Biden Administration Plans for Legal Psychedelic Therapies Within Two Years

AS TWIN MENTAL HEALTH and drug misuse crises kill thousands of people per week, the potential of psychedelic-assisted therapies “must be explored,” urges a federal letter on behalf of the U.S. health secretary and shared with The Intercept.
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2022/07/26/mdma-psilocybin-fda-ptsd/?source=Snapzu

Two of the Largest Freshwater Fish in the World Declared Extinct

The Yangtze sturgeon lived in its namesake river for 140 million years. Now it doesn’t. Nor does another behemoth it shared China’s longest waterway with for ages, the Chinese paddlefish. Updating its Red List of Threatened Species on Thursday for the first time in 13 years, the International Union for Conservation of Nature declared the two species, known as “the last giants of the Yangtze,” extinct.
Read more: https://www.fieldandstream.com/conservation/yangtze-sturgeon-chinese-paddleflish-declared-extinct/?source=Snapzu

U.S. offers deal to Russia for Griner release

The Biden administration has offered a deal to Russia aimed at bringing home WNBA star Brittney Griner and another jailed American Paul Whelan, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday.
Read more: https://www.espn.com/wnba/story/_/id/34303004/united-states-offers-deal-russia-release-wnba-star-brittney-griner?source=Snapzu

Bernard Cribbins, star of Doctor Who and The Railway Children, has died aged 93

Bernard Cribbins had a long and varied filmography, including appearing in Carry On films and the original Casino Royale. Cribbins also starred in Coronation Street and, more recently, Doctor Who, as well as having a string of top 10 hits - including 1962 comedy song Right Said Fred.
Read more: https://news.sky.com/story/veteran-actor-bernard-cribbins-has-died-aged-93-12660433?source=Snapzu

Joe Manchin Agrees To Sweeping Legislation To Raise Taxes On Wealthy, Invest In Climate

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said Wednesday he’s reached a deal with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on a sweeping $740 billion package to increase taxes on the wealthy and invest in climate and health care while also reducing the deficit.
Read more: http://www.huffpost.com/entry/manchin-schumer-climate-deal_n_62e1a677e4b07f83766bafbb?source=Snapzu

‘I was not being loved. I was just a body’: Mena Suvari on surviving sexual abuse, acting and American Beauty

The model and actor’s shocking memoir tells how shame and denial prevented her from telling anyone she was raped when she was 12, which led to another abusive relationship – with an older man – and years of drug addiction
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jul/27/i-was-not-being-loved-i-was-just-a-body-mena-suvari-on-surviving-sexual-abuse-acting-and-american-beauty?source=Snapzu

Teen Activist Attacked By Rep. Gaetz Raises Massive Sums for Abortion Rights

“I think he’s scared. I honestly think he’s terrified.”
Read more: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/matt-gaetz-teen-abortion-donation-fundraiser?source=Snapzu

Las Vegas declares emergency, with less than 50 days of clean water supply left

Las Vegas declares an emergency with less than 50 days of clean water supply left after wildfires contaminated the Gallinas River, its main water supply.
Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/las-vegas-declares-emergency-50-days-clean-water/story?id=87623219?source=Snapzu

Hawaii Gets Its Last Shipment of Coal, Ever

The state's last coal-fired power plant will close down in September.
Read more: https://gizmodo.com/hawaii-phasing-out-coal-renewables-1849348490?source=Snapzu

Shakira could face up to eight years in prison for tax fraud

Colombian musician and Barcelona resident Shakira could face up to eight years and two months in prison for allegedly defrauding the Spanish treasury office of €14.5 million. The artist could also have to pay a fine of up to €23.7 million and not receive any tax incentives for at least 18 years and one month.
Read more: http://www.catalannews.com/society-science/item/shakira-could-face-up-to-eight-years-in-prison-for-tax-fraud?source=Snapzu

Biden’s latest global infrastructure plan is all about competing with China. That’s a problem.

China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), launched in 2013, is the centerpiece of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s ambitious effort to expand his country’s diplomatic and economic footprint. A massive infrastructure and development investment strategy, the BRI has funded bridges, ports, power plants, railways, tunnels, and 5G networks in the Global South, to the tune of $50 billion to $100 billion per year, according to an analysis by the Brookings Institution.
Read more: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23279714/biden-global-infrastructure-development-g7-china-belt-road-explained?source=Snapzu

China says U.S. chip act will distort global semiconductor supply chain

China's commerce ministry said on Friday that a major new chips act passed by the U.S. Congress will distort the global semiconductor supply chain and disrupt international trade.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/technology/china-says-us-chip-act-will-distort-global-semiconductor-supply-chain-2022-07-29/?source=Snapzu

Columbia Engineering Roboticists Discover Alternative Physics

A new AI program observed physical phenomena and uncovered relevant variables—a necessary precursor to any physics theory
Read more: https://www.engineering.columbia.edu/news/lipson-chen-ai-alternative-physics?source=Snapzu

300% Increase in Boob Size on Comic Book Cover Art

While loading tens of thousands of comic book covers to PriceCharting’s new online comics price guide , we noticed something interesting
Read more: https://blog.pricecharting.com/2022/07/300-increase-in-boob-size-on-comic-book.html?m=1?source=Snapzu

Native birds increase by 51% on Miramar Peninsula

Latest figures show native birds have increased by 51 percent on Wellington's Miramar Peninsula. This includes a whopping 550 percent rise in the pīwakawaka / fantail population of, a 275 percent increase in riroriro / grey warblers, and a 49 percent increase in tūī.
Read more: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/471810/native-birds-increase-by-51-percent-on-miramar-peninsula?source=Snapzu

Hershey says it won't be able to meet Halloween demand this year

Scary news for Halloween fans: This fall, you might be out of luck in the candy aisle
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/28/business/hershey-halloween/index.html?source=Snapzu

Judge rules Subway can be sued over claims that its tuna sandwiches contain other fish species or animal products

Subway claims any findings of other ingredients are the results of simple cross-contamination in preparing customers' sandwiches.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/judge-rules-subway-can-sued-claims-tuna-sandwiches-contain-fish-specie-rcna37707?source=Snapzu

Teen triumphs over Matt Gaetz by raising $500k for abortion funds: "I win"

Olivia Julianna, a 19-year-old political strategist for Gen-Z for Change, launched a fundraiser after being body-shamed by the Florida congressman on Twitter.
Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/teen-triumphs-matt-gaetz-raising-500k-abortion-funds-1728645?source=Snapzu

Meta will stop paying US publishers to put their content in Facebook’s News tab

The three-year "experiment" is over as Facebook and IG shift focus, again.
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/28/23283078/meta-facebook-news-tab-paid-publishers-is-over?source=Snapzu

US to plant 1 billion trees as climate change kills forests

The Biden administration on Monday said the government will plant more than one billion trees across millions of acres of burned and dead woodlands in the U.S. West
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/wildfires-fires-forests-trees-plants-de0505c965c198a081a4b48084b0e903?source=Snapzu

Oil rises for a second day on supply tightness concerns

Oil prices rose on Tuesday for a second day on growing concerns about tightening European supply after Russia, a key energy supplier to the region, cut gas supply through a major pipeline. Brent crude futures rose $1.25, or 1.2%, to $106.40 a barrel by 1359 GMT, extending the previous day's 1.9% gain.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/oil-rises-russian-gas-cut-europe-may-encourage-switching-crude-2022-07-26/?source=Snapzu

Amazon is raising Prime prices in Europe by up to 43 percent a year

Amazon is raising the price of its Prime subscription across Europe in September by up to 43 percent a year. In an email to customers overnight, Amazon revealed its annual Prime cost will jump 20 percent in the UK from £79 to £95 from September 15th. In France the price hike is even more acute, moving from €49 per year to €69.90 — a 43 percent increase.
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/26/23278510/amazon-prime-price-increase-europe-uk?source=Snapzu

U.S. charges Indian man over $10 mln computer fraud scheme targeting elderly

U.S. prosecutors in Manhattan charged an Indian man with helping run a scheme that defrauded thousands of victims, including the elderly, into buying unnecessary computer anti-virus protection by falsely claiming that malware had infected their machines. Vinoth Ponmaran, 34, was arrested on July 15 in Blaine, Washington, and was ordered held in custody after a brief hearing on Wednesday in Seattle federal court.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-charges-indian-man-over-10-mln-computer-fraud-scheme-targeting-elderly-2022-07-20/?source=Snapzu

Russia Is Quietly Ramping Up Its Internet Censorship Machine

Since Vladimir Putin blocked Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter in March, Russia has been pushing away from the global internet at a rapid pace.
Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/russia-internet-censorship-splinternet/?source=Snapzu

How two Texas megadonors have turbocharged the state's far-right shift

Two Texas billionaires have funneled money to conservative candidates and helped reshape the state's Republican party in their worldview.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/24/politics/texas-far-right-politics-invs/index.html?source=Snapzu

Semiconductor bill unites Sanders, the right — in opposition

A bill to boost semiconductor production in the United States has managed to do nearly the unthinkable — unite the democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders and the fiscally conservative right.
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/inflation-technology-congress-government-and-politics-7993ca0bb5e31d0f2141d0c2b349f370?source=Snapzu

There's a 10% Chance Rocket Debris Will Kill Someone on Earth This Decade, Study Says

As countries and private companies ramp up space exploration, the issue of where and how abandoned rockets re-enter Earth is becoming more significant. Over the next decade, if current practices of uncontrolled rocket re-entries continue, there is a roughly 10 percent chance that one or more casualties will occur, and they will most likely be in the Global South, according to a new study published in Nature Astronomy on Monday.
Read more: https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvmzy4/theres-a-10-chance-rocket-debris-will-kill-someone-on-earth-this-decade-study-says?source=Snapzu

Kamala Harris would beat Ron DeSantis in 2024 election: poll

A significant percentage of registered voters were undecided in the theoretical race between the potential 2024 presidential candidates.
Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/kamala-harris-would-beat-ron-desantis-2024-election-poll-1722913?source=Snapzu

Pope travels to Canada on 'pilgrimage of penance' for indigenous abuse

Pope Francis is scheduled to land in Canada on Sunday on what he has called a "pilgrimage of penance" to apologize for the abuse indigenous children endured at hands of largely Catholic-run residential schools.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/pope-travels-canada-pilgrimage-penance-indigenous-abuse-2022-07-24/?source=Snapzu

Primate Disappearing at ‘Alarming Rate,’ as Medical Research Fuels Demand

"People are battling each other to get to the monkeys and to have these monkeys for research,” one expert told VICE World News.
Read more: https://www.vice.com/en/article/akevyz/long-tailed-macaque-endangered-monkey-medical-research?source=Snapzu

Drug price controls are a dance with the devil: short-term savings will be overwhelmed by loss of innovation

Democrats have sent the legislative text of a sweeping proposal for drug price controls to the U.S. Senate parliamentarian, who may report on Monday whether the provisions qualify for the budget reconciliation process that allows lawmakers to evade a filibuster and pass a bill with a simple majority.
Read more: https://www.statnews.com/2022/07/22/drug-price-controls-are-a-dance-with-the-devil-short-term-savings-will-be-overwhelmed-by-loss-of-innovation/?source=Snapzu

Inside Trump '25: A radical plan for Trump’s second term

Allies want to empower him to purge potentially thousands of civil servants.
Read more: https://www.axios.com/2022/07/22/trump-2025-radical-plan-second-term?source=Snapzu

Cuba approves law change that opens door to gay marriage, other family rights

Cuba's National Assembly on Friday approved a sweeping update of its family law which opens the door to allowing gay marriage, greater women's rights, and increased protections for children, the elderly and other family members.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/cuba-approves-law-change-that-opens-door-gay-marriage-other-family-rights-2022-07-22/?source=Snapzu

Polio detected in US—in same NY county with explosive measles outbreak in 2019 [Updated]

Here's what we know and how vaccine-derived polioviruses occur.
Read more: https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/07/polio-detected-in-us-in-same-ny-county-with-explosive-measles-outbreak-in-2019/?source=Snapzu

Denying Unmarried Woman Right To Safe Abortion Violates Her Personal Autonomy & Freedom

"Denying an unmarried woman the right to a safe abortion violates her personal autonomy and freedom", observed the Supreme Court on Thursday while allowing an unmarried woman to seek abortion of her pregnancy of a term of 24 weeks which arose out of a consensual relationship.
Read more: https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/denying-unmarried-woman-right-to-safe-abortion-violates-her-personal-autonomy-freedom-supreme-court-204450?source=Snapzu

The FCC is cracking down on 'auto warranty' robocalls

US telecom providers will now be required to block millions of illegal robocalls a day advertising extended vehicle warranties, the Federal Communications Commission said Thursday, taking aim at a group of individuals accused of sending more than 8 billion such messages since 2018.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/21/tech/fcc-robocall-crackdown/index.html?source=Snapzu

Lake Mead Keeps Dropping

Continuing a 22-year downward trend, water levels in Lake Mead stand at their lowest since April 1937, when the reservoir was still being filled for the first time. As of July 18, 2022, Lake Mead was filled to just 27 percent of capacity.
Read more: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/150111/lake-mead-keeps-dropping?source=Snapzu

Court: Kansas election chief's software change violated law

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas' top elections official violated the state's open records law when he had office computer software altered so that it could no longer produce data sought by a voting-rights advocate, the state Court of Appeals ruled Friday.
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-voting-rights-technology-legislature-5d045282392b32fb67774c0674c890b6?source=Snapzu

How Germany is kicking its meat habit

Germany has made itself an outlier in global meat consumption by embracing plant-based food and politics.
Read more: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23273338/germany-less-meat-plant-based-vegan-vegetarian-flexitarian?source=Snapzu

U.S. Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change, Report Commissioned By Pentagon Says

The report says a combination of global starvation, war, disease, drought, and a fragile power grid could have cascading, devastating effects.
Read more: https://www.vice.com/en/article/mbmkz8/us-military-could-collapse-within-20-years-due-to-climate-change-report-commissioned-by-pentagon-says?source=Snapzu

Woman in $400K GoFundMe scam gets 1 year in federal case

A woman who admitted her role in a scam that raised $400,000 using a fake story about a homeless man received a one-year prison sentence in federal court Thursday. Katelyn McClure was also ordered to make restitution and serve three years' supervised release.
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/new-jersey-philadelphia-veterans-philanthropy-013070381f2fbac3dc94252e8fe33ba7?source=Snapzu

WHO again considers declaring monkeypox a global emergency

As the World Health Organization’s emergency committee convened Thursday to consider for the second time within weeks whether to declare monkeypox a global crisis, some scientists said the striking differences between the outbreaks in Africa and in developed countries will complicate any coordinated response.
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/covid-health-united-nations-epidemics-north-america-c5284aabf79d9ecb816975dc249abffd?source=Snapzu

California police fatally shot 23-year-old Black man as he ran away, video shows

Footage shows victim fleeing after police arrived in unmarked car and drew their guns
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/19/police-killed-robert-adams-black-man-running-san-bernardino-california?source=Snapzu

5 things you may not know about Neil Armstrong

As we celebrate the anniversary of humankind's first steps on the Moon during Apollo 11, we take a look at Neil Armstrong's life.
Read more: https://astronomy.com/news/2022/07/5-things-you-may-not-know-about-neil-armstrong?source=Snapzu

Secret Service cannot recover texts; no new details for Jan. 6 committee

Secret Service cannot recover any purged texts, has no new information for Jan 6 committee.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/07/19/secret-service-texts/?source=Snapzu

Zuckerberg and Sandberg Ordered to Testify over Alleged Involvement in Cambridge Analytica Scandal

The two will provide six and five hours of testimony respectively, more than half a decade after the scandal first became public.
Read more: https://gizmodo.com/zuckerberg-sandberg-facebook-cambridge-analytica-1849207020?source=Snapzu

Honey Boo Boo to undergo $13K weight-loss surgery with her boyfriend

Honey Boo Boo is going under the knife to live a healthier life. Born Alana Thompson, the reality star will head to New York City in August after her 17th birthday to undergo weight-loss surgery, her manager confirmed to Page Six Wednesday morning.
Read more: https://pagesix.com/2022/07/20/honey-boo-boo-to-undergo-13k-weight-loss-surgery-with-boyfriend/?source=Snapzu

COVID-19 changed public spaces, but many cities have retreated

While advocates called for a move to more livable communities, the experience in Canada has proven more halting, and less permanent, than in other countries
Read more: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-covid-19-cities-public-spaces/?source=Snapzu

Searing summer heat is driving food prices higher still

First came supply chain shortages and war. Now there's "heatflation."
Read more: https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2022/07/record-breaking-heat-wave-food-prices-crops/?source=Snapzu

Julian Assange Committed "No Serious Crime": Mexico President To Biden

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Monday he had interceded with US President Joe Biden on behalf of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, insisting that he had committed no serious crime.
Read more: https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/julian-assange-committed-no-serious-crime-mexico-president-to-joe-biden-3171095?source=Snapzu