Science 'You owe it to yourself to experience a total solar eclipse,' says science writer David Baron Rusty Blazenhoff
animals Panda cub! The best of the National Zoo's panda cam videos as picked by the curators and panda keeper David Pescovitz
politics Some organizations to retire non-inclusive tech terms like "master drive" and "slave drive" Andrea James
Science Fauci: US government announced funding of three vaccine trials, on track for scale by end of the year/early 2021 David Pescovitz
politics Trump wishes murderous dictator Kim Jong Un 'good luck' with health, more than he's said for 45,000 Americans dead of COVID-19 Xeni Jardin
donald trump Trump lies about coronavirus, says U.S. now seeing "the light at the end of the tunnel." Xeni Jardin
security Facebook & Twitter ban pro-Trump network that reached 55 million accounts with AI-generated faces, Epoch Media Group and Falun Gong links identified Xeni Jardin
china After sweeping election victories, Hong Kong protesters stage massive demonstrations marking their 6-month anniversary Cory Doctorow
corruption As news outlets were shutting down for Thanksgiving, the University of North Carolina quietly gave white nationalists $2.5m to settle a lawsuit that hadn't even been filed Cory Doctorow
police Boston cops clocked 9,000 hours of overtime at the "Straight Pride" parade — and none of it with body cams Thom Dunn
