epicentre: Tรผrkiye-Syrian earthquake opens a huge fissure over three hundred kilometres long—donate to help with recovery efforts here
down with gravity: legislation in Montana would restrict scientific instruction to “scientific fact”
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ditchley park: secret bi-partisan talks on the failure of Brexit taking place
radar anomaly: fighter jets down another unidentified flying object over Canada’s Yukon Province
child-labour: Iowa state legislature abolishes most working-age restrictions, allowing fourteen-year-olds to do dangerous jobs at exploitative wages
search and rescue: as the death toll climbs to thirty thousand with little hope of finding more survivors, a happy montage of a few saved from the rubble—more options for donations here