Kyle Nowak

"You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to."

–Robin Williams (1951-2014)

🌏 Rental scooters are now banned in Paris, a UN body revealed new evidence of China’s human rights abuses in the Xinjiang province, and more.

❓ Our question to you: Do you agree with HHS’s recommendation that marijuana be reclassified from a Schedule I drug to Schedule III?

⚖️ This morning, the historic impeachment trial of TX Attorney General Ken Paxton begins.

🖱📰 Click to see a list of bite-sized stories you should know for today.

🔥 It’s Tuesday, September 5th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

📝🌿 The US government is currently considering its biggest change to federal drug policy in decades.

🎃📈 Companies have been pushing the launch dates of their fall (read: pumpkin-themed) menus earlier and earlier over the past few years.

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact."

–William James (1842-1910)

📡📉 This past Tuesday at a meeting of the NASA Advisory Council's Science Committee, officials sounded the alarm on a critical piece of infrastructure called the Deep Space Network.

🌏 Ukraine’s military has pierced the main defensive Russian line, a Saudi Arabian man was sentenced to death over online posts critical of the government, and more.

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🔥 It’s Friday, September 1st – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🪖🤖 The US military plans to incorporate thousands of autonomous robots over the next 2 yrs, as part of a plan to use technological innovation to counter China’s larger military resources.

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"Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work."

–Stephen King (b. 1947)

📺🥴 The amount of content available on streaming services has exploded over the past few years, leading to tougher and tougher choices, decision paralysis, and more arguments between couples than we can count.

🌀 At 7:45-ish am ET yesterday morning, Hurricane Idalia made landfall in Florida’s sparsely populated Big Bend region as a strong Category 3 hurricane, with maximum sustained winds of ~125 mph.

This weekly section delivers the most outlandish, off-the-wall, and occasionally laugh-out-loud news stories of the week, as well as some hilarious or… curious synchronicities crowdsourced from around the world.

🌍 Around the world: Spain’s annual “Tomatina” food fight was held yesterday, an ongoing wildfire in northern Greece is now Europe’s largest recorded blaze this century, and more.