Anticipating winter, Russia attacks Ukraine's power grid with missiles, drones, and cyber attacks. / The Economist NATO says its members are running out of ammunition to supply Ukraine. / CNN Slovakia's recent election shows how vulnerable other democracies are to Moscow's "weapons of mass manipulation.
Climate change and the rapid evolution of mosquitoes are driving up malaria deaths. / The New York Times [+] Related: A cheap malaria vaccine that can be produced on a massive scale has been recommended for use by the World Health Organization. / BBC News Three physicists win the Nobel Prize for exploring
The Panama Canal Authority says that due to ongoing drought conditions, it will again reduce the daily number of ships that can travel the waterway. / AP "The past month in Tefé has seemed like a science-fiction climate-change scenario." More than 100 Amazonian river dolphins have died
A suspect who police say was the "shot caller" in Tupac Shakur's murder has been arrested, 27 years after the shooting. / AP Photos and videos of the sudden, intense flooding yesterday in New York City. / Digg "All drainage systems have their limitations and New York
Google, Meta, and H&R Block "jointly schemed" to scrape and transmit taxpayers' data, alleges a new class-action lawsuit. / Gizmodo Cochran County, Texas, which borders New Mexico, has passed an ordinance prohibiting travel on its roads for the purpose of seeking an abortion. / Lubbock Avalanche-
The price of crude oil surges to $97.56 a barrel, its highest price in more than a year. / CNBC Foreign direct investment in China was just $4.9 billion in the second quarter of 2023, down by 94% from the same period in 2021. / The Economist Switzerland's
In just a decade, China has amassed the world's largest coast guard fleet, and its patrol vessels often resemble warships. / The New York Times [+] With elections looming, "China wants Taiwanese voters to think America is their greatest threat." / The Economist With elections scheduled in Poland and
As the Northern Hemisphere emerges from the hottest summer on record, South America exits winter with temperatures pushing 110 degrees in parts of Brazil. / Grist Since the beginning of summer, Ukraine has "massively" stepped up strikes on the Crimean peninsula. / The Economist For United States foreign policy, the
NASA has brought back its first asteroid samples—the 4.5 billion-year-old specimens are the largest sample return since the Apollo moon landings. / AP Biden's push to remove medical debt from credit scores is a good start, advocates say, but should extend to banning medical credit
The US and Vietnam may be approaching the largest-ever arms transfer ever between the countries—edging out Russia, which has been Vietnam's main supplier since 2016. / Reuters For only the second time in history, surgeons have transplanted a heart from a genetically engineered pig into a human.
