Trump will pardon conservative pundit Dinesh D'Souza, who was convicted of campaign finance violation

D'Souza pleaded guilty in 2014 to reimbursing two of his associates after directing them to contribute $10,000 each to the 2012 Senate campaign of Wendy Long.
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/31/trump-will-pardon-conservative-pundit-dinesh-dsouza-who-was-convicted-for.html?source=Snapzu

Eight million bottles' worth of Champagne grapes wiped out by freak hailstorms

hampagne has become the latest French wine growing region to feel the wrath of the heavens after freakishly violent hail storms wiped out the equivalent of eight million bottles of grapes and roughly €125 million (£110m) of fizz. The extent of the damage emerged barely a week after hailstones “the size of pigeons’ eggs” devastated thousands of acres of prime vineyards in Bordeaux, prompting the French government to promise support for winegrowers, some of whom have lost their entire crop.
Read more: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/05/30/eight-million-bottles-worth-champagne-grapes-wiped-freak-hailstorms/?source=Snapzu

Police seize house? What could possibly go wrong?

Nigel Rothsay spent five years in his Masterton NZ home before discovering his neighbours owned it.
Read more: https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/property/104256530/masterton-man-buys-house-only-to-find-out-five-years-later-he-doesnt-own-it?source=Snapzu

Theresa May under pressure over childhood obesity as MPs back crackdown on junk food ads

An influential group of MPs is demanding a ban on junk food advertising before 9pm, among a raft of new measures to overturn the UK’s childhood obesity epidemic. Reforms pitched by the Health and Social Care Committee include bans on permitting cartoon characters to promote unhealthy snacks, outlawing sweets at supermarket checkouts and forcing restaurants to list calorie counts on their menus.
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/theresa-may-junk-food-ads-childhood-obesity-mps-health-social-care-a8374401.html?source=Snapzu

Scientists have 3D printed the most advanced artificial cornea ever using human cells

They’re not ready for human eyes yet, but one day these artificial corneas might help people see
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/30/17411268/cornea-transplants-3d-printing-human-cells-eyes-science?source=Snapzu

Brits are stealing "millions" of dollars in groceries by ringing everything up as carrots

Organic avocados are expensive. So are fresh figs and heirloom tomatoes and the like. You know what’s cheap? Carrots. Which is why British supermarket shoppers have been weighing their produce as carrots at self-checkout stations, totaling than $4 million in supermarket theft in the past four years. The Independent reports the practice of ringing up expensive produce as a cheaper item has become so common that some shoppers don’t even see it as a crime.
Read more: https://thetakeout.com/brits-are-stealing-billions-of-dollars-in-groceries-by-1826389172?source=Snapzu

Facebook Tools Are Used to Screen Out Older Job Seekers, Lawsuit Claims

The social media platform enables companies to illegally focus on younger candidates, according to an expanded class-action.
Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-29/facebook-tools-are-used-to-screen-out-older-job-seekers-lawsuit-claims?source=Snapzu

Japanese Whalers Killed 122 Pregnant Whales and 114 Babies Last Summer

Japanese research vessels harpooned, killed and necropsied 333 Antarctic minke whales during an annual hunt last summer — and 122 of those whales were pregnant.
Read more: https://www.livescience.com/62682-japanese-whalers-murdered-122-pregnant-whales.html?source=Snapzu

Trump Asked Sessions to Retain Control of Russia Inquiry After His Recusal

The attorney general is a key witness in the investigation into whether Mr. Trump tried to obstruct the Russia inquiry itself.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/29/us/politics/trump-sessions-obstruction.html?source=Snapzu

Japanese Melons Fetch Record-Breaking $29,000 at Auction

This might be the one time in your adult life when it’s appropriate to say “Nice melons” to a stranger. Over the weekend, a pair of Yubari melons sold for a record-breaking ¥3.2 million (US $29,436) at an auction held in the city of Sapporo. The two melons were bought by Shinya Noda, the president of a fruit and vegetable packing company.
Read more: https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/7xmkaq/japanese-melons-record-breaking-price-29000-dollars?source=Snapzu

Tesla in Autopilot mode crashes into parked Laguna Beach police cruiser

A Tesla sedan in Autopilot mode crashed into a parked Laguna Beach Police Department vehicle Tuesday morning, authorities said.
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-tesla-collision-20180529-story.html?source=Snapzu

On the Rise: Three recent books redeem Ulysses S. Grant’s reputation

Defining Ulysses S. Grant has become more complex. The general’s reputation has been trending upward thanks to the work of recent historians.
Read more: http://www.historynet.com/three-recent-books-redeem-ulysses-grant.htm?source=Snapzu

Julian Assange could be forced out of Ecuadoran embassy soon

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange may have overstayed his welcome at the Ecuadoran embassy in London, where his situation is “unusually bad” and he could be forced out “any day now,” according to a report on Friday. The 46-year-old Aussie took refuge at the embassy in 2012, when a British judge ruled he should be extradited to Sweden to face sex assault charges. In December, Ecuador even made him a citizen.
Read more: https://nypost.com/2018/05/25/julian-assange-could-be-forced-out-of-ecuadoran-embassy-soon/?source=Snapzu

Everything you need to know about the Italian political crisis — which is 9 years in the making and could bring about the demise of the eurozone

The eurozone looks like it may be about to plunge headlong into another crisis, as the political situation in its third largest economy, Italy, deteriorates rapidly.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/italy-politics-crisis-what-you-need-to-known-2018-5?source=Snapzu

The gay mayor shaking up politics in Catholic Poland

Robert Biedron is one of Poland's young, rising political stars. He's an atheist in perhaps Europe's most Catholic country and its only openly gay politician. And now he is being viewed as a frontrunner for Poland's presidency. "I'm a dreamer. I was born in a very traditional, conservative part of Poland. I am gay and being an atheist, it wasn't easy for me," says Mr Biedron, mayor of Slupsk, a city about 18km (11 miles) from the country's Baltic Sea coast.
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44209480?ocid=socialflow_twitter?source=Snapzu

English teacher corrects Trump's letter, sends it back to White House

US President Donald Trump was schooled by a 61-year-old retired English teacher from Atlanta recently. Yvonne Mason, a retired high school English teacher, wrote a letter to the US President Trump asking him to visit family members of the victims who died during mass the shooting in Florida high school in February. After receiving Mason's letter, the White House responded to the retired teacher with a letter signed under President Donald Trump's name.
Read more: https://www.indiatoday.in/fyi/story/english-teacher-corrects-donald-trump-s-letter-sends-it-back-to-white-house-1243518-2018-05-28?source=Snapzu

Is Dreaming Real? When You’re Lucid, the Distinction Ceases to Matter.

Talented oneironauts can live two lives.
Read more: https://slate.com/technology/2018/05/is-dreaming-real-when-its-lucid-it-seems-that-way.html?source=Snapzu

Ivanka Trump Wins China Trademarks, Then Her Father Vows to Save ZTE

The timing is likely a coincidence, experts say, but the moves have renewed questions from critics about President Trump’s potential conflict of interest.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/28/business/ivanka-trump-china-trademarks.html?source=Snapzu

Indiana Teacher Out of Hospital After Stopping School Shooting

An Indiana science teacher was released from a hospital a day after he was shot while tackling an armed student inside his classroom. Noblesville police Lt. Bruce Barnes confirmed Saturday that Jason Seaman was discharged from Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis.Republican U.S. Rep. Susan Brooks posted a video on Twitter saying she met Seaman during a visit to Noblesville West Middle School around midday Saturday.”He is that hero teacher who stopped the shooter from hurting more young people...
Read more: http://time.com/5292706/jason-seaman-indana-school-shooting/?source=Snapzu

Civil War soldiers forgotten no more in Traverse City

Group dedicates time and effort memorializing forgotten soldiers who fought in the war between states but later died in relative obscurity.
Read more: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2018/05/28/civil-war-soldiers-forgotten-no-more-traverse-city/637129002/?source=Snapzu

Lack of Paid Sick Leave Increases Poverty

Research conducted by Florida Atlantic University and Cleveland State University has, for the first time, quantified the relationship between the lack of paid sick leave and poverty in the United States. The data indicates that, even when controlling for education, race, sex, marital status and employment, working adults without paid sick leave are three times more likely to have incomes below the poverty line.
Read more: https://www.fau.edu/newsdesk/articles/sick-leave-poverty-study.php?source=Snapzu

Google Employees Resign In Protest Against Pentagon Contract

It's been nearly three months since many Google employees, and the public, learned about the company's decision to provide artificial intelligence to a controversial military pilot program known as Project Maven... By Kate Conger. (May 15, 2018)
Read more: https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2018/05/google-employees-resign-in-protest-against-pentagon-contract/?source=Snapzu

Mysterious wolf-like animal found in Montana igniting online speculation

A mysterious creature was shot and killed in Montana earlier this month. The wolf-like animal had long grayish fur, a large head and an extended snout. Although it looked similar to a wolf, its ears were too long. A rancher near Denton, Montana, shot the strange animal on May 16, according to the Great Falls Tribune. Wildlife officials are stumped.
Read more: http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2018/may/25/mysterious-wolf-like-animal-found-in-montana-ignit/?source=Snapzu

She came to the US for a better life. Moments after arrival, she was killed

Claudia Patricia Gomez Gonzalez traveled 1,500 miles to the United States, hoping to find a job and a better future. Shortly after she set foot in Texas, a Border Patrol agent shot and killed her. Gomez Gonzalez's shooting Wednesday drew international attention after a bystander posted video of the aftermath on Facebook Live, showing her lying on the ground, bleeding. Authorities changed their account of the incident, adding to the controversy at a time when the White House has cracked down on illegal immigration.
Read more: https://edition-m.cnn.com/2018/05/27/us/texas-border-patrol-shooting-victim/index.html?source=Snapzu

Edward Snowden: There's No One Trump Loves Better Than Vladimir Putin

It’s clear Donald Trump is a huge fan of Russian President Vladimir Putin. But whistleblower Edward Snowden says Americans shouldn’t get their hopes up that special counsel Robert Mueller is going to nail the U.S. president for colluding with the Kremlin. “There’s no one in this world that [Trump] loves more than the Russian president,” said Snowden, who exposed eavesdropping by the National Security Agency five years ago and now lives in exile in Russia, a refugee from U.S. treason charges.
Read more: https://www.huffingtonpost.in/entry/edward-snowden-trump-loves-putin_us_5b08ae41e4b0568a880b7451?source=Snapzu

How Britain let Russia hide its dirty money

The long read: For decades, politicians have welcomed the super-rich with open arms. Now they’re finally having second thoughts. But is it too late?
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/may/25/how-britain-let-russia-hide-its-dirty-money?source=Snapzu

Seven who sued Trump won't stop until President unblocks them on Twitter: "We'll take it to the Supreme Court"

“It’s not only just about Trump now but about setting a precedent for the future,” Brandon Neely, one of the seven plaintiffs, said.
Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/seven-who-sued-trump-wont-stop-until-president-unblocks-them-twitter-well-take-945762?source=Snapzu

Eighties Babies Are Officially the Brokest Generation

A Federal Reserve study shows Americans born between 1980 and 1989 have 34 percent lower net worths than they should for their age.
Read more: https://slate.com/business/2018/05/millennials-are-in-a-deep-financial-hole-compared-to-past-generations.html?source=Snapzu

Alan Bean, fourth astronaut to walk on the moon, dies at 86

Astronaut Alan Bean, who was the fourth person to walk on the moon, has died. A statement released by NASA and family members says Bean died Saturday in Houston after a short illness. He was 86. Bean was the lunar module pilot on Apollo 12, which made the second moon landing in 1969. He then commanded the second crewed flight to the United States' first space station, Skylab, in 1973. On that mission, he orbited the Earth for 59 days.
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-alan-bean-20180526-story.html?source=Snapzu

Canadian company developing cannabis beer

This year’s Canadian Brewing Awards are being held in Halifax, and brewers from across the country are showing off their finest beers. But much of the discussion at this year’s conference surrounds a beer that doesn’t actually exist yet.
Read more: https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/canadian-company-developing-cannabis-beer-1.3946677?source=Snapzu

China calls checkmate on South China Sea

Cattle ranchers in south-east Arizona, where I grew up, have an expression: “You can’t roll your sleeves and wring your hands at the same time.” The ranchers usually directed this phrase towards government officials who were vacillating on an issue. The point was, quit lamenting about the what-ifs and the what-might-have-beens; accept the facts, roll up your sleeves, and get on with the job.
Read more: https://www.theage.com.au/world/asia/china-calls-checkmate-on-south-china-sea-20180522-p4zgts.html?source=Snapzu

Rich Americans live 15 years longer than poor counterparts: Study

Wealth and health are intrinsically linked in the United States, with rich Americans living between 10 to 15 years longer than their poor counterparts, a study has found. A series of five papers published in the medical journal The Lancet found that a widening income gap, structural racism and mass incarceration are fueling growing health inequalities. “The USA is one of the richest countries in the world, but that reality means very little for most people because so much of that wealth...
Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/rich-americans-live-15-years-longer-poor-study-580486?source=Snapzu

UK wants £1bn Galileo costs back from EU

The UK wants the EU to repay £1bn if it is excluded from the Galileo satellite navigation system after Brexit. David Davis's Brexit department is also warning the scheme could cost the EU an extra €1bn (£876m) without the UK's continued involvement. The row could harm wider post-Brexit security co-operation, the department says in a new paper.
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-44232269?source=Snapzu

Why Is the New Right Obsessed With Bitcoin?

“Crypto is an oddball fucking thing…” By Davis Richardson.
Read more: http://observer.com/2018/05/new-right-bitcoin-obsessed/?source=Snapzu

Ireland Votes to Legalize Abortion in Blow to Catholic Conservatism

Ireland voted decisively to repeal one of the world’s more restrictive abortion bans, the prime minister said Saturday, sweeping aside generations of conservative patriarchy and dealing the latest in a series of stinging rebukes to the Roman Catholic Church. The surprising landslide cemented the nation’s liberal shift at a time when right-wing populism is on the rise in Europe and the Trump administration is imposing curbs on abortion rights in the United States. In the past three years alone...
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/26/world/europe/ireland-abortion-yes.html?source=Snapzu

Ireland ends abortion ban as 'quiet revolution' transforms country

Ireland has voted by a landslide to liberalize its highly restrictive abortion laws in a referendum that its prime minister called the culmination of a "quiet revolution" in what was one of Europe's most socially conservative countries.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ireland-abortion/ireland-ends-abortion-ban-as-quiet-revolution-transforms-country-idUSKCN1IR089?source=Snapzu

McDonald's shareholders vote against plastic straw study

McDonald's shareholders Thursday turned aside a proposal to take the first step toward a ban on plastic straws. A shareholder proposal backed by a consumer group received only 7.65% of the vote at the company's annual meeting. The measure would have required McDonald's to prepare a report to shareholders about the business risks of using plastic straws.
Read more: https://eu.usatoday.com/story/money/2018/05/24/mcdonalds-shareholders-vote-keep-plastic-straws/640916002/?source=Snapzu

'Trump's son should be concerned': FBI obtained wiretaps of Putin ally who met with Trump Jr.

The FBI has obtained secret wiretaps collected by Spanish police of conversations involving Alexander Torshin, a deputy governor of Russia’s Central Bank who has forged close ties with U.S. lawmakers and the National Rifle Association, that led to a meeting with Donald Trump Jr. during the gun lobby’s annual convention in Louisville, Ky., in May 2016, a top Spanish prosecutor said Friday.
Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/trumps-son-concerned-wiretaps-show-trump-jr-met-putin-ally-231215529.html?source=Snapzu

The Most Important Inventor You've Never Heard of

Stanford Ovshinsky changed your life, and the full impact of his brilliance may still be to come
Read more: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/the-most-important-inventor-youve-never-heard-of/?source=Snapzu

Korean leaders meet in surprise summit

The talks happened as efforts continue to get Donald Trump's summit with Kim Jong-un back on track.
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-44265287?source=Snapzu

Harvey Weinstein’s $1 million get-out-of-jail card shows the injustice of bail

Tens of thousands of people linger in America's jails because they can't afford bail.
Read more: https://qz.com/1289744/harvey-weinsteins-1-million-get-out-of-jail-card-shows-the-injustice-of-bail/?source=Snapzu

Will WikiLeaks founder testify in Russian election meddling probe?

Assange’s organisation released thousands of emails during the election that US intelligence agencies say Russian hackers stole from Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
Read more: http://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2147906/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-willing-testify?source=Snapzu

Woman who performed antisemitic songs calling Auschwitz a 'theme park' convicted

A woman has been convicted for performing “grossly offensive” antisemitic songs that included lyrics calling Auschwitz “a theme park”. Alison Chabloz, 54, sang her compositions at a meeting of the far-right London Forum group, whose leader Jeremy Bedford-Turner has been separately jailed for stirring up racial hatred. A judge at Westminster Magistrates’ Court found Chabloz had violated laws criminalising “gross offence” and intended to insult Jewish people.
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/auschwitz-song-nazis-alison-chabloz-antisemitic-jewish-theme-park-london-forum-a8369751.html?source=Snapzu

Elon Musk's Twitter rant is a smoke-and-mirrors tactic that hides the disturbing truth about Tesla

Tesla CEO Elon Musk now appears to think the media is his enemy. For an entrepreneur who has received what can conservatively be described as luminous-megawatt-white-hot-genuflecting press for a decade and a half, this a remarkable development. But it shouldn't be particularly surprising to Musk's boosters, haters, armchair psychotherapists, and, least of all, members of the media, who have been expressing shock that Musk would propose a new service — trollishly named Pravda, after the old Soviet-era propaganda sheet — designed to crowdsource evaluations of media truthfulness.
Read more: https://www.businessinsider.de/elon-musk-uses-twitter-to-distract-teslas-growing-problems-2018-5?source=Snapzu

Denied permission to speak at his own graduation, Holy Cross valedictorian delivers speech outside

Holy Cross High School's graduating valedictorian and student council president learned hours before Friday night's graduation that they would not be allowed to deliver their planned -- and, they thought, pre-approved -- speeches at the ceremony.
Read more: http://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/kenton-county/covington/denied-permission-to-speak-at-his-own-graduation-holy-cross-high-school-valedictorian-christian-bales-delivers-speech-outside?source=Snapzu

Chechen refugee interrogated in Germany for sharing a DW article

Police in Bavaria have searched the room of Chechen refugee Mokhmad Abdurakhmanov and seized his phones and tablet after he shared an article posted by DW. The article features a photo of "Islamic State" fighters.
Read more: http://www.dw.com/en/chechen-refugee-interrogated-in-germany-for-sharing-a-dw-article/a-43935988?source=Snapzu

Google 'stole my video footage'

Film-maker claims his footage has been misused, after an internal Google video leaks online.
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44228756?source=Snapzu

Democracy is not a truth machine

"That means for example that if all the climate scientists in the world were wiped out by a freak meteor at a conference, climate science would quickly reappear and say basically the same things again, as more or less happened when the Catholic Church tried to suppress heliocentricism." By Thomas R. Wells.
Read more: http://www.philosophersbeard.org/2010/11/democracy-is-not-truth-machine.html?source=Snapzu

Top Climate Scientist: Humans Will Go Extinct if We Don’t Fix Climate Change by 2023

A top climate scientist is warning that climate change will wipe out all of humanity unless we stop using fossil fuels over the next five years. By Scott Alden.
Read more: https://gritpost.com/humans-extinct-climate-change/?source=Snapzu

Journalists Are Playing Right Into Elon Musk’s Hands

They fed the troll. He’s winning. By Felix Salmon.
Read more: https://slate.com/business/2018/05/elon-musk-vs-reporters-the-tesla-ceo-is-winning.html?source=Snapzu