For brilliant foliage, look no further than native trees AP
If You Think You Can Hold a Grudge, Consider the Crow NYT
'I like to be in prison.' Miami and Broward bank robber tells judge to give 'me the max' Miami Herald
Climate
Spain's PM orders 10,000 troops and police to flood-hit Valencia BBC. Commentary:
Spain's apocalyptic floods show two undeniable truths: the climate crisis is getting worse and Big Oil is killing us Guardian.
China lifts all restrictions on foreign investment access in manufacturing sector CGTN
How China Uses Economic Sanctions War on the Rocks
After outcry, Chinese health body takes down propaganda aimed at boosting birth rate South China Morning Post
Xi Jinping's Axis of Losers Stephen Hadley, Foreign Affairs
The State -- and Fate -- of America's Indo-Pacific Alliances RAND
As America votes for new president, what are the 3 Cs and 3 Ts that will define Sino-US ties? Channel News Asia
Syraqistan
Netanyahu Spy Scandal: Leak Sabotaged Hostage Deal in Order to Save His Skin Tikkun Olam
Italy rocked by espionage scandal in which Mossad implicated YNet
Iran's Khamenei threatens 'crushing response' to Israel attacks France24
COL. Lawrence Wilkerson : Can Ukraine Survive as a Country? Judge Napolitano, YouTube. Starts with analysis of last Israel strike at Iran.
Israel is falling far short of a U.S. ultimatum to increase flow of aid to Gaza, data shows PBS
Israel's Ben Gurion Airport Terminal 1 Closes Following easyJet, Ryanair & Wizz Air Exodus Simple Flying
Khaosmotic Epistemology: A Transdisciplinary Metatheory of Contemporary Legal Complexity? SSRN
Our Famously Free Press
Transcript - America This Week November 1, 2024: "The Celebrated New York Times Election Week Hit Job" Racket News
News consumers are more influenced by political alignment than by truth, study shows Phys.org. "We saw it on both political sides and even among people who scored well on a reasoning test. We were a bit surprised to see how widespread this tendency was. People were engaging in a lot of resistance to inconvenient truths."
Digital Watch
Intel might be too big to fail -- Washington policymakers are already discussing potential solutions if the chipmaker cannot recover Tom's Hardware
Issue 69 - Nice Molly White, [citation needed]. Crypto.
CoffeeSpace is a Hinge-like app that wants to help you find your co-founder TechCrunch
Whose Garbage Becomes The Archive? - an interview with Eunsong Kim The New Inquiry
The Final Frontier
Space isn't all about the 'race' - rival superpowers must work together for a better future Space.com
Class Warfare
Inside a flawed immigration system: Millions of undocumented workers and a verification program that few use LA Times
Exhuming Dracula's Ancestors: What Vampires Reveal About Our Latent Fears Literary Hub