EU agrees to fund free WiFi for European towns with no internet coverage

May 29 European Union institutions agreed on Monday to set aside 120 million euros to provide free wireless internet connections by 2020 to up to 8,000 municipalities in the EU in areas with no internet coverage. The initiative will be funded from the current 1 trillion-euro EU budget, which runs from 2014 to 2020. Towns will have to apply to get the funds.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/eu-telecoms-wifi-idUSL8N1IV44J?source=Snapzu

Instead of Banning Lzzy Cheaters, Pokémon Go Trolls Them

NOW THAT THE generalized Pokémon Go craze has subsided, the more captivating effort to catch ‘em all may be game developer Niantic’s ongoing battle against cheaters. Its latest evolution: Not banning bad actors, but banishing them to poké-purgatory. As detailed by Pokémon Go enthusiast subreddit The Silph Road, a recent Pokémon Go update targets players who use bots to trawl the globe for valuable Pokémon...
Read more: https://www.wired.com/2017/05/pokemon-go-cheaters-shadowban/?source=Snapzu

Ohio Sues 5 Major Drug Companies For 'Fueling Opioid Epidemic'

The state's attorney general filed the lawsuit Wednesday, alleging fraudulent marketing. "They knew they were wrong," Mike DeWine says, "but they did it anyway — and they continue to do it."
Read more: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/05/31/530929307/ohio-sues-5-major-drug-companies-for-fueling-opioid-epidemic?source=Snapzu

Gang Attacks Navalny Campaign's Landlord in Siberia

An armed gang has violently beaten a man in Siberia after his family rented office space to the presidential campaign of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. The victim, the son of the campaign's landlord in the city of Irkutsk, had been discussing repair work with the men before they began to beat him with baseball bats. The landlord's son was taken to hospital, where he is being treated with stitches, according to Sergei Bespalov, the coordinator of Navalny's Irkutsk headquarters.
Read more: https://themoscowtimes.com/news/attackers-beat-navalny-campaigns-landlord-with-bats-in-siberia-58125?source=Snapzu

India would stick to climate accord even if U.S. pulled out: source

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi told German Chancellor Angela Merkel in talks in Berlin on Tuesday that India would stay in the Paris climate accord even if the United States pulled out, a delegation source said. The official spoke on condition of anonymity.
Read more: http://in.reuters.com/article/us-germany-india-climatechange-idINKBN18Q1C0?source=Snapzu

New York mayor: City will uphold Paris climate agreement if Trump doesn't

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) promised Wednesday that his city would uphold the Paris climate agreement even if President Trump moves forward with his campaign promise to withdraw from the accord.
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/news/335773-de-blasio-nyc-will-uphold-paris-climate-agreement-if-trump-doesnt?source=Snapzu

Humans are ushering in the sixth mass extinction of life on Earth, scientists warn

'Extinction rates for birds, mammals and amphibians are similar to the five global mass-extinction events of the past 500 million years that probably resulted from meteorite impacts, massive volcanism and other cataclysmic forces'
Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/mass-extinction-humans-causing-earth-deaths-end-times-warning-a7765856.html?source=Snapzu

German Unemployment Declines as Economy Poised for More Growth

German unemployment fell to a new record low as Europe’s largest economy continued to power ahead. The jobless rate dropped to 5.7 percent in May from 5.8 percent, data from the Federal Labor Agency in Nuremberg showed on Wednesday. The number of people out of work slid by a seasonally adjusted 9,000 in May to 2.54 million, compared with a decline of 15,000 forecast in a Bloomberg survey.
Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-31/german-unemployment-declines-as-economy-poised-for-more-growth?source=Snapzu

Elon Musk threatens to leave White House councils over Paris deal

Musk has emerged as the Trump White House's go-to tech industry executive.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/31/elon-musk-trump-paris-climate-pact-238990?source=Snapzu

Australia To Cancel Passports Of Convicted Paedophiles

Convicted paedophiles will have their passports cancelled to prevent them travelling overseas to offend again under tough new laws which Australia on Tuesday hailed as a "world first". Legislation will be introduced to parliament this month making it illegal for registered offenders to leave or attempt to leave the country as part of a crackdown on child-sex tourism.
Read more: http://www.ndtv.com/world-news/australia-to-cancel-passports-of-convicted-child-sex-offenders-1705501?source=Snapzu

Mosul Authorities Ban Wearing of Full Veil, Burqa in Public

Wearing full Islamic veils for women including burqa, a veil for the face that leaves the area around the eyes clear, has been banned in public places in newly liberated parts of Mosul as part of new security measures to confront possible suicide bombing attacks during Ramadan, according to a statement from Nineveh police office Sunday, Rudaw reported.
Read more: http://ahtribune.com/world/north-africa-south-west-asia/1686-mosul-burqa.html?source=Snapzu

Exclusive: This is the Essential Phone

The Essential Phone, brought to us by the person who created Android, is finally ready for the spotlight. It’s an incredibly audacious and ambitious project, with an outlandish screen and the beginnings of a modular ecosystem. First, the Android phone basics: the Essential Phone costs $699 with top-of-the-line specs and features. As you can see above, it prominently features an edge-to-edge display that one-ups even the Samsung Galaxy S8 by bringing it all the way to the the top of the phone, wrapping around the front-facing selfie camera.
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/30/15711170/essential-phone-announcement-price-android-andy-rubin?source=Snapzu

Check out Samsung's next high-end Android flip phone

Samsung's upcoming fLast year, Samsung took the wraps off the W2017 flip phone. It now looks like the company is gearing up to release its successor, as the device with the model number SM-G9298 has recently been certified by TENAA in China. The smartphone, likely to be called the Samsung W2018, looks quite similar to the W2017, with a few differences here and there.
Read more: http://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-w2018-flip-phone-tenaa-sports-4-2-inch-displays-snapdragon-821ab-776031/?source=Snapzu

Adam Back Shares His Roadmap for Scaling Bitcoin

During a recent presentation at Paralelni Polis in Prague, Czech Republic, Blockstream President Adam Back shared his personal vision for scaling Bitcoin to handle more users over the next few years. His plan is mostly based on the Bitcoin Core roadmap for capacity increases (originally written up by Blockstream CTO and Bitcoin Core contributor Greg Maxwell on the Bitcoin development mailing list).
Read more: https://coinjournal.net/blockstream-president-adam-back-shares-roadmap-scaling-bitcoin/?source=Snapzu

Trump targets ‘negative press covfefe’ in garbled midnight tweet

A puzzling midnight tweet from President Trump gets a lot of attention.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/05/31/president-trump-tweets-despite-the-constant-negative-press-covfefe-twitter-explodes/?source=Snapzu

No one came to this 8-year-old's birthday party, so Hurst police got involved

After no one came to her son's eighth birthday party Sunday, a Hurst mother decided to get the police involved. Although no one had responded to Jennifer Day and her husband's invitations, they hoped for the best and baked cakes and bought pizza. But no one showed up to celebrate with their son, Graham. He had the same heartbreaking experience when he turned 6.
Read more: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/hurst/2017/05/29/one-came-8-year-olds-birthday-party-hurst-police-got-involved?source=Snapzu

Police in Germany 'foil asylum seeker suicide attack'

German police have arrested a teenage asylum seeker suspected of planning a suicide attack in Berlin, Brandenburg state officials say. The suspect, 17, was arrested in the Uckermark district, Interior Minister Karl-Heinz Schröter announced. But Brandenburg police say they have not confirmed reports that the teen, who entered Germany in 2015, is Syrian and was definitely planning an attack. In December, a jihadist killed 12 people with a lorry in Berlin.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/40096753?source=Snapzu

Lebanon wants to ban ‘Wonder Woman’ because of its Israeli star

Push to boycott film reportedly prodded by BDS group, which cites ex-IDF soldier Gal Gadot’s expressions of solidarity with Israeli soldiers fighting Hamas in Gaza. Lebanon’s ministry of economy is seeking to ban the 2017 Wonder Woman movie because its lead actress — Gal Gadot — is an Israeli, though a formal request for a ban has not yet been received, a Lebanese security official said Tuesday. A ban would require a recommendation from a six-ministry-member committee, a process that also has not yet began, the official said.
Read more: http://www.timesofisrael.com/lebanon-wants-to-ban-wonder-woman-because-of-its-israeli-star/?source=Snapzu

Eminem helps raise almost £2million for Manchester victims

Social media support from Eminem has helped raise £2 million in donations for the victims of the Manchester terror attack. The US star, real name Marshall Mathers, tweeted his fans after the attack at Manchester's MEN Arena last Monday to urge them to donate to a JustGiving page set up to help the families of the 22 people killed, and those who were injured.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4555230/Eminem-helps-raise-2million-Manchester-victims.html?source=Snapzu

Almost half of Trump's Twitter followers appear to be fake

Is the president buying Twitter followers? Spoiler alert: Yes.
Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-twitter-followers-fake-617873?source=Snapzu

Cleveland officer involved in Tamir Rice shooting terminated; Other officer suspended

City officials announced discipline for two officers involved in the shooting death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice Tuesday morning. Mayor Frank Jackson, Chief Calvin Williams, Deputy Chief Wayne Drummond and Safety Director Michael McGrath spoke at the news conference at Cleveland Public Hall. “There’s a 12-year-old kid dead. I mean, you know, people on both sides are going to say it wasn’t enough, it was too much. We have to go through our process, we have to be fair and objective to everyone in this process,” Williams said.
Read more: http://fox8.com/2017/05/30/cleveland-officials-to-announce-discipline-in-officer-involved-shooting/?source=Snapzu

Gun Rights Group Takes a Shot at Elizabeth Warren — Over Effort to Make Hearing Aids Cheaper

A small-time K Street battle between hearing aid manufacturers on one side and electronics firms who want to make cheaper ones on the other has attracted the attention of a radical gun rights group, looking to take a shot at one of the bill’s backers. The bill has the support of powerful Republicans in both the House and Senate. But it also has a powerful Democratic supporter: Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts. That — and, apparently, that alone — is enough to have the bill in the crosshairs of a group of ultra-conservative gun rights advocates — the Gun Owners of America — and their political allies.
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2017/05/30/gun-rights-group-takes-a-shot-at-elizabeth-warren-over-effort-to-make-hearing-aids-cheaper/?source=Snapzu

Horse died 'agonising' death after owner neglected him

A man has been banned from keeping equines for life after his horse died an 'agonising' death. Simon Nall did not attend to his piebald colt horse named Storm for several months and pleaded guilty to failing to take reasonable steps to prevent another person from causing unnecessary suffering.
Read more: http://www.itv.com/news/central/2017-05-29/horse-died-agonising-death-after-owner-neglected-him/?source=Snapzu

Germany: Trump's actions have 'weakened' West

Germany's foreign minister launched a scathing criticism of Donald Trump on Monday, claiming the US President's actions have "weakened" the West and accusing the US government of standing "against the interests of the European Union." Just 24 hours after German Chancellor Angela Merkel declared that Europe could no longer completely rely on traditional allies such as the US and Britain, the country's top diplomat, Sigmar Gabriel, went a step further.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/29/europe/angela-merkel-uk-amber-rudd/index.html?source=Snapzu

Wikipedia’s Switch to HTTPS Has Successfully Fought Government Censorship

Harvard researchers found fewer instances of Wikipedia censorship after the site started encrypting all of its traffic. By Daniel Oberhaus.
Read more: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wikipedias-switch-to-https-has-successfully-fought-government-censorship?source=Snapzu

Portland stabbing suspect yells in first court appearance

Jeremy Joseph Christian began yelling as soon as he walked into the courtroom Tuesday.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/30/us/portland-train-teenager-stabbing-arraignment/index.html?source=Snapzu

Puerto Rico governor pushes statehood as vote looms despite no U.S. support

Rossello said he's 'not asking for a blessing but informing the members of Congress' that a vote will happen.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/26/puerto-rico-statehood-is-it-possible-238867?source=Snapzu

Trump condemns fatal Oregon stabbings; says victims stood against hate

President Donald Trump on Monday condemned the fatal stabbings of two Good Samaritans who tried to stop a man from harassing a pair of women who appeared to be Muslim, in a tweet issued days after an advocacy group urged Trump to condemn the attacks it said his anti-Muslim rhetoric had encouraged. A third man who also came to the aid of the women suffered serious wounds in the attack on a Portland commuter train on Friday, hours before the start of Ramadan, Islam's holy month. One of the women tearfully thanked the men for their sacrifice.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/BigStory12/idUSKBN18P1XR?source=Snapzu

Green Power Ranger Jason David Frank Speaks Out About Alleged Assassination Attempt

On Friday, former Green Power Ranger and mixed martial artist Jason David Frank spoke to reporters about his alleged assassination attempt at Phoenix Comic-Con. Police arrested a man at the Phoenix Convention Center on Thursday after he made it into the event with multiple weapons, including three guns and a knife, Phoenix police confirmed to PEOPLE in a statement on Sunday.
Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/celebrity/green-power-ranger-jason-david-190054038.html?source=Snapzu

Ontario becomes 2nd province to go ahead with $15 an hour minimum wage

Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne has announced a plan to increase the provincial minimum wage to $15 an hour by Jan. 1, 2019.
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-minimum-wage-announcement-1.4137339?source=Snapzu

The Ghost of Climate-Change Future

As record-breaking high tides overwhelm Hawaii, people are getting a preview of what life will be like in the decades to come. 
Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/05/the-ghost-of-climate-change-future/528471/?source=Snapzu

Tiger found asleep at wheel, blew 0.00 on test

The police had to wake up Tiger Woods when they approached his running vehicle prior to arresting him on a DUI charge early Monday morning, according to the police report. According to the report, the officer said Woods "had extremely slow and slurred speech" and struggled with several roadside tasks. The report noted that the golfer changed his story about where he was going and where he was coming from.
Read more: http://www.espn.com/golf/story/_/id/19496396/tiger-woods-found-asleep-car-arrest-dui-charge?source=Snapzu

NSA in Unprecedented Hunt for KremlinGate Evidence

In my last column, I broke the news that Admiral Mike Rogers, the director of the National Security Agency, reportedly explained to his workforce last week that he had declined to assist President Donald Trump in his efforts to undermine the FBI and its counterintelligence investigation of the White House. As Rogers is said to have explained to agency personnel, “There is no question that we have evidence of election involvement and questionable contacts with the Russians.”
Read more: http://observer.com/2017/05/mike-rogers-nsa-issues-preservation-order-kremlingate-russia-trump/?source=Snapzu

Texas Lawmakers Trade Assault Allegations After One Calls ICE On Protesters

By the time the final day of Texas’ legislative term had ended, Immigration and Customs Enforcement had been called and politicians on both sides of the aisle had accused each other of making threats. By Colin Dwyer.
Read more: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/05/29/530623562/texas-lawmakers-trade-assault-allegations-after-one-calls-ice-on-protesters?source=Snapzu

First Came Normcore. Now Get Ready for Gorpcore

Declaring oneself seriously outdoorsy and politically aware. By Jason Chen.
Read more: https://www.thecut.com/2017/05/new-fashion-trends-normcore-gorpcore.html?mid=twitter_cut?source=Snapzu

Alaska’s tiny, restless Bogoslof volcano erupts again -- and researchers won't be going there anytime soon

The volcano, on a tiny island on the southern edge of the Bering Sea, is so active that researchers have halted plans to visit this summer.
Read more: https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2017/05/29/alaskas-tiny-restless-bogoslof-volcano-erupts-again-and-researchers-wont-be-going-there-anytime-soon/?source=Snapzu

British Airways boss 'tries to gag staff' on IT meltdown which has hit 300,000 passengers after 'inexperienced staff outsourced to India didn't know to launch back up system'

THE British Airways boss is alleged to have tried to “gag staff” over the IT meltdown which hit 300,000 passengers – as inexperienced staff in India didn’t know how to launch the back up system, it has been claimed. The airline’s check-in and operational systems crashed on Saturday and saw thousands of people trying to travel on Bank Holiday weekend left stranded.
Read more: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3672676/british-airways-boss-tries-gag-staff-it-failure/?source=Snapzu

Two Missing WWII B-25 Bombers Found in the Pacific Ocean

Using a sonar-equipped underwater robot, a team of scientists has discovered the debris of a missing World War II-era B-25 bomber plane off the coast of Papua New Guinea. By Knvul Sheikh.
Read more: http://www.livescience.com/59271-missing-wwii-b-25-bomber-planes-found.html?source=Snapzu

Meet the Top 10 Newfound Species of 2016

The annual list highlights the top 10 newly discovered and named species of the previous year. This year’s list includes new species with bizarre names, unique diets, and more. By Kimberly Schwartz.
Read more: http://www.livescience.com/59226-meet-the-top-10-newfound-species-of-2016-video.html?source=Snapzu

NASA Is About to Make a Big Announcement About a New Mission to "Touch The Sun"

This Wednesday, NASA will officially announce its intention to launch a probe that will dip inside the Sun's atmosphere, calling it the first ever mission to "touch the Sun". The Solar Probe Plus mission will have to cope with temperatures and radiation unlike any other probe, but the data it will collect in the process will help astronomers predict solar storms and provide clues on some of the deepest mysteries surrounding our closest star. In 1976, a 370-kilogram (815-pound) block of instruments called Helios 2 came within about 43 million kilometres (27 million miles) of the Sun's surface in its mission to study...
Read more: https://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-set-to-launch-a-mission-to-get-closer-to-the-sun-than-ever-before?source=Snapzu

11-year-old girl from Florida 'forced to marry her rapist'

A woman from Florida has claimed she was forced to marry her rapist at age 11. Sherry Johnson says she was raped four times by members of her family’s church congregation as a child. As a result, she became pregnant at age 10. When investigators began looking into her case, she claims her family tried to protect her rapist by forcing her to marry him.
Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/11-year-old-girl-forced-to-marry-rapist-florida-church-child-marraige-a7761816.html?source=Snapzu

Life is Getting Much Worse for the [U.S.] Poor

Housing, Food and Essentials Eat Up the Meager Incomes. By Ebony Slaughter-Johnson. By Ebony Slaughter-Johnson.
Read more: http://www.alternet.org/economy/price-poverty-how-housing-food-and-essentials-eat-meager-incomes-city-residents?source=Snapzu

Under Trumpcare, Having a High Fever Once Is a Pre-Existing Condition

There are horror stories of all kinds of crazy things being deemed “pre-existing conditions” before the Affordable Care Act. By Kaleigh Rogers.
Read more: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/under-trumpcare-having-a-high-fever-once-is-a-pre-existing-condition?source=Snapzu

How Do Children Become Narcissists?

I am often asked “What type of parenting leads children to grow up with a Narcissistic Personality Disorder?” Or “Are the children of Narcissistic parents at risk of becoming Narcissists themselves?” I thought that I would use today’s post to shed some light on this issue. How Does Someone “Get” a Narcissistic Personality Disorder?
Read more: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/understanding-narcissism/201705/how-do-children-become-narcissists?source=Snapzu

Extremely Rare Albino Orangutan Found in Indonesia

The foundation nursing the primate back to health says they have never taken care of an albino orangutan and cannot find others like it in the wild. By Heather Brady. (May 18, 2017)
Read more: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/05/rare-albino-orangutan-found-indonesia/?source=Snapzu

This Turtle Tourist Center Also Raises Endangered Turtles for Meat

Advocates accuse the Cayman Turtle Centre of mistreating its sea turtles and stoking demand for the meat of an endangered species, claims it denies. By Rachael Bale.
Read more: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/05/wildlife-watch-cayman-turtle-farm-welfare-controversy/?source=Snapzu

China is now getting its power from the largest floating solar farm on Earth

China is one of the most polluted countries in the world, according to the World Health Organisation. Beijing in particular is known for its 'smog' or extreme pollution.  Recently, China's been on a mission to turn this around and become a leader in renewable energy.
Read more: https://www.indy100.com/article/china-powered-largest-solar-power-farm-earth-renewable-fossil-fuel-floating-7759346?source=Snapzu

FBI 'warned MI5 in January that Salman Abedi was planning terror attack in UK'

British intelligence agency MI5 was reportedly warned by its US counterpart that Salman Abedi was planning an attack on UK soil, three months before he blew himself up outside an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester. 
Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/fbi-warned-mi5-january-manchester-attack-bomber-salman-abedi-manchester-arena-a7760756.html?source=Snapzu

State of Ruin: Tales From Venezuela's Collapse

Eight local photographers reflect on the images that have moved them most
Read more: http://time.com/venezuela-photographers/?xid=time_socialflow_twitter?source=Snapzu

Brain-Altering Science and the Search for a New Normal

“The long-term question is, ‘Will somebody learn something about the brain that will be of use later?’” he says. “And the answer is, ‘Of course.’” By Sarah Scoles.
Read more: https://psmag.com/magazine/brain-altering-science-and-the-search-for-a-new-normal?source=Snapzu