August 20th, 2022

• ​Israel's November 1 elections face cyberthreats and foreign intervention
• Berlin police investigate Abbas for incitement to hatred over '50 holocausts' remark
• Palestinian official defends Abbas from outcry over '50 holocausts' remark
• Dr. Kedar: Abbas getting old and has less control over his tongue. Says what he thinks
• Palestinians say man killed by IDF gunfire during West Bank raid
• Israel temporarily freezes arrest of hunger-striking Palestinian as health falters
• India's growing ties with Israel can make it a great mediator
• UAE-Israel Trade Reaches $1.4 Billion This Year So Far, Surpassing All of 2021
• New technologies exist to destabilize Iran, says Benjamin Netanyahu
• Hezbollah leader says Iran deal won't stop attacks on Israel - analysis
• Ex-IDF intel chief backs nuke deal as vital to delay Iranian program, prepare strike
• Iran drops 'red line' demand for US to delist IRGC as nuclear talks climax
• Expert: Iran works on mobilizing 'extreme left' in Latin America to expand influence network
• Hezbollah Chief Vows 'Escalation' If Lebanon Does Not Get Maritime Rights
• Islamic State 'Beatle' sentenced to life by US for beheading hostages
• Gunmen storm upscale hotel in Somalia's capital
• Egypt's central bank governor resigns as economic struggles mount
• Kim Jong Un's sister tells South Korean president to 'shut his mouth' about nuclear disarmament deal
• Why a Chinese ship's arrival in Sri Lanka has caused alarm in India and the West
• China engaging in the 'largest military buildup in history': U.S. Indo-Pacific commander
• Ukrainians Criticize Zelenskyy Over Withholding Invasion Warnings
• US to provide Ukraine fresh military aid to help reconquer territory lost to Russia
• Europe's powers gave Ukraine no new military pledges in July, data shows - Europe's military support for Ukraine has been decreasing since April
• Accusations fly between Ukraine and Russia over Europe's largest nuclear power plant. And the world frets.
• Putin and Macron hold call, discuss Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, food exports
• Putin, Macron press for UN watchdog probe of imperiled Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant
• Putin will allow inspectors to visit Russian-occupied nuclear plant - Macron
• Putin warns Macron of 'catastrophe' at Ukraine nuclear plant
• Zelenskyy warns world is on 'verge of nuclear disaster'; More explosions reported at Russian military sites
• Fire at munitions depot near Ukraine border sparks Russian evacuations
• Explosions at a Russian base knocked out over half the Black Sea fleet's combat jets, crippling its warfighting ability, Western officials and intelligence say
• US State Department warns congress about Russia terrorism bill - report
• Russia has no moral right to sit at G20, says Britain
• Putin Losing Information War in Ukraine, Says UK Spy Chief
• Russia's state watchdog restricts TikTok, Zoom and other IT companies
• Erdogan fiddles in Moscow as Istanbul burns - and the global economy could feel the heat
• Russia's Gazprom to shut pipeline to Europe for 3 days for 'routine maintenance'
• U.S. Petroleum Reserves Hit Lowest Level In Decades Ahead Of Winter Months
• Trump-Appointed Judge Blocks Joe Biden's Moratorium on Federal Oil and Gas Leasing
• White House pushes falling gas prices as a '$100-a-month raise'
• Conservatives Slam CNN for Framing Gas Price Drop as 'Pay Raise'
• Is Joe Biden Facilitating America's Demise?
• Sen. Rick Scott Urges Homeland Security Committee to Probe Hunter Biden
• Peter Schweizer: Americans Have Gone to Jail for Doing Far Less Than What Hunter Biden Has Done
• Think The FBI Deserves The Benefit Of The Doubt? This Laundry List Of Corruption Should Make You Think Again
• FBI Agent Pleads Guilty to Destroying Evidence to Frame Pro-Trump Political Prisoner
• Commentary: Trump Raid Judge's Order Helps DOJ Drag Out Political Persecution Of Its Biggest Foe
• GOP Rep. Blasts DOJ for 'Selective Leaks' of Trump Raid Documents, While Seeking to Keep Entire Search Warrant Affidavit Secret
• Paul Sperry: If FBI Omitted Documents or References to Previous Mar-a-Lago Visits from Affidavit - FBI Committed Fraud on the Court
• FBI raid of Trump's home stems from a wary federal record keeper who alerted Justice Department
• Ex-official who investigated Hillary Clinton's emails said there would be evidence if Trump declassified documents: 'It can't just be an idea in his head'
• House Democrats urge Twitter, TikTok, Meta and others to address spike in threats against law enforcement after FBI search of Trump home Mar-a-Lago
• GOP Candidate Claims Calls for Attorney General Merrick Garland to Be 'Executed' Were 'Facetious'
• Joe Biden Announces 'Unity Summit' After FBI Raid on Donald Trump's Home
• Trump Says He Will Be Filing a "Major Motion" Soon in Response to FBI Raid on Mar-a-Lago
• Newly unsealed documents from the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago put Trump in even worse legal peril, experts say
• Panel rules US Justice Department wrongfully withheld Russia probe memo declaring Donald Trump innocent of obstruction of justice during investigation of election meddling
• Pompeo: January 6 Committee 'Chasing Witches'
• With Cheney's Defeat, 80 Percent of House Republicans Who Impeached Trump Will Not Be Returning to Congress
• One Honest DC Attorney - Incredible Opening Statement Made by Progressive Democrat Public Defender at J-6 Trial: "They Had Every Right to Come Together - And Object the Certification of the Election"
• Judge rejects Lindsey Graham's last-ditch bid to avoid testifying in Georgia election probe
• Supreme Court tentatively blocks Georgia election method found to be racially discriminatory
• Court Opens Door to Voiding North Carolina Voter ID Amendment
• Montana Election Officials Conspired To Kill Legislation Banning Zuckbucks, New Report Shows
• Facebook Tightens Moderation Policies to 'Safeguard' 2022 Midterms
• YouTube Suspends Steven Crowder Again Over Interview With Trump-Endorsed AZ Gubernatorial Candidate Kari Lake
• States Are Bracing for Social Media-Enabled Election Violence
• Vance, DeSantis rally puts "highly unusual" restrictions on press
• WEF Announce Recruitment of 'Information Warriors' To Control the Narrative on Social Media
• More Money for I.R.S. Spurs Conspiracy Theories of 'Shadow Army'
• More Videos Show IRS Run Recruitment Program for High School and College Students Called the "Adrian Project" Started During Bush Administration
• Google Search Is Quietly Damaging Democracy. A series of incremental changes over the years has transformed the tool from an explorative search function to one that is ripe for deception.
• Apple warns security flaw gives hackers full access to iPhones, Macs
• CNN Boss Chris Licht Warns Anxious Staffers Over "More Changes" After Axing Of 'Reliable Sources' And Exit Of Brian Stelter
• 5.2 magnitude earthquake hits the South Sandwich Islands region
• 5.2 magnitude earthquake hits the southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge
• Sabancaya volcano in Peru erupts to 24,000ft
• Ruiz volcano in Colombia erupts to 22,000ft
• Sangay volcano in Ecuador erupts to 20,000ft
• Reventador volcano in Ecuador erupts to 16,000ft
• Fuego volcano in Guatemala erupts to 15,000ft
• Sheveluch volcano on Kamchatka, Russia erupts to 15,000ft
• Tropical disturbance in Gulf has 70% chance of formation as it head towards Mexico
• Tropical Storm Warning issued for Mexican, Texas coasts ahead of arrival of a potential tropical cyclone
• 'Significant' flash flood potential looms for Southwest
• Monsoon helps trigger a haboob over Desert Southwest; flooding concerns stretch into weekend
• Golf ball-sized hail and heavy rain batters Des Moines metro, causing damage, road closures
• At least 16 dead following catastrophic flooding in western China
• Sudan: Seasonal Floods Kill 77 People, Destroy 14,500 Homes
• 50 Killed and Many Displaced in Northern Nigeria Flooding
• Torrential rains lash New Zealand for 3rd day, hundreds evacuate homes
• Three children among 13 killed after storms sweep across Europe - Storm leaves area of Austria looking like 'battlefield'
• Global Food Crisis: 50 Per Cent Crop Loss Likely Due to Drought, German Farmers Say
• Low water levels reveal sunken WW2 German warships on Danube
• Five-Thousand-Year-Old 'Spanish Stonehenge' Emerges amid Drought
• Biden Administration Allocates $310 Million in Funding for Water Reuse Projects as Drought Grips Much of US
• Lakes are drying up everywhere. Israel will pump water from the Med as a solution
• China issues first nationwide drought alert in 9 years
• The Yangtze River is shrinking as drought disrupts the world's No. 2 economy
• China's farmers struggle to save crops as heatwave, drought drag on
• Texas University Ends Climate Cooperation With China, Citing Security Risks
• Energy secretary says billions in upgrades to power grid needed for widespread EV adoption - The Biden administration and Democratic leaders in Congress have made federal support for electric vehicles a centerpiece of the $740 billion Inflation Reduction Act
• 'The secret push': Bloomberg says Bill Gates got on the phone to save President Biden's $370B climate bill. Here are the multibillionaire's big green bets
• Bill Gates Successfully Lobbied Joe Manchin to Pass Climate and Spending Bill
• Brad Pitt has been forced to settle for $20.5 million after the eco-friendly homes he built for victims of Hurricane Katrina began to fall apart
• UN Expert Concludes 'Forced Labor' Has Taken Place in Xinjiang
• Sudan's new community squad sparks fears of a return to 'morality policing' - Fears the unit will enforce public order laws limiting women's rights and freedoms amid crackdown since military coup
• Mexico's president vowed to end the drug war. Instead he's doubled the number of troops in the streets.
• Lawmakers Worry Amtrak Potentially Helping Illegal Immigrants Cross Border
• Illegal Immigration is Getting So Bad Even CBS is Sounding Alarms Over Biden Border Crisis: 'No Sign of Stopping'
• Texas Schools Begin Hanging 'In God We Trust' Signs
• New York Attorney General Sends Threatening Letter to Church Suggesting Their 'ReAwaken America Tour' Is 'Extremist' and 'Racially Motivated'
• MSNBC's Cross: 'I Would Say a Civil War Is Here'
• Commentary: People Warning of a Pending Civil War Are the Most Likely to Incite One
• Scarborough: GOP, Fox News 'Deliberately Trying to Get Americans' to 'Do Harm to IRS Agents'
• Shock Video: Street Takeover 'Flash Mob' Ransacks 7-Eleven in Los Angeles
• Biden to host domestic unity summit against hate-fueled violence
• Joe Biden Spending Nearly $500K American taxpayer money to Build Wall - Around His Vacation Home
• Federal judge blocks DeSantis' 'Stop Woke Act,' compares Florida to 'Stranger Things'
• Wisconsin School Board Bans Pride, BLM Flags From Classrooms
• 185 New Amendments Added to Gun Control Bill
• Alec Baldwin hired private investigator after 'Rust' shooting, doesn't think he'll be criminally charged
• Alec Baldwin says 'Rust' incident took 'years off' his life, won't use real guns again
• Alec Baldwin says he feared for his life following Trump's Rust shooting comments
• Two hurt in Sweden shopping mall shooting
• Woman cuts off boyfriends penis for attempted rape of 14-year-old daughter: 'no regrets'
• Indian woman calls to rescind release of 11 men convicted of raping her during religious riot - Muslim woman outraged after her rapists are released from jail
• India: Judge dismisses woman's sexual assault complaint because she wore 'provocative clothes'
• Pope rules out sexual misconduct probe of Canadian cardinal
• Trump Sec Recounts Time Biden Creepily Touched Her, Says It Would Be 'Sexual Harassment' Under His Own Proposals
• Investigators demonstrate confidence in evidence of Utah ritualistic child sex abuse
• Justice Department Says It Will Confront 'Hate Crimes' Against Boston Children's Hospital After Backlash for Transgender Surgery Center
• Boston Children's Hospital Updates Website After Backlash over Transgender Surgery Center
• Transgender Organization Lowers Age Recommendation for Sex Change Surgeries, Hormones
• Target Hit with 90% Loss as Retailer Pushes Trans Gear on Youth, Chest Binders, Packing Underwear
• Petition launches supporting policy allowing biological males to apply to an elite all-girls school
• Parents Demand Resignations, Pull Donations After All-Girls School Announces Plan to Admit M2F Trans Students
• Utah School Investigates Whether Athlete Is Transgender After State Championship Win
• Transgender girls in Utah can compete again after judge grants injunction blocking state's sports ban
• Biden Administration Ordered to Allow Religious Exemptions From Title IX Transgender Policy
• Transgender golfer eyes LPGA Tour card at Stage I of Qualifying School - The LPGA changed its transgender policy in 2010
• Ellia Green becomes first Olympian to come out as a trans man in touching speech
• Japanese court refuses to recognize trans woman as parent of child: reports
• Yale professor ripped for helping toddlers with 'gender journey'
• Florida Christian school says it will refer to students only by 'biological gender,' asks gay and transgender students to leave
• USDA: Religious schools have automatic exemption to new Title IX interpretation
• DOJ hammered over double standard on threats to hospitals performing transgender operations and threats to pro-life birth centers
• Most Abortions Illegal in Kentucky After State's Supreme Court Rejects Request for Relief
• Michigan judge says county prosecutors cannot enforce abortion ban
• Officials Stall New Orleans' Flood Funding as Punishment for Abortion Stance
• Walmart says it's expanding abortion coverage for employees, including travel expenses
• Google Employee Union Petitions Search Engine To Suppress Results for Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers
• Canada: Govt Worker Suggests Veteran Get Euthanised to Treat PTSD
• Democrat John Fetterman Pushed 'Safe' Heroin Injections Sites in 2018 Video
• Colorado is the nation's cocaine use capital
• Wisconsin Sounds Alarm Over 97 Percent Increase in Fentanyl Deaths
• Majority of college students suffering from mental illness, anxiety and depression on the rise: study
• Lab-made steaks in U.S. grocery stores soon? Cultured meat closer to reality thanks to UCLA biophysicist
• FDA approves $2.8 million gene therapy
• China Claims to Have Developed 'Safer' Way to Edit Human Genes
• A new strain of avian flu is decimating wild birds. Humans should worry
• What is 'tomato flu'? 'Very contagious' virus detected in kids, docs warn
• Will monkeypox become an 'established STD'? Why one infectious disease expert thinks so
• Scientists' big monkeypox fear: It will spread to wild animals and be here to stay
• Speed over accuracy? COVID, monkeypox research would get less vetting under CDC 'reorganization'
• Evading tech curbs, anti-vaccine group in Europe thrives online
• FDA asks Pfizer to test second Paxlovid course in patients with COVID rebound
• White House: Updated boosters for adults, teens expected in a few weeks
• Judge Grants Relief to Marines Denied Religious Exemption from Vaccine Mandate
• Federal Court Nixes United Airlines Vaccine Mandate, Citing Religious Liberty
• 'Inconsistent': Biden administration needled on foreign visitor vaccination rule
• How China's Covid Shutdowns Keep Hitting Global Supply Chains
• U.S. Government Deleted Covid-19 Data at Behest of Chinese Researchers. Now, a Judge Has Ordered NIH to Turn Over Missing Docs
• You Know It's Bad at the CDC When Even Comedy Central is Making Jokes About Its Covid Response
• GOP Rep. Wenstrup: We Should Go after Hundreds of Billions in COVID Relief Fraud, Not Increased IRS Audits