Cryptoqueen: How this woman scammed the world, then ran

Ruja Ignatova called herself the Cryptoqueen. She told people she had invented a cryptocurrency to rival Bitcoin, and persuaded them to invest billions. Then, two years ago, she disappeared. Jamie Bartlett spent months investigating how she did it for the Missing Cryptoqueen podcast, and trying to figure out where she's hiding.
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-50435014?source=Snapzu

The Australian government tackles climate change threats

Approximately 75 Victoria Police and 150 ADF personnel, including elements of the Army Reserve’s 4th Brigade, participated in the exercise held at the AGL Loy Yang Power Station facility in the La Trobe Valley.
Read more: https://news.defence.gov.au/media/media-releases/enhancing-domestic-security-arrangements-through-exercise-austral-shield?source=Snapzu

Children are being locked away, alone and terrified, in schools across Illinois. Often, it’s against the law.

THE SPACES have gentle names: The reflection room. The cool-down room. The calming room. The quiet room. But shut inside them, in public schools across the state, children as young as 5 wail for their parents, scream in anger and beg to be let out.
Read more: https://features.propublica.org/illinois-seclusion-rooms/school-students-put-in-isolated-timeouts/?source=Snapzu

Edward Norton speaks out about saving Leonardo DiCaprio's life

Edward Norton has revealed the truth about saving Leonardo DiCaprio’s life during a diving expedition. It was revealed in 2016 that Norton had come to DiCaprio’s rescue while the pair were nearing the end of a trip with marine biologist Sylvia Earle in the Galapagos Islands. DiCaprio dived back into the water to chase after a group of rays. Norton, an experienced diver, realised that DiCaprio did not have enough oxygen to complete the dive and followed him.
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/edward-norton-leonardo-dicaprio-save-life-diving-accident-galapagos-islands-a9214486.html?source=Snapzu

US taxpayers spent almost $1 billion incarcerating innocent black people

Over the last few weeks, the Rodney Reed case has ignited a firestorm of interest, as celebrities, activists, and politicians worked to delay his Nov. 20 execution on the basis that he might be innocent. After facing mounting pressure, a Texas appeals court granted Reed a stay of execution, allowing him to fight allegations that he committed murder more than two decades ago.
Read more: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-taxpayers-spent-over-4-billion-incarcerating-innocent-people-184439282.html?source=Snapzu

The Keystone Oil Spill No One's Talking About Will Be Nearly Impossible to Clean Up

When the Keystone Pipeline burst last week, half of an Olympic-sized swimming pool’s worth of a particularly dirty fossil fuel spilled into wetlands in North Dakota. And the thick liquid, known as tar sands oil, will be nearly impossible to clean up.
Read more: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9kejqe/the-keystone-oil-spill-no-ones-talking-about-will-be-nearly-impossible-to-clean-up?source=Snapzu

Neil Young Says His Unreleased 1975 Album Homegrown Will Arrive Next Year

Neil Young has announced that his unreleased 1975 album Homegrown will drop in 2020. Young took to his Neil Young Archives website to break the news. “We painstakingly restored the analog masters of Homegrown,” Young wrote, adding that the album “will be our first release in 2020.”
Read more: https://pitchfork.com/news/neil-young-says-his-unreleased-1975-album-homegrown-will-arrive-next-year/?source=Snapzu