US Department of Homeland Security to track all immigrants’ social media accounts

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) quietly announced this week that it will begin collecting social media information and search results from all immigrants’ social media accounts and internet searches, including popular sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. The policy expansion will take effect on October 18th, the same day President Donald Trump’s indefinite travel ban is slated to go into full effect.
Read more: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/09/29/dhss-s29.html?source=Snapzu

Monty Hall, iconic 'Let's Make a Deal' host, dead at 96

Game show icon Monty Hall, who co-created and hosted the original 'Let’s Make a Deal,' has died of heart failure at the age of 96, the New York Times reports.
Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/monty-hall-let-apos-deal-224526852.html?source=Snapzu

Raccoons solve an ancient puzzle, but do they really understand it?

Scientists have been using an ancient Greek fable written by Aesop as inspiration to test whether birds and small children understand cause and effect relationships.
Read more: https://phys.org/news/2017-09-raccoons-ancient-puzzle.html?source=Snapzu

Government makes hurting your pets punishable by up to five years in jail

People who abuse animals will now face up to five years in prison under a tough new crackdown. Environment Secretary Michael Gove said the increase in the present six-month sentence was needed to combat cruelty. The move comes after a series of cases in which courts said they would have liked to impose tougher sentences if they had the option.
Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/rspca-animal-cruelty-michael-gove-legislation-law-a7975571.html?source=Snapzu

Trump slams Puerto Rico: ‘They want everything to be done for them’

President Trump on Saturday criticized Puerto Rico's "poor leadership" and defended his administration's response to the aftermath of Hurricane Maria's devastation on the island in an early morning series of tweets that earned immediate backlash from Democrats and other critics.
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/353216-trump-criticizes-san-juan-mayors-poor-leadership-during-puerto-rico?source=Snapzu

Trump pouring gasoline on climate change fire

It’s always risky to predict historical judgments. Truman fares better than people at the time might have predicted. But most predicted right on Washington and Lincoln. And Buchanan. The Trump presidency has only had seven months. We already know that it will be judged as one of the worst – we just don’t know how much worse it will get. Perhaps Trump will remove himself, or be removed by a brave Republican Congress. If that would happen soon, the damage could be mitigated.
Read more: http://www.cincinnati.com/story/opinion/contributors/2017/09/28/trump-pouring-gasoline-climate-change-fire/686793001/?source=Snapzu

FBI reveals: Threat to U.S. posed by white supremacists now equals that of ISIS

Independent data reportedly paints an even starker picture, putting the number of attacks planned by white nationalists as double those of jihadist movements.
Read more: https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/1.814850?source=Snapzu

Saudi man jailed for threatening to attack women drivers

A Saudi man was arrested for allegedly threatening to attack women drivers, the Interior Ministry said on Friday, following a royal decree that ends a ban on women driving in the kingdom. Many Saudis welcomed Tuesday's announcement by King Salman lifting the ban by next year, but some expressed confusion or outrage after the reversal of a policy that has been backed for decades by prominent clerics.
Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/saudi-arabia-women-drivers-legal-ban-man-jailed-king-salman-burn-car-a7973966.html?source=Snapzu

Blockchain in the USA: Trump admin declares commitment to blockchain, government uses

Donald Trump’s presidential administration just officially confirmed its commitment to the blockchain, declaring that it’s looking at optimizing the U.S government through blockchain use cases. This is bullish news not just for U.S. crypto customers, but for crypto-enthusiasts all across the world. Participating in the Data Transparency 2017 conference, two top Trump White House officials announced for the first time that U.S. policymakers are increasingly looking at crypto as a cornerstone of American tech strategies going forward.
Read more: http://www.cryptoanalyst.co/2017/09/29/blockchain-in-the-usa-trump-admin-declares-commitment-to-blockchain-government-uses/?source=Snapzu

Yemen's man-made cholera crisis is now the worst outbreak on record

The cholera outbreak in Yemen is set to become the largest epidemic since records began, British charity Oxfam has said. Yemen descended into a full-blown civil war in March 2015, and has been suffering from a cholera epidemic since March of this year. Charities had already warned the crisis is the fasting-growing cholera epidemic in history, and have said the number of cases will soon overtake the total of 754,373 cases recorded in the aftermath of Haiti’s 2010 earthquake. Experts believe it will hit a million by November.
Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/yemen-cholera-outbreak-worst-on-record-health-middle-east-a7973726.html?source=Snapzu

One of Putin's most prominent critics was just arrested on his way to an opposition rally

Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader and prominent critic of Vladimir Putin, says he has been arrested again outside his Moscow home after he left to attend a pre-election rally with supporters. Mr Navalny tweeted that he had been "detained and was being taken somewhere", but that he did not know where. Russia will hold a presidential election in March which incumbent Vladimir Putin is widely expected to contest.
Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/alexei-navalny-russia-vladimir-putin-critic-opposition-moscow-nizhny-novgorod-a7973206.html?source=Snapzu

Judge who spared aspiring Oxford student from jail after she stabbed her partner is under investigation

A judge who spared an aspiring Oxford University student from jail after she stabbed her boyfriend is being investigated. Ian Pringle QC gave promising heart surgeon Lavinia Woodward a suspended sentence for attacking her then partner in a drunken assault. Woodward, 24, stabbed her Cambridge University boyfriend in the leg with a bread knife but in an unusual move the judge spared her jail describing her as an “extraordinarily able young lady”, whose talents meant that a prison sentence would be “too severe”.
Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/09/29/judge-spared-oxford-student-jail-bright-stabbed-partner-investigation/?source=Snapzu

Nestlé pays $200 a year to bottle water near Flint – where water is undrinkable

Gina Luster bathed her child in lukewarm bottled water, emptied bottle by bottle into the tub, for months. It became a game for her seven-year-old daughter. Pop the top off a bottle, and pour it into the tub. It takes about 30 minutes for a child to fill a tub this way. Pop the top, pour it in; pop the top, pour it in. Maybe less if you can get gallon jugs.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/29/nestle-pays-200-a-year-to-bottle-water-near-flint-where-water-is-undrinkable?source=Snapzu

Mom arrested after leaving kids at home to go on trip to Germany

A Johnston mom was arrested on Thursday after she left her four kids home alone to go on a trip to Germany. Erin Lee Macke, 30, was charged with four counts of child endangerment and one count of making a firearm available to a person under the age of 21, according to Johnston police. On Sept. 21, Johnston police were called to Macke's home after receiving a report that young children were left unsupervised in the house.
Read more: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2017/09/28/mom-arrested-after-leaving-kids-home-go-trip-germany/714984001/?source=Snapzu

Apple just released new details about iPhone X facial recognition

Apple has emphasized that FaceID was designed with security in mind.
Read more: https://futurism.com/apple-just-released-new-details-about-iphone-x-facial-recognition/?source=Snapzu

Trump kids' ski vacation incurs over $300,000 in security costs

Records obtained by CBS News showed hotel costs were nearly $200,000 for the week-long vacation
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-kids-ski-vacation-incurs-over-300000-in-security-costs/?source=Snapzu

Archaeologists Find Lost Ancient Greek Temple Of Goddess Artemis

It took more than 100 years of searching but archaeologists have finally found a lost temple to the ancient Greek goddess Artemis. The Greek Ministry of Culture reported that a team has found the remains of the sanctuary near Amarynthos, a coastal town a couple of dozen miles northeast of Athens on the large Greek island of Euboea. Scientists and historians have spent more than a century looking for what is left of the temple, but an ancient text with inaccurate directions threw them off the trail.
Read more: http://www.ibtimes.com/archaeologists-find-lost-ancient-greek-temple-goddess-artemis-2594658?source=Snapzu

The US military could soon be flying one of the fastest helicopters ever

The S-97 can fly over 250 mph and still pack some serious firepower.
Read more: http://www.wearethemighty.com/gear-tech/this-helicopter-will-fly-as-fast-as-a-jet?source=Snapzu

Palestinians slam US Israel envoy's 'ignorance'

The US ambassador in Tel Aviv has angered Palestinians with a comment downplaying Israel's 50-year occupation of the West Bank, the second such spat in a month. In a video interview with Israeli news site Walla broadcast in full on Friday, ambassador David Friedman said the Jewish state is "only occupying two percent of the West Bank".
Read more: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/09/palestinians-slam-israel-envoy-ignorance-170929091935836.html??source=Snapzu

Facing poverty, academics turn to sex work and sleeping in cars

Adjunct professors in America face low pay and long hours without the security of full-time faculty. Some, on the brink of homelessness, take desperate measures
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/28/adjunct-professors-homeless-sex-work-academia-poverty?source=Snapzu

Dildon'ts of Bluetooth: Pen test boffins sniff out Berlin's smart butt plugs

You've heard of wardriving – say hello to screwdriving
Read more: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/29/ble_exploits_screwdriving/?source=Snapzu

2,000-year-old toys discovered inside children's tombs in Turkey's Çanakkale

2,000-year-old ancient toys from the Hellenistic Period have been discovered inside tombs belonging to children in the ancient seaport city of Parion
Read more: https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2017/09/28/2000-year-old-toys-discovered-inside-childrens-tombs-in-turkeys-canakkale?source=Snapzu

How Badly Is Neil Gorsuch Annoying the Other Supreme Court Justices?

There is a strong internal culture based on the idea that no Justice should embarrass the Court.
Read more: https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/how-badly-is-neil-gorsuch-annoying-the-other-supreme-court-justices??source=Snapzu

Health Secretary Tom Price resigns amid private-plane controversy

The White House announced Friday that President Trump had accepted the resignation of beleaguered Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price. Press secretary Sarah Sanders released a statement saying that Price had submitted his resignation earlier Friday and Trump had accepted it.
Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/health-secretary-tom-price-resigns-private-plane-controversy-205246483.html?source=Snapzu

Yet Another Major Russia Story Falls Apart. Is Skepticism Permissible Yet?

Now we have the "Russia-hacked-the-voting-systems-of-21-states" to add to this trash heap of debunked official claims. Is this a healthy climate?
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2017/09/28/yet-another-major-russia-story-falls-apart-is-skepticism-permissible-yet/?source=Snapzu

The Inside Story of Equifax’s Massive Data Breach

The intruders broke in and then handed off to a more sophisticated team of hackers, the hallmarks of a state-sponsored operation.
Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-09-29/the-equifax-hack-has-all-the-hallmarks-of-state-sponsored-pros?source=Snapzu

Obama: 'I cried when Malia went to college'

Barack Obama has said he couldn’t keep down removes in the wake of dropping his girl Malia at college. “It was a tiny bit like open-heart surgery,” the previous president said existing apart from everything else he took Malia, his eldest little girl, to Harvard University. “I was glad that I didn’t cry before her,” Mr Obama said.
Read more: https://techwithwali.com/2017/09/28/obama-cried-malia-went-college/?source=Snapzu

People Are Sharing This Fake Photo Of NFL Players Burning The American Flag

The original photo appears to be of Seattle Seahawks defensive end Michael Bennett doing a post-game victory dance with his teammates in the locker room in 2015.
Read more: https://www.buzzfeed.com/mbvd/people-are-sharing-this-fake-photo-of-nfl-players-burning?utm_term=.knQP4P6RM#.ppzyoyGX6?source=Snapzu

Full-blown scandal: Trump Cabinet charged taxpayers at least $1,070,594.19 for luxury travel

Drain the swamp? Taxpayers are getting bilked by the millionaires in Trump's cabinet.
Read more: https://shareblue.com/full-blown-scandal-trump-cabinet-charged-taxpayers-at-least-1070594-19-for-luxury-travel/?source=Snapzu

Islanders cut off from world: 'We've lost everything'

The island of Vieques is just seven miles from Puerto Rico. Right now, it might as well be 7,000. It's been destroyed by Hurricane Maria. And almost entirely cut off. For seven days, Vieques' people have been watching stocks of food, water and fuel dwindle while they've been in a black hole of no information. Now, crowds line up in the main square to touch the outside world.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/28/us/vieques-cut-off-after-hurricane-maria/index.html?source=Snapzu

Donald Trump is 'the most dangerous man in the world', claim leading psychiatrists

Donald Trump is “dangerously mentally ill”, a group of experts and commentators has claimed. Led by Yale psychiatrist Dr Bandy Lee, 27 writers hold forth in a new book that also claims “his madness is catching”. The Trump presidency, the authors assert, “has created unprecedented mental health consequences across our nation and beyond”. But not all of the 27 are psychiatric or psychological professionals; the roster includes linguist and media analyst Noam Chomsky, and journalist Gail Sheehy.
Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-psychiatrists-madness-catching-goldwater-rule-yale-dr-bandy-lee-a7971326.html?source=Snapzu

'The last place on Earth': how Sumatra's rainforest is being cleared for palm oil

A palm oil company is continuing to clear forest in a fast-diminishing elephant habitat in Indonesia’s Leuser ecosystem despite being the subject of two reports into illegal deforestation, according to a prominent environmental organisation.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/sep/28/last-place-on-earth-deforestation-palm-oil-threat-leuser-rainforest?source=Snapzu

Indonesian official: More than 120,000 flee Bali volcano

More than 130,000 people have fled the region around the Mount Agung volcano on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali, fearing it will soon erupt, an official said Thursday. The disaster mitigation agency's command post in Bali said the number of evacuees has swelled to about 134,200. The figure is more than double the estimated population within an immediate danger zone but people further away are leaving too.
Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/indonesian-official-120000-flee-bali-volcano-50147437?source=Snapzu

Racial slurs written on dorm room boards of black Air Force Academy cadet candidates

Racial slurs were written on the dormitory message boards of five black cadet candidates at the Air Force Academy Preparatory School earlier this week. Lt. Col. Allen Herritage, director of public affairs for the academy, said the slurs were discovered Monday. One cadet candidate’s mother posted a photo on her Facebook page Wednesday that shows the words “go home n*****r” written on the white board outside her son’s room.
Read more: http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2017/09/28/racial-slurs-written-on-dorm-room-boards-of-black-air-force-academy-cadet-candidates/?source=Snapzu

Price took military jets to Europe, Asia for over $500K

Accompanied by his wife, the HHS secretary journeyed to Geneva, Berlin, Beijing, Tokyo and other cities for events.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/28/tom-price-military-jets-europe-asia-hhs-243276?source=Snapzu

Trump Waives Jones Act to Speed Up Aid Shipments to Puerto Rico

President Donald Trump ordered the Jones Act to be waived for shipments to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico immediately at the request of Governor Ricardo Rossello, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Thursday. The waiver will be in effect for 10 days and cover all products being shipped to Puerto Rico, Department of Homeland Security spokesman David Lapan said in an email.
Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-28/trump-waives-jones-act-for-puerto-rico?source=Snapzu

Julian Assange Says He Will Provide Evidence Russia Narrative Is False in Exchange for Pardon

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher thinks the president is being blocked from knowing about the potential deal.
Read more: https://pjmedia.com/video/julian-assange-says-will-provide-evidence-russia-narrative-false-exchange-pardon/?source=Snapzu

Internet-wide security update put on hold over fears 60 million people would be kicked offline

ICANN delays KSK rollover after new data derails plans
Read more: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/28/internet_update_on_hold/?source=Snapzu

Julia Reda MEP Likened to Nazi in Sweeping Anti-Pirate Rant

Julia Reda MEP has been targeted in an extremely controversial article published by musician and industry activist David Lowery. In a piece titled 'Why is it Every Time We Turn Over a Pirate Rock White Nationalists, Nazi’s and Bigots Scurry Out?', Lowery suggests that Reda's complaints over copyright restrictions on Anne Frank's Diary are based out of a far-right agenda.
Read more: https://torrentfreak.com/julia-reda-mep-likened-to-nazi-in-sweeping-anti-pirate-rant-170926/?source=Snapzu

After defying ISIS, 'Kurds aren't afraid of anything'

High-rise buildings surrounded by parks and villas pierce the skyline. Hotels and luxury cars dot the landscape. It would be easy to mistake this place for a neighborhood in uber-rich Dubai, but in fact it is downtown Irbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan. Ahmad, a taxi driver, motions proudly to signs of his city's rapid development. He points out newly-built bridges and luxury housing projects and gestures to the tarmacked roads and wide pavements.
Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2017/09/27/middleeast/kurdish-independent-state/index.html?source=Snapzu

When White Men Keep Lists of “No-Good Niggers”

A Pennsylvania fire chief used a slur against black NFL protesters for sitting out the national anthem — just like Donald Trump.
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2017/09/26/nfl-national-anthem-pittsburgh-steelers-mike-tomlin-pennsylvania-fire-chief-donald-trump/?source=Snapzu

White House waives Jones Act to help storm-ravaged Puerto Rico

The White House announced it had waived the Jones Act — a nearly century-old shipping law many say is hampering relief efforts in hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/puerto-rico-crisis/white-house-waives-jones-act-help-storm-ravaged-puerto-rico-n805436?source=Snapzu

Theresa May threatens US with trade war over Bombardier row

Theresa May has threatened a trade war with the US after it slapped punitive tariffs on British-built aircraft, casting doubt on a key plank of her Brexit strategy.
Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/09/27/theresa-may-threatens-us-withtrade-war-bombardier-row/?source=Snapzu

Macron dreams big in major EU speech

French President Emmanuel Macron pleaded Tuesday for a new era of European integration, calling on his EU partners -- particularly Germany -- to raise their ambitions and go further in linking their economies, governments and armies. The 39-year-old leader spoke for more than an hour and half in front of students at the Sorbonne university in Paris in a passionate speech that contained a raft of proposals for the 28-member European Union.
Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/macron-present-vision-post-brexit-europe-002256455.html?source=Snapzu

FBI has 1,000 open investigations into violent white supremacy, domestic terrorism

The FBI has about 1,000 open investigations into potential domestic terrorists, including people who may be linked to extremist white supremacy, white nationalism and environmental movements, the agency's new chief, Christopher Wray, told Congress today. During his first testimony as FBI director, Wray said domestic terrorism is “a very, very serious” matter that the investigative agency spends “a lot of our time focused on.”
Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/fbi-1000-open-investigations-violent-white-supremacy-domestic/story?id=50127366?source=Snapzu

Spotify is now estimated at more than $ 16 billion - Geek News Technology

Рrіvаtе іnvеѕtоrѕ whо аrе trаdіng ѕhаrеѕ wіth Ѕроtіfу hаvе rаіѕеd thе соmраnу’ѕ еѕtіmаtе tо mоrе thаn $ 16 bіllіоn. Тhіѕ іѕ аn іnсrеаѕе оf nеаrlу $ 3 bіllіоn оvеr thе lеаdеr іn muѕіс ѕtrеаmіng іn thе ѕummеr. Іnсrеаѕеd dеmаnd fоr ѕhаrеѕ аnd аn іnсrеаѕіng numbеr оf ѕubѕсrіbеrѕ mеаnѕ thаt whеn іt соmеѕ tо thе ѕtосk …
Read more: https://geeknews.tech/spotify-now-estimated-16-billion.html?source=Snapzu

Venezuela prepares for war with U.S. with ‘rifles, missiles and well-oiled tanks at the ready’

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro called on his nation's military leaders Tuesday to prepare for war against the U.S. days after the Trump administration banned Venezuelan officials from entering the nation. "We have been shamelessly threatened by the most criminal empire that ever existed and we have the obligation to prepare ourselves to guarantee peace," said Maduro, who wore a green uniform and a military hat as he spoke with his army top brass during a military exercise involving tanks and missiles.
Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/venezuela-prepares-war-us-rifles-missiles-and-well-oiled-tanks-ready-672033?source=Snapzu

Boeing Super Hornet jet purchase likely to become 1st casualty in possible trade war

After what seems like the first shot of a trade war, the first casualty of the U.S. Commerce Department's ruling against Bombardier could be the Canadian military's purchase of Super Hornet jet fighters. As expected, trade investigators in Washington sided with Boeing, the Chicago-based commercial and defence giant in its fight against Bombardier of Montreal, which has been accused of selling its CSeries passenger jets at below-market cost.
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/politics/boeing-bombardier-trade-war-brewster-1.4308734?source=Snapzu

Police Union Says Body Cams Could be Unfair to Officers

Despite public pressure that prompted passage this week of a one-year trial run on police body cameras, the St. Louis Police Union says it’s not a done deal. Union Business Manager Jeff Roorda says police car dashboard cameras have already been used unfairly to discipline some officers. “Officers have been targeted because they’re unpopular with the administration, for discipline, and had their video footage unduly nitpicked,” he says.
Read more: http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2017/09/22/police-union-says-body-cams-could-be-unfair-to-officers/?source=Snapzu

11 people arrested in neo-Nazi terror investigation

Police have arrested 11 suspected members of a neo-Nazi group on suspicion of terror offences across England and Wales. Six men were arrested in north west England, including one suspect who was already in prison, two in Wales, two in West Yorkshire and one man in Wiltshire. Counter-terror police are searching their homes.
Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/national-action-arrest-terror-terrorist-far-right-neo-nazi-police-counter-terror-soldiers-wales-a7969566.html?source=Snapzu