Danny Masterson Jury Starts Over After Two Test Positive for COVID

The jury in the Danny Masterson rape trial was told Monday to start its deliberations from scratch on Monday, after two members of the panel were excused due to testing positive for COVID-19.
Read more: https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/danny-masterson-jury-start-over-covid-1235443247/?source=Snapzu

UK waters down internet rules plan after free speech outcry

The British government has abandoned a plan to force tech firms to remove internet content that is harmful but legal, after the proposal drew strong criticism from lawmakers and civil liberties groups.
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/british-politics-technology-europe-bullying-online-safety-53dfbdad332372a739b3dafb2c62a892?source=Snapzu

Video of Kanye West walking out of interview viewed more than 500K times

Kanye West, who formally goes by Ye, stormed out of an interview with podcaster Tim Pool on Monday after Pool attempted to counter his antisemitic claims. Pool hosted the rapper, along with white supremacist Nick Fuentes and West's campaign worker Milo Yiannopoulos, on his podcast Timcast to discuss their controversial dinner with former President Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate last week.
Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/video-kanye-west-walking-out-interview-viewed-more-500k-times-1762920?source=Snapzu

'Gaslighting' is Merriam-Webster's 2022 word of the year

Merriam-Webster has chosen "gaslighting" as its word of the year for 2022.
Read more: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/gaslighting-is-merriam-websters-2022-word-of-the-year?source=Snapzu

Evidence grows of forced labour and slavery in production of solar panels, wind turbines

A ‘certificate of origin’ scheme could counter concerns about renewables supply chains, says Clean Energy Council
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/29/evidence-grows-of-forced-labour-and-slavery-in-production-of-solar-panels-wind-turbines?source=Snapzu

Houston Cancels School Again Over Boil Water Notice

Houston’s public school system will be closed again Tuesday following a power outage at a water treatment plant on Sunday that has forced the entire city to boil water before it can be used. Water officials had expressed hope that the boil water notice for the city’s 2.3 million residents would be lifted by early Tuesday but that hasn’t happened yet.
Read more: https://gizmodo.com/houston-cancels-school-again-boil-water-notice-1849829876?source=Snapzu

About 100 fishermen rescued after large chunk of ice breaks off in Minnesota lake

Hundreds of people fishing off a frozen lake in Minnesota were rescued after a large chunk of the ice broke off, leaving them stranded.
Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/100-fishermen-rescued-after-large-chunk-ice-breaks/story?id=94109788?source=Snapzu

Counties in Arizona, Pennsylvania fail to certify election results by legal deadlines

Around 164,000 people's votes for the midterm elections are at risk after Arizona's Cochise County and Pennsylvania's Luzerne County failed to certify local results by their states' deadlines.
Read more: https://www.npr.org/2022/11/28/1139447507/arizona-midterm-election-results-cochise-county?source=Snapzu

Kanye West adds far-right Nick Fuentes to 2024 campaign team

Nick Fuentes says he's working with the presidential campaign team supporting the rapper formerly called Kanye West
Read more: https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/us-elections-government/ny-kanye-west-ye-nick-fuentes-campaign-20221128-lo6r4u3qkngjbdpiigw2qroiwq-story.html?source=Snapzu

ANALYSIS | Twitter's time in Canadian politics began with an apology — and then it got worse | CBC News

Whenever and however the Twitter era comes to an end, its impact on Canadian politics will have been great — if not entirely good.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/twitter-politics-minority-report-wherry-1.6663192?source=Snapzu

N Korea aims to have ‘world’s strongest’ nuclear force, Kim says

Kim Jong Un promotes scientists and soldiers involved in the test launch of N Korea’s largest missile, the Hwasong-17.
Read more: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/11/27/north-korea-aiming-for-worlds-strongest-nuclear-force-kim-says?source=Snapzu

Inequality is literally killing us: The most unequal societies suffer most in public health metrics

Income inequality has soared with the pandemic, providing incriminating evidence that it kills
Read more: https://www.salon.com/2022/11/27/inequality-is-literally-us-the-most-unequal-societies-suffer-most-in-public-health-metrics/?source=Snapzu

The DOJ is reportedly investigating rent-setting software company RealPage

The company has been accused of driving up rent.
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/26/23479034/doj-investigating-rent-setting-software-company-realpage?source=Snapzu

Crowds angered by lockdowns call for China's Xi to step down

Protesters angered by strict anti-virus measures called for China’s powerful leader to resign, an unprecedented rebuke as authorities in at least eight cities struggled to suppress demonstrations Sunday that represent a rare direct challenge to the ruling Communist Party.
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/taiwan-health-fires-social-media-50d7515e5fae00f5054062209e9306cc?source=Snapzu

Trump calls Kanye West ‘seriously troubled man, who just happens to be black’

Donald Trump sharply criticised rapper Kanye West and ramped up his efforts to distance himself from a recent meeting between the two as the fallout over Mr Trump’s association with Mr West’s campaign advisers continues. Mr Trump issued a statement via Truth Social calling the rapper a “seriously troubled man, who just happens to be black” and once again denied knowing Nick Fuentes, the white nationalist and racist who latched on to Mr West amid his increasingly erratic spiral into hate speech and the utter destruction of his musical career.
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-kanye-west-dinner-troubled-man-b2233912.html?source=Snapzu

Squid Game actor O Yeong-su charged with sexual misconduct

The 78-year-old actor is accused of inappropriately touching a woman in 2017, judicial officials say.
Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-63764444?source=Snapzu

Humans v nature: our long and destructive journey to the age of extinction

The story of the damage done to the world’s biodiversity is a tale of decline spanning thousands of years. Can the world seize its chance to change the narrative?
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/25/cop15-humans-v-nature-our-long-and-destructive-journey-to-the-age-of-extinction-aoe?source=Snapzu

A hundred UK companies sign up for four-day week with no loss of pay

A hundred UK companies have signed up for a permanent four-day working week for all their employees with no loss of pay, a milestone in the campaign to fundamentally change Britain’s approach to work. The 100 companies employ 2,600 staff – a tiny fraction of the UK’s working population – but the 4 Day Week Campaign group is hoping they will be the vanguard of a major shift.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/nov/27/a-hundred-uk-companies-sign-up-for-four-day-week-with-no-loss-of-pay?source=Snapzu

A 48,500-year-old virus has been revived from Siberian permafrost

Seven viruses from the Siberian permafrost have been revived and replicated themselves in the lab – including the oldest revived so far
Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2347934-a-48500-year-old-virus-has-been-revived-from-siberian-permafrost/?source=Snapzu

Irene Cara, '80s pop star behind 'Fame' and 'Flashdance' theme songs, dies at 63

Actress and singer Irene Cara, an Oscar and Grammy winner best known for the theme songs of “Fame” and “Flashdance” in the early ’80s, has died, her publicist said. She was 63. “Please share your thoughts and memories of Irene,” Judith Moose said in a tweet announcing the singer’s death. “I’ll be reading each and every one of them and know she’ll be smiling from Heaven. She adored her fans.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/26/entertainment/irene-cara-obit/index.html?source=Snapzu

Chinese Canadian pop star Kris Wu sentenced to 13 years in China on rape, group sex charges | CBC News

A Chinese court on Friday sentenced Chinese Canadian pop star Kris Wu to 13 years in prison on charges including rape.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/singer-kris-wu-sentenced-1.6663970?source=Snapzu

Jan. 6 panel staffers angry at Cheney for focusing so much of report on Trump

Fifteen former and current staffers expressed concerns that important findings unrelated to Trump will not become available to the American public.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/23/liz-cheney-jan-6-committee/?source=Snapzu

Damage to Ukraine's environment caused by war exceeds UAH 1.3 trillion

This was stated by acting head of the State Environmental Inspectorate, Ihor Zubovych, at a press conference "Damage caused by Russia to Ukraine's environment over nine months of war." "To date, more than UAH 1.387 trillion have been calculated using only three available methods. Damage caused to atmospheric air reached UAH 927.6 billion, land due to pollution and contamination – UAH 443.7 billion, and the total amount of damage caused to water bodies is UAH 15.7 billion,” the official said.
Read more: https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3621490-damage-to-ukraines-environment-caused-by-war-exceeds-uah-13-trillion.html?source=Snapzu

Kanye Disses Trump, Unleashes Bombshell 2024 Campaign Videos

In a bizarre 2024 move, Ye dished on topics from ex-wife Kim Kardashian to white nationalist Nick Fuentes, with an adviser telling The Daily Beast that “Trumpworld is in crisis.”
Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/kanye-ye-west-releases-bombshell-campaign-video-for-2024-presidential-election-talks-trump-kim-kardashian?ref=wrap?source=Snapzu

Is Critical Coverage Hurting World Cup Ratings?

Controversy has swirled around this year’s soccer World Cup in Qatar. From accusations of bribery and fraud in granting the tournament to the tiny, wealthy Mid-East nation, to criticism of Qatar’s persecution of its LGBTQ+ community and its treatment of migrant workers.
Read more: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/world-cup-2022-tv-viewership-critical-coverage-1235269526/?source=Snapzu

Meet audibly-challenged Flossie, the world’s oldest living cat

British-born Flossie has set a new record as the world's oldest living cat. Guinness World Records have officially awarded the title to the feline, who was born in 1995. The cat has had a number of owners during her lifetime, but currently resides in southeast London.
Read more: https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/11/24/flossie-26-officially-crowned-worlds-oldest-living-cat-by-guinness-world-records?source=Snapzu

FDA approves most expensive drug ever, a $3.5 million-per-dose gene therapy for hemophilia B

The single-dose medicine "represents important progress" as the first-ever gene therapy for the rare disorder, the FDA said.
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-approves-hemgenix-most-expensive-drug-hemophilia-b/?source=Snapzu

San Francisco police propose using robots capable of ‘deadly force’

City’s board of supervisors to consider proposal involving remote-controlled devices
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/24/san-francisco-police-propose-using-robots-capable-of-deadly-force?source=Snapzu

Luring pedophiles through fake online ads is not entrapment, Supreme Court says

The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that online police investigations targeting adults looking to have sex with children do not constitute police entrapment.
Read more: https://ca.news.yahoo.com/luring-pedophiles-fake-online-ads-173441016.html?source=Snapzu

Asking the Public to Name Probe to Uranus May Have Been a Mistake

A space exploration enthusiast on Twitter recently asked the web audience to come up with a name for an upcoming mission to Uranus, likely aware of the internet’s fascination with amusingly-named projects.
Read more: https://www.thesized.com/asking-public-name-probe-uranus-mistake/?source=Snapzu

Kanye West says he asked Donald Trump to be his running mate in 2024

"Can't believe I kept President Trump waiting," Ye wrote in a Tuesday tweet, which included a poll of what users thought Trump's response was
Read more: https://www.insider.com/kanye-west-says-he-asked-donald-trump-2024-running-mate-2022-11?source=Snapzu

New York Enacts 2-Year Ban on Some Crypto-Mining Operations

National cryptocurrency industry groups had lobbied Gov. Kathy Hochul to veto the environmental ban, fearful that other states could follow New York’s lead.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/22/nyregion/crypto-mining-ban-hochul.html?source=Snapzu

Future chips may be 10 times faster, all thanks to graphene

The chips found in the best CPUs and GPUs on the market currently are all made out of silicon, but scientists are aware of their limitations. In order to keep scaling up the performance without damaging power efficiency, a lot of research goes into finding a replacement for silicon.
Read more: https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/graphene-may-one-day-replace-silicon/?source=Snapzu

Monty Python’s Eric Idle says he hates conservatives: ‘they’re horrible people’

Tech journalist Kara Swisher interviewed legendary British comedian Eric Idle on Monday, where he spoke extensively about the state of comedy in his heyday and said he hated conservatives.
Read more: https://nypost.com/2022/11/22/monty-pythons-eric-idle-blasts-dave-chappelle-elon-musk/?source=Snapzu

Jeff Bezos announces 40 grants totaling $123 million to combat homelessness

Jeff Bezos is continuing to make good on his pledge to give away the majority his wealth, to the tune of $123 million today. The Amazon founder announced on Instagram Tuesday that he has recently awarded 40 grants as part of his Bezos Day 1 Families Fund initiative, which he launched in 2018. The donations are part of a $2 billion total commitment to combat homelessness.
Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2022/11/22/business/jeff-bezos-day-1-fund-grants?source=Snapzu

This long-term care home radically changed the way it operates. Residents say it's working

Like so many people contemplating long-term care, Louis Capozzi said he was nervous about what he would find when he started looking at homes. "I heard so many awful things about, you know, people getting not well taken care of, laying in bed, needing to be changed and people hitting them or whatever. You hear all the worst things," he said.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/long-term-care-resident-centred-1.6659458?source=Snapzu

McDonald’s and Walmart beef suppliers criticised for ‘reckless’ antibiotics use

Suppliers of beef to McDonald’s, Taco Bell and Walmart are sourcing meat from US farms that use antibiotics linked to the spread of dangerous superbugs, an investigation has found. Unpublished US government records obtained by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and the Guardian show farms producing beef for meat packing firms Cargill, JBS, and Green Bay are risking public health by still using antibiotics classed as the “highest priority critically important” to human health (HP-CIAs).
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/global/2022/nov/21/mcdonalds-and-walmart-beef-suppliers-put-public-health-at-risk-with-reckless-antibiotics-use?source=Snapzu

Some of Taylor Swift's biggest fans are also lawyers. After Ticketmaster's botched handling of her Eras Tour, they're mobilizing to take the ticketing giant down.

Taylor Swift fans, some of whom are lawyers, are organizing to hold Ticketmaster—and other industry monopolies—accountable after its Eras Tour blunder.
Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/taylor-swift-lawyer-fans-are-organizing-against-ticketmaster-mergers-2022-11?source=Snapzu

The Rivals Who Cracked the Code of Ancient Egypt’s Hieroglyphs

Following the discovery of the Rosetta Stone, two scholars battled each other to decipher the mysterious Egyptian writing system.
Read more: https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/race-to-decode-ancient-egyptian-hieroglyphs?a_aid=45728?source=Snapzu

Jay Leno Discharged from Hospital 9 Days After Suffering Severe Burns from Gasoline Fire: See the Photo

Jay Leno suffered "serious burns" in a gasoline fire on Nov. 12, and is on his way to recovery after being discharged from the Grossman Burn Center on Monday: see the photo
Read more: https://people.com/health/jay-leno-discharged-from-hospital-after-suffering-severe-burns-garage-gasoline-fire/?source=Snapzu

Bars in Germany boycott Qatar FIFA World Cup

The mood in Germany in the run-up to a football World Cup has never been as subdued. In many pubs, the previously unimaginable is happening: There won't be any soccer matches shown during the World Cup.
Read more: https://www.dw.com/en/bars-in-germany-boycott-qatar-fifa-world-cup/a-63794873?source=Snapzu

America has seen at least 601 mass shootings so far in 2022

This averages out to more than 13 such attacks a week.
Read more: https://www.npr.org/2022/05/15/1099008586/mass-shootings-us-2022-tally-number?source=Snapzu

Meta-analysis suggests frequent pornography use isn't the same as problematic use

Is watching too much pornography a gateway to problematic porn usage? A study published in the Journal of Sex Research suggests that though this relationship does exist, there are a myriad of other factors that play a role in whether or not porn consumption becomes an issue.
Read more: https://www.psypost.org/2022/11/meta-analysis-suggests-frequent-pornography-use-isnt-the-same-as-problematic-use-64374?source=Snapzu

Historic compensation fund approved at U.N. climate talks in Egypt

In a historic first, countries have agreed to set up a fund to help pay for the devastating impact of climate change on poorer nations, according to a deal unveiled on Sunday after marathon talks. “It is clearly a down payment on the longer investment in our joint futures,” said Sherry Rehman, environment minister of the flood-hit Pakistan.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/climate-compensation-fund-approved-issues-air-rcna58046?source=Snapzu

The Human Cost Of Moving Away From Fossil Fuels

Millions of workers from developing countries have left their homes to work in the Gulf states, sending back money to support their families and communities. And every major decline in the price of oil comes with massive disruptions to those workers’ lives and the economies of their home countries.
Read more: https://www.noemamag.com/the-human-cost-of-moving-away-from-fossil-fuels/?source=Snapzu

Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson opens up about mental health: ‘You gotta ask for help’

With 21-inch biceps and 10 WWE World Wrestling Championship belts, "vulnerability" is not a word many would associate with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. But vulnerability has been a superpower of sorts for the wrestler, actor and "Black Adam" star, he revealed in a recent interview with Men’s Health magazine. And he’s encouraging other men to find their vulnerable side, too.
Read more: https://www.fox9.com/news/dwayne-the-rock-johnson-mental-health-vulnerability-ask-help?source=Snapzu

The Feds Raided a UFO Blogger's Houses

What were the feds looking for when they went rifling through the homes of the man who runs dreamlandresort.com so early in the morning?
Read more: https://gizmodo.com/ufo-dreamland-resort-joerg-arnu-houses-raided-fbi-area-1849797422?source=Snapzu

Banksy Encourages Fans to Shoplift From Guess Since Company ‘Helped Themselves to My Artwork Without Asking’

Banksy told his followers to shoplift from the Regent Street Guess store in London after it displayed a collection that used his artwork without permission.
Read more: https://www.complex.com/style/banksy-encourages-fans-shoplift-guess-artwork?source=Snapzu

On Eve of World Cup, FIFA Chief Says, ‘Don’t Criticize Qatar; Criticize Me.’

Gianni Infantino defended the host country’s decision to ban the sale of beer at stadiums and fired back at the “hypocrisy” of Western criticisms.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/19/sports/soccer/world-cup-gianni-infantino-fifa.html?source=Snapzu

ID.me made “baseless” pandemic fraud claims to win contracts, Congress says

Online verification through ID.me was supposed to help the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) prevent widespread fraud while rushing unemployment benefits to those who needed it most during the pandemic. Instead, wait times to get verified for some stretched up to 10 hours, and in one case in California, actually took three days.
Read more: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/11/id-me-made-baseless-pandemic-fraud-claims-to-win-contracts-congress-says/?source=Snapzu