Rubio calls for legislation to keep Huawei restrictions in place

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) vowed legislative action on Saturday after President Trump said that he would lift a ban on U.S. companies doing business with Chinese tech giant Huawei. Rubio predicted in a tweet that a veto-proof majority in the Senate would act to reinstate the ban and other restrictions on Huawei if Trump was serious about lifting them.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/451008-rubio-calls-for-legislation-to-keep-huawei-restrictions-in-place?source=Snapzu

Confederate sub’s weapon killed its own crew, researchers find

The Confederate submarine CSS H. L. Hunley bears the distinction of being the first submarine to ever sink an enemy ship. But the Hunley, a work of state-of-the-art engineering for its time, never returned from that mission on February 17, 1864. Instead, after exploding a "torpedo" below the waterline of the Union sloop-of-war USS Housatonic in Charleston Harbor, the sub was lost at sea.
Read more: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/08/confederate-subs-weapon-killed-its-own-crew-researchers-find/?source=Snapzu

Half-tonne birds may have roamed Europe at same time as humans

Huge thigh bone in Crimean cave belonged to largest bird found in northern hemisphere
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jun/27/half-tonne-birds-roamed-europe-humans?source=Snapzu

TV is still the most common way for Americans to get local news, but fewer people are watching

Cable news is growing, local TV news is declining, and network news is roughly flat.
Read more: https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/06/tv-is-still-the-most-common-way-for-americans-to-get-local-news-but-fewer-people-are-watching/?source=Snapzu

With a single wiretap, police collected 9.2 million text messages

For four months in 2018, authorities in Texas collected more than 9.2 million messages under a single court-authorized wiretap order, newly released figures show.
Read more: https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/29/wiretap-prosecutors-texas/?source=Snapzu

Certain Antidepressants And Antipsychotic Drugs May Increase Your Risk of Dementia

A new study of more than 283,000 elderly people in the UK has found that long-term use of anticholinergic drugs – including some medications for depression, epilepsy, and Parkinson's disease – is associated with a significant increased risk of dementia
Read more: https://www.sciencealert.com/certain-antidepressants-and-antipsychotic-drugs-may-increase-your-risk-of-dementia?source=Snapzu

Humans have made 8.3bn tons of plastic since 1950. This is the illustrated story of where it's gone

Until recently we didn’t know how much plastic was piling up around us. When we found out, the picture wasn’t pretty
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/23/all-the-plastic-ever-made-study-comic?source=Snapzu

Trump suspends new tariffs, U.S. and China to restart trade talks

President Trump and China's Xi Jinping agreed to restart trade talks on Saturday, averting an escalation feared by financial markets, businesses and farmers. "We're going to work with China where we left off," he said. Mr. Trump said existing U.S. tariffs would remain in place against Chinese imports while negotiations continue, but additional tariffs he's threatened to slap on other Chinese goods will not go forward for the "time being."
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-china-trade-talks-restarted-trump-suspends-new-tariffs-today-2019-06-29/?source=Snapzu

Alabama Woman Who Was Shot While Pregnant Is Charged in Fetus’s Death

Marshae Jones was five months pregnant when she was shot in the stomach. The police say she initiated a fight that led to the shooting.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/27/us/pregnant-woman-shot-marshae-jones.html?source=Snapzu

Restored Mission Control comes alive 50 years after Apollo

Gone is the haze of cigarette, cigar and pipe smoke. Gone are the coffee, soda and pizza stains. With only a few exceptions, NASA's Apollo-era Mission Control has been restored.
Read more: https://apnews.com/12556818033a470d823168a37f57ed6c?source=Snapzu

Your 50-year news report: humanity is actually in good shape

Daily headlines may be gloomy but in the five decades since the moon landing we have made giant leaps
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/28/your-50-year-news-report-humanity-is-actually-in-good-shape?source=Snapzu

The side of Paul Allen I wish more people knew about

Bill Gates talks about Paul Allen at the Forbes Philanthropy Summit, where he was posthumously honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award for Philanthropy.
Read more: https://www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/Forbes-Philanthropy-Summit-honors-Paul-Allen?source=Snapzu

Luis Alvarez, Champion of 9/11 Responders, Dies at 53

A former New York City police officer, he developed cancer 16 years after spending three months seeking survivors and victims’ remains in Lower Manhattan in 2001.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/29/obituaries/luis-alvarez-dead.html?source=Snapzu

Chick-fil-A worker jumps through drive-thru window, saves choking boy

Chick-fil-A employees are known for being polite and eager to please. But a Flowery Branch Chick-fil-A worker is now being called a hero. The Hall County teen was working the drive-thru Wednesday when a car pulled up with a 6-year-old choking inside. So, the teen jumped in to help.
Read more: https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/hall-county/chick-fil-a-worker-jumps-through-drive-thru-window-saves-choking-boy/962182071?source=Snapzu

Florida towns can no longer ban residential vegetable gardens

Vegetable gardens may not be as visually pleasing as the floral variety, but Floridians looking to save some green by growing their own salad fixings can soon do so without fear. Gov. Ron DeSantis this week signed legislation that bans local governments from enacting ordinances against homeowners from raising veggies in their yards.
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-towns-can-no-longer-ban-residential-vegetable-gardens/?source=Snapzu

“Weird Al” Talks Dropping Michael Jackson Parodies From Shows After HBO’s Leaving Neverland

“Weird Al” Yankovic is currently on a symphony tour, and during his recent shows, he hasn’t been performing two staples of his usual live show: the Michael Jackson parodies “Eat It” and ”Fat.” In a new interview with Billboard’s Gary Graff, Yankovic explained that he decided to leave those songs out of the show in the aftermath of the two-part HBO documentary Leaving Neverland.
Read more: https://pitchfork.com/news/weird-al-talks-dropping-michael-jackson-parodies-from-shows-after-hbos-leaving-neverland/?source=Snapzu

Andrew Yang will give a $12,000 basic income to a random Twitter follower

The presidential hopeful’s tacky yet effective method of promoting universal basic income.
Read more: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/6/25/18758542/andrew-yang-universal-basic-income-twitter-contest?source=Snapzu

Vermont adopts the most comprehensive plastics ban in U.S.

Single-use plastics—from straws to retail bags—will be illegal in Vermont by summer 2020.
Read more: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/06/vermont-adopts-most-comprehensive-single-use-plastics-ban/?source=Snapzu

Marxist Minds: At Party School, China grooms future leaders

In a secretive school in China's capital rows of students face a giant video projection of Xi Jinping, making careful notes on the lecture on their leader's guiding principles. Sitting in red-covered chairs in a school dotted with statues of late Chinese leaders, being groomed.
Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/marxist-minds-party-school-china-grooms-future-leaders-105032686.html?source=Snapzu

Can Neurodiversity Defeat Doublethink?

Masha Gessen suggests there was a connection between Asperger’s and social activism in the Soviet era.
Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/06/neurodiversity-truth-telling/592465/?source=Snapzu

Trump Jokes to Putin They Should ‘Get Rid’ of Journalists

U.S. president says he’s envious Russia doesn’t have a “fake news” problem, on first anniversary of Annapolis Capital-Gazette newsroom shooting that killed five.
Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-jokes-to-putin-they-should-get-rid-of-journalists?source=Snapzu

The Trump rule? World leaders that violate Twitter rules will get warning label

Move is a shift in efforts to balance its ideological commitment to free expression with rules against harassment and hate speech
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jun/27/twitter-warning-labels-tweets-violate-site-rules?source=Snapzu

Cuyahoga River is reborn 50 years after fire (vintage photos)

Cuyahoga River rises from the ashes and the jokes 50 years after the fire.
Read more: https://expo.cleveland.com/life-and-culture/g66l-2019/06/8a062d9dec2958/no-joke-cuyahoga-river-is-reborn-50-years-after-fire-vintage-photos.html?source=Snapzu

Dunes at Trump golf course in Scotland to lose protected status

Agency wants to remove golf course area from Forevan Links site of special scientific interest
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jun/28/dunes-at-trump-golf-course-in-scotland-to-lose-protected-status?source=Snapzu

Trump on possible war with Iran: 'I don't need exit strategies'

President Trump said Tuesday the U.S. is "not going to need an exit strategy" if war broke out with Iran. "You're not going to need an exit strategy," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, prompting laughter. "I don't need exit strategies."
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/450280-trump-on-possible-war-with-iran-i-dont-need-exit-strategies?amp?source=Snapzu

US judge denies Facebook's request to dismiss a lawsuit regarding Cambridge Analytica scandal- Technology News, Firstpost

A U.S. judge on Friday denied Facebook Inc.’s request to dismiss a lawsuit by the Washington, D.C. attorney general over the social media giant’s improper sharing of 87 million users’ data with British political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica.
Read more: https://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/us-judge-denies-facebooks-request-to-dismiss-a-lawsuit-regarding-cambridge-analytica-scandal-6741651.html?source=Snapzu

For the first time, Canada adds white supremacists and neo-Nazi groups to its terror organization list

Blood and Honour and Combat 18 were labeled terrorist entities last Friday, joining groups such as al-Qaeda, Boko Haram and the Islamic State.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/27/americas/canada-neo-nazi-terror-organization-list-trnd/index.html?source=Snapzu

Can Neurodiversity Defeat Doublethink?

Masha Gessen suggests there was a connection between Asperger’s and social activism in the Soviet era.
Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/06/neurodiversity-truth-telling/592465/?source=Snapzu

A photo history of Frog, the company that designed the original Mac

Frog Design is 50 years old today.
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/design/2019/6/26/18758789/apple-mac-design-snow-white-frog-polk-photo-essay?source=Snapzu

Five years jail for worst animal cruelty

People found guilty of the worst cases of animal cruelty will face up to five years in prison under a new law proposed for England and Wales. A Parliamentary bill from Environment Secretary Michael Gove raises the maximum term from six months. The harshest sentences would be for dog fighting, abuse of puppies and kittens, or gross neglect of farm animals.
Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48766531?source=Snapzu

Vermont adopts the most comprehensive plastics ban in U.S.

Single-use plastics—from straws to retail bags—will be illegal in Vermont by summer 2020.
Read more: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/06/vermont-adopts-most-comprehensive-single-use-plastics-ban/?source=Snapzu

The Boomers Ruined Everything

The mistakes of the past are fast creating a crisis for younger Americans.
Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/06/boomers-are-blame-aging-america/592336/?source=Snapzu

Woman falls asleep on flight and wakes up in pitch dark on locked and empty plane

‘I think I’m having a bad dream because...how is this happening!!?’
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/woman-asleep-plane-locked-asleep-toronto-pearson-airport-quebec-a8970506.html?source=Snapzu

You can't offer to murder cops on Reddit unless you're on r/TheDonald

Reddit has a very specific policy prohibiting people from threatening bodily harm or attempting to incite violence. It uses this policy as the basis for banning individual accounts, discussion threads, and whole subreddits. Basically if you cross the line, you’re gone. Unless you’re a member of the r/TheDonald subreddit.
Read more: https://thenextweb.com/opinion/2019/06/25/you-cant-offer-to-murder-cops-on-reddit-unless-youre-on-r-thedonald/?source=Snapzu

Popular YouTuber Etika Dies At 29

Today, police confirmed the death of Desmond “Etika” Amofah, a well-known gaming YouTuber, after discovering him in Manhattan’s East River yesterday evening. Amofah’s body was found two days after police recovered his belongings on the Manhattan Bridge. Last week, he had published a video that appeared like a suicide note.
Read more: https://kotaku.com/popular-youtuber-etika-dies-at-29-1835842910?source=Snapzu

Blurred lines: Trump's UN choice and her coal magnate spouse

The email went out from senior Environmental Protection Agency officials to Kelly Craft, the U.S. ambassador to Canada, responding to questions she had about a funding matter. But the acknowledgment email the EPA got back a few hours later wasn’t from the ambassador. By Ellen Knickmeyer.
Read more: https://apnews.com/853e3062f3db4370ae542bd58c70fbed?source=Snapzu

US super-rich call for wealth tax

Some of America's richest people are urging US presidential candidates to back a wealth tax on the super-rich to improve inequality and climate change. "America has a moral, ethical and economic responsibility to tax our wealth more," they said in a letter. Signatories include investor George Soros, Facebook's co-founder Chris Hughes, and Molly Munger, daughter of billionaire Charlie Munger.
Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48752927?source=Snapzu

SpaceX caught the nose cone of its Falcon Heavy rocket for the first time in the net of a boat

SpaceX caught the half of the fairing, or nose cone, of its Falcon Heavy rocket on Tuesday, passing another milestone as the company seeks to consistently reuse an expensive part of its rocket. Stationed in the Atlantic Ocean, high speed boat “Ms. Tree” caught the fairing half in a net strung up above the boat’s deck, CEO Elon Musk confirmed in a tweet. The fairing is the bulbous nose cone on top of the rocket.
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/25/spacex-caught-falcon-heavy-rocket-nose-cone-in-net-of-high-speed-boat.html?source=Snapzu

Democrats Want To Make 2020 The Climate Change Election

Climate change is consistently polling as a top issue for Democrats, and candidates are going deep early.
Read more: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zahrahirji/climate-change-election-primaries-democrat-2020?bfsource=relatedmanual?source=Snapzu

Persistent Telco Data Theft: Is China to Blame?

At least 10 cell providers have been compromised, losing the call detail records for “hundreds of millions” of telco customers.
Read more: https://securityboulevard.com/2019/06/persistent-telco-data-theft-is-china-to-blame/?source=Snapzu

The 70-year-old retiree who became America’s worst counterfeiter

How a mystery man produced thousands of the ugliest counterfeit $1 bills ever made — and eluded federal agents for more than a decade.
Read more: https://thehustle.co/worst-counterfeiter-in-history-mr-880/?source=Snapzu

The Holocaust Survivor Who Deciphered Nazi Doublespeak

The personal papers of one of World War II’s earliest historians reveals an obsession with how Nazis distorted the German language.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/24/books/holocaust-nazi-archive.html?source=Snapzu

The ‘Forgotten’ US Shootdown of Iranian Airliner Flight 655­

On the rare occasions the US mainstream media refer to the US shootdown of an Iranian airliner in 1988, they sustain the myth it was simply a "mistake".
Read more: https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2017/07/03/the-forgotten-us-shootdown-of-iranian-airliner-flight-655%C2%AD/?source=Snapzu

The Boomers Ruined Everything

The mistakes of the past are fast creating a crisis for younger Americans.
Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/06/boomers-are-blame-aging-america/592336/?source=Snapzu

How the Media Misrepresents the Debate Over the Green New Deal

A recent Politico article about the Green New Deal resolution put forward in February by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) features many grumblings from blue-collar union members about the potential economic disruption and the loss of jobs — even though the resolution calls for union rights and a federal jobs guarantee for workers.
Read more: https://truthout.org/articles/how-the-media-misrepresents-the-debate-over-the-green-new-deal/?source=Snapzu

Cuba’s generosity after Chernobyl

Letters: Havana treated victims of the catastrophe for free, writes Doreen Weppler-Grogan
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/16/cuba-generosity-after-chernobyl?source=Snapzu

General Electric to scrap California power plant 20 years early

General Electric Co said on Friday it plans to demolish a large power plant it owns in California this year after only one-third of its useful life because the plant is no longer economically viable in a state where wind and solar supply a growing share of inexpensive electricity.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ge-power-idUSKCN1TM2MV?source=Snapzu

U.S. Cyber Has Hacked Iranian Missile C&C, Say Super-Secret Sources

The U.S. has been hacking Iran. Allegedly U.S. Cyber Command has launched cyber strikes against Iranian command-and-control systems.
Read more: https://securityboulevard.com/2019/06/us-cyber-has-hacked-iranian-missile-cc-say-super-secret-sources/?source=Snapzu

Exclusive: Massive leak of Trump transition vetting documents shows "red flags" for top officials

Some of the contenders were strikingly swampy — even by the RNC vetters' standards.
Read more: https://www.axios.com/leaked-donald-trump-vetting-docs-hbo-6ce3cd26-1eb9-4da8-b15e-47b56020aef7.html?source=Snapzu

Fake Alcohol Could Be Behind the Deaths in the Dominican Republic

Authorities are reportedly investigating whether bootleg alcohol could be causing the mysterious deaths.
Read more: https://www.thecut.com/2019/06/dominican-republic-deaths-police-investigating-fake-alcohol.html?source=Snapzu