Japan restarts commercial whaling expeditions after 30-year hiatus

On July 1, five Japanese vessels will set out on the first commercial whaling expeditions since 1988.
Read more: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/113353231/japan-restarts-commercial-whaling-expeditions-after-30year-hiatus?source=Snapzu

Think twice before giving results of your home DNA kit to the police

Users of FamilyTreeDNA might be surprised to learn the company permits the FBI to search for matches without a warrant.
Read more: https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/451024-think-twice-before-giving-dna-to-the-police?source=Snapzu

Scientists Showed How More Guns Led To More Violent Crime

A Supreme Court case may soon create a constitutional right to freely carry a gun everywhere, but that would be a dangerous mistake to make, suggests a new study of violent crimes.
Read more: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/danvergano/more-guns-more-crime?source=Snapzu

Classmates learn sign language to support fellow kindergartener who is deaf

A kindergartener from Maine got a very warm welcome at her school this week. Six-year-old Morey Belanger is deaf, and her classmates learned phrases in sign language so they could support her. Morey came to Dayton Consolidated School in 2017 and became its first deaf student, according to reports. The school wanted Morey to feel welcome, so over the course of the school year, they started learning sign language.
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/entire-school-learns-sign-language-to-welcome-new-kindergartener-who-is-deaf/?source=Snapzu

Archaeologists unearth more evidence that when a civilization drinks together, it stays together

The Wari empire, an ancient Peruvian civilization that predated the Inca, made advances in agriculture, art, architecture, and warfare. They also drank a ton of beer.
Read more: https://ancientfoods.wordpress.com/2019/06/27/archaeologists-unearth-more-evidence-that-when-a-civilization-drinks-together-it-stays-together/?source=Snapzu

Lost ancient palace appears in reservoir

A 3,400-year-old palace has emerged from a reservoir in the Kurdistan region of Iraq after water levels dropped because of drought. The discovery should yield more light on the mysterious Mittani Empire.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/iraq-palace-drought-scli-intl/index.html?source=Snapzu

Donald Trump has invoked a three-pronged attack against his Chinese nemesis

The weekend negotiations between the US President and China's Xi Jinping have been portrayed in some quarters as a breakthrough in the trade war, but it is nothing of the sort. Ah, the irony. It was China that rode to the rescue a decade ago to rescue global capitalism from itself and its excesses after a spectacular implosion in America's banking system.
Read more: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-01/donald-trump-china-trade-deal-xi-jinping-dangerous-times/11265898?source=Snapzu