Trump approved Saudi Arabia nuclear technology permits twice after Khashoggi murder
The approvals show "President Trump's eagerness to give the Saudis anything they want," said Sen.Tim Kaine (D-VA)
Trump sends Pompeo to Russia to meet with Vladimir Putin and Sergei Lavrov, May 12-14
The administration of Donald Trump is sending Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi, Russia, on May 12-14, says the U.S. State Department.
What could they possibly be planning to discuss? Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, and winning the 2020 election, my top guesses. Read the rest
John Bolton has always been at war with Iran, soon America will be too
Anyone else getting Iraq déjà vu?
Venezuela military coup? Guns fired at Maduro protesters, Internet blocked, Guaidó with soldiers claims ‘final phase’
Military coup supported by Trump admin appears under way in Venezuela.
Notre Dame scaffolding workers were smoking on the job before fire, firm says
Police report finding 7 cigarette butts in the charred ashes.
Read the full text of the Mueller report here, as redacted by Barr
Dems fight for unredacted report's release
Russian agent Maria Butina to be sentenced in U.S. on April 26
The admitted agent for Russia was connected with the NRA and pro-Trump U.S. political groups.
Trump Energy Secretary Rick Perry gave 6 secret authorizations to sell nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia
U.S. Department Of Energy Secretary Rick Perry gave “six secret authorizations by companies to sell nuclear power technology and assistance to Saudi Arabia,” Reuters reports, based on a copy of a document seen by reporters on Wednesday. Read the rest
#Brexit: Actual footage of UK trying to leave EU
Accurate. Read the rest
Venezuela hit by second electrical blackout in one month, capital city of Caracas mostly without power
Reuters reports that all lights were out across many regions of Venezuela including much of the capital city of Caracas on Monday. Read the rest
German couple who tested ricin on hamster charged with 'plotting Islamist attack'
A couple who tested the effects of the poison ricin on their hamster have been charged by the government of Germany with plotting a terrorist attack. Read the rest
Sweden arrests tech worker said to be Russian spy
In Sweden, officers of the Swedish Security Service have arrested a person who worked “in a high-technology sector” and is believed by investigators to be a Russian agent. Read the rest
China is rushing facial and voice recognition tech for pigs. Here's why.
In China, technology firms are working with the government to push voice and facial recognition to help pigs, many of which have been dying from a swine disease that's sweeping the country. Read the rest
UK Labour party backs a second Brexit referendum
Jeremy Corbyn favors a public vote to ”prevent a damaging Tory Brexit.”
China uses DNA tech to spy on people. Yale geneticist and a U.S. biotech helped.
“The Chinese authorities turned to a Massachusetts company and a prominent Yale researcher as they built an enormous system of surveillance and control.”
This is a heck of a story about how genetic surveillance, powered by American know-how, is being used to oppress the Muslim minority Uighur population and others in China, from the New York Times. Read the rest
Trump's former Moscow associate David Geovanis targeted in Senate Russia investigation
He's the guy with the half-nude woman in this photo.
French TV cuts Facebook Live video from desecrated Jewish cemetery due to anti-Semitic troll swarm
On Wednesday, the TV network France 3 was forced to cut off a live Facebook broadcast from a desecrated Jewish cemetery in eastern France when trolls swarmed the feed and filled it with anti-Semitic hate comments. Read the rest
