Bruce Willis Signs Deal to Get Deepfaked Into Future Movies

The iconic Hollywood star retired earlier this year due to his tragic diagnosis with aphasia, but deepfakes mean we might still see more from him.
Read more: https://futurism.com/bruce-willis-deepfake-movies?source=Snapzu

PnB Rock’s Suspected Killers Charged With Murder

A 17-year-old boy and his 40-year-old father are also facing robbery charges in connection with the killing of the rapper and singer
Read more: https://pitchfork.com/news/pnb-rock-suspected-killers-charged-with-murder/?source=Snapzu

Schwarzenegger visits Auschwitz in message against hatred

Film icon Arnold Schwarzenegger visited the site of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp on Wednesday, meeting a Holocaust survivor and the son of Holocaust survivors and saying it is time to “terminate” hatred.
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-philanthropy-world-war-ii-8ac42e886347c640ed1aae2952f757b2?source=Snapzu

Costco Says Hot Dog-Drink Combo Will Cost $1.50 'Forever'

Food prices got you down? There's some good news, thanks to warehouse-store Costco. The store is famous for its hot dog and drink combination, sold at its in-store food counter for just $1.50. And even in tough financial times, that price is sticking around, possibly "forever."
Read more: https://www.cnet.com/culture/costco-says-hot-dog-drink-combo-will-cost-1-50-forever/?utm_source=reddit.com?source=Snapzu

Students Say They Were ‘Duped’ Into Attending Twisted Religious Event

They thought they were attending a college fair. Then things took a dark turn as girls were allegedly separated and “advised to forgive men who rape and assault them.”
Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/east-baton-rouge-students-say-they-were-duped-into-attending-twisted-religious-event?source=Snapzu

India's top court gives equal abortion access to all women

India’s Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that all women, regardless of marital status, can obtain abortions up to 24 weeks into their pregnancies. Previously, under India’s abortion law, married women could have abortions up to 24 weeks into their pregnancies, but single women were limited to 20 weeks. On Thursday, the court extended the 24-week period to all women.
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/abortion-us-supreme-court-health-india-reproductive-rights-98a4c54d8badc725ec68ccc86642cc38?source=Snapzu

Wrongful detentions of Americans by foreign powers are fast rising, a new study says

The number of Americans who are wrongfully held by state actors such as China, Iran and Russia has seen a dramatic increase compared to a decade ago, according to a new study that finds a growing list of nations are targeting U.S. nationals to exert political leverage over Washington.
Read more: https://www.npr.org/2022/09/28/1125578884/wrongful-detention-report-foley-foundation?source=Snapzu

After sharp right turn, U.S. Supreme Court conservatives step on the gas

The U.S. Supreme Court last March rebuffed an emergency request by North Carolina Republicans to allow the use in November's congressional elections of an electoral map they drew that a lower court invalidated for unlawfully disadvantaging Democrats.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/legal/after-sharp-right-turn-us-supreme-court-conservatives-step-gas-2022-09-28/?source=Snapzu

Do Kwon denies attempts to withdraw $66m in BTC before arrest warrant was issued

On-the-run Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon has denied he attempted to cash out $66 million of Bitcoin days before an arrest warrant was issued for him earlier this month. Speaking on Twitter, the 31-year-old said he hadn’t used exchanges Kucoin or OKex in over a year.
Read more: https://www.cityam.com/do-kwon-denies-attempts-to-withdraw-66m-in-btc-before-arrest-warrant-was-issued/?source=Snapzu

Russell Brand Goes To Far Right Rumble After YouTube Censored Him

As you may recall, Russell Brand was once a very loud lefty progressive. He starred in documentaries about ending the war on drugs and fixing income inequality. He even once had a biweekly column in the liberal rag The New Statesman. Now look at him. After the pandemic began, he found a new audience by preaching to anti-vaxxers and other right-wing conspiracy theories — all while losing some of his old audience, who thought he’d “officially lost his mind.” Now the rebranding (so to speak) appears to be complete: He’s signed up with the far right video platform Rumble.
Read more: https://uproxx.com/viral/russell-brand-joined-rumble-youtube-censorship/?source=Snapzu

Montana Woman Kills & Skins Husky Thinking It's a Wolf, Public Outraged

A Montana woman is in hot water after she proudly displayed the carcass of a dog she killed, and then skinned ... thinking it was a baby wolf, and the public is irate.
Read more: https://www.tmz.com/2022/09/26/montana-woman-kills-skins-husky-dog-think-wolf-outrage/?source=Snapzu

McConnell Endorses Electoral Count Overhaul, Lifting Chances of Enactment

The Republican leader’s backing enhanced prospects for legislation drafted to prevent a repeat of the Jan. 6 assault, when rioters tried to pressure the vice president to overturn the election.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/27/us/mcconnell-electoral-count-act.html?source=Snapzu

iPad Pro is revolutionizing how archaeologists preserve the history of Pompeii

Archaeologists share how they use iPad Pro and Apple Pencil to capture data at the excavation site at Pompeii.
Read more: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/09/ipad-pro-is-revolutionizing-how-archaeologists-preserve-the-history-of-pompeii/?source=Snapzu

Meanwhile, in 1966

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Republican abortion bans restrict women’s access to other essential medicine

Many pharmacies and physicians are forced to deny patients access to drugs, such as methotrexate, that can be used to help induce an abortion. A few weeks after the supreme court’s 24 June decision to overturn the nationwide abortion rights established by Roe v Wade, the pharmacy chain Walgreens sent Annie England Noblin a message, informing her that her monthly prescription of methotrexate was held up.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/26/us-abortion-bans-restrict-access-essential-medications?source=Snapzu

'Let's get right to the violence': New documentary film footage shows Roger Stone pre-Election Day

The day before the 2020 election, Roger Stone, the long-time Republican operative and ally of former President Donald Trump, said in front of a documentary film crew that he had no interest in waiting to tally actual votes before contesting the election results.
Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2022/09/26/politics/roger-stone-january-6-documentary-film/index.html?source=Snapzu

Interpol issues red notice for Terraform founder Do Kwon

Interpol has issued a red notice for Do Kwon, requesting law enforcement agencies worldwide to search and arrest the Terraform Labs founder whose blockchain startup collapsed earlier this year. The collapse of Terra cryptocurrency (Luna) and the so-called stablecoin TerraUSD (UST) wiped out investors’ $40 billion, prompting an uproar that caused the prosecutors to launch investigations into Kwon and his colleagues. He faces charges in South Korea, the prosecutors said Monday.
Read more: https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/25/do-kwon-interpol/?source=Snapzu

Leaked email reveals that Amazon is walking back employees' raises after an internal bug miscalculated their compensation

Frustration over low pay has been building at Amazon. The glitch reinforced a sense among some employees that Amazon is nickel-and-diming them.
Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-promotion-raises-compensation-bug-2022-9?source=Snapzu

California Has Legalized Human Composting

By 2027, Golden State residents will have the choice to turn their bodies into nutrient-rich compost
Read more: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/california-has-legalized-human-composting-180980809/?source=Snapzu

Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters cancels Poland concerts after war remarks

Waters wrote an open letter to Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska early this month blaming “extreme nationalists” in Ukraine for having “set your country on the path to this disastrous war.”
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pink-floyd-founder-cancels-poland-concerts-war-remarks-rcna49320?source=Snapzu

They Were Entitled to Free Care. Hospitals Hounded Them to Pay.

With the help of a consulting firm, the Providence hospital system trained staff to wring money out of patients, even those eligible for free care.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/24/business/nonprofit-hospitals-poor-patients.html?source=Snapzu

Bosses think workers do less from home, says Microsoft

A new survey from the tech giant suggests workers and bosses disagree about productivity.
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-62980639.amp?source=Snapzu

Nearly 225,000 Americans have died of COVID-19 since the start of 2022 despite viral declines, data shows

Although the daily death rates have ticked down slightly from August, updated federal data shows that the U.S. is still losing hundreds of Americans to COVID-19 every day, and 225,000 people in the U.S. have been lost to the virus since the start of 2022. On average, more than 350 American deaths related to COVID-19 are still reported each day, and over the last seven days, the U.S. has reported nearly 2,500 deaths, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/225000-americans-died-covid-19-start-2022-viral/story?id=90339579?source=Snapzu

In the End, Climate Change Is the Only Story That Matters

While we watch the disembowelment of various lawyers in the employ of a former president* and wrap ourselves in the momentum of the upcoming midterm elections, the climate crisis—its time and tides—waits for no one. Every other story in our politics is a sideshow now. Every other issue, no matter how large it looms in the immediate present, is secondary to the accumulating evidence that the planet itself (or at least large parts of it) may be edging toward uninhabitability.
Read more: https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a41355745/hurricane-fiona-climate-change/?source=Snapzu

What seized fossil fuel emails tell us about big oil’s climate plan

Oil and gas companies may commit to net zero goals in public - but internal emails tell a different story. A US congressional investigation into climate disinformation has revealed over 200 pages of in-house messages between lobbyists and Shell, Chevron, and ExxonMobil employees.
Read more: https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/09/23/shell-bp-exxon-seized-emails-reveal-deceptive-climate-tactics-and-greenwashing?source=Snapzu

Dakota High School teacher accused of stealing homecoming money, spending it at casino

A high school teacher in Macomb County is accused of stealing money from student events and spending it at a casino. According to school officials, police, and prosecutors, Lydia Johnson stole several thousand dollars from Dakota High School's homecoming dance fund, and from funds for a camping trip. Johnson, 29 worked as a Spanish teacher at the school and was the student activity coordinator from July 1, 2016 until her recent removal.
Read more: https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/dakota-high-school-teacher-accused-of-stealing-homecoming-money-spending-it-at-casino?source=Snapzu

UK government faces court challenge over ‘Frankenchickens’

Hearing granted for Humane League, which says use of fast-growing chickens breaches welfare rules
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/21/uk-government-court-challenge-legality-frankenchickens?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other?source=Snapzu

California just struck a major blow to car culture

For decades, many California cities, like Los Angeles and San Diego, have been synonymous with sprawl. But by eliminating parking minimums in areas near public transit, the Golden State just took a major step to change that.
Read more: https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2022/09/california-gavin-newsom-ab-2097-housing-parking-car-culture/?source=Snapzu

Poliovirus is spreading in New York. Here’s what you need to know

With signs of poliovirus spreading in a handful of counties in New York, unvaccinated people could be at risk of paralytic polio.
Read more: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/polio-cdc-spread-new-york-vaccine-virus?source=Snapzu

States return recordings of Indigenous oral histories to tribal control

More control may mean that some materials won’t be as readily accessible to the public as they once were. But it also means that the descendants of the people on tape will decide what materials should be in the public realm.
Read more: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/states-return-recordings-of-indigenous-oral-histories-to-tribal-control?source=Snapzu

Biden promises to codify Roe if two more Democrats are elected to the Senate

President Joe Biden vowed that Democrats will codify the right to an abortion into law if two more are elected to the U.S. Senate in the midterm elections.
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/23/biden-promises-to-codify-roe-if-two-more-democrats-are-elected-to-the-senate.html?source=Snapzu

San Francisco police can now watch private surveillance cameras in real time

Critics say it will “put the entire city under live surveillance indefinitely.”
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/23/23368603/san-francisco-police-private-surveillance-cameras-vote?source=Snapzu

Stanford scientist who discovered cause of narcolepsy wins Breakthrough Prize

Solving a sleep mystery, Dr. Emmanuel Mignot of Stanford University helps pave the way for new treatments. The richest award in science is going to a Stanford sleep scientist and other top thinkers in their fields, named winners of the glitzy Breakthrough Prize on Thursday morning.
Read more: https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2022/09/22/stanford-scientist-who-discovered-cause-of-narcolepsy-wins-breakthrough-prize/?source=Snapzu

QAnon, citing The Simpsons, says something is happening September 24th

Season 9 Episode 24 of the series features end-of-the-world preppers.
Read more: https://consequence.net/2022/09/qanon-the-simpsons-september-24th/?source=Snapzu

The Ungodly Surveillance of Anti-Porn ‘Shameware’ Apps

Churches are using invasive phone-monitoring tech to discourage “sinful” behavior. Some software is seeing more than congregants realize.
Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/covenant-eyes-anti-porn-accountability-monitoring-apps?source=Snapzu

UK’s nuclear waste cleanup operation could cost £260bn

The cost of decommissioning the UK’s 20th-century nuclear waste could rise to £260bn as the aged and degrading sites present growing challenges, according to analysis presented to an international group of experts. As the government pursues nuclear energy with the promise of a new generation of reactors, the cost of safely cleaning up waste from previous generations of power stations is soaring.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/23/uk-nuclear-waste-cleanup-decommissioning-power-stations?source=Snapzu

Scientists Find a New Coronavirus in Bats That Is Resistant to Current Vaccines

The virus was found in a population of bats in Russia.
Read more: https://time.com/6215810/coronavirus-bats-russia-vaccine-resistant/?source=Snapzu

World chess champion Magnus Carlsen quits game after just one move amid cheating controversy

A week ago, Carlsen lost to Hans Niemann, a young American who has admitted to cheating in online games in the past.
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/magnus-carlsen-world-chess-champion-quits-game-cheating-controversy-hans-niemann/?source=Snapzu

Major Tech and Car Companies May Be Using ‘Blood Gold’ Mined Illegally From the Amazon Rainforest

Your iPhone may contain gold linked to the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. A new report from Amazon Watch and the Association of Brazil’s Indigenous Peoples (APIB) published Monday reveals that the gold used by major tech and car companies including Apple, Tesla, Samsung, Microsoft, Intel, Sony, Volkswagen, Ford and General Motors could have been mined illegally from Indigenous lands in the Brazilian Amazon.
Read more: https://www.ecowatch.com/illegal-gold-mining-tech-car-companies.html?source=Snapzu

Boston Celtics suspend head coach Ime Udoka for entire 2022-23 NBA season

The Athletic's Shams Charania reported overnight on Thursday, citing anonymous sources, that Udoka allegedly "had an improper intimate and consensual relationship with a female member of the team staff."
Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/boston-celtics-suspend-head-coach-ime-udoka-for-entire-2022-23-nba-season-012407375.html?source=Snapzu

Former officer who held down George Floyd's legs gets 3 years in prison for aiding and abetting manslaughter | CNN

The former Minneapolis Police officer who held down George Floyd's legs in May 2020 was sentenced to three years in prison Wednesday on a state charge of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter in Floyd's death.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/21/us/thomas-lane-sentencing/index.html?source=Snapzu

COVID-19 zaps placenta’s immune response, study finds

If a woman contracts COVID-19 during her pregnancy, the infection, even if it’s mild, damages the placenta’s immune response to further infections, a UW Medicine-led study has found. The study was published Sept. 17 in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology.
Read more: https://newsroom.uw.edu/news/covid-19-zaps-placenta-immune-response-study-finds?source=Snapzu

50 Cent suing Miami doctor for allegedly suggesting he had penis enlargement surgery

Rapper claims the plastic surgeon used his photo to promote her practice
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/50-cent-suing-miami-doctor-penis-enlargement-b2170558.html?source=Snapzu

Three of their four kids are losing their vision. So, they're going on a year-long world tour to make visual memories, before it's too late

Many parents dream of their children growing up and seeing the world. But Edith Lemay, a mother of four from Canada, worried her children were running out of time to do that. When her first child, Mia, was little, she noticed she would bump into things. Lemay worried about her daughter's vision and brought her to a doctor. In 2018, Mia was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa.
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kids-losing-vision-trip-around-the-world-edith-lemay-three-out-of-four-kids-retinitis-pigmantosa-visual-memories-year-long-travel/?intcid=CNI-00-10aaa3b?source=Snapzu

Morgan Stanley Fined $35 Million for Not Encrypting HDDs, Servers

Morgan Stanley repeatedly failed to protect personal data of clients, says SEC.
Read more: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/morgan-stanley-fined-35-million-for-not-encrypting-hdds-servers?source=Snapzu

What does Putin’s partial military mobilization mean for Russia and Ukraine?

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced plans to call up 300,000 reservists as his invasion of Ukraine faces setbacks.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/09/21/russia-partial-mobilization-putin-war-ukraine/?source=Snapzu

Boston & London Marathons open nonbinary divisions

For the first time ever, runners will be able to register as nonbinary for the 2023 Boston Marathon. On the registration page for the 127th annual Boston Marathon, the Boston Athletic Association (BAA) included a section affirming its commitment to inclusivity for nonbinary athletes.
Read more: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/09/boston-london-marathons-open-nonbinary-divisions/?source=Snapzu

Ukrainian strikes into Russia’s border towns compound Putin’s troubles

The messy war that Russian President Vladimir Putin started is now being fought directly on his doorstep.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/09/17/ukraine-belgorod-putin/?source=Snapzu

Percentage of Latinos who have no religious affiliation surges

The percentage of Hispanics in the U.S. who identify as atheist or agnostic grew in the past 12 years.
Read more: https://www.axios.com/2022/08/25/latino-religious-nones-surge-atheists-agnostics?source=Snapzu

Updated climate models are clouded by scientific biases, researchers find

Clouds can cool or warm the planet's surface, a radiative effect that contributes significantly to the global energy budget and can be altered by human-caused pollution. The world's southernmost ocean, aptly named the Southern Ocean and far from human pollution but subject to abundant marine gases and aerosols, is about 80% covered by clouds. How does this body of water and relationship with clouds contribute to the world's changing climate?
Read more: https://phys.org/news/2022-09-climate-clouded-scientific-biases.html?source=Snapzu