Canadian Prime Minister's office asks Fox News to retract 'misleading' tweet about Quebec mosque shooting

Fox News' tweet said the suspect was
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/trudeau-quebec-mosque-shooting-fox-news-tweet-2017-1??source=Snapzu

White House tries to ban the word 'ban,' hours after president uses it himself

President Trump used the word "ban" in a tweet as recently as Monday to describe his new executive order suspending travel from seven Muslim-majority countries and halting the refugee program for several months. But facing backlash from many directions, the White House adamantly insisted Tuesday that the word is verboten. "This is not a ban," White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer told reporters in a fiery news briefing.
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/politics/washington/la-na-trailguide-updates-white-house-tries-to-ban-the-word-1485891339-htmlstory.html?source=Snapzu

A Better Approach to Violent Crime

In our politically fractured age, the problem of mass incarceration is one of the very few issues that brings liberals and conservatives together. The shocking facts of our criminal justice system are surely one reason for this. The U.S. is home to 5% of the world’s population but 25% of its prisoners. Our incarceration rate is 19% higher than Turkmenistan’s, 36% higher than Cuba’s and 57% higher than Russia’s—all repressive regimes. No other liberal democracy has an incarceration rate anything like ours, which is more than 370%...
Read more: http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-better-approach-to-violent-crime-1485536313?source=Snapzu

Deep State vs. Donald Trump

President Trump has stepped onto a high-wire in defying America’s Deep State, but can he withstand the powerful winds that will surely buffet him and what will President Putin do to help or hurt, asks ex-British diplomat Alastair Crooke.
Read more: https://consortiumnews.com/2017/01/28/deep-state-vs-donald-trump/?source=Snapzu

Elon Musk’s hyperloop competition brings new mass-transit technology to life in Southern California

A new mass transit system that sounded like a crazy futuristic idea a few years ago was brought to three-dimensional life in Hawthorne on Sunday, as young engineering teams from around the world tested prototype pod-vehicles in the first Hyperloop competition. The technology, introduced to the world in a research paper written by SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk in 2013 that described the basic principles of thrusting a passenger pod through a vacuum-sealed tube at supersonic speeds, was re-imagined by teams who trekked to Hawthorne with their complex homemade vehicles in tow.
Read more: http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/01/31/hyperloop-competition-brings-new-mass-transit-technology-to-life-in-hawthorne-7/?source=Snapzu

A ‘rogue’ group of staffers is tweeting secrets from the White House

There’s no question about it, technology is playing a bigger and bigger role in all aspects of our lives, especially when it comes to the way we consume news. Social media — and especially Twitter… By Chris Smith.
Read more: http://bgr.com/2017/01/30/donald-trump-vs-white-house-rogues/?source=Snapzu

Neil Gorsuch nominated by Donald Trump to fill supreme court vacancy

Known for his bedrock conservative values, Gorsuch could tip the balance on hot-button issues such as abortion, voting rights and religious equality.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/law/2017/jan/31/neil-gorsuch-supreme-court-nomination?source=Snapzu

Crowds are wise enough to know when other people will get it wrong

Unexpected yet popular answers often turn out to be correct. By Cathleen O’grady.
Read more: https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/01/to-improve-the-wisdom-of-the-crowd-ask-people-to-predict-vote-outcome/?source=Snapzu

Nazis Quite Pleased With President Steve Bannon’s Holocaust Denial On ‘Holocaust Remembrance Day’

Go way Jooz, you’re bothering us! By Rebecca Schoenkopf.
Read more: http://wonkette.com/611067/nazis-quite-pleased-with-president-steve-bannons-holocaust-denial-on-holocaust-remembrance-day?source=Snapzu

How Diversity Makes Us Smarter

Being around people who are different from us makes us more creative, more diligent and harder-working. By Katherine W. Phillips.
Read more: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-diversity-makes-us-smarter/?source=Snapzu

In these six American towns, laws targeting ‘the illegals’ didn’t go as planned

Efforts targeting undocumented immigrants were undermined by court challenges and difficulties with enforcement.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/in-these-six-american-towns-laws-targeting-the-illegals-didnt-go-as-planned/2017/01/26/b3410c4a-d9d4-11e6-9f9f-5cdb4b7f8dd7_story.html?source=Snapzu

The Persuasion Filter and Immigration

“So Trump has created a situation – or will soon – in which the peaceful Muslims will either have to do a lot more to help law enforcement find the terrorists in their midst or else live with an increasingly tainted brand. Trump is issuing no free passes for minding your own business.” By Scott Adams.
Read more: http://blog.dilbert.com/post/156532225711/the-persuasion-filter-and-immigration?source=Snapzu

At least 17 Bomb Threats called in to Jewish Community Centers Nationwide in Third Wave of Harassment

Threats were called into JCCs in New York, New Jersey, Colorado, California, Wisconsin and Utah, an official of a Jewish security group confirmed.
Read more: http://www.jta.org/2017/01/31/news-opinion/united-states/at-least-11-bomb-threats-called-in-to-jccs-nationwide-in-third-wave-of-threats?source=Snapzu

Auschwitz death camp: Poland puts database of prison guards online

The names of Nazi SS commanders and guards at the Auschwitz death camp in German-occupied Poland have been put online by the country's Institute of National Remembrance (INR). It has been hailed as the most comprehensive list to date. About 9,000 names - nearly all German - are on the Auschwitz garrison list, some with photographs attached. The INR hopes the list will prove that Auschwitz was not a Polish-run camp. More than a million people died there.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-38797727?source=Snapzu

People are boycotting Starbucks after CEO announces plan to hire thousands of refugees

Some Starbucks customers are threatening to boycott the coffee giant after its CEO took a stand against President Donald Trump's executive order barring immigrants from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the US. On Sunday, Starbucks announced it planned to hire 10,000 refugees worldwide in the next five years.
Read more: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/people-boycotting-starbucks-ceo-announces-153452243.html?.tsrc=fauxdal?source=Snapzu

PM: I look forward to welcoming Trump to UK

Theresa May has insisted she was "very happy" to invite Donald Trump on a state visit, amid anger and protests over his travel ban. The Prime Minister's spokesman said she was looking forward to "hosting the President later this year", despite more than one million people signing an online petition calling for the state visit to be scrapped. Protests are planned around the UK on Monday evening after the President issued a 90-day ban on people from the seven mainly Muslim countries of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen travelling to the US.
Read more: http://news.sky.com/story/pm-i-look-forward-to-welcoming-trump-to-uk-10748746?source=Snapzu

Jihadist groups hail Trump’s travel ban as a victory

Jihadist groups on Sunday celebrated the Trump administration’s ban on travel from seven Muslim-majority countries, saying the new policy validates their claim that the United States is at war with Islam. Comments posted to pro-Islamic State social media accounts predicted that President Trump’s executive order would persuade American Muslims to side with the extremists. One posting hailed the U.S. president as “the best caller to Islam,” while others predicted that Trump would soon launch a new war in the Middle East.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/jihadist-groups-hail-trumps-travel-ban-as-a-victory/2017/01/29/50908986-e66d-11e6-b82f-687d6e6a3e7c_story.html?source=Snapzu

President Trump Prepares to Withdraw from Groundbreaking Climate Change Agreement

The United States will switch course on climate change and pull out of a global pact to cut emissions, said Myron Ebell, who headed U.S. President Donald Trump's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) transition team until his inauguration. Ebell is the director of global warming and international environmental policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a U.S. conservative think tank, and helped to guide the EPA's transition after Trump was elected in November until he was sworn in on Jan. 20.
Read more: http://fortune.com/2017/01/30/donald-trump-paris-agreement-climate-change-withdraw/?source=Snapzu

US soldiers shoot and kill 8-year-old girl in Yemen

While the media attention has been focused on the death of one US serviceman who was killed during a raid in Yemen, one of the most tragic casualties of the assault ordered by President Donald Trump was an eight-year-old girl. The raid took place over the weekend, as US forces attempted a “site exploitation” attack that attempted to gather intelligence on Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the extremist group behind several high-profile terror attacks, including the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris in two years ago.
Read more: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20170130-us-soldiers-shoot-and-kill-8-year-old-girl-in-yemen/?source=Snapzu

Samantha Bee Is Hosting an Alternative to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner

Given President Donald Trump's recent clashes with the media, which he called the "opposition party," it's hard to imagine the press and the Trump administration having a chummy or even cordial iteration of the star-studded White House Correspondents' dinner this year. And given the president's unwillingness to withstand any roasting, it's also hard to imagine that any comedian chosen to perform will feel free to make the traditional jokes at the commander-in-chief's expense.
Read more: http://www.vulture.com/2017/01/samantha-bee-white-house-correspondents-dinner-alternative-trump.html?source=Snapzu

Donald Trump and Steve Bannon 'pose existential threat to EU,' says chief Brexit negotiator

Donald Trump and his populist advisers in the White House are one of the main three existential threats facing the European Union – and not Brexit - the chief Brexit negotiator of the European Parliament has claimed. Guy Verhofstadt, a former Belgian prime minister and arch European federalist who recently returned from a tour of the US, said that it was now clear that Europe had “fewer friends than ever” in Washington.
Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/30/donald-trump-steve-bannon-pose-existential-threat-eu-says-chief/?source=Snapzu

The Stunning Early Infographics and Maps of the 1800s

Educational diagrams of scientific discoveries, from the moon's surface to the longest rivers.
Read more: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-stunning-early-infographics-and-maps-of-the-1800s?source=Snapzu

The Alt-Majority: How Social Networks Empowered Mass Protests Against Trump

We’re witnessing the stirrings of a national popular movement aimed at defeating the policies of the president.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/30/technology/donald-trump-social-networks-protests.html?source=Snapzu

The US is in the middle of a coup, warns Michael Moore

The US is in the middle of a coup and hasn't realised, according to Michael Moore. The filmmaker and journalist, who was one of the few famous people to publicly predict that Donald Trump would become President, has warned that the new US state is being overthrown by Mr Trump and the people he has appointed to govern alongside him.
Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-michael-moore-coup-us-steve-bannon-sally-yates-rule-of-law-a7554556.html?cmpid=facebook-post?source=Snapzu

A 58-story skyscraper in San Francisco is tilting and sinking — but the city says it's safe to live in

There's good news for the wealthy tenants of Millennium Tower, San Francisco's very own leaning tower. An inspection by the city's Department of Building Inspection concluded that the skyscraper, which has sunk 16 inches and tilted two inches since it opened in 2009, is safe to live in, according to The San Francisco Chronicle. "There was no evidence of life-safety concerns observed during the inspection," the report stated. "The building is safe to occupy at this time."
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/san-francisco-millennium-tower-safe-to-occupy-2017-1?source=Snapzu

President Trump appoints Thomas Homan as acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement director, replacing acting director Ragsdale

Read more: https://www.dhs.gov/news/2017/01/30/statement-secretary-kelly-presidents-appointment-thomas-d-homan-acting-ice-director?source=Snapzu

Peter Capaldi to leave Doctor Who - BBC News

Capaldi made the shock announcement in a BBC radio interview, saying "I feel it's time to move on".
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-38805151?source=Snapzu

30 pounds of cocaine found on American Airlines plane during ‘routine maintenance’

A worker found nearly 30 pounds of cocaine hidden inside an American Airlines plane during a routine maintenance check, according to FOX 23. Workers found seven bricks of cocaine inside an electronics bay near the nose gear of a Boeing 757 parked at the American Airlines Maintenance Base in Tulsa, according to the report. According to the airline, authorities were immediately contacted.
Read more: http://myfox8.com/2017/01/30/30-pounds-of-cocaine-found-on-american-airlines-plane-during-routine-maintenance/?source=Snapzu

The Border Adjustment Tax For Dummies: Who Will Pay For The Wall?

The most clear and even handed explanation I've seen.
Read more: http://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonynitti/2017/01/26/the-border-adjustment-tax-for-dummies-who-will-pay-for-the-wall/#4ec012bc15b6?source=Snapzu

Will the US entry ban affect the fight against IS?

President Trump should expect extremists to take maximum advantage of his "us and them" mentality.
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38802673?source=Snapzu

Scientists cook up super-strong material out of soybean oil

Australian scientists use an everyday cooking oil to make graphene, a material hundreds of times stronger than steel.
Read more: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-31/scientists-cook-up-super-strong-graphene-out-of-soybean-oil/8223686?source=Snapzu

Chimps beat up, murder and then cannibalise their former tyrant

A gang of chimps overthrew their alpha male, ostracised him for years and then killed him when he returned.
Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2119677-chimps-beat-up-murder-and-then-cannibalise-their-former-tyrant/?source=Snapzu

How to Build an Autocracy

The preconditions are present in the U.S. today. Here’s the playbook Donald Trump could use to set the country down a path toward illiberalism.
Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/03/how-to-build-an-autocracy/513872/?single_page=true?source=Snapzu

Trump fires acting attorney general who said travel ban was not lawful

Sally Yates had instructed justice department lawyers not to defend executive order, as Donald Trump lashes out at critics...
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2017/jan/30/trump-travel-ban-executive-order-world-protests-live?source=Snapzu

Google employees staged a protest over Trump’s immigration ban

Walking off the job in eight offices worldwide.
Read more: http://www.theverge.com/google/2017/1/30/14446466/google-immigration-protest-walkout-trump-googlers-unite?source=Snapzu

Lebanon is getting closer to decriminalising homosexuality

A judge in Lebanon has conceded that homosexuality should not be illegal in a landmark case that may change the future of LGBT people living in the country. Judge Rabih Maalouf declared that “homosexuality is a personal choice, and not a punishable offence” in the ruling which referenced Article 183. The article states that “An act undertaken in exercise of a right without abuse shall not be regarded as an offence.”
Read more: http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2017/01/29/lebanon-is-getting-closer-to-decriminalising-homosexuality?source=Snapzu

Sir Mo Farah: ‘Queen made me a knight, Donald Trump made me an alien’

“The Queen made me a knight, Donald Trump made me an alien.” Sir Mo Farah, one of Britain’s most successful Olympians, condemned Donald Trump’s decision to ban arrivals in the US from a series of predominantly Muslim countries in simple terms. The double 5,000m and 10,000m Olympic champion, who was born in Somalia — one of the seven countries named in the president’s executive order — branded the decision “ignorant and prejudiced”.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/jan/29/sir-mo-farah-donald-trump-made-me-an-alien?source=Snapzu

ACLU says it raised $10 million since Saturday

The American Civil Liberties Union says it has raised over $10 million since Saturday morning and gotten over 150,000 new members in what the group’s executive director calls an “unprecedented” response to President Trump’s executive order blocking entry into the United States from citizens of seven predominantly Muslim countries. “I’ve never seen anything like this,” Anthony Romero, executive director of the civil liberties group, told Yahoo News in a telephone interview. “People are fired up and want to be engaged. What we’ve seen is an unprecedented public reaction to the challenges of the Trump administration.”
Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/aclu-says-it-raised-10-million-since-saturday-201828838.html?source=Snapzu

For Librarians, 2017 Is Off to a Rough Start

Librarians’ concerns about the new Trump administration run deeper than funding questions. Immediately following the 2016 election many librarians expressed concern that Trump’s campaign rhetoric breached some of the library community’s most fundamental values, including intellectual freedom, diversity, and social responsibility.
Read more: http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/article/72618-for-librarians-2017-is-off-to-a-rough-start.html?source=Snapzu

Hundreds Protest at U.S. Consulate in Toronto against Trump's Travel Ban

Hundreds of people protested outside the U.S. Consulate General in Toronto against the Trump administration's travel ban on seven Muslim-majority countries.
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/us-consulate-services-planned-protest-1.3957879?source=Snapzu

Trump says US will prioritize Christian refugees

President Donald Trump said in a new interview Friday that persecuted Christians will be given priority over other refugees seeking to enter the United States, saying they have been "horribly treated." Speaking with the Christian Broadcasting Network, Trump said that it had been "impossible, or at least very tough" for Syrian Christians to enter the United States.
Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/27/politics/trump-christian-refugees/index.html?source=Snapzu

Russia charges four top intelligence officials with treason

The Russian government arrested four men for treason after an investigation that U.S. intelligence officials speculated was in response to their own inquiry about Russia's hacking of the U.S. presidential election. The men arrested include three high profile leaders of its intelligence agency and a contractor working for the cybersecurity office of the Russian national intelligence agency FSB, the successor to the KGB.
Read more: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2017/01/28/Russia-charges-four-top-intelligence-officials-with-treason/6631485636704/?source=Snapzu

Former Mexican President Vicente Fox: 'We’re ready for the trade war'

Former Mexican President Vicente Fox challenged U.S. President Donald Trump to go through with his proposal to impose a 20 percent tax on Mexican imports to pay for a controversial wall between the two nations. "Trump has brought back a very strong Mexican spirit and we’re ready for the trade war, and we’re ready, of course, for not paying (for) that wall," Fox said Friday in an exclusive interview on TODAY.
Read more: http://www.today.com/news/mexico-ready-trade-war-former-president-vicente-fox-says-t107468?source=Snapzu

Tech Leaders Turn on Trump over “Muslim Ban”

After months of public ambivalence toward Trump, Silicon Valley finds its voice.
Read more: http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/01/tech-leaders-turn-on-trump-over-muslim-ban?source=Snapzu

Border agents defy courts on Trump travel ban, congressmen and lawyers say

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents defied the orders of federal judges regarding Donald Trump’s travel bans on Sunday, according to members of Congress and attorneys who rallied protests around the country in support of detained refugees and travellers from seven Muslim-majority countries.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/29/customs-border-protection-agents-trump-muslim-country-travel-ban?source=Snapzu

Pope Francis slams Trump’s immigration ban; ‘It’s hypocrisy to call yourself a Christian’

At a pilgrimage gathering of Catholics and Lutherans from Germany, Pope Francis condemned the faith of those people who call themselves Christians by being merciless to refugees and people belonging to other faiths, reports Catholic Herald. Francis rebuked “the contradiction of those who want to defend Christianity in the West, and, on the other hand, are against refugees and other religions.” “The sickness or, you can say the sin, that Jesus condemns most is hypocrisy, which is precisely what is happening when someone claims to be a Christian but does not...
Read more: http://en.southlive.in/world/2017/01/29/pope-francis-slams-trumps-immigration-ban-its-hypocrisy-to-call-yourself-a-christian?source=Snapzu

Halt citizen: beware Trump and his internet killswitch

Be careful what you Tweet, folks, the new US Commander in Chief may just turn off your pesky internet. By Jessica Sier.
Read more: http://www.afr.com/technology/web/halt-citizen-beware-trump-and-his-internet-killswitch-20170125-gtyf97?source=Snapzu

US elite forces in deadly raid on Qaeda in Yemen

Elite US forces launched a dawn raid against Al-Qaeda in Yemen on Sunday, killing at least 14 suspected jihadists in an operation in which an American soldier also died.
Read more: http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2017/01/30/us-elite-forces-deadly-raid-qaeda-yemen?source=Snapzu

Sean Spicer Retweeted The Onion And The Internet Will Never Let Him Live It Down

The best part: he accidentally admitted he’s lying to you.
Read more: http://usuncut.news/2017/01/30/sean-spicer-retweeted-the-onion-and-the-internet-will-never-let-him-live-it-down-screenshots/?source=Snapzu

Saudi king agrees in call with Trump to support Syria, Yemen safe zones: White House

Saudi Arabia's King Salman, in a telephone call on Sunday with U.S. President Donald Trump, agreed to support safe zones in Syria and Yemen, a White House statement said.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-saudi-idUSKBN15D14L?source=Snapzu