Missouri Nurse Fired From Job For Refusing To Get Flu Shot

A Missouri nurse was terminated from her job after she refused to get flu shot, sparking a backlash. A group of protesters rallied outside of the Mercy Hospital South in St. Louis on Monday after one nurse at the facility was fired due to her refusal to be vaccinated due to religious reasons. Nelia Aubuchon, who organized the protest, said that the nurse was terminated after she violated the hospital's policy that requires employees to receive a flu shot.
Read more: https://www.techtimes.com/articles/235840/20181129/missouri-nurse-fired-for-refusal-to-get-flu-shot.htm?source=Snapzu

French MPs back ban on smacking children - France 24

The French National Assembly voted Friday in favour of a largely symbolic ban on parents smacking their children, a practice which though condemned by the UN still enjoys widespread support in the country.
Read more: https://www.france24.com/en/20181130-france-mps-national-assembly-back-ban-smacking-children?source=Snapzu

Terry Crews Is Fighting for the Young Man Within Him

On a late-summer day in Los Angeles, I plan to meet Terry Crews at the Getty Museum because, in addition to everything else Crews does—which, seriously, is everything—he’s a hugely talented visual artist. I figure we’ll go deep on the photography exhibit. I’ll ask: “Terry, what’s the inner monologue of the person in this picture?” Really get my Barbara Walters on. What happens instead is that we get nine steps into the Getty Center, turn to one another, and talk for five solid hours—about toxic masculinity...
Read more: https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/a24526058/terry-crews-interview-masculinity-2018/?source=Snapzu

Stone Tools at Arabian “Crossroads” Present Mysteries of Ancient Human Migration

Nearly 200,000 years ago, at the confluence of two long-vanished river systems in the heart of Arabia, people climbed a jagged, rocky dyke rising nearly 200 feet above the surrounding plains. There they crafted hand axes and other edged tools from plentiful volcanic stone—and left thousands of them behind. Today, many millennia after the more temperate Arabia the toolmakers knew vanished, those stone tools endure as tantalizing clues to the mysteries of human evolution and migration in the ancient world.
Read more: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/stone-tools-arabian-crossroads-present-mysteries-ancient-human-migration-180970916/?source=Snapzu

Nine people charged with selling Samsung's curved display tech

Prosecutors in South Korea have indicted nine people and two companies for allegedly selling Samsung's curved-edge OLED display tech (which it uses in its flagship Galaxy phones) to a company in China. The CEO of Samsung supplier Toptec Co Ltd was among three people arrested over the scheme. Prosecutors say he and eight employees received about $13.8 million for the intellectual property.
Read more: https://www.engadget.com/2018/11/29/samsung-china-intellectual-property-theft-south-korea/?source=Snapzu

Tariffs on Chinese rare-earth minerals create a sticky problem for US competitors

Rare-earth minerals mined in the US need to be sent to China for processing.
Read more: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/11/us-tariffs-helping-then-hurting-domestic-rare-earth-mineral-production/?source=Snapzu

German authorities descended on Deutsche Bank AG, including its downtown Frankfurt headquarters, in a coordinated raid related to a money-laundering investigation

German authorities descended on Deutsche Bank AG, including its downtown Frankfurt headquarters, in a coordinated raid related to a money-laundering investigation. More than six police vehicles, their blue lights flashing, pulled up to Deutsche Bank’s main offices shortly before 9 a.m., in an operation involving about 170 officers.
Read more: https://stockmarketnews.today/2018/11/29/german-authorities-descended-on-deutsche-bank-ag-including-its-downtown-frankfurt-headquarters-in-a-coordinated-raid-related-to-a-money-laundering-investigation/?source=Snapzu

The Counterinsurgency Paradigm: How U.S. Politics Have Become Paramilitarized

We spoke to Bernard Harcourt about his latest book, “The Counterrevolution,” and what makes the Trump presidency unique. By Jeremy Scahill.
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/11/25/counterinsurgency-us-drone-strikes/?source=Snapzu

How Restaurants Got So Loud

Fashionable minimalism replaced plush opulence. That’s a recipe for commotion.
Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/576715/?source=Snapzu

Trump’s Chances in 2020 Are Better Than You Think

We underestimated him once. Let’s not do it again. By Matt Taibbi.
Read more: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/donald-trump-2020-election-758840/?source=Snapzu

Millennials in China Are Using Nudes to Secure Loans

Money lenders offering services like Afterpay are demanding that customers send naked selfies as collateral.
Read more: https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/kzv38w/millennials-in-china-are-using-nudes-to-secure-loans?source=Snapzu

The $100 Million Bot Heist

When it comes to using computers to steal money, few can come close to matching the success of Russian hacker Evgeniy Bogachev.
Read more: http://nautil.us/issue/66/clockwork/the-100-million-bot-heist?source=Snapzu

How a future Trump Cabinet member gave a serial sex abuser the deal of a lifetime

Palm Beach multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein was accused of sexually abusing dozens of underage girls. Prosecutors, including future Trump labor secretary Alexander Acosta, cut Epstein an extraordinary plea deal. By Emily Michot, Julie K. Brown.
Read more: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article220097825.html?source=Snapzu

New interactive death map breathes life into medieval London

It kicked off at a urinal in Cheapside, and ended in a bloody and brutal murder. Poor aim has been responsible for many unexpected deaths, but perhaps none more so than that of Philip of Ashendon. One of a brutal range of fatal scuffles, revenge killings and infanticides recorded by London coroners in the early 1300s, Philip’s demise is among those to feature in a new interactive map that uses death to breathe life into medieval London.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/nov/28/death-map-medieval-london-1300s?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other?source=Snapzu

Trump on climate change: ‘People like myself, we have very high levels of intelligence but we’re not necessarily such believers.’

President Trump on Tuesday dismissed a landmark report compiled by 13 federal agencies detailing how damage from global warming is intensifying throughout the country, saying he is not among the “believers” who see climate change as a pressing problem. The comments were the president’s most extensive yet on why he disagrees with his own government’s analysis, which found that climate change poses a severe threat to the health of Americans, as well as to the country’s infrastructure, economy and natural resources.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-on-climate-change-people-like-myself-we-have-very-high-levels-of-intelligence-but-were-not-necessarily-such-believers/2018/11/27/722f0184-f27e-11e8-aeea-b85fd44449f5_story.html?utm_term=.8051b6015e69?source=Snapzu

The list of demands by France’s yellow vest protesters would be the envy of many US workers

For the past two weeks, a massive protest movement known as the “yellow vests” has shaken France. While the movement began as a way for low-income people to voice their anger at the government’s efforts to target car pollution with a heavy carbon tax, it has now spiraled into an ongoing, at-times violent expression of general dissatisfaction with president Emmanuel Macron, as well as France’s political system and labor laws.
Read more: https://qz.com/1478880/us-workers-would-envy-frances-yellow-vest-protesters-demands/?source=Snapzu

Turkish and Italian experts restore Cappadocia's 1,000-year-old Tokalı Church

The Tokalı Church, one of the oldest rock-cut churches in Cappadocia featuring precious frescoes, is being restored by experts from Turkey's Ministry of...
Read more: https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2018/10/08/turkish-and-italian-experts-restore-cappadocias-1000-year-old-tokali-church?source=Snapzu

Trump’s nominee for USDA science post calls new U.S. climate report ‘genuine’

The entomologist nominated to be the chief scientist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in Washington, D.C., said today he accepts the conclusions of a new federal report on climate change that President Donald Trump has dismissed and that he hopes science can help farmers adapt to some of the harmful effects already being caused by global warming.
Read more: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/usda-science-nominee-calls-new-us-climate-report-genuine?source=Snapzu

UPS Driver Adopts Shelter Dog Who Jumped Into His Truck: 'I Wanted Him to Have a Good Home'

One UPS driver was delivering packages when he received a gift of his own. Jason Coronado, a New York UPS driver, was making the rounds on Oct. 5 when Ernie, a pitbull-terrier mix in the Buffalo City Animal Shelter, approached his truck, according to ABC affiliate WKBW. “[I] call him up to the truck, and he pretty much just hopped up in, and I was like, ‘Okay,’ ” Coronado told WKBW. “He hopped up and just sat there and did not want to leave.”
Read more: https://people.com/pets/ups-driver-adopts-shelter-dog-he-met-on-delivery-route/?source=Snapzu

They Shall Not Grow Old – New Trailer

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Michael Cohen pleads guilty to lying during Russia probe

Michael Cohen pleaded guilty on Thursday to fresh charges that he lied to Congress about a real-estate deal with the Russians that he was trying to broker on behalf of President Trump
Read more: https://nypost.com/2018/11/29/michael-cohen-to-plead-guilty-to-lying-during-russia-probe/?source=Snapzu

Bus driver buys homeless rider dinner, lets him stay on warm bus all night

On a recent chilly night in Wisconsin, a Milwaukee bus driver extended an act of kindness to a homeless rider — and it was all caught on camera. Now, that gesture is being heralded as humanity at its best. Natalie Barnes was driving her usual route when a man named Richard, who boards her bus about once a month, got on and told her that he had just lost his home. "I've been out on the streets for a week," he said. "I am officially homeless."
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bus-driver-buys-homeless-rider-dinner-let-him-stay-on-warm-bus-for-her-whole-shift/?source=Snapzu

Republicans keep misunderstanding the law that protects internet platforms

Today I come bearing a treat: a guest post from The Verge’s editor-in-chief, Nilay Patel. Nilay took note of comments made Tuesday by Josh Hawley, the incoming Republican senator from Missouri, about an issue we’ll be watching closely here next year: efforts on both on the left and the right to curtail Section 230, the portion of the Communications Decency Act that in most cases exempts internet platforms from liability for what their users publish.
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/28/18115776/josh-hawley-section-230-ted-cruz-republicans-internet-liability?source=Snapzu

India has no plans to recover body of US missionary killed by tribe

One of the most hotly debated proposals in the FY 2020 budget cycle is likely to be the creation of a military service for space. One of the main arguments being made against the creation of a Space Force is the cost. In September, an internal Air Force memo leaked to the media estimated that cost at $13 billion — an eye-popping figure, if true. But missed in this headline were some important caveats, namely that this was a five-year cost estimate and it included a lot more than just a Space Force, such as a billion-dollar new headquarters building for U.S. Space Command.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/28/india-body-john-allen-chau-missionary-killed-by-sentinelese-tribe?source=Snapzu

Economy grew 3.5% in third quarter, pushing corporate profits to 6-year high, GDP shows

A torrid U.S. economy blazed a 3.5% pace of growth during the summer and boosted corporate profits to the highest rate in six years, fresh government figures show. The increase in gross domestic product — the official measuring stick of the economy — was unchanged from the original finding. Economists polled by MarketWatch had forecast third-quarter GDP to be revised up to 3.6% annual rate.
Read more: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/economy-grew-35-in-third-quarter-pushes-corporate-profits-to-6-year-high-gdp-shows-2018-11-28?source=Snapzu

Missionary didn’t die from tribesmen’s arrows. He was killed by his own arrogance

Chau was an invader who breached the homeland of a small tribe; they stood their ground.
Read more: https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2018/11/27/missionary-didn-die-from-tribesmen-arrows-was-killed-his-own-arrogance/QSblpdBocWWSs3HeS94TYP/story.html?source=Snapzu

House Democrats Who Haven’t Supported Net Neutrality Yet Have All Taken Money from Telecoms

The Democratic members of Congress staying mum on net neutrality have all taken campaign contributions from major telecom companies, according to Federal Election Commission filings. In May, the Senate passed a joint resolution under the Congressional Review Act that would overturn the Federal Communication Commission’s decision to scrap free internet rules last year.
Read more: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wj3gx5/house-democrats-who-havent-supported-net-neutrality-yet-have-all-taken-money-from-telecoms?source=Snapzu

From Chicago heat waves to Maine's struggling lobsters: 6 changes tied to global warming

Heat waves that make Chicago feel like Las Vegas. Warming ocean temperatures that displace Maine's lobsters. A year-round spike in disease-carrying mosquitoes in Florida. These are just some of the ways climate change could play out across the country over the coming decades, according to the federal government's National Climate Assessment, released over Thanksgiving weekend.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/heat-waves-mosquito-outbreaks-landslides-6-ways-climate-change-hitting-n940736?source=Snapzu

Elon Musk's L.A. freeway tunnel won't see the light of day

Elon Musk's Boring Company announced Tuesday that it has pulled the plug on a project that appeared to be nothing more than a subterranean pipe dream. The company announced Tuesday that it was withdrawing plans, unveiled in 2017, for a high-tech transportation tunnel below the 405 freeway along Los Angeles' Westside.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/elon-musk-s-l-freeway-tunnel-won-t-see-light-n940981?source=Snapzu

Farm bankruptcies are surging as Trump's trade war drags on

As President Donald Trump maintains protectionist policies with global trading partners, an increasing number of farms in the Midwest are struggling to stay afloat. At least 84 farm operations in Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and parts of northwestern Wisconsin filed for bankruptcy in the 12 months that ended in June, according to a new analysis from the Minneapolis Federal Reserve, more than twice the level seen over the same period in 2014.
Read more: https://markets.businessinsider.com/commodities/news/trump-trade-war-causing-farm-bankruptcies-to-surge-in-upper-midwest-2018-11-1027762385?source=Snapzu

Sins of the Fathers

The Confederacy was built on slavery. How can so many Southern whites still believe otherwise? One writer’s year-long argument with a man who has devoted his life to celebrating the Confederacy.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/magazine/wp/2018/11/28/feature/the-confederacy-was-built-on-slavery-how-can-so-many-southern-whites-still-believe-otherwise/?source=Snapzu

A Defendant Shows Up in Immigration Court by Himself. He’s 6. — ProPublica

Wilder Hilario Maldonado Cabrera was the youngest defendant on the juvenile docket that day, and he was one of the last children left in government custody who had been affected by the zero-tolerance policy.
Read more: https://www.propublica.org/article/6-year-old-in-immigration-court-by-himself-zero-tolerance-family-separation?source=Snapzu

‘Facebook has a black people problem’: Black ex-employee spotlights race issues in public memo

Mark Luckie, a digital strategist and former journalist, says he accepted the job offer from Facebook reluctantly. At first, he didn’t want to move to Silicon Valley from Atlanta, where he had been living, but he said his fiance was able to persuade him, telling him that the job presented an opportunity to make a difference on the influential social network.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/11/28/facebook-has-black-people-problem-black-ex-employee-spotlights-race-issues-public-memo?source=Snapzu

Magnus Carlsen Beats Fabiano Caruana to Win World Chess Championship

After three weeks of draws failed to produce a winner, the players settled the title in rapid chess, with Carlsen retaining his title.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/28/sports/magnus-carlsen-fabiano-caruana-world-chess-championship.html?source=Snapzu

Confederate flag placed on Mississippi civil rights martyr's grave

The family of Vernon Dahmer learned Tuesday of a Confederate battle flag placed on the civil rights martyr's grave.
Read more: https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2018/11/27/confederate-flag-placed-civil-rights-martyrs-grave/2127132002/?source=Snapzu

EU aims to be 'climate neutral' by 2050

The European Union says it wants to become the first major economy to achieve net zero emissions by 2050.
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46360212?source=Snapzu

Sega Dreamcast at 20: the futuristic games console that came too soon

In 1998, the Sega Dreamcast changed the whole face of console and games design, but it was haunted by an unbeatable competitor.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/games/2018/nov/28/sega-dreamcast-at-20-futuristic-console?source=Snapzu

‘Don’t pay for these idiots’: Duterte wants Filipinos to ditch Catholic mass, pray at home instead

Turning up his war of words with the Catholic Church, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte now wants citizens to ditch mass, calling the church’s teachings out of touch and its bishops corrupt. “You build a chapel on your own house and pray there. You don’t have to go to church to pay for these idiots,” Duterte said in a speech reported by ABS-CBN, the largest media conglomerate in the Philippines.
Read more: https://www.rt.com/news/444931-duterte-stop-going-church/?source=Snapzu

Our climate reality will catch up to us, no matter how hard Trump tries to bury the evidence

IF YOU did not hear about the major new federal climate change report, the Trump administration will be pleased. The report was released the day after Thanksgiving — when many people were distracted — probably because it contradicts practically everything President Trump has said and done on global warming. The Fourth National Climate Assessment is yet another reminder that reality will catch up to the United States, no matter how much the president tries to ignore and deny it.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/our-climate-reality-will-catch-up-to-us-no-matter-how-hard-trump-tries-to-bury-the-evidence/2018/11/26/9250d57c-f1c1-11e8-80d0-f7e1948d55f4_story.html?source=Snapzu

America’s Epidemic of Empty Churches

Three blocks from my Brooklyn apartment, a large brick structure stretches toward heaven. Tourists recognize it as a church—the building’s bell tower and stained-glass windows give it away—but worshippers haven’t gathered here in years. The 19th-century building was once known as St. Vincent De Paul Church and housed a vibrant congregation for more than a century. But attendance dwindled and coffers ran dry by the early 2000s. Rain leaked through holes left by missing shingles, a tree sprouted in the bell tower, and the Brooklyn diocese decided to sell the building to developers.
Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/11/what-should-america-do-its-empty-church-buildings/576592/?source=Snapzu

'We live in an Idiocracy': How lies become truth in online America

The only light in the house came from the glow of three computer monitors, and Christopher Blair, 46, sat down at a keyboard and started to type. His wife had left for work and his children were on their way to school, but waiting online was his other community, an unreality where nothing was exactly as it seemed. He logged onto his website and began to invent his first news story of the day.
Read more: https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/nothing-on-this-page-is-real-how-lies-become-truth-in-online-america-20181127-p50ijg.html?source=Snapzu

Memo from a ‘Facebook nation’ to Mark Zuckerberg: You moved fast and broke our country.

In August of 2016, investigative journalist Maria Ressa contacted Facebook with some “alarming” data: Rampant harassment and threats targeted via Facebook at people, predominantly women, in the Philippines who were critical of the “drug war” being waged by the newly elected president, Rodrigo Duterte.
Read more: https://www.recode.net/2018/11/26/18111859/maria-ressa-rappler-facebook-mark-zuckerberg-philippines-kara-swisher-recode-decode-podcast?source=Snapzu

Robert Kubica admits many jumping ship at Williams

Robert Kubica is committed to his Williams drive for 2019, but the F1 returnee admits his team is facing many staff departures. Last week, the Polish driver finally sealed a sensational return to the pinnacle of motorsport after a seven-year absence when he was nominated by Williams to race alongside George Russell.
Read more: http://f1i.com/news/325027-kubica-admits-many-are-jumping-ship-at-williams.html?source=Snapzu

Trans Woman Was Beaten in ICE Custody Before Death, Autopsy Finds

A transgender woman who died in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody after being held in a privately operated detention center was likely physically abused there, according an autopsy report released Monday, and died after several days of severe, untreated dehydration.
Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/trans-woman-roxsana-hernandez-rodriguez-beaten-in-ice-custody-before-death-pathologist-finds?source=Snapzu

'Crime Against Humanity' and 'International Embarrassment': Trump Refuses to 'Believe' Climate Report

President Donald Trump was panned on Monday for his dismissal of his own administration's recently released climate assessment. "In all seriousness, the willful denial and obfuscation by Trump on climate change is a crime against humanity. Billions of people will bear incalculable harm for generations to come. Much, much, much worse than possibly colluding to steal an election."
Read more: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/11/26/crime-against-humanity-trump-denounced-international-embarrassment-refusing-believe?source=Snapzu

NPR’s ‘Fresh Air’ Fires Film Critic David Edelstein Over ‘Last Tango in Paris’ Rape Joke

NPR’s “Fresh Air” program has ended its association with David Edelstein following the film critic’s controversial joke about the “Last Tango in Paris” rape scen…
Read more: https://variety.com/2018/film/news/npr-fresh-air-fires-david-edelstein-following-rape-joke-1203038218/?source=Snapzu

Stephen Hillenburg, ‘SpongeBob SquarePants’ Creator, Dies at 57

His cartoon show, loved by the 12-and-under crowd and by many much older fans as well, spawned two movies and a Tony-nominated Broadway musical.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/27/obituaries/stephen-hillenburg-spongebob-squarepants-creator-dies-at-57.html?source=Snapzu

EXCLUSIVE: CNN poll reveals depth of anti-Semitism in Europe

More than 25% of Europeans polled believe Jews have too much influence in business and finance, and a third said Jews use the Holocaust to advance their own position or goals, CNN's survey found.
Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2018/11/europe/antisemitism-poll-2018-intl/?fbclid=IwAR3DXCszfoOSLTQp1-6pzx0bGR4S1v6rLizeKxAIT0JtJ2_to9Az44924Fc?source=Snapzu

Bethesda Reportedly Rescinds Offer For ‘Fallout 76’ PC Refunds

Back on Thursday, we ran a report indicating that Bethesda was offering refunds to dejected players of the PC version of Fallout 76, with a number of them citing issues with connecting online and performance. However, a follow-up indicates that they aren’t going through with it after all.
Read more: https://comicbook.com/gaming/2018/11/26/bethesda-reportedly-rescinds-offer-for-fallout-76-pc-refunds/?source=Snapzu

Manafort held secret talks with Assange in Ecuadorian embassy

Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort held secret talks with Julian Assange inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, and visited around the time he joined Trump’s campaign, the Guardian has been told. Sources have said Manafort went to see Assange in 2013, 2015 and in spring 2016 – during the period when he was made a key figure in Trump’s push for the White House.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/27/manafort-held-secret-talks-with-assange-in-ecuadorian-embassy?source=Snapzu