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In addition to the websites that I regularly link to in the ‘Top News Stories’ column, I also enjoy reading a small collection of independent news aggregators. Here are some of those sites, in no particular order:

  • Maggie’s Farm
  • Rice Farmer
  • 321 Gold
  • 321 Energy
  • The Automatic Earth
  • Implode-Explode
  • Drudge Report

TOP NEWS STORIES

  • China’s Lopsided Growth: “Nobody Can Quite Figure out Where All These Metals Are Going”
  • Early Mars Was Likely Covered in Ice Sheets, Not Flowing Rivers
  • NYT Quietly Scrubs Chinese Propaganda
  • China Bans Cell Phones in Granaries After Video Shows Moldy Corn
  • Why’s the ECB Buying the Debt of So Many Non-EU Companies?
  • SpaceX’s Starship Prototype Successfully Makes First Small Test Flight
  • Lebanon Explosion Leaves Country with Less than a Month of Grain Supply
  • Controversial Russian-Built Nuclear Plant to Start up in Belarus
  • U.S. LNG Exports Set to Rise for the First Time in Six Months
  • Honda Reports Stunning 47% Decline in Sales
  • Sailors Stranded on Remote Pacific Island Saved by SOS Sign in Sand
  • Aging Japan Bomb Survivors Make Final Plea Against Nuclear Arms
  • Heavy Drinking Has Driven Hundreds of Thousands of Americans to Early Graves
  • Warning: The Fed Is Expected to Make a Major Commitment to Ramping up Inflation
  • CDC – Prepare for 2020 Outbreak of Polio-Like Illness in Children
  • The Circle of Death: Bankrupt Companies “Unfile” to Receive Government Bailouts, Then Immediately File Again
  • A Submerged Inca Offering Hints at Lake Titicaca’s Sacred Role
  • U.S. Natural Gas Assets Are Selling for Pennies on the Dollar
  • To Keep Weapon Sales in Place amid Global Economic Tailspin, US Offers New Options for Payment
  • UK Urges Firms to Stockpile Medicines Before Brexit
  • For Sale: A Cold War Bunker and Missile Silo in North Dakota
  • France’s Revolutionary Nuclear Reactor Is a Leaky, Expensive Mess
  • Gold Price Rally Testing $2,000 Hurdle
  • It’s Now ‘Virtually Impossible’ to Get a Non-Government Backed Bank Loan as Lending Standards Soar
  • 66 Million in China Are Already Connected to 5G
  • Cave and Tunnel Network Discovered Under Famous Polish Castle
  • The US Still Doesn’t Know How Many Afghan Security Forces Actually Exist, Surprising No One…
  • The World’s Tallest Known Tropical Tree Has Been Found—and Climbed
  • 90% of New Coal Power Plants Now Being Built in China
  • Dinosaur Diagnosed with Late-Stage Cancer in First-of-Its-Kind Study
  • Global Coal Power Falls for First Time Even as China Builds More
  • The Census Bureau’s Grim Take on the Employment Shock During the Pandemic: Not Improving Yet
  • Teenage Woolly Mammoth with Soft Tissue Intact Found in Siberian Lake
  • Some Spiders May Spin Poisonous Webs Laced with Neurotoxins
  • Lord and Taylor, Oldest Department Store in the US, Files for Bankruptcy
  • Reconstruction of Ara Pacis – The ‘Altar of Peace’ in Rome
  • World’s Largest Amphibious Aircraft Takes First Flight in China
  • Shocked Hong Kong in ‘New Era’ Under ‘White Knuckle’ China Grip, Worse Than Feared
  • Philippines to Reimpose Stricter Virus Lockdown in Capital as Cases Spike
  • Asian LNG Prices Are Way too low for U.S. Exporters
  • Afghan Troops Retake Prison Attacked by IS Group
  • Hong Kong Issues Arrest Warrant for U.S. Citizen Under New National Security Law
  • A Vaccine for Retail? My View from the Trenches
  • SpaceX Capsule and NASA Crew Make 1st Splashdown in 45 Years
  • Even Switzerland Starts Criticizing China for “Abandoning Path to Openness”
  • ExxonMobil Posts Largest Loss Ever as COVID-19 Pandemic Hammers Oil Industry
  • Petra – The Rose City
  • Retail Rents Plummet Across New York City, as America’s Glitzy Shopping Districts Turn into Ghost Towns
  • Bank of Ireland Is Now Imposing Negative Rates on Cash Held in Pensions
  • Study Sheds Light on the Evolution of the Earliest Dinosaurs
  • Ancient Ceremonial Ruins of Mysterious “Cloud People” Found on Mexican Mountaintop
  • Car Theft Hits Record High in Los Angeles
  • Why NASA’s Mars Rover Perseverance Will Use Nuclear Power to Stay Warm
  • Homeland Security Seized $2 Billion in Cash from Travelers at U.S. Airports
  • Data Isn’t Just Being Collected from Your Phone. It’s Being Used to Score You




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