September 2020 Archives
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Wednesday headlines: Just putrid
Biden and Trump’s first debate was a fiasco, where Trump was “nothing short of a horror show,” standing by white supremacists and actively sowing doubt about...
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Tuesday Headlines: One million.
More than one million people worldwide have now died from COVID-19, and many regions are still reporting surges of new infections. / BBC Of the one million deaths, one...
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Monday headlines: Tax interference.
Twenty-one states report increased COVID-19 cases as experts warn of a fall surge. / CNN An interactive model lets your neighborhood become the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in the United...
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Saturday headlines: Learned helpfulness!
The White House is expected to nominate Amy Coney Barrett to fill fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. / The Washington Post Operation...
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Friday Headlines: Peace out.
Senate Republicans, including McConnell, dismiss Trump's refusal to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses. The Senate also passed a resolution reaffirming its support for such...
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Thursday headlines: Making sense stop
A large genetic study shows the coronavirus mutating and potentially evolving amid its rapid spread in the United States. / The Washington Post Johnson & Johnson says it has made advancements...
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Tuesday headlines: The race to redesign sugar
France and Spain, currently Europe’s hardest-hit countries, are tracking a rise of coronavirus cases even worse than their springtime peaks. / Vox Over the weekend, multiple states including Wisconsin,...
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Monday Headlines: Two hundred thousand.
The CDC has now reverted its guidance on COVID-19, removing language added on Friday stating the virus can spread through the air. / CNN What we've learned over...
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Saturday Headlines: RBG.
Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died at 87. / The Washington Post Ginsburg in 2004: "My heritage as a Jew and my occupation as a judge fit together symmetrically....
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Friday headlines: This is the cabin you’re looking for
A new allegation accuses the President of the United States of sexual assault, increasing the tally to at least two dozen. / The Guardian Related: Trump's former lawyer says Trump...
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Thursday Headlines: Blessed be the fruit.
The US National Hurricane Center says the flooding caused by Hurricane Sally on the Alabama-Florida coastline is "historic and catastrophic." / The Guardian Following the CDC director's Senate...
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Wednesday headlines: Cowabunga?
The last 10 years have broken fire records in California, and 2020 tops them all. / The Los Angeles Times Photos from the last month of wildfires in Brazil, Greece, and Argentina, during...
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Tuesday Headlines: I’m your Venus. I’m your fire.
Phosphine, a gas produced by bacteria, has been detected in the atmosphere of Venus. On Earth, phosphine hints at the presence of life. / CNN The air quality in...
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Monday headlines: We’re on Thiem Osaka
Firefighters across the American West brace for strong winds may fan uncontrolled blazes. / The New York Times A big chunk of ice has broken away from the Arctic's largest...
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Saturday headlines: MFI
Links between wildfires and the climate crisis are straightforward, and effects to come likely will be larger than any we've seen. / The New York Times Oregon prepares for a ...
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Friday Headlines: The normality trap.
A federal court has blocked Trump's attempt to exclude undocumented immigrants from being counted in the census for apportionment, calling the move "unlawful." / The Washington Post Senate...
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Thursday headlines: Rage, explained
In February, Trump told Bob Woodward he knew exactly how deadly the virus was, and in March, admitted he kept that knowledge from the public. / Vox Related: A list of...
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Wednesday Headlines: Whatever the right thing is.
The Justice Dept. has moved to take over the defense of E. Jean Carroll's defamation lawsuit from Trump’s lawyers, arguing the president’s remarks were made...
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Tuesday headlines: Preaching to the fire
California sets a grim record with more than two million acres burned, with several weeks remaining in the middle of fire season. / USA Today One backpacking party’s...
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Friday headlines: Loser error
Russian “malign influence actors” have targeted the absentee voting process by spreading disinformation since at least March. / ABC News The former assistant secretary for counterterrorism and threat prevention...
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The Rooster
Announcing the Super Rooster
Coming this October to a lockdown near you, all the winners from the Tournament of Books compete for a prize 16 years in the making: the Super Rooster, presented by Bookshop.
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Wednesday headlines: Poppycock!
Spain enters a second wave of the coronavirus—spreading at eight times the rate in Italy, 10 times the pace in Germany. / The New York Times The Trump administration says...
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Tuesday Headlines: And oh how they danced.
Around 145,000 fewer Americans would have died if the US had done an average job of fighting COVID-19. / The New York Times See also: Sorting the COVID-19 death data...