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One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / January 19, 2024Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Antifungals are going the way of antibiotics—overused, hitting resistanceSummary: The US CDC is asking doctors to confirm their patients have fungal infections before prescribing antifungal treatments due to new reports that some skin funguses are developing a resistance to commonly prescribed medications.Context: This is similar to what we’ve seen with antibiotics, the most popular and commonly prescribed ones losing their effectiveness, in some cases almost entirely, against some infections, and the concern is that because many doctors are giving pati...2024-01-1903 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / January 18, 2024Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Thousands of tractors block Berlin as farmers protest over fuel subsidy cutsSummary: An estimated 30,000 protestors brought Berlin’s city center to a halt on Monday, the thousands of tractors, forklifts, and delivery trucks they brought with them gumming up city streets in protest of a plan to phase-out the country’s agricultural fuel subsidies.Context: These protestors, many of them farmers or working in some aspect of the German agricultural industry, say that they’re suffering under rising operational costs and cutting agricu...2024-01-1803 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / January 17, 2024Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Iran strike triggers dispute with Iraq as fears of regional turmoil growSummary: Iranian missiles struck targets in northern Iraq on Monday, Iran claiming they hit an Israeli spy operations hub in a semi-autonomous region called Kurdistan, alongside what they say were Islamic State targets in Syria.Context: That first strike has further inflated concerns that Iraq could once again become an active military theater, as it follows a wave of strikes from Iran-backed groups against US and Iraqi security forces across the...2024-01-1703 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / January 16, 2024Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Reformist Arevalo sworn in as Guatemala president after opponents delay inaugurationSummary: Bernardo Arevalo was sworn in as Guatemala’s new president early Monday morning following an inauguration process that some analysts have labeled a coup attempt by his political opponents.Context: This is was only the most recent attempt by those opponents to either prevent Arevalo (whose platform was heavily focused on anti-corruption efforts) from taking office in the first place, or stripping him of power and authority if he did make it...2024-01-1603 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / January 15, 2024Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Taiwan's new president faces tough time with China pressure and no majoritySummary: Over the weekend, Taiwan elected Lai Ching-te, a politician from the incumbent Democratic Progressive Party, with a convincing but not controlling parliamentary margin, which means he’ll have to make deals with other parties to get anything done.Context: Lai will take office on May 20, and China isn’t happy about his ascension as his party opposes kowtowing to Beijing and he has long been a firebrand on the issue of T...2024-01-1503 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / January 12, 2024Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Deadly winter storm causes power outages and disrupts travel across USSummary: A period of unseasonable heat across North America has ended with the arrival of a cascade of winter storms, powered by a polar vortex, that have already killed several people and blanketed the US in all sorts of advisories, watches, and warnings related to tornadoes, destructive wind gusts, frigid temperatures, and high levels of rain and snow precipitation.Context: Some version of this happens most years, but the flip from warm...2024-01-1202 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / January 11, 2024Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Canada's anti-money laundering body to leverage AI bets to crack down on bad actorsSummary: Canada’s Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre, or FINTRAC, has recently increased its use of artificial intelligence tools to identify suspicious transactions a top official from the agency said earlier this week, and this has already resulted in the detection of violations that led to substantial fines for the country’s two largest banks.Context: FINTRAC received authority to levy fines for financial violations in 2008, but has only...2024-01-1103 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / January 10, 2024Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Ecuador declares state of emergency amid prison chaosSummary: Ecuadorian President Noboa declared a state of emergency on Monday, following a notorious drug lord’s escape from a maximum-security detention center and unrest at several other prisons throughout the country.Context: Noboa stepped into office last November after a campaign in which he vowed to crack down on violent crime, most of which is attributable to powerful gangs that, among other things, have been accused of assassinating an anti-crime candidate in the last pr...2024-01-1003 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / January 9, 2024Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.El Salvador says murders fell 70% in 2023 as it cracked down on gangsSummary: New figures released by the El Salvadoran government last week indicate that the number of homicides in the country fell to 154 from 495 in 2022—a decrease of nearly 70%.Context: That drop is even starker when compared to the more than 1,000 people who were killed in the country in 2021 and 2020, and the more than 2,000 in 2019; El Salvador has long suffered from gang-related violence fueled by extortion and drugs, and President Bukele’s mult...2024-01-0903 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / January 8, 2024Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Romania and Bulgaria to join Schengen border-free zone by air and seaSummary: Now that Austria has dropped a 2022 objection it raised due to concerns about more illegal immigration coming into Europe, Romania and Bulgaria are set to join the European Schengen Zone—which allows free movement between Schengen countries for people living in the Zone—following more than 10 years of attempting to do so.Context: About 400 million people live in Schengen countries and can thus travel around the Zone without needing passports or h...2024-01-0803 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / January 5, 2024Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Iran leader vows harsh response to deadly bombings that killed 84Summary: Following a double-bombing that killed at least 84 people and wounded hundreds more during and following a ceremony commemorating the assassination of the country’s former spymaster, Iran’s Supreme Leader has said there will be a harsh response against those responsible.Context: The first bomb was detonated near the cemetery where Qasem Soleimani, who was killed in Iraq by a US drone strike in 2020, is buried, and the second went off about 15 minu...2024-01-0503 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / January 4, 2024Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Top Hamas leader killed in suspected Israeli strike in BeirutSummary: At least seven members of Hamas, including the founder of the group’s military wing, Saleh al-Arouri, have been killed by a drone strike on an apartment building in Beirut, raising concerns about potential military escalations throughout the region.Context: It’s strongly suspected that Israel is behind this strike, and representatives from the Israeli military and US intelligence services have confirmed as much (on background) to journalists, but at the moment they...2024-01-0404 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / January 3, 2024Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Israel Supreme Court strikes down judicial reformsSummary: A judicial reform that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and his government passed despite widespread opposition and waves of protests in the months leading up to the conflict in Gaza has been struck down by the country’s Supreme Court.Context: This reform would have limited the power of the Supreme Court, putting more of that power in the hands of the elected government, instead, and critics have suggested this was an attempt by Netanyahu to re...2024-01-0303 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / January 2, 2024Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Disney's earliest Mickey and Minnie Mouse enter public domain as US copyright expiresSummary: A short animated film released in 1928 that features non-speaking versions of Mickey and Minnie Mouse has entered the public domain, which means anyone can now use their copyright-less image however they choose, ending a long period in which all variations of these characters were assiduously protected by Disney lawyers.Context: US copyright law gives the creators of characters like Mickey Mouse 95 years of protection before they’re no longer ex...2024-01-0203 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / January 1, 2024Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Note: Happy New Year!A cat video highlighted a big year for lasers in spaceSummary: The final months of 2023 were big for laser-based space communication technologies, and a successful demonstration on December 11 featured an ultra-high-definition video of a cat that was sent from a spacecraft that’s en route to an astroid down to a receiving station in Southern California, the video delivered at the record speed of 267 megabits per second.Context: The 15-second video clip featured a NASA Jet Pr...2024-01-0104 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / December 22, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Note: I’m taking the last week of 2023 off to work on my next book (and for the holidays), so there won’t be any new OSNs until the first week of January. Happy New Year!After years of wrangling, EU countries reach major deal on migrationSummary: The EU has agreed on a plan to overhaul the bloc’s collective migration system—called the EU migration and asylum pact—after three years of negotiation, and during a period of heightened tensions and anti-migra...2023-12-2204 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / December 21, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Trump barred from Colorado primary ballot for role in US Capitol attackSummary: The Colorado Supreme Court has voted 4-3 to disqualify former-President Trump from appearing on the state’s primary ballot because of the role he played in the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.Context: This is being seen as a very big deal, and it’s likely the federal Supreme Court will speed-run its own take on the matter sometime in the next two weeks, as the state has dela...2023-12-2103 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / December 20, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.An earthquake in northwestern China kills at least 127 peopleSummary: A series of earthquakes, including one that weighed-in at a magnitude of 6.2, struck a mountainous portion of northwestern China on Monday night and early Tuesday morning, killing at least 127 people, injuring more than 700 more, damaging all sorts of vital infrastructure, and leaving residents to face below-freezing temperatures without shelter.Context: Emergency workers are still searching for missing people and attempting to help the injured, and aftershocks are still rippling through the region, but...2023-12-2003 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / December 19, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Chilean voters reject conservative constitution, after defeating leftist charter last yearSummary: Over the weekend, Chilean voters rejected a new, incredibly far-right constitution proposal 55.8% to 44.2%, not long after also voting against an incredibly left-leaning variation in 2022.Context: Chileans have been trying to replace or update the current constitution, which is considered to be flawed in many ways and which was written while the country’s former dictator Pinochet was still in power, for a long time, but efforts to swap-in new, dramatically different ve...2023-12-1903 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / December 18, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Breast cancer vaccine now in early clinical trialsSummary: An as-of-yet unnamed vaccine for triple-negative breast cancer—the deadliest form of breast cancer—showed impressive results following its first clinical trial, during which it demonstrated no significant side effects and achieved an immune response in 75% of patients.Context: The vaccine was developed by Anixa Biosciences, the trial was conducted at the Cleveland Clinic, a grant for the trial was provided by the US Department of Defense, and the vaccine is currently meant to help...2023-12-1803 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / December 15, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Scientists make pregnancy sickness cure breakthroughSummary: Researchers at the University of Cambridge, working with others in Scotland, the US, and Sri Lanka have discovered why some women become incredibly sick when pregnant, why there’s variation in sickness between different people, and which specific, single hormone is responsible for said sickness.Context: The GDF15 hormone is produced by burgeoning babies in the womb, and is responsible for both minor bouts of morning sickness and more severe versions of the same, which in so...2023-12-1504 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / December 14, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.COP28 nations agree for first time to transition away from fossil fuelsSummary: Representatives from the more than 190 governments that took part in the most recent UN climate change conference, or COP28 summit, have approved a document that calls for a transition away from fossil fuels for the first time.Context: This is far from the only outcome of this meeting, where nations come up with goals and standards meant to help address the ever-increasing problems associated with human-amplified climate change, but it...2023-12-1404 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / December 13, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Google loses antitrust case brought by Epic GamesSummary: Tech giant Google lost a court case brought by Fortnite-maker Epic Games in 2020 related to its requirement that app developers use Google’s Android app store payment system, which in turn requires that those developers pay Google a percentage of what they make, which many developers consider to be an exorbitant fee.Context: This ruling will almost certainly be appealed by Google, so there’s a chance it could be drawn out quite a lot...2023-12-1303 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / December 12, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Azerbaijan’s path to COP29 clear after Bulgaria drops bidSummary: In the wake of Armenia’s withdrawal from consideration, Bulgaria has withdrawn its bid to host 2024’s COP29 global climate summit, making Azerbaijan’s bid to host the meeting in its capital city, Baku, all but guaranteed to move forward.Context: Armenia’s withdrawal and subsequent backing of Baku seems to be part of a larger peace-effort between its government and that of neighboring Azerbaijan, which recently invaded a breakaway region called Nagorno-Ka...2023-12-1204 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / December 11, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Chinese startup launches third methane rocketSummary: A Chinese space startup called Landscape has successfully deposited a trio of satellites in orbit using a methane-liquid oxygen, or methalox-fueled rocket—the third time it’s attempted such a launch, the second time it’s done so successfully, and the first time it’s then deployed satellites in orbit.Context: This is notable because these Zhugue-2 rockets are meant to eventually be reusable up to 20-times apiece, which could grant China’s space program some of the eco...2023-12-1103 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / December 8, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Governments are spying on Apple and Google users through push notifications, says US SenatorSummary: In a letter to the US Department of Justice, Senator Ron Wyden claimed that foreign officials were demanding that Google parent-company Alphabet and Apple give them data collected via smartphone push notifications.Context: These are the sorts of notifications that apps use to tell smartphone users, for instance, that a new email has arrived or to notify them about some kind of breaking news headline, at times displaying...2023-12-0804 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / December 7, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.The World Food Program will end its main assistance program in Syria in January, affecting millionsSummary: The United Nations’ World Food Program has announced that it will halt its main efforts in Syria beginning in January, due to financial constraints.Context: The agency previously cut food assistance to the approximately 5.5 million Syrian civilians it was supporting back in July, and then in August it cut the financial aid it was providing to Syrian refugees in Jordon, both cuts the result of insufficient fu...2023-12-0704 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / December 6, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Former career US diplomat charged with secretly spying for Cuban intelligence for decadesSummary: A retired US diplomat, Manuel Rocha, was arrested on Friday and has been charged with spying on the US for Cuba since at least 1981, following an FBI sting operation that led to his self-incrimination, among other things calling the US the “enemy” and bragging about his efforts to serve the Cuban cause to an undercover agent.Context: Rocha, who’s now 73-years-old, was apparently tasked with all sorts of clande...2023-12-0603 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / December 5, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Venezuela claims large support for annexing oil-rich Guyana territorySummary: The Venezuelan government claims that the results of a referendum, which were announced yesterday, show that Venezuelan citizens overwhelmingly support the annexation of about two-thirds of neighboring Guyana, and also support ignoring warnings from the International Court of Justice that they should not make any moves to take that land by force.Context: Land ownership in this part of South America has been historically muddled by colonization, but Guyana has governed the area...2023-12-0504 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / December 4, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.US pressing Israel to allow same levels of aid into Gaza as during ceasefireSummary: Now that a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas has ended, the US government and other allies are pressuring Israel to allow the same volume of humanitarian aid to enter the Gaza Strip as was allowed during that pause in the fighting.Context: Aid groups have warned that there’s a substantial and still-growing humanitarian crisis in Gaza, especially southern Gaza where many Palestinians from the northern portion of...2023-12-0403 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / December 1, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Taiwan urges elderly and young to avoid China visits due to respiratory illnessesSummary: The Taiwanese health ministry is advising people in at-risk groups, including the elderly, the very young, and those of any age who are immunocompromised to avoid traveling to China as the latter is experiencing a surge in pneumonia and other respiratory illness cases.Context: There are some parallels between what’s happening in Chinese hospitals, today, and what we saw right before the COVID-19 pandemic kicked-off in late-2019, but th...2023-12-0103 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / November 30, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.All 41 Indian labourers rescued from collapsed tunnelSummary: After 17 days stuck in a collapsed tunnel in the Himalayan mountains, 41 miners have been successfully rescued by a specialist team that was flown in to manually drill an escape hole.Context: This has been an ongoing and emotional drama in the region, as it was anything but certain that these miners would be able to survive for this long in the road tunnel they were constructing, which partially collapsed following what seems to have been...2023-11-3004 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / November 29, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.India plans to triple underground coal mining to meet energy demandSummary: India’s coal ministry has announced plans to increase its underground mining efforts three-fold by 2028 as part of a larger effort to align local energy production with increasing demand.Context: Coal is by far the most-polluting and one of the most-emitting modern energy sources, but many countries, like China and India, rely heavily on it to provide energy for their sprawling populations, which are also rapidly becoming richer, which tends to me...2023-11-2903 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / November 28, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Search algorithm reveals nearly 200 new kinds of CRISPR systemsSummary: Researchers at MIT, the National Center for Biotechnology Information, and the National Institutes of Health have identified 188 new CRISPR systems in bacterial genomes using a new search algorithm they developed for the purpose.Context: This is a pretty big deal, as CRISPR systems allow researchers to manipulate genes, usually with a good deal of specificity and without damaging portions of the DNA or RNA they don’t want to touch, plucking things out, pu...2023-11-2803 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / November 27, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Hamas and Israel begin 3rd exchange of hostages for prisonersSummary: Despite a series of delays and apparent technical and practical issues and misunderstandings, the swap of a third group of Israeli hostages being held by Hamas and Palestinian prisoners being held by Israel has begun. Context: This is a fast-moving story as although the groups involved are spacing-out the exchange effort, there’s only a finite amount of time in which to make this happen, as there’s a four-day ceasefire agreement incl...2023-11-2704 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / November 24, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.In a shock for Europe, anti-Islam populist Geert Wilders records a massive win in Dutch electionsSummary: The far-right, Dutch Party for Freedom party is forecast to win 37 of the 150 seats in the Netherlands’ lower house of parliament, giving party leader Geert Wilders, a controversial, populist politician, the first opportunity to form the country’s next governing coalition, and possibly to become its first far-right prime minister, as well.Context: This outcome was a bit of a shock, as the Party for Freedom took...2023-11-2404 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / November 23, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Israel and Hamas agree to cease-fire in exchange for hostage releaseSummary: Representatives from the Israeli government and Hamas have announced an agreement that will include the release of 50 Israeli hostages, from a total of around 240 they captured during a sneak-attack on Israel on October 7, the release of 150 Palestinian women and young people under the age of 19 held in Israeli jails, and a ceasefire that will last four days, allowing the exchange of those held by both sides to occur.Context: Some of...2023-11-2304 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / November 22, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.More than 230 convicted in Italy's maxi-trial against 'Ndrangheta mafiaSummary: On Monday, an Italian court convicted more than 230 of more than 330 suspected ‘Ndrangheta mafia members and their associates who were standing trial for charges ranging from drug trafficking to theft.Context: Among this group were a pair of mob bosses who received 30-year sentences and a well-known lawyer and former politician who was sentenced to 11-years in prison; the ‘Ndrangheta is generally considered to be the most powerful mafia in Italy, and while this...2023-11-2203 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / November 21, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Fiery right-wing populist Javier Milei wins Argentina’s presidency and promises ‘drastic’ changesSummary: Far-right outsider candidate Javier Milei has won Argentina’s presidential runoff election in a landslide, defeating the more conventional, continuity candidate nearly 56% to just over 44%.Context: That’s a staggering victory for someone who has promised to essentially gut the government, kill-off the peso in favor of adopting the US dollar, and who has been embroiled in controversy for years; the degree to which Milei will be able to do what he...2023-11-2103 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / November 20, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Gaza hostage deal challenges are 'just logistical,' Qatar saysSummary: The Qatari prime minister has said that he believes the main impasses preventing a hostage deal between Israel and Hamas have been cleared, and the only real issues, at the moment, are logistical in nature.Context: The Qataris have been positioning themselves as neutral third-parties in discussions and negotiations between Hamas and Israel following the former’s sneak-attack on the latter on October 7, and Israel’s subsequent attack on the Gaza Strip, whic...2023-11-2003 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / November 17, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.UK medicines regulator approves gene therapy for two blood disordersSummary: The UK’s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency has approved a CRISPR-based treatment called Casgevy which edits the genes that cause two common blood disorders, sickle cell anemia and beta thalassemia, and which in clinical trials seemingly cured almost all the patients who participated.Context: This is the first CRISPR-based, faulty gene-editing treatment to be approved by a regulator, and that approval could impact the around 15,000 people in the UK who ha...2023-11-1704 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / November 16, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.AI outperforms conventional weather forecasting for the first timeSummary: A new study published in the journal Science by a team at Google’s DeepMind shows that their GraphCast AI model has significantly outperformed conventional weather forecasting models when it comes to predicting global weather conditions up to ten days in advance.Context: This is just an initial study, so we’ll see if the findings hold up as more research is done, but it would seem that applying specialized AI tools to weat...2023-11-1604 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / November 15, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Key Fed inflation measure rises at slowest pace since 2021Summary: New inflation data released yesterday indicate that consumer prices in the US rose at a slower-than-expected pace in October, and that led to a surge in stock market activity around the country and in connected global markets.Context: This is broadly being seen as good news, for the US Federal Reserve, which is tasked with pulling inflation down to something close to 2%, and for US residents who have struggled with high inflation rates...2023-11-1503 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / November 14, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.FDA approves first vaccine against mosquito-borne virus chikungunyaSummary: The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the first-ever vaccine for a mosquito-borne illness called chikungunya, which can cause intense joint pain and in some cases lead to death.Context: Illnesses transmitted by mosquitoes have been increasingly worrisome for health experts, as mosquitoes have been moving to new areas as the planet’s climate bands have shifted, exposing new populations without any immunity to those diseases; chikungunya has already been tracked in more th...2023-11-1404 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / November 13, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Long-lost mammal rediscovered in remote Indonesia mountainsSummary: A species of egg-laying mammal, the echidna, has been rediscovered in the mountains of Indonesia after 60 years.Context: The last time this species was officially recorded in scientific literature was in 1961, and though echidnas—which have spines like hedgehogs, snouts like anteaters, and feet like moles—are also found in Australia and New Guinea, this one, called Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna after the British naturalist David Attenborough, has featured prominently in local traditions, and was though...2023-11-1303 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / November 10, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Hollywood actors reach deal with studios to end strikeSummary: The Hollywood actors union, SAG-AFTRA, announced on Wednesday that they’ve reached a tentative deal with major studios, ending a 118-day strike and a longer 148-day shutdown across much of the industry.Context: The union said that the deal is valued at over a billion dollars and will, among other things, protect their members from the threat of AI; that longer shutdown kicked-off when the Hollywood writer’s union went on strike in May...2023-11-1003 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / November 9, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Portuguese PM António Costa resigns over lithium deal probeSummary: The Prime Minister of Portugal has stepped down following an allegation of corruption related to concessions awarded for energy deals in the country; Costa has not been named as a suspect, but following a search of his official residence, he said that his remaining in office would be a distraction, and the President agreed, accepting his resignation.Context: This corruption inquiry is related to the alleged granting of concessions for hydrogen production a...2023-11-0903 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / November 8, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Virgin Atlantic wins UK permit for 100% sustainable fuel transatlantic flightSummary: On November 28, Virgin Atlantic will fly a plane from London to New York using 100% sustainable aviation fuel, marking the first such journey using such fuel.Context: Sustainable aviation fuel, or SAF, makes use of waste oils like cooking oil to reduce emissions substantially, and though it’s currently blended with conventional oils in the aviation industry, reducing emissions a tiny bit, the ambition is to produce and deploy SAFs more broadly, allowing ai...2023-11-0804 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / November 7, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Hamburg Airport hostage drama ends after 18 hoursSummary: A 35-year-old man drove his car through a security barrier onto the Hamburg Airport tarmac over the weekend before parking under a plane, firing a gun in the air, and throwing burning bottles, all with his four-year-old daughter in the car with him, interrupting the takeoff process for a full commercial flight and shutting the airport down for about 18 hours; the standoff was ultimately ended peacefully.Context: The man reportedly didn’t like decisions made by...2023-11-0703 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / November 6, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Dengue rates plunged after release of lab-altered mosquitoesSummary: Three cities in Colombia’s Aburra Valley saw a 97% decrease in dengue infections from the previous decade’s numbers following the intentional release of mosquitoes infected with a bacteria that impedes their ability to spread disease.Context: Researchers are still working to definitively tie the release of bacteria-infected mosquitoes—which by April of 2022 made up about 80% of the total mosquito population in the relevant region because of cross-breeding between those released and local populations—and this...2023-11-0603 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / November 3, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Venezuela says Guyana seeks to halt vote on disputed territorySummary: Venezuelan officials have said that their neighbor, Guyana, is appealing a referendum that Venezuela has scheduled for December 3 with the International Court of Justice, intending to derail the voting process, that referendum focused on the issue of a territory on the two countries’ border that both governments claim.Context: This territory has been a contentious issue between the two countries since colonial times, and that tension was increased when Guyana achieved independence fr...2023-11-0303 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / November 2, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Home countries of major rainforests agree to work together to save themSummary: Representatives from countries that house the world’s three major rainforests—the Amazon, the Congo basin, and the forests of Southeast Asia—have agreed to safeguard biodiversity in these areas, and to reduce or eliminate deforestation.Context: These countries were not able to agree on a concrete alliance for these efforts, but they did come up with a seven-point plan of action, which experts have said is desperately needed as these...2023-11-0203 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / November 1, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Scientists return rescued corals to sea after deadly Florida heat waveSummary: Marine scientists in Florida have started returning about 5,000 coral rescued from rapidly heating coastal waters back to reef areas, capping an extreme conservation effort meant to help local reefs maintain their genetic diversity.Context: Reefs in this area are vital to oceanic ecosystems, providing shelter for something like 25% of all ocean animals, and a recent wave of die-off events sparked concerns that these creatures—which can only survive in a narrow te...2023-11-0104 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / October 31, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.GM reaches tentative agreement with UAW, ending six-week strikeSummary: Less than a week after US automaker Ford signed a deal with the United Auto Workers union, General Motors has reportedly reached a tentative agreement with them, as well, potentially ending a period in which the industry was roiled by strikes and uncertainty.Context: This is still just a tentative deal, but it would seem that a 25% hourly pay increase plus cost-of-living allowances may be included in an updated four-year contract, similar to...2023-10-3103 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / October 30, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Israel ‘expanding’ ground attack in Gaza as Biden urges protection of civiliansSummary: Phone and internet connections were cut across the Gaza Strip over the weekend as Israel’s military kicked-off what it has called the “second stage” of its attack on the occupied region, with the purported aim of destroying Hamas—the militant organization that governs the Strip—for good.Context: A lot has been happening in this part of the world since Hamas hit Israel with a sneak-attack a few weeks ago, killing a...2023-10-3003 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / October 27, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.At least 27 killed by Hurricane Otis as Mexico counts costSummary: The Mexican government is still tallying the human and infrastructural toll of Hurricane Otis, which made landfall in Acapulco early on Wednesday, and they’ve got 8,400 military service-people deployed to assist with cleanup efforts, and about 1,300 power utility employees were working to restore power to the area as of yesterday.Context: At least 27 people have been confirmed killed by the storm, so far, with several more still missing, and the storm is no...2023-10-2703 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / October 26, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Meta accused by states of using features to lure children to Instagram and FacebookSummary: Meta, the parent-company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, has been sued by 33 US states for its alleged use of manipulative features to pull-in and hook young people on its services, despite knowing how addictive and harmful these services can be to that audience.Context: This lawsuit has been compared to the lawsuits that hit Big Tobacco in the 1990s, in scale and ambition, and the general idea is...2023-10-2603 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / October 25, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Biggest cervical cancer drug advance in 20 years hailedSummary: Findings from a medical trial in the UK have shown that a new approach to treating cervical cancer that uses existing, inexpensive drugs, reduces the risk of dying from the disease and the cancer returning after treatment by about 35%.Context: Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women, globally, and tallies more than 600,000 new cases and causes more than a third of a million deaths each year; this cancer is typically treated...2023-10-2504 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / October 24, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Argentina's Peronists soar in election to seal run-off with radical MileiSummary: The incumbent Peronist coalition received 36.6% of the vote in Argentina’s general election last weekend, which is enough to put them in first-place, but not enough for them to win outright, which means they’ll face the controversial and colorful Javier Milei in a runoff election on November 19.Context: Milei shocked many pollsters in the country’s August primaries by winning the vote on a platform based on fairly extreme, far-right positi...2023-10-2403 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / October 23, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.India launches test flight ahead of sending crew into spaceSummary: India’s space agency has successfully carried out the first of several tests leading up to a planned 2025 mission to carry Indian astronauts into space.Context: If successful, this mission would make India only the fourth country reach space with manned spacecraft, following the Soviet Union, United States, and China, the latter of which managed the feat in late-2003; Indian astronauts have been going to space on other countries’ craft since 1984, but neve...2023-10-2303 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / October 20, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.US government announces ‘largest ever’ investment in electric gridSummary: A fresh $3.46 billion investment focused on upgrading the US’s aging electrical grid has been announced, and the money will be funneled to 58 projects across 44 states.Context: This money comes from a larger pot of funds established by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, and it will help clean up, reinforce, and build-out the country’s energy grid, which has been struggling with a surge in renewable energy production across the US, but also with basic ma...2023-10-2003 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / October 19, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Update: reporting on the Gaza hospital story has changed substantially in the past day or so—here’s a solid piece on what we seem to know, now (h/t for the recommendation), and here’s one about how/why the story has changed.More protests expected across Middle East after Gaza hospital blastSummary: An explosion that reportedly killed hundreds of people at a hospital in the northern part of the Gaza Strip has sparked protests across the Arab world—Hamas blames Israel’s...2023-10-1903 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / October 18, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Mexico revives century-old railway in $2.8 billion bid to rival Panama CanalSummary: Mexico’s government is in the process of refurbishing and building-out an existing railway that connects the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to claim some of the custom that would typically use the Panama Canal to travel between these bodies of water, at a moment in which the Canal is suffering a significant slowdown.Context: That slowdown is the consequence of a freshwater shortage in Panama, as...2023-10-1804 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / October 17, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Polish opposition leader Tusk declares win after exit poll shows ruling conservatives lose majoritySummary: The incumbent Law and Justice Party has seemingly, once again, pulled in the highest overall number of votes in last weekend’s Polish parliamentary election, but the 200-or-so seats it won, even when paired with the far-right Confederation party’s 12-or-so seats, wouldn’t be enough to form a government, which is likely to allow the country’s opposition—led by Donald Tusk—to form a more centrist government.Context: I...2023-10-1703 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / October 16, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.UN estimates one million displaced in first week of Israel-Hamas warSummary: Grim numbers continue to roll in from the conflict in Israel and the Gaza Strip, including a recent United Nations estimate that suggests around a million people were displaced in the first week of fighting, alone.Context: In this context, “displaced” means people have been chased or evacuated from their homes, in some cases temporarily in other cases permanently—in either event, though, they’re now without a home, possibly without shelter...2023-10-1603 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / October 13, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Stockholm to ban petrol and diesel cars from city center from 2025Summary: The government of Stockholm, Sweden has announced plans that would make them the first capital city to ban cars powered by gasoline and diesel fuels from its city center as part of a larger effort to reduce pollution and noise.Context: Beginning in 2025, with a few exceptions and caveats, only electric vehicles will be allowed in the 20 blocks that make up Stockholm’s main downtown finance and shopping districts, and early th...2023-10-1304 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / October 12, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Google will now make passkeys the default for personal accountsSummary: After introducing passkeys as an option for logging into their services last May, Google is now making them the default login option for its users, marking a significant pivot away from using passwords for authentication.Context: Passkeys allow users to log into web services by using their device’s build-in authentication methods, like PIN codes and face- and fingerprint-scanners, and then creating keys that allow the online account to confirm that a us...2023-10-1203 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / October 11, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Liberians head to polls as President Weah seeks second termSummary: Liberian President Weah is running for reelection following six years in office defined, in part, by allegations of corruption and widespread economic issues; his primary competitor, amongst a crowd of 19 candidates, is the former vice president Joseph Boakai, who Weah defeated once before in 2017, and who has said that the country needs to be rescued from Weah’s mismanagement; votes were cast yesterday, and about 2.4 million people registered to vote.Context: Liberia is...2023-10-1103 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / October 10, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Scalise, a McCarthy rival, seeks to unite Republicans in taking his placeSummary: The second highest-ranking Republican, Steve Scalise of Louisiana, is mounting a formal bid to ascend to the recently vacated position of US House Speaker, replacing the former Speaker and his key rival, Kevin McCarthy.Context: Scalise is seen as a deeply conservative House Representative, which some speculate could help him unify the more centrist members of the party, who tended to support McCarthy, and the further-right members—a small group th...2023-10-1003 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / October 9, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Netanyahu says "we are at war" after Hamas launches surprise invasionSummary: Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has declared war on Hamas, following a large and complex military incursion by the latter into Israeli territory, the invading forces killing hundreds of Israelis, grabbing dozens as hostages, and raising questions about Israel’s vaunted intelligence services which apparently either didn’t see this coming, or failed to act on whatever foreknowledge they had.Context: This is a rapidly developing story, but what we seem to know...2023-10-0904 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / October 4, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Note: I’ll be on the road, delivering my girlfriend to her next artist residency (in Wausau, Wisconsin) through the end of the week, so there won’t be OSN emails or pods Thursday or Friday. Sorry about that! But we’ll be back to the usual schedule on Monday.US government issues first-ever space debris penalty to Dish NetworkSummary: Satellite television company Dish Network has been issued the first-ever fine for failing to de-orbit an aging satellite, the EchoStar-7, which has been l...2023-10-0404 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / October 3, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Indonesia is set to launch Southeast Asia’s first high-speed railway, largely funded by ChinaSummary: A high-speed railway project in Indonesia—which has been hobbled by all sorts of delays and ballooning costs, and which is called “Whoosh”—began operations yesterday, cutting travel times between the country’s capital and another major city from about three hours down to around 40 minutes.Context: This is one of the premier projects funded by China’s Belt and Road Initiative, and though there are all sorts of well...2023-10-0303 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / October 2, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Congress averts government shutdown with last-minute scrambleSummary: With just 32 minutes to spare, US lawmakers prevented a government shutdown (of their own making) by passing a stopgap measure that will fund the government for the next 45 days.Context: The legislation that was ultimately passed was bipartisan and generally acceptable to everyone except the far-right Republican House Representatives who were attempting to get their policy priorities signed into law, and failing that, were happy to push the government into a shutdown; instead, House Republicans...2023-10-0203 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / September 29, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.NASA astronaut back on Earth after record-breaking spaceflightSummary: Astronaut Frank Rubio has been returned safely to Earth after spending 371 continuous days in orbit at the International Space Station.Context: He touched down in Kazakhstan with two Cosmonauts on Wednesday, and though his time in space (which was originally intended to be much shorter, but a coolant leak on an earlier return craft extended his mission substantially) beat-out the previous American record of 355 days, it still falls a fair bit short of the...2023-09-2903 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / September 28, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Amazon sued by FTC and 17 states over allegations it inflates online prices and overcharges sellersSummary: E-commerce giant Amazon has been sued by the US Federal Trade Commission and 17 states on allegations of monopolistic abuse of power.Context: This lawsuit is the result of a years-long investigation, and is considered to be a substantial threat to the company; the primary complaint is that Amazon has used its centrality to the online sales world to incentivize sellers to not offer lower prices on their...2023-09-2804 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / September 27, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Lego ditches oil-free brick in sustainability setbackSummary: The largest toy company in the world, Lego, has announced that it will be abandoning a previously touted effort to remove all oil-based plastics from its product line by 2030, citing years of research that indicates transitioning to recycled plastic would actually produce more carbon emissions than if they changed nothing.Context: This is being seen as one more example of how complex and circuitous the process of decarbonizing can be, as while replacing their oil-based...2023-09-2704 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / September 26, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey indicted on federal bribery chargesSummary: New Jersey Democratic Senator Robert Menendez and his wife have been indicted for bribery, the US Justice Department announced late last week, on charges that they accepted stacks of cash, bars of gold, and other assets in exchange for nudging government policy to benefit the Egyptian government.Context: This is a rapidly evolving story, but basically this senator has allegedly been abusing his position as a senator and as the head...2023-09-2605 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / September 25, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.NASA’s first asteroid samples land on Earth after release from spacecraftSummary: Yesterday morning, the first asteroid samples to be captured by a spacecraft were successfully returned to Earth, parachuting into a Utah desert where they were fetched by NASA scientists for analysis, successfully capping a seven-year journey and providing researchers with an estimated cup-full of asteroid rubble.Context: This asteroid material, thought to be mostly pebbles and dust (though that’ll be confirmed when they open the container), should help researchers lear...2023-09-2504 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / September 15, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Note: I’ll be visiting family in Seattle all next week, so I won’t be publishing normal editions of OSN—instead I’ve pre-scheduled visual-focused emails (similar to what paid subscribers get on Saturdays, but with two visuals instead of four) for the days I’ll be away. Sorry about the change-up, but things will be back to normal Monday the 25th and I hope you enjoy those in the meantime :)Libyan rivals 'coordinating over flood relief'Summary: In the wake of heavy rain...2023-09-1505 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / September 14, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Leading ingredient in over-the-counter decongestants doesn't workSummary: A Food and Drug Administration panel has determined, after reviewing years’ worth of research data, that a key ingredient in many popular decongestants, phenylephrine, doesn’t actually work when taken orally, despite helping relieve stuffy noses when delivered via nasal spray.Context: The findings indicate that when taken orally, only about 1% of the drug ends up in the bloodstream, which eventually brings it to the afflicted nose tissues—which makes the job its meant to do, co...2023-09-1403 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / September 13, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Filling of Grand Renaissance Dam on the Nile completeSummary: The Ethiopian government has announced the completion of the years-long process of filling its Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, which is on the Nile and has sparked all sorts of diplomatic issues between Ethiopia and its downstream neighbors, Egypt and Sudan.Context: This should, ostensibly at least, be good news, as now that the dam is filled, Ethiopia won’t need to truncate the flow of water on the Nile in order to fill it...2023-09-1303 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / September 12, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.EU and US back trade corridor linking Europe, Middle East, and IndiaSummary: Over the weekend, leaders from India and the EU announced a new economic corridor meant to link Europe with the Middle East and India using train lines and sea lanes—a project that would initially link India, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Jordan, Israel, and the EU, and which would speed up trade between these regions by up to 40%.Context: This project, called the Partnership for Global Infrastructure Investment, could help no...2023-09-1204 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / September 11, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Morocco races to dig out survivors after strongest quake in 100 yearsSummary: At least 2,000 people have been confirmed killed, so far, in the wake of the strongest earthquake to hit Morocco in about a century—weighing in at 6.8 on the Richter scale—which collapsed buildings constructed from traditional, mud-brick materials and trapped what are thought to be thousands of people in debris.Context: Moroccan personnel bolstered by foreign volunteers and equipment are scrambling to rescue survivors across the central and southern portions of the...2023-09-1103 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / September 7, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Note: There won’t be a Friday edition of OSN this week as I’ll be on a little roadtrip, but I’ll talk to you again on Monday!Record rains flood Greece just as wildfires let upSummary: Heavy rainfall has triggered floods in central Greece and in neighboring Bulgaria and Turkey, causing untold damage and at least seven deaths, so far.Context: These floods are hitting just as wildfires, which have plagued Greece for weeks, began to subside, mimicking a patt...2023-09-0703 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / September 6, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.ASEAN leaders to meet in Jakarta for regional summit, amid tensions over new Chinese mapSummary: Representatives from the ASEAN group of Southeast Asian nations kicked-off their annual summit in Jakarta yesterday, the meeting focusing on a range of issues related to Myanmar’s ongoing civil crisis and general economic concerns, but much of the conversation so far has been focused on China’s new official national map which claims sovereignty over a bunch of territory that other nations also claim as their own.Co...2023-09-0604 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / September 5, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Ukraine's Zelenskiy moves to replace wartime defense ministerSummary: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced over the weekend that he will replace defense minister Oleksii Reznikov, who has been running things since Russia invaded in February of 2022, with Rustem Umerov, who has been serving as the head of Ukraine’s State Property Fund.Context: The outgoing defense minister has been accused of corruption, including charging higher prices for fundamentals like food and then pocketing the difference, though he contends that these accusations are just sm...2023-09-0503 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / September 4, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Inmates free 57 Ecuador prison guards after stand-offSummary: Inmates at six different prisons across Ecuador have released 50 guards and seven police officers they held hostage over the weekend, the gangs that orchestrated the hostage-taking seemingly aiming to derail attempts by the government to reduce the power such gangs hold in the country.Context: The Ecuadorian government has been jailing a lot of gang-tied criminals throughout the country in recent years, and as a result the prisons have become hubs of power for these...2023-09-0404 min
One Sentence NewsOne Sentence News / September 1, 2023Three news stories summarized & contextualized by analytic journalist Colin Wright.Note: I’m trying something new today, merging the email and podcast version of OSN into one publication. We’ll see how this looks/feels—please let me know if there’s any weirdness or undesirable side-effects on your end.UN warns that hundreds of thousands in Southeast Asia have been roped into online scamsSummary: The UN human rights office has released a report indicating that at least 120,000 people in Myanmar and about 100,000 in Cambodia have been forced into conducting online scams by crimi...2023-09-0104 min
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