Tunnel collapse may have killed 200 after North Korea nuclear test: reports

A tunnel at North Korea's nuclear test site collapsed after Pyongyang's sixth atomic test in September, possibly killing more than 200 people, Japanese broadcaster TV Asahi said.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/tunnel-collapse-may-have-killed-200-after-north-korea-nuclear-test-reports-20171031-gzc8g8.html?source=Snapzu

More than 1 million left in the dark after storm strikes on Sandy anniversary

More than one million people were without power early Monday as a ferocious storm rolled through the Northeast. National Weather Service meteorologist Joe Dellicarpini said there were reports of downed trees around the region and roads that were impassable in spots due to flash flooding.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/weather/amp/powerful-storm-rolls-northeast-5th-anniversary-hurricane-sandy-n815401?source=Snapzu

'I want to quit': Fox News employees say their network's Russia coverage was 'an embarrassment'

Some employees at Fox News were left embarrassed and humiliated by their network's coverage of the latest revelations in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian election meddling, according to conversations CNN had with several individuals placed throughout the network.
Read more: https://amp.cnn.com/money/2017/10/31/media/fox-news-employees-russia-mueller-coverage/index.html?source=Snapzu

Puerto Rico's Desperate. China Can Help.

Last weekend, officials in Puerto Rico announced that they're pulling the plug on a controversial $300 million contract to rebuild the island's electrical grid after Hurricane Maria. The previous contractor, Whitefish Energy Holdings LLC, a Montana company with just two full-time employees prior to the award, will leave the island within 30 days, while officials try to find an alternative plan.
Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-10-31/puerto-rico-s-desperate-china-can-help?source=Snapzu

The Most Revealing Moment in the New Joan Didion Documentary

An exchange in Netflix’s “The Center Will Not Hold” shows Didion’s mastery of the journalist’s necessary mental and emotional bifurcation.
Read more: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-most-revealing-moment-in-the-new-joan-didion-documentary?source=Snapzu

Wind powered a record of nearly 200 million European households on Saturday

On Saturday, a record 24.6% of total electricity came from wind power sources in the 28 countries of the European Union. The majority of this wind electricity was generated offshore (91.3%) vs onshore (8.7%). With Europe moving into the high wind production winter period, we expect a new season of records being broken. And with massive scale construction continuing for offshore wind farms, these records of 2017 will soon look quaint.
Read more: https://electrek.co/2017/10/31/wind-powered-a-record-of-nearly-200-million-european-households-on-saturday/?source=Snapzu

Tech companies find more signs of Russian election activity

Major tech companies plan to tell Congress Tuesday that they have found additional evidence of Russian activity on their services surrounding the 2016 U.S. election. Facebook, for instance, says a Russian group posted more than 80,000 times on its service during and after the election, potentially reaching as many as 126 million users. The company plans to disclose these numbers to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, according to a person familiar with the testimony.
Read more: https://apnews.com/63707b60cfa2487d8fb277648df0ef00/Tech-companies-find-more-signs-of-Russian-election-activity?source=Snapzu

6 dead after driver plows into people on NYC bike path

At least six people are dead and others injured after a vehicle drove onto a bike path in lower Manhattan in New York City. The sprawling crime scene runs several blocks along the West Side Highway.
Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/york-city-officers-responding-reports-shots-fired-lower/story?id=50842052?source=Snapzu

John Kelly Claims Civil War Caused By Lack Of Compromise. History Shows Otherwise

The White House chief of staff made the remark during an interview on Fox News. Observers were quick to point out that decades of "compromise" on slavery preceded, and did not prevent, the Civil War.
Read more: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/31/561069584/john-kelly-claims-civil-war-caused-by-lack-of-compromise-history-shows-otherwise?source=Snapzu

North Korea seeks to develop space program, vows to launch more satellites

As North Korea forges ahead with its nuke and missile programs, Kim Jong Un is also trying to boost Pyongyang's power in space, vowing to launch more satellites and saying efforts to kneecap the Hermit Kingdom's space program are "not tolerable." North Korea announced the five-year space plan in its main newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, on Monday, citing the regime’s goals of improving the economy and “livelihood” of North Korean residents, according to Yonhap News Agency.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/10/30/north-korea-seeks-to-develop-space-program-vows-to-launch-more-satellites.html?source=Snapzu

There’s been quite an uproar over Apple’s review embargoes for the iPhone X this week.

The consensus, from what I can tell, is that more established and traditional voices in the tech community are rather upset that younger and lesser-known reviewers and YouTubers were given access to the phone and able to publish their reviews on Monday. The more established, mainstream crowd was able to publish on Tuesday, with most outlets having had the phone for anywhere from a week to as little as 24 hours.
Read more: https://one37.net/blog/31/10/2017/pr?source=Snapzu

Video shows man leaving club with women he 'raped and fed to dogs'

CCTV footage has emerged of a convicted rapist leaving a karaoke club with two women who police say he later stabbed to death and dismembered. Officers are investigating reports Alexander Maslennikov, 31, raped the women and minced some of their remains before feeding them to dogs. In the footage, he is smoking a cigarette and carrying a bottle of wine as he leaves the club at 6am in the Russian city of Volzhsky.
Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/cctv-man-rape-feed-dogs-two-women-video-club-suspect-video-alexandr-maslennikov-volzhsky-russia-a8027616.html?source=Snapzu

Ex-Trump advisor George Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to lying to FBI agents, authorities reveal

An advisor to President Donald Trump's campaign pleaded guilty on Oct. 5 to lying to FBI agents about when he met with Russian nationals to get "dirt" on Hillary Clinton, according to court filings released Monday. The documents revealed that George Papadopoulos was arrested on July 27 upon arrival at Dulles International Airport from an undisclosed location. According to the documents, shortly after Papadopoulos learned he would become a foreign policy advisor...
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/30/ex-trump-adviser-papadopolous-pleaded-guilty-to-lying-to-fbi-agents.html?source=Snapzu

Neighbors rescue deer with plastic pumpkin stuck on its head

For four days residents called in sightings of a deer with a plastic pumpkin stuck on its head. Just before sunset Sunday, a group of people who had been tracking the doe throughout the weekend, snared it with catch poles. They were able to remove the bucket from its head and safely release it, according to WCPO.
Read more: http://www.ajc.com/news/national/neighbors-rescue-deer-with-plastic-pumpkin-stuck-its-head/IoXVSn8xdsU8FRVLznvIxI/?source=Snapzu

Write Irrestistable Headlines that Tap into Readers’ Thoughts

Headlines are doorways. If readers aren’t intrigued to open, they’ll never experience your words. Spending far more time writing headlines makes sense. But, practicing headlines isn’t easy or enjoyable. Does good advice work if it never gets followed? Writing headlines is a chore. Boring. Tedious. No instant gratification. Without feedback, you don’t know if you’re improving, anyway.
Read more: https://medium.com/@KeriVandongen/write-irresistible-headlines-that-tap-into-readers-thoughts-16f451853335?source=Snapzu

United’s new 18-hour flight is longest-ever by a U.S. airline

United Airlines is now flying the longest regularly scheduled route ever flown by a U.S. carrier and one that's a contender for the title of world's longest by flying time. The Chicago-based airline officially claimed those superlatives late Friday, when it launched non-stop service on the 8,700-mile route connecting Los Angeles and Singapore.
Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/flights/todayinthesky/2017/10/30/uniteds-new-18-hour-flight-longest-ever-u-s-airline/812690001/?source=Snapzu

71 Michigan water systems now have higher lead levels than Flint

Seventy-one water systems in Michigan now have higher lead levels than the city of Flint, results of the most recent federally-required testing shows. Water sampling in Flint from January through June showed the city's 90th percentile for lead was at 7 parts per billion, far better than the last six months of 2016, but still higher than 92.6 percent of the 1,333 water systems regulated by the state Department of Environmental Quality.
Read more: http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2017/10/71_michigan_water_systems_had.html?source=Snapzu

Saudi Arabia slammed for granting citizenship to robot

The announcement that Sophia the robot will become the first humanoid to be granted citizenship in Saudi Arabia has fuelled outrage on social media over the unequal treatment of women in the Arab nation. Sophia spoke at the Future Investment Initiative conference in Riyadh, capital of Saudi Arabia, designed to connect wealthy Saudis with investors. With life-like human expressions and the ability to answer questions, Sophia addressed the audience at the conference to help shape the country's future.
Read more: http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2017/10/30/saudi-arabia-slammed-granting-citizenship-robot?source=Snapzu

Opinion | Why George Papadopoulos Is More Dangerous Than Paul Manafort

For all of the talk about collusion with Russia, the adviser’s guilty plea is by far the most damning evidence of it.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/30/opinion/george-papadopoulus-manafort-indictment.html?source=Snapzu

Long-lost art of a vanished civilization revealed by British archaeologists

Five centuries after it was largely obliterated by the Spanish conquistadors, the long-lost culture of a vanished civilisation is being rediscovered by British and local archaeologists. Before the Spanish conquest of the islands of the Caribbean, the region's major indigenous people was a culture known as the Tainos.
Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/lost-art-tainos-culture-british-archaeologists-island-mona-caribbean-a8026321.html?source=Snapzu

Dennis Banks, American Indian Civil Rights Leader, Dies at 80

Mr. Banks, a Chippewa, led often-violent insurrections to protest the treatment of Native Americans and to call attention to a history of injustices against them.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/30/obituaries/dennis-banks-dead-american-indians.html?source=Snapzu

Tony Podesta stepping down from lobbying giant amid Mueller probe

Democratic power lobbyist Tony Podesta, founder of the Podesta Group, is stepping down from the firm that bears his name after coming under investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller. Podesta announced his decision during a firm-wide meeting Monday morning and is alerting clients of his impending departure.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/30/tony-podesta-stepping-down-from-lobbying-giant-amid-mueller-probe-244314?source=Snapzu

Should we get rid of parking spaces to free up land in our cities?

Cities around the world are starting to rethink the vast areas of land set aside for parking. The convergence of several trends likely will mean this space becomes available for other uses.
Read more: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-30/should-we-get-rid-of-car-parks-to-free-up-land-in-our-cities/9099272?source=Snapzu

Trump team drawing up fresh plans to bolster US nuclear arsenal

The Trump administration is working on a nuclear weapons policy that is intended to mark a decisive end to the era of post-cold war disarmament, by bolstering the US arsenal and loosening the conditions under which it would be used. A draft of the new Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) was presented in September at a White House meeting between Donald Trump and his top national security advisers. Congress and US allies have been briefed on the progress of the new draft.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/29/trump-us-nuclear-weapons-arsenal?source=Snapzu

Japan's SoftBank doubts merger of Sprint with T-Mobile: source

SoftBank Group Corp's (9984.T) board of directors is having doubts about the merger it has been negotiating between its U.S. wireless subsidiary Sprint Corp (S.N) and T-Mobile US Inc (TMUS.O), due to fears of losing control of a combined entity, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Monday.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sprint-corp-m-a-t-mobile-us/japans-softbank-doubts-merger-of-sprint-with-t-mobile-source-idUSKBN1CZ265?source=Snapzu

Inventor admits dismembering Kim Wall

The Danish inventor Peter Madsen has admitted dismembering the body of Swedish journalist Kim Wall aboard his submarine, but denies killing her. Danish police said in a statement that he also admitted dumping her body parts in the sea. He told police she had died in August from carbon monoxide poisoning inside the submarine, while he was up on deck.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41804590?source=Snapzu

Trump Often Says He Has Proof For His Claims. But He Never Comes Through.

One of the most stunning parts of the White House’s debacle over Donald Trump’s recent call to a Gold Star family was how it caught both the president and the chief of staff in outright lies.
Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-often-says-proof-claims-170704149.html?source=Snapzu

JFK files reveal Dallas cop shot by Lee Harvey Oswald may have been the real gunman

Fingers were pointed at Dallas police after John F Kennedy was assassinated in the city, the declassified documents reveal. Those who believed the local force was behind the killing included Russian leader Nikita Khrushchev. And one FBI informant even named patrolman JD Tippit, who was shot dead by Lee Harvey Oswald 45 minutes after JFK died, as the President’s actual killer.
Read more: https://dirtyfactory.wordpress.com/2017/10/28/jfk-files-reveal-dallas-cop-shot-by-lee-harvey-oswald-may-have-been-the-real-gunman/?source=Snapzu

The Curious Birth, Death, Resurrection, and Afterlife of the DeLorean

An iconic movie car, trapped between its complicated past and its improbable future.
Read more: http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/a28749/the-future-past-delorean/?source=Snapzu

Jared Kushner made a secret visit to Saudi Arabia last week

Jared Kushner made a secret visit to Saudi Arabia last week with other officials from President Donald Trump’s administration for talks on peace in the Middle East. The president’s son-in-law and senior adviser made what was his third trip to the Gulf kingdom this year alone, Politico reported, citing a White House official.
Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/jared-kushner-trump-officials-made-secret-visit-saudi-arabia-695859?source=Snapzu

Trump’s Legacy: Damaged Brains

The pesticide, which belongs to a class of chemicals developed as a nerve gas made by Nazi Germany, is now found in food, air and drinking water. Human and animal studies show that it damages the brain and reduces I.Q.s while causing tremors among children. It has also been linked to lung cancer and Parkinson’s disease in adults.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/28/opinion/sunday/chlorpyrifos-dow-environmental-protection-agency.html?source=Snapzu

Kevin Spacey criticized for how he came out

Actors are usually hailed for coming out but Kevin Spacey is being criticized. That's because many are taking exception with the "House of Cards" star revealing his sexuality as part of an apology in the wake of an accusation of sexual misconduct. On Sunday, Buzzfeed published a story in which "Star Trek: Discovery" actor Anthony Rapp accused Spacey of making a sexual advance towards him in 1986 when Rapp was a 14-year-old child actor and Spacey was 26.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/30/entertainment/kevin-spacey-gay/index.html?source=Snapzu

An Italian man who intentionally infected women with HIV has been jailed for 24 years

An Italian man has been sentenced to 24 years in prison for intentionally infecting more than 30 women with HIV. Police believe 33-year-old accountant Valentino Tullato infected 32 of the at least 53 women he dated after discovering he was HIV-positive in 2006 and continuing to have unprotected sex.
Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/italian-man-hiv-infected-girlfriends-jailed-sentence-valentino-tullato-a8024166.html?source=Snapzu

Tyson Foods Linked to the Largest Toxic Dead Zone in U.S. History

What comes to mind when you think of Tyson Foods? A chicken nugget? A big red logo? How about the largest toxic dead zone in U.S. history? It turns out the meat industry—and corporate giants like Tyson Foods—are directly linked to this environmental catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, and many others.
Read more: https://www.alternet.org/environment/tyson-foods-linked-largest-toxic-dead-zone-us-history?source=Snapzu

Las Vegas shooting victims struggle to afford mounting medical costs

Kurt Fowler and his wife, Trina, were celebrating their 18th wedding anniversary at a country music festival when the shooting started. Fowler, 41, knew he'd been hit in the ankle and couldn't run. He hid under the stage until the gunfire ended. "I knew my foot was completely useless," said Fowler, a firefighter from Lake Havasu City, Arizona, and a father of three. He underwent surgery, spent nearly two weeks in the hospital and still may need another operation. He also will need rehabilitation and follow-up visits with a specialist.
Read more: http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/25/pf/insurance/las-vegas-shooting-health-care/index.html?source=Snapzu

Paul Manafort, Who Once Ran Trump Campaign, Surrenders to F.B.I.

Paul Manafort and his former business associate Rick Gates were told to surrender to federal authorities on Monday morning, according to a person involved in the case.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/30/us/politics/paul-manafort-indicted.html?source=Snapzu

Police: 22-year-old woman dead after 12-year-old boy jumped from I-66 overpass onto car

Virginia State Police say a 12-year-old boy's suicide attempt has left a 22-year-old woman dead after the boy jumped off an overpass on I-66 and landed on the woman's car. The boy is now in the hospital with life-threatening injuries, according to officials. According to police, the boy jumped off the Cedar Lane I-66 overpass near Exit 62 in Fairfax County at around 4 p.m...
Read more: http://wjla.com/news/local/police-22-year-old-woman-dead-after-12-year-old-boy-jumped-from-i-66-overpass-onto-car?source=Snapzu

World Hunger Is Increasing, Thanks to Wars and Climate Change

Around the globe, about 815 million people – 11 percent of the world’s population – went hungry in 2016, according to the latest data from the United Nations. This was the first increase in more than 15 years. Between 1990 and 2015, due largely to a set of sweeping initiatives by the global community, the proportion of undernourished people in the world was cut in half. In 2015, U.N. member countries adopted the Sustainable Development Goals, which doubled down on this success...
Read more: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/world-hunger-is-increasing-thanks-to-wars-and-climate-change/?source=Snapzu

Outspoken police officer calls for decriminalizing small amounts of marijuana

Officer Nick Novello worked his regular shift Saturday at the city’s central patrol station. After a quick change into his civilian clothes, he headed off to an event you wouldn’t expect to find a cop in his off time: a downtown rally calling for the legalization of marijuana. Not only did he attend, he was a featured speaker and an honored guest. “I’m here because I support you,” Novello tells the boisterous crowd of several hundred in his gravelly New York accent.
Read more: http://www.wfaa.com/news/outspoken-police-officer-calls-for-decriminalizing-small-amounts-of-marijuana/486943336?source=Snapzu

Drug company founder charged with pushing powerful opioid

U.S. prosecutors leveled charges Thursday against the billionaire founder of an opioid medication maker that has faced increasing scrutiny from authorities across the country over allegations of pushing prescriptions of powerful painkillers amid a drug epidemic that is claiming thousands of lives each year. The fraud and racketeering case against Insys Therapeutics founder John Kapoor came the same day President Donald Trump declared the opioid crisis a nationwide public health emergency.
Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/drug-company-founder-indicted-us-wide-opioid-conspiracy-50739374?source=Snapzu

Puerto Rico Says It's Scrapping $300M Whitefish Contract

Puerto Rico plans to cancel a $300 million contract to rebuild the hurricane-ravaged electrical grid that went to a tiny company based in Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s Montana hometown, the head of the island’s power utility said. Ricardo Ramos, executive director of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, or Prepa, said he will request permission from the utility’s board of directors to end the deal with Whitefish Energy Holdings LLC. The contract stipulates that 30 days of notice is required. Existing work, including on key transmission lines, will continue for now.
Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-29/ap-newsalert-head-of-puerto-rico-power-company-says-whitefish-contract-will-be-cancelled-after-ongoing-work-ends?source=Snapzu

Is $100,000 middle class in America?

There’s a prolonged pause when I ask Lyft driver Gaby Osegueda if her family is middle class. Her smile fades as she thinks about it for a while. “Yeah, I think so. I don’t even know what the middle class is anymore,” says Osegueda, who with her husband earns nearly $100,000 a year in the San Francisco area.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/10/25/is-100000-middle-class-in-america?source=Snapzu

Chicken farms fueled a massive public health crisis—while the government turned a blind eye

Antibiotic-resistant infections—everything from gastrointestinal illnesses to recurring urinary tract infections and staph—are among the most menacing issues in public health today, sickening 2 million people a year and killing at least 23,000, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. So perhaps it’s not surprising that government has begun to take steps to limit antibiotics in animal agriculture, where many of these infections arise, before they wreak further havoc in humans.
Read more: http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/10/chicken-farms-fueled-a-massive-public-health-crisis-while-the-government-turned-a-blind-eye/?source=Snapzu

If governments can’t beat cryptocurrencies, why not join them?

Henry Law says the decentralised nature of cryptocurrency makes it the way of the future. That doesn’t mean it’s perfect, but its flaws are all the more reason for government cooperation and regulation, not repression.
Read more: http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2117308/cryptocurrencies-bitcoin-cant-be-beaten-so-why-not-join-them?source=Snapzu

Squirrels linked to spread of leprosy

Leprosy found in red squirrels is also found in pre-Norman bones in Suffolk and Scandinavia.
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-41748336?source=Snapzu

Clinton: Fox News seems to think I live in the White House

Hillary Clinton on Saturday night took a swipe at Fox News for its frequent criticism of her presidential campaign despite the fact that she lost to President Trump.
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/news/357710-clinton-fox-news-seems-to-think-i-live-in-the-white-house?source=Snapzu

Andrea Dovizioso takes MotoGP title fight to the wire with Malaysian victory

Andrea Dovizioso won a rain-hit Malaysian Grand Prix on Sunday to keep the MotoGP title race alive as Marc Marquez's coronation was delayed with a fourth place finish. Italian Dovizioso overtook team mate Jorge Lorenzo with four laps remaining to claim his sixth win of the campaign at Sepang circuit and give Ducati a 1-2 finish for the first time this year. Johann Zarco grabbed third on his non-works Yamaha, nursing a soft rear tyre to the finish, frustrating Marquez's hopes of sealing his fourth MotoGP title with a race to spare.
Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/motor-racing/motogp-malaysian-grand-prix-andrea-dovizioso-wins-marc-marquez-title-championship-standings-a8025616.html?source=Snapzu

The psychological toll of shame in military personnel

Feelings of shame may make the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) more severe in current and former members of the Armed Services. That is the conclusion of research published in the British Journal of Clinical Psychology by a team led by Dr Katherine C. Cunningham from the Department of Veterans Affairs Mid-Atlantic Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center, Durham, North Carolina.
Read more: https://beta.bps.org.uk/news-and-policy/psychological-toll-shame-military-personnel?source=Snapzu

'Duped': Sears shoppers allege retailer inflated prices for liquidation sales

Sears shopper Elizabeth MacMillan says she feels misled by the retailer's liquidation sales, where she found items priced higher than when she last visited the store. "I was really, really turned off," MacMillan said. "It's deceptive." She's one of several customers CBC News interviewed who uncovered altered prices at Sears liquidation sales. They suspect price tags were marked up to offset the advertised discounts that ranged from 20 to 40 per cent.
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/1.4373270?source=Snapzu

‘Prosperity instead of freedom’: The left-wing economics that make Poland’s conservative government so popular

If you follow international news about Poland, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the country’s politics consist exclusively of an authoritarian government – intent on silencing critics, bringing state institutions under party control, destroying the environment, denying women their rights, and leading the country into conflict with its European partners – facing off against mass street protests in defence of democracy.
Read more: https://notesfrompoland.com/2017/09/24/prosperity-instead-of-freedom-the-left-wing-economics-that-make-polands-conservative-government-so-popular/?source=Snapzu