Indigenous people across the US want their land back -- and the movement is gaining momentum

Around this time every year, Americans come together to share a feast commemorating a myth about its first inhabitants. An indigenous tribe did eat with the Pilgrims in 1621 and sign a treaty with the colonists that had settled on their shores -- an act of survival rather one of goodwill and friendship. But the relationship would eventually break down, decimating the tribe's population and whittling away its land.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/25/us/indigenous-people-reclaiming-their-lands-trnd/index.html?source=Snapzu

Scientists Discover Billions of Gallons of Hidden Freshwater off Hawaii Coast

The island communities like Hawaii, which are surrounded by Ocean water, have to rely on collecting freshwater stored in the ground for drinking, irrigation, and commercial industries. The American state located in the Pacific Ocean is at serious risk due to climate-driven droughts and less rainfall. But scientists found a new way to solve the problem.
Read more: https://www.ibtimes.sg/scientists-discover-billions-gallons-hidden-freshwater-off-hawaii-coast-53672?source=Snapzu

Immunity to COVID-19 may persist six months or more

Even after recovery, the body continues to improve its antibody response to the coronavirus — perhaps thanks to viral bits hiding in the intestine. As coronavirus cases in the United States and around the world rise, scientists are uncovering hints that immunity for those who have had COVID-19 can last at least six months, if not longer.
Read more: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/covid-19-immunity-antibodies-persist-six-months-coronavirus/amp?source=Snapzu

Scotland Becomes 1st Country To Make Period Products Free

"A proud day for Scotland and a signal to the world that free universal access to period products can be achieved," said Monica Lennon, who championed the bill in the Scottish Parliament.
Read more: https://www.npr.org/2020/11/25/938893768/scotland-becomes-first-country-to-make-period-products-free?source=Snapzu

Obama's 'Promised Land' sells record 1.7 million in first week, is fastest selling presidential memoir

Former President Barack Obama's “A Promised Land” sold more than 1.7 million copies in North America in its first week, setting a new record.
Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/books/2020/11/24/obama-book-sets-new-record-presidential-memoir-sales-first-week/6415988002/?source=Snapzu

Trump pardons former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI

Flynn later sought to withdraw his plea and the Justice Department tried to dismiss the case.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/michael-flynn-trump-pardon/2020/11/25/3cd79198-2e65-11eb-bae0-50bb17126614_story.html?source=Snapzu

Chopin's interest in men airbrushed from history, programme claims

Frédéric Chopin’s archivists and biographers have for centuries turned a deliberate blind eye to the composer’s homoerotic letters in order to make the Polish national icon conform to conservative norms, it has been alleged. Chopin’s Men, a two-hour radio programme that aired on Swiss public broadcaster SRF’s arts channel, argues that the composer’s letters have been at times deliberately mistranslated, rumours of affairs with women exaggerated...
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/nov/25/chopins-interest-in-men-airbrushed-from-history-programme-claims?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other?source=Snapzu