News Dump

U.S. Naval Academy to Ban Transgender Students Starting in 2020
http://time.com/5572454/naval-academy-ban-transgender-students/

Stunning Supercut Video Exposes The Fox News Double Standard On Trump And Obama — Clips show Fox News personalities slamming Obama for the same things Trump does now.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fox-news-obama-trump-double-standard_n_5cb6a8c0e4b0ffefe3b8ce3e

The most effective way to tackle climate change? Plant 1 trillion trees
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/17/world/trillion-trees-climate-change-intl-scn/index.html

When the Glaciers Disappear, Those Species Will Go Extinct
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/16/climate/glaciers-melting-alaska-washington.html

Imaad Zuberi, the Trump inaugural donor whose name was listed in an SDNY subpoena to the inaugural fund in Feb, is also ensnared in a second federal probe in Los Angeles that’s looking at his political donations and work w/foreign govts. Federal investigators in Los Angeles have asked Zuberi’s associates for records concerning his business entities and work with other nations, and have asked questions about Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Qatar and Turkey.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-donor-faces-a-second-federal-probe-11555523022

Deutsche Bank faces action over $20bn Russian money-laundering scheme
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/apr/17/deutsche-bank-faces-action-over-20bn-russian-money-laundering-scheme

Trump Admin Reportedly Refusing to Give Up Records Detailing Security Clearances, Foreign Meetings
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/trump-admin-reportedly-refusing-to-give-up-records-detailing-security-clearances-foreign-meetings/

FBI: Armed young woman infatuated with Columbine school attack is dead. Sol Pais found dead: South Florida woman had allegedly threatened violence ahead of Columbine massacre's 20th anniversary.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/fbi-armed-young-woman-infatuated-with-columbine-school-attack-is-dead/2019/04/17/10b15286-6137-11e9-bf24-db4b9fb62aa2_story.html
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/fl-ne-columbine-lockdown-20190416-story.html

Satellite confirms key NASA temperature data: The planet is warming — and fast. New evidence suggests one of the most important climate change data sets is getting the right answer. A high-profile NASA temperature data set, which has pronounced the last five years the hottest on record and the globe a full degree Celsius warmer than in the late 1800s, has found new backing from independent satellite records — suggesting the findings are on a sound footing, scientists reported Tuesday. If anything, the researchers found, the pace of climate change could be somewhat more severe than previously acknowledged, at least in the fastest warming part of the world — its highest latitudes. “We may actually have been underestimating how much warmer [the Arctic’s] been getting,” said Gavin Schmidt, who directs NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, which keeps the temperature data, and who was a co-author of the new study released in Environmental Research Letters. NASA’s flagship data set, known as GISTEMP, is one of two kept by agencies of the U.S. government, the other being maintained by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Both data sets — along with several others maintained by institutions and academic groups around the world — are based on a merger of the records of thousands of thermometers spread across Earth’s land surfaces, and a growing volume of ocean measurements from buoys and other instruments.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2019/04/17/satellite-confirms-key-nasa-temperature-data-planet-is-warming-fast/
https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/
https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2841/2018-fourth-warmest-year-in-continued-warming-trend-according-to-nasa-noaa/
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aafd4e

Nearly 60 Doctors, Other Medical Workers Charged In Federal Opioid Sting
https://www.npr.org/2019/04/17/714014919/nearly-60-docs-other-medical-workers-face-charges-in-federal-opioid-sting

Elizabeth Warren's ideas blow rival 2020 Democrats away. Her public lands plan is no exception.
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/elizabeth-warren-s-ideas-blow-rival-2020-democrats-away-her-ncna995276

Former Fox News host Monica Crowley, who backed out of a Trump administration role amid plagiarism claims, is reportedly getting a job at the Treasury Department
https://www.businessinsider.com/mnuchin-ex-fox-news-host-monica-crowley-treasury-department-report-2019-4

White Nationalist Coast Guard Officer Isn’t Facing Terrorism Charges Despite Directly Threatening To Murder US Federal Officials/Politicians
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/white-nationalist-coast-guard-office-no-terrorism-charges

Sea sick: Plastic garbage in the North Atlantic Ocean skyrocketing
https://phys.org/news/2019-04-sea-sick-plastic-garbage-north.html

National Republicans Bankrolled Lawyer for GOP Congressional Candidate Accused of Election Fraud
https://theintercept.com/2019/04/17/national-republicans-mark-harris-north-carolina/

North Korea sends hit squads after defectors from its secret police
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/04/17/north-korea-sends-hit-squads-defectors-secret-police/

Senator Amy Klobuchar to Follow Bernie Sanders With Fox News Town Hall
https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/the-wrap/article/Senator-Amy-Klobuchar-to-Follow-Bernie-Sanders-13774819.php

Beto O’Rourke says he gave more to charity than tax returns show
https://apnews.com/3f4367d5e4884fd2b04bf6295231d63f

Sally Yates on Robert Mueller "He confounds those who can’t comprehend a person driven by his all too uncommon values: honor, integrity, humility, service. He is the inverse image of the man he would ultimately come to investigate."
http://time.com/collection/100-most-influential-people-2019/5567757/robert-mueller/

Greg Gianforte (attacked reporter and won election because Republicans are pure evil terrorists) “seriously considering” running for Montana governor
https://ktvh.com/news/2019/04/16/greg-gianforte-seriously-considering-running-for-montana-governor/

GOOD. We need this in the US: The UK's porn ban will go into effect in July, the government has announced. After 15 July, all internet users will have be forced to prove themselves to be over 18 or be entirely blocked from seeing adult content.
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/uk-porn-ban-july-deadline-when-date-online-websites-adult-age-verification-a8874181.html

Right-wing party wins power in Canada's oil region, attacks Trudeau on environment
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-canada-politics-alberta/right-wing-party-wins-power-in-canadas-oil-region-attacks-trudeau-on-environment-idUSKCN1RS0EB?il=0