Antarctica's emperor penguins at risk of extinction due to the climate crisis

As Antarctica's emperor penguins are increasingly threatened by the climate crisis, the flightless seabirds will receive new protections under the Endangered Species Act.
Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/29/world/emperor-penguins-threatened-species-climate-scn/index.html?source=Snapzu

Kanye West Apologizes for False George Floyd Claims After Losing Adidas

“I want to apologize because God has showed me by what Adidas is doing, by what the media is doing, I know what it feels to have a knee on my neck right now,” rapper told paparazzi
Read more: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/kanye-west-apologizes-george-floyd-adidas-1234621055/?source=Snapzu

The 3% Plan to End Starvation

Here’s a proposal that could end starvation around the globe. Never again need a human being lack the food to live. Never again need a single child or adult suffer the horrors of starvation. Hunger as a danger to anyone can be made a thing of the past. All that is required, apart from basic skills in distributing resources, is 3 percent of the military budget of the United States, or 1.5 percent of all the military budgets in the world.
Read more: https://worldbeyondwar.org/3percent/?source=Snapzu

SAFD: Woman escapes house fire after being woken up by dog

A dog woke up the owner of a San Antonio home that caught fire early Saturday morning, allowing her to escape safely. Firefighters responded to the structure fire at 2:30 a.m. in the 9100 block of Ranch Corner, according to San Antonio FD.
Read more: https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2022/10/29/safd-woman-escapes-house-fire-after-being-woken-up-by-dog/?source=Snapzu

Fires from exploding e-bike batteries multiply in NYC — sometimes fatally

Four times a week on average, an e-bike or e-scooter battery catches fire in New York City. Sometimes, it does so on the street, but more often, it happens when the owner is recharging the lithium ion battery. A mismatched charger won't always turn off automatically when the battery's fully charged, and keeps heating up. Or, the highly flammable electrolyte inside the battery's cells leaks out of its casing and ignites, setting off a chain reaction.
Read more: https://www.npr.org/2022/10/30/1130239008/fires-from-exploding-e-bike-batteries-multiply-in-nyc-sometimes-fatally?source=Snapzu

George R.R. Martin Is Too Busy Writing ‘Winds Of Winter’ To Play ‘Elden Ring’

Elden Ring, the open-world, spiritual successor to the Dark Souls series, saw the involvement of Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin, who contributed to the game’s backstory. Like Dark Souls, the story of Elden Ring isn’t exactly told to the player - it is implied, hinted at through evocative item descriptions, the vague ramblings of NPC characters, and experienced through the world itself.
Read more: https://www.forbes.com/sites/danidiplacido/2022/10/28/george-rr-martin-is-too-busy-writing-winds-of-winter-to-play-elden-ring?source=Snapzu

Man who plays dead on TikTok gets new life as corpse on TV crime show

Josh Nalley specialized in pretending to be a lifeless body on social media – then CSI: Vegas came calling.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/29/tiktok-dead-body-josh-nalley-tv-csi-vegas?source=Snapzu

This woman was arrested for feeding homeless people. But she says she won't stop

Norma Thornton says she learned from a young age that it was important to help those when you can, and at 78 years of age, she has been doing just that. And it got her arrested.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/woman-arrested-feeding-homeless-1.6632153?source=Snapzu

Some Russian Troop Companies Down 94% in Ukraine, U.K. Intelligence Says

Companies are supposed to have around 100 personnel, but some are being deployed with just six men, it’s claimed.
Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/some-russian-troop-companies-down-94-in-ukraine-uk-intelligence-says?source=Snapzu

Kevin Bacon Reacts to Daughter Sosie Bacon’s ‘Smile’ Success: “We Have a Horror Tradition in Our Family”

If you can’t beat ’em, the old saying goes, join ’em. In Kevin Bacon’s case, that meant accepting the fact that Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon — the party game that requires you to link every known actor to Bacon in six movies or less — was never going away. So he embraced the phenomenon and founded SixDegrees.org in 2007, a charitable organization whose efforts to fight hunger are being honored Nov. 1 in New York City with a Harry Chapin Humanitarian Award (named for the “Cat’s in the Cradle” songwriter).
Read more: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/kevin-bacon-sosie-bacons-smile-horror-friday-13th-1235250076/?source=Snapzu

Many Military U.F.O. Reports Are Just Foreign Spying or Airborne Trash

Forget space aliens or hypersonic technology; classified assessments show that many episodes have ordinary explanations.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/28/us/politics/ufo-military-reports.html?source=Snapzu

Russia toughens ban on 'gay propaganda'

A controversial law preventing sharing information about gay people with children is set to apply to all.
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63410127.amp?source=Snapzu

Social Media Giants Systemically Fail on Hate and Disinformation, Report Says

The report warns that the platforms are not prepared to combat efforts that sow doubt about upcoming midterm outcomes.
Read more: https://truthout.org/articles/social-media-giants-systemically-fail-on-hate-and-disinformation-report-says/?source=Snapzu

‘Dying of boredom’: the fight to release Thailand’s shopping mall gorilla

Bua Noi has spent decades in a cage in a decaying Bangkok shopping mall. Her owner says is she too old to be transferred to a sanctuary but activists disagree
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/28/thailand-shopping-mall-gorilla-fight-to-release-bua-noi?source=Snapzu

Amazon shares drop nearly 20% after company predicts weaker holiday sales

Company sees drop in after-hours trading after issuing guidance on the holiday quarter that worried investors
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/oct/27/amazon-shares-drop-after-company-predicts-weaker-holiday-sales?source=Snapzu

US economy grew significantly in 3rd quarter, ending 6 months of shrinking

The U.S. economy expanded significantly to kick off the second half of the year, marking a dramatic reversal from the contraction experienced over the first six months, government data showed. U.S. gross domestic product grew 2.6% over the three months ending in September, according to data released Thursday. By contrast, economic activity shrank a combined 2.2% over the first six months of the year.
Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Business/us-economy-expected-grown-significantly-ending-months-shrinking/story?id=92133670?source=Snapzu

Carbon emissions from energy to peak in 2025 in ‘historic turning point’, says IEA

International Energy Agency says Ukraine invasion boosted state spending on clean energy and ‘will accelerate transition to renewables’
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/27/carbon-emissions-to-peak-in-2025-in-historic-turning-point-says-iea?source=Snapzu

Zac Efron is unrecognizable with beefed up physique, bowl haircut

Zac Efron looked nearly unrecognizable on the set of “The Iron Claw” on Monday, and fans were left stunned. Efron is taking on the role of Kevin Von Erich, a professional wrestler and member of the Von Erich wrestling family, in the film. For the part, the 35-year-old actor has gained a lot of muscle to give off the physique of the wrestler and is now rocking a bowl-cut wig and deep tan. He was spotted walking around the set showing off his new look in nothing but a blue towel.
Read more: https://nypost.com/2022/10/26/zac-efron-is-unrecognizable-with-beefed-up-physique-bowl-haircut/?source=Snapzu

Ukraine arms manufacturer charged with treason over bugged phone calls

Vyacheslav Boguslaev allegedly said he ‘completely understands’ why factory was bombed by Russia
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/25/ukraine-arms-manufacturer-charged-with-treason-over-bugged-phone-calls?source=Snapzu

Infographic – 24 unorthodox signs that you might be a writer

We writers are peculiar people. Here are 24 unorthodox ways to tell if you, too, might be a writer.
Read more: https://thgmwriters.com/blog/infographic-unorthodox-signs-writer/?source=Snapzu

Spotify Chief Criticizes Kanye “Ye” West’s “Awful” Antisemitic Comments, But Music Won’t Be Removed

The growing corporate boycott of Kanye “Ye” West after he made antisemitic remarks in several interviews has increased pressure on music streaming services to pull the rapper-turned-fashion mogul’s albums from their platforms. On Tuesday, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek addressed the issue in an interview with Reuters, making clear that Ye’s comments were “awful” but his music did not violate the streamer’s anti-hate policies.
Read more: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/spotify-kanye-west-daniel-ek-1235248910/?source=Snapzu

Controversial new research suggests SARS-CoV-2 bears signs of genetic engineering

A string of about 30,000 genetic letters were all that it took to start the nightmare of covid-19, the death toll from which is likely to be more than 20m. Exactly how this story began has been hotly contested. Many think that covid-19’s emergence was a zoonosis—a spillover, as so many new pathogens are, from wild animals, for it resembles a group of coronaviruses found in bats.
Read more: https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2022/10/22/a-new-paper-claims-sars-cov-2-bears-signs-of-genetic-engineering?source=Snapzu

James Corden Apologizes for Restaurant Ban Controversy in ‘Late Late Show’ Monologue: ‘I Made a Rude Comment and It Was Wrong’

James Corden took some time at the start of Monday’s episode of “The Late Late Show” to acknowledge a recent controversy involving his now-reversed ban from New York restaurant Ba…
Read more: https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/james-corden-restaurant-ban-apology-1235413436/?source=Snapzu

Japan ramps up intervention threats after yen slides past key 150 level

Japanese policymakers made fresh threats of intervention on Thursday after the yen tumbled past the key psychological level of 150 to the dollar, keeping investors on high alert in case Tokyo steps into markets again to support the fragile currency.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/markets/currencies/japans-finance-minister-vows-appropriate-steps-tackle-volatile-yen-moves-2022-10-20/?source=Snapzu

Adidas Drops Kanye "Ye" West Like A Sleazy Yeezy

Is Adidas cutting ties with Kanye West just because of possible boycotts? The Kanye West trilogy continues. So Adidas finally dropped Kanye West from its partnership weeks after all the controversial racial slurs and antisemitic rants. Weeks after their new YEEZY launch. Are you reading this? Weeks went by folks.
Read more: https://macsopinion.com/adidas-drops-kanye-ye-west-like-a-sleazy-yeezy/?source=Snapzu

Kanye West Streams, Airplay Nosedive in Wake of Antisemitic Comments

Two weeks of controversy have caused consumption of Kanye West’s music to drop precipitously. According to the latest data from Luminate, albums by Kanye West (who now goes by Ye) are down 23…
Read more: https://variety.com/2022/music/news/kanye-west-streams-airplay-decline-antisemitic-comments-1235412968/?source=Snapzu

Trump Organization set to face criminal tax fraud trial in New York starting Monday

More than three years after Manhattan prosecutors started investigating Donald Trump — after going to the Supreme Court twice to gain access to his tax records — the only criminal trial to arise from their efforts is about to begin. No, the former president isn’t going on trial. His company is.
Read more: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/trump-organization-set-to-face-criminal-tax-fraud-trial-in-new-york-starting-monday?source=Snapzu

Math scores mark historic declines across the country during COVID pandemic: federal data

Student test scores plunged in the US as the COVID-19 pandemic erased decades of academic progress — with math scores recording their largest decrease ever and reading scores at a 30-year low, alarming new data known as the “nation’s report card” showed Monday.
Read more: https://nypost.com/2022/10/24/math-scores-hit-historic-low-during-pandemic-fed-data/?source=Snapzu

Stockholm Thinks It Can Have an Electric Bikeshare Program So Cheap It’s Practically Free

This past June, Stockholm introduced a new shared bicycle service to replace Stockholm City Bikes, which operated from 2006 until 2018. Since that service shut down, the city was one of many around the world swamped by shared e-scooters that littered sidewalks and streets. As a result, the city wanted to reboot a bikeshare program with a more modern approach without succumbing to the trappings of the dockless scooter and bike craze.
Read more: https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5vm8x/stockholm-thinks-it-can-have-an-electric-bikeshare-program-so-cheap-its-practically-free?source=Snapzu

Partial solar eclipse from Iceland to India on Tuesday

A partial solar eclipse will be visible across a swathe of the Northern Hemisphere on Tuesday, with amateur astronomers warned to take care watching the rare phenomenon.
Read more: https://phys.org/news/2022-10-partial-solar-eclipse-iceland-india.html?source=Snapzu

Adidas pressured to drop Kanye West after more anti-Semitic remarks

While Balenciaga and JPMorgan Chase have both cut ties with Kanye West after repeated anti-Semitic remarks, West’s biggest corporate benefactor, Adidas, is staying markedly silent. But the German sportswear giant may not be able to ignore the controversy for much longer after Kanye West taunted the company by saying he could be as anti-Semitic as he wanted and still have the retailer’s support.
Read more: https://fortune.com/2022/10/24/i-can-say-anti-semitic-things-and-adidas-cant-drop-me-now-what-as-kanye-west-taunts-adidas-calls-grow-for-german-sportswear-giant-to-cut-ties/?source=Snapzu

Hacktivists Release Iran Nuclear Documents After Deadline

The hacktivist group Black Reward published a throve of documents from Iran’s nuclear program Saturday after a 24-hour deadline it had given the government expired.
Read more: https://www.iranintl.com/en/202210225387?source=Snapzu

Space Force to award up to $50 million in contracts for Space Test Program experiments

The Space Force is changing its approach to buying satellites for the Space Test Program, which for decades has launched experiments for the U.S. government and allies. Instead of awarding separate contracts for STP missions, the Space Force will select a group of vendors that will compete for $50 million worth of task orders under a five-year indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract.
Read more: https://spacenews.com/space-force-to-award-up-to-50-million-in-contracts-for-space-test-program-experiments/?source=Snapzu

MIT engineers develop sensors for face masks that help gauge fit

Wearing a mask can help prevent the spread of viruses such as SARS-CoV-2, but a mask’s effectiveness depends on how well it fits. Currently, there are no simple ways to measure the fit of a mask, but a new sensor developed at MIT could make it much easier to ensure a good fit. The sensor, which measures physical contact between the mask and the wearer’s face, can be applied to any kind of mask.
Read more: https://news.mit.edu/2022/sensors-face-masks-fit-1020?source=Snapzu

Kanye West Hires Johnny Depp's Lawyer Camille Vasquez from Amber Heard Trial

Kanye West has taken a lot of L's lately ... so he's hoping one person, who recently scored Johnny Depp a big W, can come to his rescue.
Read more: https://www.tmz.com/2022/10/21/kanye-west-hire-johnny-depp-attorney-camille-vasquez-amber-heard-yeezy-business/?source=Snapzu

EU Lawmakers Must Reject This Proposal To Scan Private Chats

Having a private conversation is a basic human right. Like the rest of our rights, we shouldn’t lose it when we go online. But a new proposal by the European Union could throw our privacy rights out the window.
Read more: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/10/eu-lawmakers-must-reject-proposal-scan-private-chats?source=Snapzu

Raising the drawbridge: why are so many Australians creating their own countries?

By some estimations, Australia hosts around a third of the world’s self-declared mini-kingdoms. There are three good reasons for that
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/oct/23/raising-the-drawbridge-why-are-so-many-australians-creating-their-own-countries?source=Snapzu

Facebook threatens to block news content over Canada's revenue-sharing bill

Facebook warned on Friday that it may block sharing of news content on its platform in Canada over concerns about legislation that would compel digital platforms to pay news publishers.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/facebook-threatens-block-news-content-over-canadas-revenue-sharing-bill-2022-10-22/?source=Snapzu

Amazon set to buy into Hawaiian Airlines to bolster cargo business

The agreement steps up the e-commerce giant’s growing rivalry with United Parcel Service Inc. and FedEx Corp.
Read more: https://www.dallasnews.com/business/airlines/2022/10/21/amazon-set-to-buy-into-hawaiian-airlines-to-bolster-cargo-business/?source=Snapzu

Balenciaga Severs Ties With Ye

Balenciaga has severed its ties with Ye. Following the publication of its third-quarter results on Thursday, parent company Kering said the French fashion house would no longer be working on projects with the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, who has made increasingly controversial public comments in recent weeks, including anti-Semitic threats.
Read more: https://wwd.com/fashion-news/fashion-scoops/demna-balenciaga-breaks-up-with-ye-anti-semitic-threats-hate-speech-1235397358/?source=Snapzu

Chart-armed Katie Porter proves that corporate greed is behind inflation

During a House of Representatives hearing on Wednesday, United States Congresswoman Katie Porter (D-California) grilled Mike Konczal, the director of Macroeconomic Analysis at the Roosevelt Institute, over the primary cause of inflation in the post-COVID-19 economy.
Read more: https://www.alternet.org/2022/10/katie-porter-corporate-greed-inflation/?source=Snapzu

U.S. military suicides drop as leaders push mental health programs

Suicides across the active duty U.S. military decreased over the past 18 months, driven by sharp drops in the Air Force and Marine Corps last year and a similar decline among Army soldiers during the first six months of this year, according to a new Pentagon report and preliminary data for 2022.
Read more: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/u-s-military-suicides-drop-as-leaders-push-mental-health-programs?source=Snapzu

Bolsonaro struggles to sway Brazil’s poor voters with aid

After Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro boosted welfare payments in August by 50%, many people in the Jequitinhonha Valley, one of the poorest regions of the country, felt they could once again afford some meat, keep electricity running and repair leaky roofs.
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/jair-bolsonaro-caribbean-brazil-business-elections-e6858d298924a1f7b55bb1b3ee8b893f?source=Snapzu

Matthew Perry Almost Died From Opioids in 2018, Spent Two Weeks in a Coma: Doctors Said ‘I Had a 2% Chance to Live’

Matthew Perry confirmed to People magazine that he nearly died in 2018 at age 49 after his colon burst due to an overuse of opioids.
Read more: https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/matthew-perry-almost-died-opioids-two-week-coma-1235408465/?source=Snapzu

Portugal bets all on renewables after abandoning coal

As the UN steps up calls to make the switch to renewable energy to fight the global climate emergency, Portugal is among the first European Union countries to abandon coal.
Read more: https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20221017-portugal-bets-all-on-renewables-after-abandoning-coal?source=Snapzu

Amazon could pay UK shoppers £900m compensation

Amazon shoppers in the UK could receive a share of £900m in compensation, once a legal claim is submitted against the technology giant. The proposed claim alleges the company breached competition law and caused customers to pay higher prices. It is being led by consumer-rights champion Julie Hunter, who says products sold on Amazon.co.uk and the Amazon app obscured better-value deals.
Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-63328589?source=Snapzu

Why are EU countries leaving the Energy Charter Treaty?

The Netherlands has been the last EU country to announce that it would quit the controversial Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) over climate concerns — after Poland and Spain. The announcement comes after attempts to modernise the treaty, in a bid to make it compatible with the 2015 Paris Agreement.
Read more: https://euobserver.com/green-economy/156308?source=Snapzu

Welfare Kings? Study Finds Half of New Oil Production Unprofitable Without Government Handouts

A new study published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Energy found that 50 percent of new oil production in America would be unprofitable if not for government subsidies. The study, performed by researchers at the Stockholm Environment Institute and Earth Track, Inc., found that, at prices of $50 per barrel, light oil produced by hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) was heavily dependent on subsidies.
Read more: https://www.desmog.com/2017/10/03/welfare-kings-half-current-oil-production-unprofitable-without-government-subsidies/?source=Snapzu

As midterms near, immigrants and voters of color being targeted with rampant misinformation

Voting rights groups fight back against widespread misinformation aimed at foreign-language voters and others
Read more: https://www.salon.com/2022/10/19/as-midterms-near-and-of-color-being-targeted-with-rampant-misinformation/?source=Snapzu

Alex Jones lost a $1 billion trial. Why is Infowars still streaming?

Jones says his enemies want him off the air. US bankruptcy law is on his side, for now.
Read more: https://www.vox.com/recode/2022/10/19/23411731/alex-jones-infowars-trial-bankruptcy-sandy-hook-infowars-chapter-11-peter-kafka-column?source=Snapzu