Day: August 24, 2023
‘Catastrophic loss’: Huge colonies of emperor penguins saw no chicks survive last year as sea ice disappears.
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Sarah Palin burns Covid masks in bizarre video as conservatives sound alarm over new mask mandates
Institutions in California, Georgia, and New York have reinstated mask mandates
US intelligence assessment shows intentionally caused explosion crashed Wagner chief’s plane
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Russia Extends US Reporter Evan Gershkovich’s Detention By 3 Months
Russia on Thursday extended by three months the detention of Wall Street Journal correspondent Evan Gershkovich, defying pleas for the release of the reporter arrested on the job in March.
Trump supporters gather outside Georgia jail before his expected surrender
The driveway off the main street in front of the jail has been closed for days in anticipation of the former US president’s arrival.
Nigeria’s unemployment rate falls to 4.1%, using new methodology. Analysts say it’s an undercount
Nigeria’s statistics agency says the unemployment rate now stands at 4.1%.
Takeaways of AP report on sexual misconduct at the CIA
A CIA officer trainee has been convicted in Virginia of attacking a female colleague with a scarf and kissing her inside a stairwell at the agency’s headquarters in Langley.
Dominican’s recovery, penguin peril and GOP denial: What to know about extreme weather now
The Dominican Republic is getting back on its feet after Tropical Storm Franklin struck the island nation, causing heavy flooding that killed at least two people and knocked out power and water to hundreds of thousands.