Instead of Banning Lzzy Cheaters, Pokémon Go Trolls Them

NOW THAT THE generalized Pokémon Go craze has subsided, the more captivating effort to catch ‘em all may be game developer Niantic’s ongoing battle against cheaters. Its latest evolution: Not banning bad actors, but banishing them to poké-purgatory. As detailed by Pokémon Go enthusiast subreddit The Silph Road, a recent Pokémon Go update targets players who use bots to trawl the globe for valuable Pokémon...
Read more: https://www.wired.com/2017/05/pokemon-go-cheaters-shadowban/?source=Snapzu

Ohio Sues 5 Major Drug Companies For 'Fueling Opioid Epidemic'

The state's attorney general filed the lawsuit Wednesday, alleging fraudulent marketing. "They knew they were wrong," Mike DeWine says, "but they did it anyway — and they continue to do it."
Read more: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/05/31/530929307/ohio-sues-5-major-drug-companies-for-fueling-opioid-epidemic?source=Snapzu

Gang Attacks Navalny Campaign's Landlord in Siberia

An armed gang has violently beaten a man in Siberia after his family rented office space to the presidential campaign of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. The victim, the son of the campaign's landlord in the city of Irkutsk, had been discussing repair work with the men before they began to beat him with baseball bats. The landlord's son was taken to hospital, where he is being treated with stitches, according to Sergei Bespalov, the coordinator of Navalny's Irkutsk headquarters.
Read more: https://themoscowtimes.com/news/attackers-beat-navalny-campaigns-landlord-with-bats-in-siberia-58125?source=Snapzu

India would stick to climate accord even if U.S. pulled out: source

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi told German Chancellor Angela Merkel in talks in Berlin on Tuesday that India would stay in the Paris climate accord even if the United States pulled out, a delegation source said. The official spoke on condition of anonymity.
Read more: http://in.reuters.com/article/us-germany-india-climatechange-idINKBN18Q1C0?source=Snapzu

New York mayor: City will uphold Paris climate agreement if Trump doesn't

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) promised Wednesday that his city would uphold the Paris climate agreement even if President Trump moves forward with his campaign promise to withdraw from the accord.
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/news/335773-de-blasio-nyc-will-uphold-paris-climate-agreement-if-trump-doesnt?source=Snapzu

The Loneliness of Donald Trump

Rebecca Solnit on the corrosive privilege of the most mocked man in the world.
Read more: http://lithub.com/rebecca-solnit-the-loneliness-of-donald-trump/?source=Snapzu

German Unemployment Declines as Economy Poised for More Growth

German unemployment fell to a new record low as Europe’s largest economy continued to power ahead. The jobless rate dropped to 5.7 percent in May from 5.8 percent, data from the Federal Labor Agency in Nuremberg showed on Wednesday. The number of people out of work slid by a seasonally adjusted 9,000 in May to 2.54 million, compared with a decline of 15,000 forecast in a Bloomberg survey.
Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-31/german-unemployment-declines-as-economy-poised-for-more-growth?source=Snapzu

Elon Musk threatens to leave White House councils over Paris deal

Musk has emerged as the Trump White House's go-to tech industry executive.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/31/elon-musk-trump-paris-climate-pact-238990?source=Snapzu

Australia To Cancel Passports Of Convicted Paedophiles

Convicted paedophiles will have their passports cancelled to prevent them travelling overseas to offend again under tough new laws which Australia on Tuesday hailed as a "world first". Legislation will be introduced to parliament this month making it illegal for registered offenders to leave or attempt to leave the country as part of a crackdown on child-sex tourism.
Read more: http://www.ndtv.com/world-news/australia-to-cancel-passports-of-convicted-child-sex-offenders-1705501?source=Snapzu

Mosul Authorities Ban Wearing of Full Veil, Burqa in Public

Wearing full Islamic veils for women including burqa, a veil for the face that leaves the area around the eyes clear, has been banned in public places in newly liberated parts of Mosul as part of new security measures to confront possible suicide bombing attacks during Ramadan, according to a statement from Nineveh police office Sunday, Rudaw reported.
Read more: http://ahtribune.com/world/north-africa-south-west-asia/1686-mosul-burqa.html?source=Snapzu

‘Washington Post’ Reporter Frustrated Every Space In Parking Garage Taken Up By Anonymous Source

WASHINGTON—Circling every level multiple times with no luck whatsoever, ‘Washington Post’ reporter Philip Rucker was frustrated Tuesday that every space in the parking garage was taken up by an anonymous source
Read more: http://www.theonion.com/article/washington-post-reporter-frustrated-every-space-pa-56136?source=Snapzu

Trump targets ‘negative press covfefe’ in garbled midnight tweet

A puzzling midnight tweet from President Trump gets a lot of attention.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/05/31/president-trump-tweets-despite-the-constant-negative-press-covfefe-twitter-explodes/?source=Snapzu

No one came to this 8-year-old's birthday party, so Hurst police got involved

After no one came to her son's eighth birthday party Sunday, a Hurst mother decided to get the police involved. Although no one had responded to Jennifer Day and her husband's invitations, they hoped for the best and baked cakes and bought pizza. But no one showed up to celebrate with their son, Graham. He had the same heartbreaking experience when he turned 6.
Read more: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/hurst/2017/05/29/one-came-8-year-olds-birthday-party-hurst-police-got-involved?source=Snapzu

Police in Germany 'foil asylum seeker suicide attack'

German police have arrested a teenage asylum seeker suspected of planning a suicide attack in Berlin, Brandenburg state officials say. The suspect, 17, was arrested in the Uckermark district, Interior Minister Karl-Heinz Schröter announced. But Brandenburg police say they have not confirmed reports that the teen, who entered Germany in 2015, is Syrian and was definitely planning an attack. In December, a jihadist killed 12 people with a lorry in Berlin.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/40096753?source=Snapzu

Lebanon wants to ban ‘Wonder Woman’ because of its Israeli star

Push to boycott film reportedly prodded by BDS group, which cites ex-IDF soldier Gal Gadot’s expressions of solidarity with Israeli soldiers fighting Hamas in Gaza. Lebanon’s ministry of economy is seeking to ban the 2017 Wonder Woman movie because its lead actress — Gal Gadot — is an Israeli, though a formal request for a ban has not yet been received, a Lebanese security official said Tuesday. A ban would require a recommendation from a six-ministry-member committee, a process that also has not yet began, the official said.
Read more: http://www.timesofisrael.com/lebanon-wants-to-ban-wonder-woman-because-of-its-israeli-star/?source=Snapzu

Eminem helps raise almost £2million for Manchester victims

Social media support from Eminem has helped raise £2 million in donations for the victims of the Manchester terror attack. The US star, real name Marshall Mathers, tweeted his fans after the attack at Manchester's MEN Arena last Monday to urge them to donate to a JustGiving page set up to help the families of the 22 people killed, and those who were injured.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4555230/Eminem-helps-raise-2million-Manchester-victims.html?source=Snapzu

Almost half of Trump's Twitter followers appear to be fake

Is the president buying Twitter followers? Spoiler alert: Yes.
Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-twitter-followers-fake-617873?source=Snapzu

Cleveland officer involved in Tamir Rice shooting terminated; Other officer suspended

City officials announced discipline for two officers involved in the shooting death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice Tuesday morning. Mayor Frank Jackson, Chief Calvin Williams, Deputy Chief Wayne Drummond and Safety Director Michael McGrath spoke at the news conference at Cleveland Public Hall. “There’s a 12-year-old kid dead. I mean, you know, people on both sides are going to say it wasn’t enough, it was too much. We have to go through our process, we have to be fair and objective to everyone in this process,” Williams said.
Read more: http://fox8.com/2017/05/30/cleveland-officials-to-announce-discipline-in-officer-involved-shooting/?source=Snapzu

Gun Rights Group Takes a Shot at Elizabeth Warren — Over Effort to Make Hearing Aids Cheaper

A small-time K Street battle between hearing aid manufacturers on one side and electronics firms who want to make cheaper ones on the other has attracted the attention of a radical gun rights group, looking to take a shot at one of the bill’s backers. The bill has the support of powerful Republicans in both the House and Senate. But it also has a powerful Democratic supporter: Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts. That — and, apparently, that alone — is enough to have the bill in the crosshairs of a group of ultra-conservative gun rights advocates — the Gun Owners of America — and their political allies.
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2017/05/30/gun-rights-group-takes-a-shot-at-elizabeth-warren-over-effort-to-make-hearing-aids-cheaper/?source=Snapzu

Budget Chief Lies To Bernie, and He Crushes Him

The Jimmy Dore Show
Read more: https://snapzu.com/AdelleChattre/budget-chief-lies-to-bernie-and-he-crushes-him?source=Snapzu

‘I knew they were sugar pills but I felt fantastic’ – the rise of open-label placebos

Placebos have a reputation problem. It is widely believed they are only effective when those taking them are deceived into thinking they are taking real drugs. As such, prescribing dummy or fake treatments is unethical. Yet in Buonanno’s case there was no deception. And she is not alone.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/may/22/knew-they-were-sugar-pills-felt-fantastic-rise-open-label-placebos?source=Snapzu

Wikipedia’s Switch to HTTPS Has Successfully Fought Government Censorship

Harvard researchers found fewer instances of Wikipedia censorship after the site started encrypting all of its traffic. By Daniel Oberhaus.
Read more: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wikipedias-switch-to-https-has-successfully-fought-government-censorship?source=Snapzu

Putin’s Defender

An American Russia scholar on why he doesn’t believe the New York Times, doesn’t think the DNC was hacked, and just wants the U.S. and Russia to get along. By [Nixon White House spindoctor Murray Chotiner’s son] Isaac Chotiner.
Read more: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/interrogation/2017/05/stephen_f_cohen_just_wants_trump_and_putin_to_get_along.html?source=Snapzu

Portland stabbing suspect yells in first court appearance

Jeremy Joseph Christian began yelling as soon as he walked into the courtroom Tuesday.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/30/us/portland-train-teenager-stabbing-arraignment/index.html?source=Snapzu

Chasing the Harvest: ‘If You Want to Die, Stay at the Ranch’

In this oral history, a former sheepherder describes the loneliness and medical hardship he experienced while tending sheep in California’s Central Valley. By Heraclio Astete, with journalist Gabriel Thompson.
Read more: https://longreads.com/2017/05/17/chasing-the-harvest-heraclio-astete/?source=Snapzu

Puerto Rico governor pushes statehood as vote looms despite no U.S. support

Rossello said he's 'not asking for a blessing but informing the members of Congress' that a vote will happen.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/26/puerto-rico-statehood-is-it-possible-238867?source=Snapzu

Trump condemns fatal Oregon stabbings; says victims stood against hate

President Donald Trump on Monday condemned the fatal stabbings of two Good Samaritans who tried to stop a man from harassing a pair of women who appeared to be Muslim, in a tweet issued days after an advocacy group urged Trump to condemn the attacks it said his anti-Muslim rhetoric had encouraged. A third man who also came to the aid of the women suffered serious wounds in the attack on a Portland commuter train on Friday, hours before the start of Ramadan, Islam's holy month. One of the women tearfully thanked the men for their sacrifice.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/BigStory12/idUSKBN18P1XR?source=Snapzu

Green Power Ranger Jason David Frank Speaks Out About Alleged Assassination Attempt

On Friday, former Green Power Ranger and mixed martial artist Jason David Frank spoke to reporters about his alleged assassination attempt at Phoenix Comic-Con. Police arrested a man at the Phoenix Convention Center on Thursday after he made it into the event with multiple weapons, including three guns and a knife, Phoenix police confirmed to PEOPLE in a statement on Sunday.
Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/celebrity/green-power-ranger-jason-david-190054038.html?source=Snapzu

Ontario becomes 2nd province to go ahead with $15 an hour minimum wage

Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne has announced a plan to increase the provincial minimum wage to $15 an hour by Jan. 1, 2019.
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-minimum-wage-announcement-1.4137339?source=Snapzu

Tiger found asleep at wheel, blew 0.00 on test

The police had to wake up Tiger Woods when they approached his running vehicle prior to arresting him on a DUI charge early Monday morning, according to the police report. According to the report, the officer said Woods "had extremely slow and slurred speech" and struggled with several roadside tasks. The report noted that the golfer changed his story about where he was going and where he was coming from.
Read more: http://www.espn.com/golf/story/_/id/19496396/tiger-woods-found-asleep-car-arrest-dui-charge?source=Snapzu

NSA in Unprecedented Hunt for KremlinGate Evidence

In my last column, I broke the news that Admiral Mike Rogers, the director of the National Security Agency, reportedly explained to his workforce last week that he had declined to assist President Donald Trump in his efforts to undermine the FBI and its counterintelligence investigation of the White House. As Rogers is said to have explained to agency personnel, “There is no question that we have evidence of election involvement and questionable contacts with the Russians.”
Read more: http://observer.com/2017/05/mike-rogers-nsa-issues-preservation-order-kremlingate-russia-trump/?source=Snapzu

Texas Lawmakers Trade Assault Allegations After One Calls ICE On Protesters

By the time the final day of Texas’ legislative term had ended, Immigration and Customs Enforcement had been called and politicians on both sides of the aisle had accused each other of making threats. By Colin Dwyer.
Read more: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/05/29/530623562/texas-lawmakers-trade-assault-allegations-after-one-calls-ice-on-protesters?source=Snapzu

Alaska’s tiny, restless Bogoslof volcano erupts again -- and researchers won't be going there anytime soon

The volcano, on a tiny island on the southern edge of the Bering Sea, is so active that researchers have halted plans to visit this summer.
Read more: https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2017/05/29/alaskas-tiny-restless-bogoslof-volcano-erupts-again-and-researchers-wont-be-going-there-anytime-soon/?source=Snapzu

Flipbooks Help Prisoners Stay Connected To Their Loved Ones

For people in prison, rules limiting access to technology make seeing video of their kids' first steps difficult. But a Colorado woman is using a 19th century solution for this 21st century problem.
Read more: http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/05/29/525874568/flipbooks-help-prisoners-stay-connected-to-their-loved-ones?source=Snapzu

Who’s the real cunt?: Dacre’s Paper

Andrew O’Hagan reviews “Mail Men: The Unauthorised Story of the ‘Daily Mail’, the Paper that Divided and Conquered Britain” by Adrian Addison.
Read more: https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n11/andrew-ohagan/whos-the-real-cunt?source=Snapzu

Al Franken Tells You What He Really Thinks About Donald Trump’s Lying

In an exclusive excerpt from his new book, "Al Franken, Giant of the Senate," the Minnesota Democrat and former S.N.L. writer confronts Trump’s issues with the truth.
Read more: http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/05/al-franken-giant-of-the-senate-excerpt?source=Snapzu

Trump’s Ignorance Is Radicalizing U.S. Historians

They’re in great demand by the media. But will many Americans even believe what they’re saying, or accuse them of partisan bias? By Graham Vyse. (May 3, 2017)
Read more: https://newrepublic.com/article/142471/trumps-ignorance-radicalizing-us-historians?source=Snapzu

British Airways boss 'tries to gag staff' on IT meltdown which has hit 300,000 passengers after 'inexperienced staff outsourced to India didn't know to launch back up system'

THE British Airways boss is alleged to have tried to “gag staff” over the IT meltdown which hit 300,000 passengers – as inexperienced staff in India didn’t know how to launch the back up system, it has been claimed. The airline’s check-in and operational systems crashed on Saturday and saw thousands of people trying to travel on Bank Holiday weekend left stranded.
Read more: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3672676/british-airways-boss-tries-gag-staff-it-failure/?source=Snapzu

The Dirty Secret of the Korean War

The Korean War has been called “America’s forgotten war.” By Thomas Powell.
Read more: http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/05/26/the-dirty-secret-of-the-korean-war/?source=Snapzu

11-year-old girl from Florida 'forced to marry her rapist'

A woman from Florida has claimed she was forced to marry her rapist at age 11. Sherry Johnson says she was raped four times by members of her family’s church congregation as a child. As a result, she became pregnant at age 10. When investigators began looking into her case, she claims her family tried to protect her rapist by forcing her to marry him.
Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/11-year-old-girl-forced-to-marry-rapist-florida-church-child-marraige-a7761816.html?source=Snapzu

Life is Getting Much Worse for the [U.S.] Poor

Housing, Food and Essentials Eat Up the Meager Incomes. By Ebony Slaughter-Johnson. By Ebony Slaughter-Johnson.
Read more: http://www.alternet.org/economy/price-poverty-how-housing-food-and-essentials-eat-meager-incomes-city-residents?source=Snapzu

Under Trumpcare, Having a High Fever Once Is a Pre-Existing Condition

There are horror stories of all kinds of crazy things being deemed “pre-existing conditions” before the Affordable Care Act. By Kaleigh Rogers.
Read more: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/under-trumpcare-having-a-high-fever-once-is-a-pre-existing-condition?source=Snapzu

State of Ruin: Tales From Venezuela's Collapse

Eight local photographers reflect on the images that have moved them most
Read more: http://time.com/venezuela-photographers/?xid=time_socialflow_twitter?source=Snapzu

Alone on the Open Road: Truckers Feel Like ‘Throwaway People’

President Trump ignited a national discussion of blue-collar jobs. Truck driving, once a road to the middle class, is now low-paying, grinding, unhealthy work. We talked with drivers about why they do it. By “Trip Gabriel.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/22/us/trucking-jobs.html?source=Snapzu

FBI 'warned MI5 in January that Salman Abedi was planning terror attack in UK'

British intelligence agency MI5 was reportedly warned by its US counterpart that Salman Abedi was planning an attack on UK soil, three months before he blew himself up outside an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester. 
Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/fbi-warned-mi5-january-manchester-attack-bomber-salman-abedi-manchester-arena-a7760756.html?source=Snapzu

Trump and Jack Kennedy are more alike than we would like to think

What our nation’s youngest president can tell us about our oldest.
Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/trump-and-jfk-are-more-alike-we-think-616454?source=Snapzu

A 16th-century engineer whose work almost defeated an Empire

When the Ottomans laid siege to Rhodes, this smart inventor held them off for months.
Read more: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/05/a-16th-century-engineer-whose-work-almost-defeated-an-empire/?source=Snapzu

‘Progress is painfully uneven’: Baltimore, 15 years after The Wire

From its first episode in 2002, the HBO TV drama documented the poverty, politics and policing of a city. We visit its memorable locations and talk to the people trying to rebuild scarred communities• See more of JM Giordano’s photographs of Baltimore locations used in the wire here. By David Smith.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/may/27/baltimore-15-years-after-the-wire?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other?source=Snapzu

The Merry Life of Dragnet Surveillance

In the aftermath of Edward Snowden’s revelations in 2013, a grudging acceptance was made by the Obama administration that something had to be done about a roguish surveillance complex unhinged from its foundations. The National Security Agency had overstretched its powers… By Binoy Kampmark.
Read more: http://dissidentvoice.org/2017/05/the-merry-life-of-dragnet-surveillance/?source=Snapzu

Merkel warns US, Britain no longer reliable partners

Europe "must take its fate into its own hands" faced with a western alliance divided by Brexit and Donald Trump's presidency, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Sunday. "The times in which we could completely depend on others are on the way out. I've experienced that in the last few days," Merkel told a crowd at an election rally in Munich, southern Germany. "We Europeans truly have to take our fate into our own hands," she added.
Read more: https://www.thelocal.de/20170528/merkel-warns-us-britain-no-longer-reliable-partners?source=Snapzu