Woman wins $2 million after buying lottery ticket for the wrong drawing

A North Carolina woman is $1.4 million richer after buying a lottery ticket for a drawing she was not trying to enter.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/30/us/woman-wins-wrong-powerball-drawing-trnd/index.html?source=Snapzu

Ex-'Tarzan' Actor Among 7 Plane Crash Victims In Tennessee

Actor Joe Lara, who played Tarzan in the television series "Tarzan: The Epic Adventures," has died in a plane crash near Nashville.
Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ex-tarzan-actor-among-7-plane-crash-victims-in-tennessee_n_60b3e94ce4b04ddf13ef802f?ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000067?source=Snapzu

Couple Buys $7,000 Camera from Amazon, Gets Empty Boxes Instead

Amazon initially denied a request for refund, stating delivery had been "verified."
Read more: https://petapixel.com/2021/05/26/couple-buys-7000-camera-from-amazon-gets-empty-boxes-instead/?source=Snapzu

Coronavirus shows we must get serious about the well-being of animals

Animal suffering not only harms other species, it endangers our own. Here's how we can do better.
Read more: https://theconversation.com/coronavirus-shows-we-must-get-serious-about-the-well-being-of-animals-138872?source=Snapzu

Study: Grocery taxes increase likelihood of food insecurity

A new study co-authored by Harry Kaiser, the Gellert Family Professor of Applied Economics and Management, finds that even a slight grocery tax-rate increase could lead to food insecurity for many U.S. households.
Read more: https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2021/05/study-grocery-taxes-increase-likelihood-food-insecurity?source=Snapzu

In Mexico, cartels are hunting down police at their homes

The notoriously violent Jalisco cartel has responded to Mexico’s “hugs, not bullets” policy with a policy of its own: The cartel kidnapped several members of an elite police force in the state of Guanajuato, tortured them to obtain names and addresses of fellow officers and is now hunting down and killing police at their homes, on their days off, in front of their families.
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/caribbean-mexico-police-f6ea7798ca3cc171ac13b3a5a6a6c266?source=Snapzu

Judge Gave Drug Dealer a Second Chance. 16 Years Later, He Swore Him In As a Lawyer.

The difference between finding justice and following the letter of the law sometimes takes a simple act of compassion. Where others might have seen an incorrigible offender, one judge saw promise—and following a hunch, he acted on his intuition.
Read more: https://www.newshables.com/2021/05/29/choose-gave-drug-seller-a-second-likelihood-16-years-later-he-swore-him-in-as-a-lawyer/?source=Snapzu

Opinion: COVID-19′s demographic fallout has begun: We have fewer babies, fewer immigrants and more trouble ahead

The COVID-19 pandemic is shifting the shape of population in countries around the world, both in lives lost and in babies not born. We are becoming fewer even faster than before. More than a year after governments closed borders, shut down businesses and ordered people to stay home, the latest data show significant declines in fertility in some countries – declines that could become permanent. At the other end of life, so many people have died prematurely that life expectancy has gone down in some countries. This pandemic will influence the demographic makeup of countries, including Canada, for years to come.
Read more: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-covid-19s-demographic-fallout-has-begun-we-have-fewer-babies-fewer/?source=Snapzu

Remains of 215 children found buried at former B.C. residential school, First Nation says

Preliminary findings from a survey of the grounds at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School have uncovered the remains of 215 children buried at the site, the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation says.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/tk-eml%C3%BAps-te-secw%C3%A9pemc-215-children-former-kamloops-indian-residential-school-1.6043778?source=Snapzu

World's Tiniest Pig at 10-Inches Tall, Once Thought Extinct, Is Returning to the Wild

Acting as an important keystone species in its grassland home, the 10-inch tall pygmy hog in North India is coming back from the brink.
Read more: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/a-tiny-pygmy-hog-is-coming-back-from-extinction-into-north-india/?source=Snapzu

Remains of 215 children found at former indigenous school site in Canada

The remains of 215 children, some as young as three years old, were found at the site of a former residential school for indigenous children, a discovery Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described as heartbreaking on Friday.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/remains-215-children-found-former-indigenous-school-site-canada-2021-05-28/?source=Snapzu

Moderna Warns New Waves of Covid-19 Are Coming

Moderna scientists and executives laid out their plans to combat new strains of the virus that causes Covid-19 at a virtual investor event on Thursday, saying that new waves of the epidemic are on their way. “As the virus spreads, it is rapidly mutating,” the company’s chief scientific officer, Melissa Moore, said on the call. “Some of these new viral strains appear to be even more transmissible than the original strain… We already know that some of these new strains are less susceptible to neutralization by our current vaccine.”
Read more: https://www.barrons.com/articles/at-modernas-science-day-focus-is-on-covid-variants-51622204258?source=Snapzu

Modi Never Bought Enough COVID-19 Vaccines for India. Now the Whole World Is Paying

“India’s vaccine nationalism—along with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s empty showboating—not only plunged India into an unexpected vaccine shortage, but also put countries banking on vaccines from India at great risk,” writes Debasish Roy Chowdhury.
Read more: https://time.com/6052370/modi-didnt-buy-enough-covid-19-vaccine/?source=Snapzu

Why Don't Americans Use Bidets?

Invented centuries ago in France, the bidet has never taken off in the States. That might be changing.
Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/03/the-bidets-revival/555770/?source=Snapzu

Asian Americans are patrolling streets across the US to keep their elders safe

Carl Chan was walking in Oakland's Chinatown on his way to meet an Asian elder who had been attacked when a stranger called him a racial slur and hit him on the head. "I am so fortunate to be able to live another day to tell my story," Chan told CNN.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/28/us/asian-americans-volunteer-foot-patrols/index.html?source=Snapzu

Bill Cosby refuses sex offender program, so is denied parole

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Actor Bill Cosby won't be paroled this year after refusing to participate in sex offender programs during his nearly three years in state prison in Pennsylvania. The 83-year-old Cosby has long said he would resist the treatment programs and refuse to acknowledge wrongdoing even if it means serving the full 10-year sentence.
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/pa-state-wire-bill-cosby-entertainment-arts-and-entertainment-1dbde3849fb68ca116fcfa875ca886b7?source=Snapzu

Scientology's secrets spill into open in Danny Masterson rape case

Women who have accused Danny Masterson of rape testified that Scientology officials tried to stop them from reporting the alleged attacks to police.
Read more: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-05-27/danny-masterson-rape-trial-secretive-scientology-polices?source=Snapzu

Kim Kardashian Tested Positive For COVID Days After Returning From That Private Island Birthday Trip

It seems that Kim tested positive roughly 10 days after returning from the infamous trip, and the Kardashians decided against disclosing her diagnosis at the time. The revelation came during the latest episode of KUWTK.
Read more: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/elliewoodward/kim-kardashian-covid-19-after-birthday-private-island-trip?source=Snapzu

Narcissism and aggression go hand in hand, study says

While narcissism is a personality disorder, psychologists remain curious about how it can manifest physically. According to a thorough analysis of 437 studies on narcissism around the world, there appears to be a strong correlation between narcissism and aggression — regardless of gender, age, and country of residence. The analysis was published in the journal Psychological Bulletin this week.
Read more: https://www.salon.com/2021/05/27/narcissism-and-aggression-go-hand-in-hand-study-says/?source=Snapzu

NASA gets billion-dollar increase in Biden's 2022 budget proposal

NASA stands to receive a notable boost in funding to the tune of more than $1 billion if the Biden administration's 2022 budget request works its way through Congress.
Read more: https://www.floridatoday.com/story/tech/science/space/2021/05/28/nasa-gets-multibillion-dollar-increase-bidens-2022-budget-proposal/7457154002/?source=Snapzu

Paul Soles, Voice of Spider-Man in 1960s Animated Series, Dies at 90

Paul Soles, the voice actor who starred in the original animated "Spider-Man" series in the 1960s, has died at the age of 90.
Read more: https://www.thewrap.com/paul-soles-animated-spider-man-voice-1960s-dies-90/?source=Snapzu

Bill Cosby denied parole after he refuses sex offender treatment program

Bill Cosby will not be released from prison anytime soon. The 83-year-old actor, who is currently serving three to 10 years in Pennsylvania state prison after being convicted of sexual assault in 2018, has been denied parole nearly three years into his sentence.
Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2021/05/27/bill-cosby-denied-parole-after-refusing-sex-offender-treatment/7475265002/?source=Snapzu

English police hunting cannabis farm instead uncover cryptocurrency mine

Officers raid a property near Birmingham suspected of housing a cannabis farm, but find 100 computer units running Bitcoin mining and stealing electricity.
Read more: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-05-29/police-hunting-cannabis-farm-instead-uncover-crypto-mine/100175796?source=Snapzu

Amazon Wants to Eat Health Care Next

The tech giant may be opening its own pharmacies, and Google wants to mine patient data. The goal is not to fix a broken system but to exploit it. A few years ago, attending a tech conference that catered to an industry-friendly audience, I listened as a venture capitalist praised the upcoming possibilities for growth in the U.S. health care market.
Read more: https://newrepublic.com/article/162553/amazon-care-pharmacy-big-tech-universal-healthcare?source=Snapzu

Danny Masterson’s Rape Accusers Say They Were Silenced by Scientology

During four days of preliminary hearings last week in the rape trial of That ’70s Show actor and Scientologist Danny Masterson, three women detailed how top officials from the celebrity-driven church allegedly tried to silence their accusations, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Read more: https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/scientology-secrets-rape/?source=Snapzu

Canada Lists Plastic As Toxic In Step Towards Ban On Single-Use Plastic

Canada now lists plastic as a toxic substance under their chief environmental law. Along with sending a clear message about plastic pollution, it's also a
Read more: https://www.iflscience.com/policy/canada-now-lists-plastic-as-toxic-in-step-towards-ban-on-singleuse-plastic/?source=Snapzu

Hong Kong: Jimmy Lai jailed again for pro-democracy protests

Media tycoon Jimmy Lai is already serving time for taking part in other demonstrations in 2019.
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-57278062?source=Snapzu

Russia is still the biggest player in disinformation, Facebook says

A Facebook report released Wednesday says that Russia is still the largest producer of disinformation, a notable finding just five years after Russian operatives launched a far-reaching campaign to infiltrate social media during the 2016 election.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/05/26/facebook-disinformation-russia-report/?source=Snapzu

Japan doctors union warns games could lead to 'Tokyo Olympic' virus strain

IOC member John Coates has said the Olympics could be held even under a COVID-19 state of emergency, an opinion the union's leader said was infuriating.
Read more: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/05/27/national/doctors-covid-19-tokyo-olympics/?source=Snapzu

Democrats unveil $30bn bill to cancel water debts and bail out utility firms

Legislation to cancel utility debts for millions of low-income households and bail out struggling utility companies is to be introduced in the US Senate on Thursday. Jeff Merkley, a Democratic senator from Oregon, will propose a $30bn low-interest loans program for electric, water and sewage and broadband providers as part of the Maintaining Access to Essential Services During the Covid Emergency Act of 2021.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/20/democrats-bill-water-utility-companies-coronavirus?source=Snapzu

Iran bans cryptocurrency mining for four months after blackouts

President Hassan Rouhani says the energy-consuming activity must be halted for four months.
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-57260829?source=Snapzu

Eric Carle, writer and illustrator who gave life to ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar,’ dies at 91

Simply told and radiantly illustrated, his books have been story-time staples for decades.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/eric-carle-dead/2021/05/26/cbb39414-2234-11e4-8593-da634b334390_story.html?source=Snapzu

Edward Snowden hails court ruling as progress on acknowledging "devastation" of mass surveillance

On Tuesday, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights ruled that British intelligence-gathering practices violated human rights.
Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/edward-snowden-hails-eu-court-ruling-progress-acknowledging-devastation-mass-surveillance-1594811?source=Snapzu

EU suspects Facebook of abusing power with Marketplace, report says

Company allegedly pushed Marketplace to undermine rival classified ad sites.
Read more: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/05/eu-expected-to-open-antitrust-investigation-into-facebook-marketplace/?source=Snapzu

Infamous 90's "Alien Autopsy" Film Is Being Sold As A Million Dollar NFT

Few if any pieces of alleged extraterrestrial “evidence” are as well known or as controversial as the “Alien Autopsy” film released in 1995, which supposedly depicts the autopsy of an alien that crashed on a ranch just outside Roswell, New Mexico, in August of 1947. You can now own the “Alien Autopsy NFT” for a cool $1,000,000, proving that the 90’s never really went away.
Read more: https://thedebrief.org/infamous-90s-alien-autopsy-film-is-being-sold-as-a-million-dollar-nft/?source=Snapzu

Jeff Bezos will step down as Amazon CEO on July 5

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will officially step down from his role as chief executive on July 5, he announced during the company's annual shareholder meeting Wednesday.
Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/05/26/tech/jeff-bezos-andy-jassy-amazon-ceo/index.html?source=Snapzu

Enigmatic Designs Found in India May Be The Largest Images Ever Made by Human Hands

Hidden in the vast, arid expanses of India's Thar Desert lie mysterious old drawings carved into the land.
Read more: https://www.sciencealert.com/enigmatic-designs-found-in-india-may-be-the-largest-images-ever-made-by-human-hands?source=Snapzu

Kim Kardashian says she's 'not responsible' for labor disputes in lawsuit against her

A lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court Monday by seven former workers at Kim Kardashian’s Hidden Hills home alleges the reality star and beauty mogul violated California labor laws.
Read more: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2021-05-25/kim-kardashian-says-shes-not-responsible-for-labor-disputes-in-lawsuit-against-her?source=Snapzu

Son, ghostwriter of late senator say Trump intervened to stop Spygate probe

One of the enduring mysteries of Spygate is the identity of the person who reached out to the late Sen. Arlen Specter to coax him into dropping his Senate probe. Now Specter's son and ghostwriter have come forward with a name: Donald J. Trump.
Read more: https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/31484993/son-ghostwriter-late-senator-say-trump-intervened-stop-probe-patriots-spygate-scandal?source=Snapzu

Bitcoin advert claiming it’s ‘time to buy’ crypto is banned in UK

Poster adverts telling the public it is “time to buy” Bitcoin have been banned for failing to mention the risks of investing in the cryptocurrency. The posters, which were plastered across the London Underground and on London buses in February, featured a cartoon image of a Bitcoin and read: “If you’re seeing Bitcoin on the Underground, it’s time to buy.”
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/bitcoin-price-luno-advert-ban-b1854157.html?source=Snapzu

How the Photocopier Changed the Way We Worked—and Played

Recently I visited Whisk, a Manhattan store that sells kitchen goods, and next to the cash register was a strange, newfangled device: a 3-D printer. The store bought the device—which creates objects by carefully and slowly extruding layers of hot plastic—to print cookie cutters. Any shape you can think of, it can produce from a digital blueprint. There was a cutter in the shape of a thunderbolt, a coat of arms, a racing car.
Read more: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/duplication-nation-3D-printing-rise-180954332/?source=Snapzu

Water crisis ‘couldn’t be worse’ on Oregon-California border

The water crisis along the California-Oregon border went from dire to catastrophic this week as federal regulators shut off irrigation water to farmers from a critical reservoir and said they would not send extra water to dying salmon downstream or to a half-dozen wildlife refuges that harbor millions of migrating birds each year.
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/oregon-california-health-droughts-science-1f93619dc660f40e558a91b095f41f7b?source=Snapzu

Poland dangles lottery jackpot to boost COVID vaccination drive

Poland will launch a lottery with prizes of as much as 1 million zlotys ($273,000) to encourage people to get vaccinated against COVID-19, the minister in charge of the immunisation programme said on Tuesday.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/poland-dangles-lottery-jackpot-boost-covid-vaccination-drive-2021-05-25/?source=Snapzu

Angelina Jolie criticizes judge deciding custody arrangements with Brad Pitt

Angelina Jolie has criticized the California judge deciding on custody arrangements for her and Brad Pitt’s children, saying in a court filing that the judge has refused to allow their children to testify.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/may/25/angelina-jolie-brad-pitt-custody-judge-divorce?source=Snapzu

Florida makes it illegal for Facebook and Twitter to ban politicians

Leaders compare Big Tech to “communist rule,” will issue $250,000 per-day fines.
Read more: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/05/florida-regulates-facebook-and-twitter-compares-big-tech-to-communist-rule/?source=Snapzu

Amazon shareholders to vote on revealing retailer’s plastic footprint

Amazon is under pressure to reduce its plastic footprint, as shareholders prepare to vote on Wednesday on a resolution calling for it to disclose how much of its plastic packaging ends up in the environment.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/may/26/amazon-shareholders-to-vote-on-revealing-retailers-plastic-footprint?source=Snapzu

In Japan most people want to cancel the Olympics, but the government won’t listen

Prime minister Yoshihide Suga risks playing host to a coronavirus spike, says Koichi Nakano of Sophia University, Japan
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/may/24/japan-cancel-olympics-coronavirus?source=Snapzu

'Companies will do everything but pay you a living wage': McDonald's blasted for viral 'free iPhone' promise to applicants

McDonald's did announce that the hourly wage at corporate locations would rise to $11 to $17, but detractors say it's not enough.
Read more: https://www.dailydot.com/irl/free-iphone-mcdonalds-living-wage-memes/?source=Snapzu

Biden Administration to Hire Additional 87,000 IRS Agents to Crack Down on Wealthy Tax Dodgers

Every year, billions of dollars in tax income are lost due to a variety of circumstances. To combat this and ensure equitable tax collection, the Biden administration is planning to recruit 87,000 extra IRS agents. Without a doubt, this is associated with the effort to collect adequate taxes from individuals and businesses with larger earnings… Continue reading Biden Administration to Hire Additional 87,000 IRS Agents to Crack Down on Wealthy Tax Dodgers
Read more: https://themorningnews.com/news/2021/05/22/biden-administration-to-hire-additional-87000-irs-agents-to-crack-down-on-wealthy-tax-dodgers/?source=Snapzu

Man, 63, charged with murder of missing 20-year-old Agnes Akom

A man has been charged with the murder of 20-year-old Agnes Akom. The 20-year-old Hungarian, who had been living in the UK for three years, has been missing since she left her home in Cricklewood Broadway, north-west London, on May 9.
Read more: https://metro.co.uk/2021/05/24/agnes-akom-man-63-charged-with-murder-of-woman-missing-from-london-14632430/?source=Snapzu