. water debt
• ‘Less Optimistic’ and ‘More Cautious’: Top C.E.O.s Fret as Virus Cases Rise
• We are sleepwalking toward economic catastrophe
• Tomorrow Group-linked shares tumble after China seizes affiliated financial firms
• $279 a Day: Good Luck Finding a Cheap Rental Car in N.Y.C.
• Exclusive: Global banks scrutinize their Hong Kong clients for pro-democracy ties – sources
• How to Reopen the Economy Without Killing Teachers and Parents
• A Group Of Moms Formed A Human Wall To Protect Portland Protesters From Federal Officers
• Inside a former missile silo in kansas turned into a luxurious survival condo
• Trump administration pushing to block new money for testing, tracing and CDC in upcoming coronavirus relief bill
• Asthma Medicine Hailed as Effective Treatment for COVID-19
• EU leaders struggle with ‘mission impossible’ at deadlocked recovery summit
• Tverberg: Why A Great Reset Based On Green Energy Isn’t Possible
• On the correlation between solar activity and large earthquakes worldwide
• ‘Once-in-500-years’ storm hits Northland, cutting off Far North from the rest of the country, New Zealand

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• ‘The balloon might pop’: Fed’s corporate intervention spurs anxiety
• Former Fed Chairs Bernanke and Yellen testified on COVID-19 and response to economic crisis
• Federal Law Enforcement Use Unmarked Vehicles To Grab Protesters Off Portland Streets
• The Border Patrol Was Responsible for an Arrest in Portland
• Georgia Governor Brian Kemp Prohibits Cities From Mandating Masks
• U.S. shatters coronavirus record with over 77,000 cases in a day
• The Delusion Of A Seamless Reopening Is About To Be Obliterated
• MAJOR: Iran Claims General Soleimani Was in Possession of Video, Audio Files of Pentagon-ISIS Talks
• Congress Passes Bill To Build New 35-Mile Overpass Capable Of Housing Millions Of Evicted Americans
• Why Sweden Succeeded In “Flattening The Curve” And New York Failed
• A Proposed Origin for SARS-CoV-2 and the COVID-19 Pandemic
• China buys more U.S. soybeans

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• How Pandemics Wreak Havoc—and Open Minds
• Coronavirus: Another chance to transform the global food trade
• Amid the Coronavirus Crisis, a Regimen for Reëntry
• Study finds fenofibrate may downgrade Covid-19 to common cold level
• Video of 94-year-old great-grandpa flying down a waterslide goes viral
• Governor Newsom Announces $600 Million in Homekey Funds Now Immediately Available for Local Governments to Purchase Housing for Homeless Californians
• A Kentucky tattoo shop is offering to cover up hate and gang symbols for free
• Gigantic Atlantic Coast Gas Pipeline Done In By Humble Household Heat Pump
• VIDEO: 64K endangered turtles spotted on the edge of Great Barrier Reef
• Incredible condor soared for 100 miles without flapping its wings

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