Saturday, July 6, 2019

Light News Dump

Trump Begins Long Golf Weekend, Bringing Taxpayers’ Tab To $108 Million
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-golf-new-jersey_n_5d1fa60ee4b04c481413d77f

Agriculture Department suspends data collection for honeybees after Trump budget cuts
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/451839-agriculture-department-suspends-data-collection-for-honeybees-after

Man Who Took Flag-Burning Case to SCOTUS And Won Arrested After Burning Flag on July 4
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/man-who-took-flag-burning-case-to-scotus-and-won-arrested-after-burning-flag-on-july-4/

Paul George allegedly cheated on Doc Rivers' daughter with a stripper. Now, PG13 will play under Doc with the Clippers
https://www.ibtimes.com/who-callie-rivers-paul-george-cheats-girlfriend-allegedly-offers-stripper-daniela-1m-abort-baby

White supremacist engulfed in flames after pouring petrol on synagogue
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/moment-white-supremacist-engulfed-flames-17479751

New evidence that children in China's Xinjiang region are being systematically separated from their families has been uncovered in research commissioned by the BBC.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-china-48873934/xinjiang-china-where-are-my-children

US denies German-Iranian father visa needed to attend son's funeral: The US consulate accused a German-Iranian father of using his late son's funeral as an excuse to migrate to the US. Seyed Shahram Iranbomy was denied the visa he needed to attend. He's lived in Germany for 40 years
https://www.dw.com/en/us-denies-german-iranian-father-visa-needed-to-attend-sons-funeral/a-49493009

(Sigh....) Free agent guard Quinn Cook has reached an agreement with the Los Angeles Lakers on a two-year, $6 million deal, league sources tell Yahoo Sports.
http://twitter.com/ChrisBHaynes/status/1147502491585544192

The UK's "criminal justice system" has always been a failure.....Murderers who refuse to reveal the location of their victims' bodies could be denied parole under a new UK law. "Helen's Law" follows a campaign named after Helen McCourt, who was murdered in 1988. Her killer Ian Simms has not revealed the location of her remains.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-48883775

Amazon has refused to publish data about the energy consumption and carbon emissions of its business in Australia, including vast server farms, claiming its contribution to climate change is a trade secret.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/04/amazon_carbon_emissions_from_australian_bit_barns_are_a_trade_secret/

Russia's effort to convince Bernie Sanders voters to support Trump was 'central' to their strategy to beat Hillary Clinton, according to a new study
https://www.businessinsider.com/bernie-sanders-central-to-russias-pro-trump-2016-strategy-study-2019-4

Brazilian President Bolsonaro defends child labor, citing his own personal experience working at a farm.
https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/brazil/2019/07/bolsonaro-defends-child-labor.shtml

A Russian official accused of directing the foreign operations of Natalia Veselnitskaya, the lawyer who met senior Trump campaign officials in 2016, has plummeted to his death in a helicopter crash. Russian Deputy Attorney General Saak Albertovich Karapetyan was exposed in a Swiss court this year for a plot to enlist another nation’s law-enforcement official as a double-agent for the Kremlin. Media reports in Russia say he died Wednesday night when his helicopter crashed into a forest during an unauthorized flight in the Kostroma region, northeast of Moscow.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-official-linked-to-natalia-veselnitskaya-the-trump-tower-lawyer-is-dead

The Clips have the potential to be one of the best defensive teams of all time. They have 3 First team all NBA defense caliber defenders and they're all at the wing and guard positions. That's ridiculous.

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