UPDATE: Sunday, Oct 23, 2022 · 11:28:32 PM +00:00 · kos
Bakhmut update:
Bakhmut axis: ➡️Russian forces have been pushed back completely to the M03/06 intersection. What they fought for for 2 (!) months, the AFU (particularly through the 93rd mechanical brigade) regained it in just 2 days. ➡️🇷🇺 tried breaking trough to Klischchiivka but failed. pic.twitter.
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by Helen Li
This article was originally published at Prism.
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In my 46th year there
are so many things
I want to tell you.
How everyone is
drunk at Wimbledon,
and a fox has come to live in our
garden. We feed
him duck livers from a can.
In return he doesn’t destroy
the plantings. We are shunned
on the block.
Oh, there are days when
the darkness falls
too fast and I feel myself
spinning.
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The president will sign a national security memo directing his administration to implement a plan to prepare for future viral and biological threats.
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British Prime Minister Liz Truss resigned Thursday after just 45 days in office, the shortest term in the nation’s history. Her low-tax, low-regulation financial policies were widely criticized after they sent the pound plummeting, causing several senior ministers to quit. We speak to George Monbiot, British journalist at The Guardian, about her short-lived time in office, what this says about the Conservative Party, and who her likely successor will be.
The recovery counselor said he was “absolutely” swayed away from voting for the Republican candidate in his bid for a U.S. Senate seat.
Allen Weisselberg agreed in a plea deal to testify in Manhattan trial about tax schemes by Donald Trump’s company. Jury selection starts Monday.
Links between environmental exposures and maternal health outcomes remain underexplored, despite recent efforts to catch up.
By Dan Ross, for Capital & Main
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Deborah Bell-Holt lives near a decades-old drilling site in South L.A.
Those days when a Russian position is clearly crumbling? Those are the best days.
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Republican gubernatorial candidate Charlie Pierce said he also had no plans to end his campaign just a few weeks before the Nov. 8 election.
Because the Chinese Communist Party is among the world’s most secretive political organizations, China watchers jump on any new piece of information that might imply something about the country’s direction. Today, we were given an unexpected detail. In the middle of today’s session of the 20th Communist Party Congress, former General Secretary Hu Jintao was abruptly escorted off stage. Hu initially appeared to resist being moved, and two men pulled him up rather gruffly.
Trump tries to reduce GOP presidential primary field with complaints of disloyalty.
Before getting COVID-19, you may have been a runner who could finish a marathon in your sleep, or you’re a parent who could work a full day and always find the energy to play with your child. But now, you can only run a quarter as far before you’re winded, and you don’t bounce back the next day. Now, there are some days you can’t even get through your work, let alone come home and play.
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