Flash floods have claimed 30 lives in Saudi Arabia over the last month

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• Two men killed by lightning strike while cutting tree limbs in Wilmington, North Carolina
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• Ghislaine Maxwell has 'a lot of information' on Epstein's powerful connections - producer

• Gaffe-smothered Biden laughs off the idea he should take a cognitive test, backs out of attending Democratic convention on Covid-19 fears
• Gang rape investigation launched against employees of ex-oligarch Khodorkovsky's media group
• Belarusian authorities cancel opposition campaigning ahead of election
• Don't do your own research! - Just take our word for it...
• US hypocritically condemns foreign military involvement in Libya
• Brace yourselves: Biden campaign announces largest multi-media ad buy ever by a presidential candidate
• Ouch. Russian ambassador tells Britain: You exaggerate your political importance & London has become a haven for Russian criminals
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• 'We want to delete more!' Facebook must choose freedom of speech over censorship, if it still pretends to be 'a platform'
• Joe Biden is a Trojan Horse: Inside is the Democrats' new right wing coalition

• LA mayor vows to cut water & power to homes that host 'large parties'
• 5 ways "the New Normal" is getting worse and worse
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• Massive fire breaks out at market in Emirate of Ajman, UAE
• Ghislaine Maxwell has 'a lot of information' on Epstein's powerful connections - producer
• UK gov wants to track & trace children if schools open in case of a 'second wave'
• Melbourne cops may now enter homes without warrant, after 11 people die with coronavirus - Australia, this is madness, not democracy
• It's more than a few bad apples: Why conservatives should back police reform
• Trump ruined our Venezuela coup and botched 'winning play,' gripes Dem Senator Murphy and gets torched online
• Priceless! Seattle protesters 'were forced to buy expensive protective gear' in protest tax lawsuit against city
• Portland's xenophobic tribute? Anti-Trump activists face backlash for 'statue' linking Putin to alleged police brutality
• Best of the Web: Michael Tracey: 'Media won't report on riot damage in US cities - Immigrant & minority residents furious at rioters and left-wing activists'
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• Slow-moving train wreck of post-Covid economy: Is this all happening by design?
• Prominent German satirist slams 'McCarthy-like' climate science, 'Dark Ages suppression-by-denunciation'
• The genius of the 'I ♥ JK Rowling' stunt
• 'Don't speak for me': Yale doctor battles CNN anchor over effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine
• Oprah hosts white guilt session: 'Whiteness gives you an advantage no matter what'

• Lost Viking waterway found in Orkney revealing Norse impact on local economy
• Atomic bombings at 75: John Pilger says another Hiroshima is coming - unless we stop it now
• America's 'Days of Rage': A look into the extensive left-wing bombings & domestic terrorism of the 1970s
• Figurines found at ancient dig site may depict face of God, says Israeli archeologist
• The Solar Minimum superstorm of 1903
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• Mexico cave with evidence of early humans closed to visitors to prevent DNA contamination
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• Underground Salt Cathedral of Poland: The magical underground city carved entirely out of Salt Rock
• SOTT Focus: MindMatters: Interview with Gary Lachman: The Return of Holy Russia
• Exact match for Stonehenge's 20 tonne sarsen stones found 15 miles away
• Iran's future will be prosperous: A 150-year fight for sovereignty from oil to nuclear energy
• Embossed stone blocks from King Ramses II reign discovered in Egypt
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• Mediterranean Sea was warmer during the Roman Empire, warmest period of the last 2,000 years
• Earliest confirmed case of smallpox found in bones from Denmark to Russia during Viking era
• Genetic data piece together origins of African Americans
• A canal in Nicaragua: Russia's powerful blow to the US
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• Analysis of the Zodiacal dating of the Golan Dolmens

• North Atlantic climate 'far more predictable' following major scientific breakthrough
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• Flashback: There may be more than 36 intelligent alien civilizations in the Milky Way, scientists say
• New insight for future NASA missions: Surprising number of exoplanets could host life
• Move over, Elon Musk! Chief designer of Russia's new 'Oryol' spacecraft says it'll be capable of crewed flights to Moon & Mars
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• How human sperm really swim: New research challenges centuries-old assumption
• Pluto's dark side spills its secrets - including hints of a hidden ocean
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• Forensic astronomy offers fresh look at Vermeer's 'View of Delft'
• Adapt 2030: Collapse the economy rebuild the world with a new power system
• Role of volcanoes in Younger Dryas global cooling revealed in Texas cave sediment
• Kelp found off Scotland dates back 16,000 years to last ice age
• Five new biology papers show cracks in Darwin's foundation
• Stunning 'space butterfly' captured by telescope
• 'Fool's gold' may help bring in the sun's energy in new generation solar cells
• Airbus to build 'first interplanetary cargo ship', to discover whether life ever existed on Mars

• 17.5 million affected, 630 killed by floods in South Asia
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• Two men killed by lightning strike while cutting tree limbs in Wilmington, North Carolina
• Three cranes collapse at India's biggest container port near Mumbai
• Heavy rainfall batters Mumbai, India - nearly 8 inches in 4 hours, flooding stops trains
• Dead humpback whale washes up on Aptos beach, California
• 5.5 million affected, 145 killed as flood in Bangladesh lingers
• 6.4-magnitude earthquake hits off Vanuatu - USGS
• 89 killed by lightning during first 6 months of 2020 in Madhya Pradesh, India - more than for entire year prior
• 'A historic event' - Aussie city blanketed in snow for the first time in 40 years
• Sudden oak death has reached epidemic proportions on U.S. West Coast
• More floods leave at least 20 dead in Yemen
• Hurricane Isiais hits South and North Carolina
• Typhoon Hagupit hits east China bringing floods with waves 4.2 metres high
• Heavy summer snowfall in the Alps - 16 inches deep
• At least 6 killed in lightning strikes in Odisha, India
• Summer flooding in Jazan, Saudi Arabia
• Tropical Storm Sinlaku brings flooding rains to Vietnam, Laos and Thailand - up to 14 inches in 24 hours
• Lightning bolt hits high-voltage power lines causing massive fireball in Shenyang, China

• Meteor fireball bursts over UK 'I have never seen anything so bright'
• Bright meteor fireball blazes over southern Spain
• Meteor fireball lights up night sky over Colorado and New Mexico
• Home surveillance camera captures bright meteor fireball over southwestern Illinois
• Meteor fireball flashes over southern Spain
• Bright meteor fireball captured on video over Scottish Highlands
• Mysterious lights spotted over Calgary during thunderstorm likely a meteor
• Meteor fireball streaks over Irkutsk, Russia
• Comet Neowise, meteor, and mysterious aurora-like phenomenon called STEVE all share night sky in Manitoba, Canada
• Meteor fireball streaks across the sky breaking up over West Texas - UPDATE: Rocket re-entry
• Meteor fireball blazes over California
• Bright meteor fireball flashes over Michigan
• Comet NEOWISE and meteor fireball seen in Trinidad skies
• Largest meteorite discovered after sitting for decades in garden in Germany
• Exceptionally bright meteor fireball in the skies of southwest and central Florida
• Sydney skywatchers report stunning green meteor streaking across night sky
• Meteor fireball over Seville, Spain
• Source of early-morning boom that echoed in Aspen, Colorado remains mystery
• Bright meteor fireball lights up skies above Tokyo as witnesses report explosion
• A trifecta of astronomical shows coming in July

• CDC warns parents to be on lookout for acute flaccid myelitis in children
• Statins may not slash the risk of dying from heart disease: Controversial study claims the cheap cholesterol-busting pills offer no 'consistent benefit'
• Painkillers such as aspirin 'do more harm than good' for chronic primary pain
• SOTT Focus: Objective:Health - The Strange Push to Suppress Hydroxychloroquine
• Best of the Web: WHO admits: No direct evidence masks prevent viral infection
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• SOTT Focus: Dr Mercola Interviews Denis Rancourt: 'There is no Scientific Evidence That Facemasks Inhibit Viral Spread'
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• SOTT Focus: Objective:Health - Operation 'Warped' Speed - These People Are Crazy!

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• SOTT Focus: MindMatters: Interview with James Carpenter: First Sight, Psi, and Consciousness
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• Turns out brain scans aren't as useful as scientists thought

• Investigations task force possible after more cattle mutilations in eastern Oregon
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It is possible to trace the lineage of an explosive and/or catalyst after a blast. Fire departments do it often. For example, they found out that...

I feel like 2020 is one long Onion/Bee article. :O

Joyly and C83: Valid points each. They're just stoking fears/scaring the scareable and controlling the controllable by playing with stats. R.C.

A very moving piece by John Pilger. He is right, China is the new “enemy”. Every conflict in history has been about power (manifested as...

Lukashenko believes that "It's good to be king!" I had hope for Belarus when Lukashenko was getting along with Putin. I wonder what happened?