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6/30/17
TechNews for the week: June 30; June 28; June 26;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
Iraq declares end of caliphate after capture of Mosul mosque;
ISIS Reverts to Insurgent Roots to Pose Long-Term Threat; Pentagon plan to defeat ISIS looks very much like Obama's approach;
U.S. officials say Chemical weapons activity monitored at Syrian air base; Israel attacks Syrian posts after cross-border fire from Syria;
Iran's hardliners push back against Rouhani's reform agenda; How a 91-year-old imam came to symbolize the feud between Qatar and its neighbors;
Israeli Minister Plans a Floating Island Off the Coast of Gaza; Israeli cabinet reneges on pledge to create egalitarian prayer space at the Western Wall;
U.S. warship stayed on deadly collision course despite warning - container ship captain;
Europe is pushing back against the Kremlin meddling;
F.B.I. Investigating Deals Involving Paul Manafort and Son-in-Law ; Trump Campaign Chief's Firm Got $17 Million From Pro-Russia Party;
Kushner firm given $285 million Deutsche Bank loan a month before Election Day;
Trump's new lawyer reportedly steered more than $60 million from his nonprofit to family members;
Senate Intel Committee has deal on Comey memos; Trump Indicates Tweet on Tapes Was Meant to Affect Comey Testimony;
Supreme Court sides with Missouri church in major church-state decision over use of public funds; Supreme Court declines to review California concealed-weapon law;
Supreme Court allows limited version of Trump travel ban to go into effect and agrees to hear the case in the fall; Justices Side With Immigrant Who Got Bad Legal Advice ;
Travel ban takes effect as State Department defines 'close family'; The Pentagon promised citizenship to immigrants who served. Now it might help deport them;
U.S. unveils enhanced airline security plan to avoid laptop ban; White House Pushes Military Might Over Humanitarian Aid in Africa;
Nikki Haley and Trump's Doctrine of Diplomatic Chaos; McMaster: Trump to meet with Putin at the G20 Summit;
In health-care bill, two prized Republican goals converge - Tav cuts & Shrink spending on Medicaid;
See where the Senate health-care bill's subsidy cuts will affect Americans most;
CBO: Senate health bill leads to 22 million fewer insured Americans by 2026;
Senate Leaders Try to Appease Members as Support for Health Bill Slips; Senate GOP updates health care bill to include 6-month lockout for uninsured;
Senate Republicans suddenly delay health care vote; Trump promotes faulty White House math on health care; GOP senators mull cutting tax break for wealthy;
McConnell aims to send revised health-care bill to CBO as soon as Friday;
Updated CBO analysis says Senate GOP's health-care bill reduces the trajectory of Medicaid spending by 35 percent by 2036;
New estimate shines light on long-term Medicaid slowdown that GOP sought to bury in bill;
Bill to create panel that could remove Trump from office quietly picks up Democratic support;
Trump gets standing ovation for promising to pass a law already on the books;
Trump's voter-fraud commission wants to know voting history, party ID and address of every voter in U.S.;
Rep. Chaffetz: Members of Congress should get stipends to afford homes in D.C.;
Pence to Replace His Chief of Staff;
He was cited for walking without an ID. He wants the officer off the force;
Math, science and technology:
Security issues
Massive cyberattack hits Europe with widespread ransom demands; Experts say Petya out to destroy not ransom; Global Cyberattack's Real Target Was Ukraine;
Petya ransomware attack: What it is, and why this is happening again; Create a single file to protect yourself from the latest ransomware attack;
With a single wiretap order, US authorities listened in on 3.3 million phone calls;
U.K. Parliament Hit by Cyber-Attack Targeting Email Accounts;
The world needs more cybersecurity pros, but millennials aren't interested in the field;
The FAA Is Arguing for Security by Obscurity; Coming to an airport near you someday: a machine that can tell if you're lying;
Bill Would Bar Pentagon From Business With Russian Cyber Firm Kaspersky;
CIA Exploits Against Wireless Routers; N.S.A. Warrantless Surveillance Aided Turks After Attack;
Google's Project Zero; Websites Grabbing User-Form Data Before It's Submitted;
Math and science
IBM Plans To Develop A More Accurate Weather Modeling System; Universities Using Drones To Collect Weather Research Data;
Experts Hope US Budget Cuts To Scientific Research Don't Block Climate Data;
IBM's Watson takes on the scut work at a Philadelphia hospital, so nurses can focus on what matters;
Raytheon: Air Force Engineering, Testing New Air-Dropped Weapon;
Fish as Medicine for Rheumatoid Arthritis; What Happened When I Ate Beets for Two Weeks;
Pay attention: Practice can make your brain better at focusing;
A New Theory on How Researchers Can Solve the Reproducibility Crisis: Do the Math;
A Model to Predict Sales Based on Multiple Regression;
The Women of Bletchley Park;
Web and computing issues
How Industrial IoT Is Shaking Off Hype and Getting Real;
How Artificial Intelligence Will Revolutionize Banking;
SC News and Politics
A look at the future of Charleston's transportation system; South Carolina's rural roads named deadliest in the nation;
Mayor Tecklenburg thinks body cameras keep black people safe;
Finance and Economics
U.S. fertility rate hits a historic low, stoking fears of some demographers;
Senate health bill would decimate long-term care coverage; What about preexisting conditions in the Senate GOP health plan;
Europe and Japan Near Trade Deal as U.S. Takes Protectionist Path; Brussels vows to retaliate over US steel tariffs threat;
After Puerto Rico's Debt Crisis, Worries Shift to Virgin Islands; 'Everything's in Danger': Illinois Approaches 3rd Year Without Budget;
Fed's stress tests raise concern over financial safety standard; All-Clear for Big Banks Raises Fears of a Return to Risk; Big Banks Set to Pay Out Largest Dividends in a Decade;
Companies struggle to recover after massive cyberattack with ransom demands;
DOE Grid Study Focuses On Reliability, But Ignores Cost-Benefit; Coal on the rise in China, US, India after major 2016 drop;
Fate Of North Carolina Renewable Energy Deal In Doubt; EU Wind Farm Operators Look To Megaturbines;
Cadillac's "Super Cruise" Feature Allows For Semi-Autonomous Driving;
Takata, Unable to Overcome Airbag Crisis, Files for Bankruptcy Protection ;
What are leading, lagging and coincident indicators;
Other news
Why Saudi Arabia hates Al Jazeera so much;
The New York Times used a full page to print all of Trump's lies since taking office;
American health care is a bad case of American exceptionalism;
The Future of Coal Country;
A black off-duty cop tried to help stop a crime. Another officer shot him;
Six Nazi spies were executed in D.C. White supremacists gave them a memorial - on federal land.;
101 books to dive into this summer; Eight Books Every Intelligent Person on the Planet Should Read;
Education:
Executive Compensation at Private and Public Colleges;
The Making of a Modern-Day Apprentice; Preparing the Neediest for Work; Does Redesigning Classrooms Make a Difference to Students;
Maricopa Community Colleges To Appeal Ruling Denying In-state Tuition For Dreamers;
Federal Judge Blocks Part Of Gainful Employment Rule; Students Of Fraudulent For-Profit Colleges Still Waiting For Debt Relief;
College Lawyers Say Title IX Process Must Be Fair to Both Parties;
What Colleges Can Do When the Internet Outrage Machine Comes to Campus;
6/23/17
TechNews for the week: June 23; June 21; June 19;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
ISIS Destroys Al Nuri Mosque, Another Loss for Mosul;
Battle for eastern Syria risks US, Russia and Iran confrontation; Once Islamic State stronghold of Raqqa falls, U.S. will be on collision course with Syria and Iran;
U.S. shoots down Syrian fighter jet over Syria; Russia warns it will treat US-led coalition jets in parts of Syria as targets after US downed Syrian plane;
Afghan war faces flurry of setbacks as U.S. military debates new policy; Afghan Government Quietly Aids Breakaway Taliban Faction;
North Korea says Trump is a 'psychopath' who may launch a preemptive strike;
Macron marches to clear majority in French parliament;
Saudi Arabia Rewrites Succession as King Replaces Heir With Son, 31;
Qatar given 10 days to meet 13 sweeping demands by Saudi Arabia;
How 'Fat Leonard' bribed the Navy to get U.S. diplomatic immunity;
Supreme Court to review partisan gerrymandering, setting up a decision that could be a watershed moment for U.S. elections;
Some States Beat Supreme Court to Punch on Eliminating Gerrymanders;
Supreme Court: Rejecting trademarks that 'disparage' others violates the First Amendment; Supreme Court strikes down sex offender social media ban;
U.S. Supreme Court won't hear Ohio voting rights appeal;
U.S. Supreme Court limits rights of property owners; U.S. Can't Revoke Citizenship Over Minor Falsehoods, Supreme Court Rules;
Detroit judge halts deportation of Iraqi Christians;
After Georgia, Republicans celebrating, Dems searching; Utah officials scheme the ultimate land grab;
Trump, Russia and a Shadowy Business Partnership; At height of Russia tensions, Trump campaign chairman Manafort met with business associate from Ukraine;
White House concedes Russia meddled in campaign, but denies it changed the result;
Trump admits he has no tapes of Comey meetings; Watchdog Groups Sue Trump for Destroying Emails;
Flynn failed to report foreign trip to broker US-Russia nuclear deal; Despite Concerns About Blackmail, Flynn Heard C.I.A. Secrets;
Trump's lawyer's very bad and contradictory Sunday, annotated; Conservative talk-show host and First Amendment litigator is Trump's newest lawyer;
Kushner Is Said to Be Reconsidering His Legal Team;
The Senate health-care bill; Senate health-care draft repeals Obamacare taxes, provides bigger subsidies for low-income Americans than House bill;
G.O.P. Rift Over Medicaid and Opioids Imperils Senate Health Bill;
Senate GOP health care bill looks a lot like 'mean' House one; What the Senate bill changes about Obamacare;
Trump seeks sharp cuts to housing aid, except for program that brings him millions; Trump Organization seeks hefty tax break for Westchester golf club;
Anti-sharia group offers donors a private tour and cocktails at Trump hotel;
White House Tries to Get G.O.P. to Water Down Russia Sanctions Bill;
Trump Declares War on Rosenstein: 'He Has No Qualms About Throwing Him Under a Bus';
Trump's pick for the No. 2 Pentagon job faces tough questions during confirmation hearing;
New Trump appointee has history of disparaging tweets against Obama, Megyn Kelly and Japanese Americans;
Judge fines Kobach, Head Of Trump's Voter Integrity Probe, for misleading court;
Some gun owners are disturbed by the Philando Castile verdict. The NRA is silent;
California adds 4 states to travel ban for laws it says discriminate against LGBTQ community;
Math, science and technology:
Security issues
Report: Post-Snowden Efforts to Secure N.S.A. Data Fell Short; NSA Insider Security Post-Snowden; WikiLeaks Documents Show CIA Can Spy via Home Internet Routers;
Security experts warn lawmakers of election hacking risks; Officials Report One Successful Attempt to Alter Voter Records in 2016;
RNC Contractor Exposed Database of 200 Million Potential Voters;
Obama's secret struggle to punish Russia for Putin's election assault; Russia Suspected of Using Cyber Tactics Against U.S. Military;
Under pressure, Western tech firms bow to Russian demands to share cyber secrets;
Canadian Officials Expect Cyber Threats During 2019 Elections;
Safety lapses undermine nuclear warhead work at Los Alamos;
German Police Raid Homes of People Accused of Hateful Posts;
Is Continuing to Patch Windows XP a Mistake? Windows 10 temporarily disable third-party antivirus, admits Microsoft;
The Dangers of Secret Law;
Math and science
Jupiter is the oldest planet in the Solar System; NASA finds 10 more planets that could have life; Scientists say there may be yet another unseen planet at solar system's edge;
Vanderbilt Researchers Examine Climate Change In Tennessee; Perry: CO2 Not Prime Climate Change Driver; Study Links Shale Drilling, Air Pollution, Earthquakes;
A bitter scientific debate just erupted over the future of America's power grid;
Exxon Announces Breakthrough In Development Of Algae-Based Oil Alternative;
Engineers Build Stretchy Batteries For Wearables;
Israel To Build Quantum Communications Tech Lab;
Web and computing issues
Iowa State University Students To Showcase First Solar Utility Vehicle;
This new copier gives you an option to erase what you've printed;
New laws could erase your cringey teenage Facebook photos;
SC News and Politics
Charleston city leaders clash over specialized audit for racial bias in police department;
First-time candidate announces Democratic challenge to Mark Sanford by standing against Nancy Pelosi;
Finance and Economics
Social Security in 2018: Potential changes and how they could impact you; After Car Is Repossessed the Debt Remains;
How states like Kansas punish the poor for being both too poor and not poor enough;
In this part of the Midwest, the problem isn't China. It's too many jobs; Study: More STEM Job Openings Than Workers;
US intensifies fight against tax evasion via data mining; How Robots Rule the Stock Market; Move Over, Bitcoin. Ether Is the Digital Currency of the Moment;
Report suggests US paranoia about H-1Bs largely unsupported by facts or stats;
After Surge in Orders, Airlines Now Balk at Wide-Bodies; In Qatar Airways, American Airlines May Have an Unwanted Suitor;
Tesla is changing the electric grid;
LA Programs Aims To Bring Electric Car-Sharing Service To Low-Income Communities;
Ford Chooses China, Not Mexico, to Build Its New Focus;
Energy Transfer's Biggest Problem Keeps Rearing Its Ugly Head: Pipeline Spills; Energy Department Links Western Earthquakes With Wastewater Injection;
Libya's Increased Oil Production Thwarts OPEC's Reduction Plans;
Renewable Energy Investments Becoming More Widespread; Solar Energy Prices Continue Falling; White House May Intervene On Behalf Of Domestic Solar Panel Manufacturers;
Other news
Too Stupid to be President; Why Do Democracies Fail?
Rural divide: The political gap in America is more cultural than economic, new poll finds; The great American fallout: how small towns came to resent cities;
The Man Who Knew Too Much;
Police dashcam footage shows traffic stop that ended with fatal shooting ;
11 books on science Bill Gates thinks everyone should read;
Education:
The best 529 college savings plans; Will Michigan's Free-Tuition Guarantee Change the Game for Low-Income Students?
Georgia's Mergers Offer Lessons, and Cautions, to Other States; Colleges Face More Pressure on Student Outcomes;
Students' Rising Expectations Pose Challenge to Online Programs;
Arizona Court Says 'Dreamers' Are Ineligible for In-State Tuition; Education Dept. Closes Title IX Investigation of Liberty U;
House Passes Perkins Act Reauthorization; Federal Government Using Private Law Firms To Collect Student Loan Debt;
Landmark Law on Higher Education Should Be Scrapped, DeVos Suggests; What Would the Repeal of Higher Ed's Foundational Law Mean for Colleges;
Russia, China Lead Student Teams At The Computer Programming Olympics;
Elsevier Wins $15 Million in Copyright Suit Against Sci-Hub;
Professors' Growing Risk: Harassment for Things They Never Really Said;
To My Student, on the Death of Her Grand-moth-er(s);
U. of Oregon Athlete Played a Season While Under Investigation for Sexual Assault;
6/16/17
TechNews for the week: June 16; June 14; June 12;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
Iranian Kurds Are Implicated in Terrorist Attacks in Tehran; Plans to hold a referendum to declare a sovereign Kurdish state;
Raqqa: US-backed forces advance in IS 'capital'; ISIS drones are attacking U.S. troops and disrupting airstrikes in Raqqa;
Iraqi Christians Face 'Death Sentence' as Trump Prepares Mass Deportations;
ISIS Captures Tora Bora, Once Bin Laden's Afghan Fortress;
Israel plans most settlement homes since 1992; Report: Egypt's Sisi secretly met Netanyahu in Cairo;
Puerto Rico upholds statehood demand in contentious vote;
Russian activist Alexei Navalny jailed as tens of thousands rally across Russia;
Senators reach deal on comprehensive bill to increase Russia sanctions; Senate overwhelmingly votes to curtail Trump's power to ease Russia sanctions;
Berlin hits back at US move to tighten sanctions on Russia;
Supreme Court could tackle partisan gerrymandering in watershed case;
SCOTUS strikes down gender differences in citizenship law;
9th Circuit Federal appeals court upholds freeze on Trump's travel ban;
In the heart of tea party country, Kansas faces a new revolution: The rise of moderate Republicans;
States Lead the Fight Against Trump's Birth Control Rollback;
Kelly revokes Obama order shielding immigrant parents of U.S. citizens; Trump administration grants work permits to thousands of illegal immigrants;
Trump announces revisions to parts of Obama's Cuba policy; With shift on Cuba, Trump could undercut his company's hotel-industry rivals;
Justice Dept. Wants Lawsuit Against President Trump Thrown Out; D.C. and Maryland to sue President Trump, alleging breach of constitutional oath;
Trump's lawyer in Russia probe has clients with Kremlin ties; Russia Lobbyist: Sessions Invited Me to Dinner;
Federal attorney says Trump's contacts made him uncomfortable before he was fired; Trump vs. Comey: Lawmakers turn up heat on president about contradictory claims;
RNC Chair Calls For End to Trump Probe As Lines Harden Over Comey's Testimony;
Friend says Trump is considering 'terminating' Mueller; Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein says only he has the power to fire special counsel on Russia;
Special counsel is investigating Trump for possible obstruction of justice; Trump warned of a 'constitutional crisis' if president faced an investigation;
Three prongs of the Russia investigation, explained; Trump lashes out at Russia probe; Pence hires a lawyer; Special counsel is investigating Kushner's business dealings;
GOP aims to bring secret health-care bill to Senate floor by end of June;
Don't expect spineless Republicans to defy Donald Trump; Trump's Cabinet, With a Prod, Extols the 'Blessing' of Serving Him;
GOP Rep. Sanford on Va. shooting: Trump partially responsible 'for the demons that have been unleashed';
Under Trump, US militias not ready to lay down arms;
DeMint eyes 'new mission' for Tea Party: Changing the Constitution;
Energy Department Closes Office Working on Climate Change Abroad;
Math, science and technology:
Security issues
June Crypto-Gram Newsletter, Ransomware, Airplane Laptop Ban, Hacking Voter Rolls and more;
Russia has developed a cyberweapon that can disrupt power grids, according to new research; Forget Comey. The Real Story Is Russia's War on America;
Russia's election hacking reached 39 states, says report; What Governments, Enterprises Can Learn From 2016 Election Hacks;
U.S. Cyberweapons, Used Against Iran and North Korea, Are a Disappointment Against ISIS;
The NSA has linked the WannaCry computer worm to North Korea; Microsoft warns of 'destructive cyberattacks,' issues new Windows XP patches;
Documents reveal US internet company refused to participate in NSA surveillance; Healthcare Industry Cybersecurity Report; Data vs. Analysis in Counterterrorism;
Homeland Security Working on Alternatives to Banning Laptops; U.S. to Heighten Scrutiny of Chinese Tech Investments;
Backdoors, encryption and internet surveillance: Which way now?
Email Impersonation Attacks on the Rise; Why Printers Add Secret Tracking Dots;
Math and science
Three New Discoveries in a Month Rock Our African Origins;
The largest planet in the solar system could also be the oldest; Jupiter Now Has 69 Moons;
How Does Earth Move Through Space? Now We Know, On Every Scale; Huge Galaxies' Curious Alignment Started Early;
Astronomers just achieved something Einstein said was impossible;
Chinese Satellite Beams Photons From Space To Earth;
Mideast Regional Research Center To Open In Jordan;
You Cannot Learn What You Think You Already Know;
Web and computing issues
Here's why it doesn't matter which coding language developers choose to learn;
SC News and Politics
South Carolina Needs to Find Environmental Courage; Humans Can't Control Sea Level Rise;
McLeod Plantation to grow Sea Island cotton for the first time since the 1920s;
Sgt. Jasper gains unanimous final approval from BAR;
Finance and Economics
Fed raises interest rate, signaling confidence in the economy; Multiple transit projects across U.S. at risk as White House infrastructure plan falters;
How Illinois became America's failed state; Illinois Lawmakers Concerned Trump Budget Will Hurt Jobs At DOE Labs;
Kansas's conservative experiment may have gone worse than people thought; Trickle-down economics is a nightmare. Kansas proved it;
U.S. Has Six Nuclear Plants Set To Retire; Toshiba to pay $3.68 billion for Westinghouse reactors in US;
Culture Clash at a Chinese-Owned Plant in Ohio;
Massachusetts Aims To Ramp Up Offshore Wind Development; Wind Power Continues Its Expansion In Texas; Wind Project On Hold In Tennessee;
Wind, Solar Produce 10 Percent Of US Power For First Time In March;
G.E.'s History of Innovation; GE Makes Hybrid Battery Storage Systems Available To All Its Gas, Coal-Fired Plants;
Qatar agrees $12bn deal to buy fighter jets from US;
GM Expands Fleet Of Autonomous Bolts;
Wells Fargo Is Accused of Making Improper Changes to Mortgages;
Interior Department Delaying Compliance Date For Methane Emissions Regulations;
Supreme Court to Hear Case on Inter Partes Patent Reviews;
Dow-DuPont Wins U.S. Antitrust Nod to Create Chemicals Giant;
Other news
President Trump cares more about himself than his country ; A Pro-Trump Conspiracy Theorist, a False Tweet and a Runaway Story; Some Trump supporters want a holy war;
Trump's claim that Americans 'built the Golden Gate Bridge in four years and the Hoover Dam in five';
The Confederate flag largely disappeared after the Civil War. The fight against civil rights brought it back;
A Resolution Condemning White Supremacy Causes Chaos at the Southern Baptist Convention;
Scholars See Bad Omens in Pulled Sponsorship of 'Julius Caesar';
Why 'Julius Caesar' Speaks to Politics Today. With or Without Trump; How Outrage Built Over a Shakespearean Depiction of Trump;
Fox News Drops 'Fair and Balanced' Motto;
Education:
For Students Going Overseas, an 'America First' Presidency Complicates Their Studies; In Wisconsin, Trump makes case for apprenticeships to fill jobs gap;
Women Account For Two-Thirds Of Outstanding Student Loan Debt;
Trump Will Continue DACA for Now, Though Immigrant Students Still Wonder About Its Future;
DeVos Will Roll Back 2 Obama Regulations, a Blow to Consumer Advocates; What DeVos's 'Reset' Means for Colleges;
Rules to help defrauded students clear loans to be overturned; Federal Agencies Failing To Stop Fraudulent Student Debt Relief Companies;
Education Dept. Plans to Scale Back Civil-Rights Efforts; The Making of a Debt-Relief Whistle-Blower ;
Purdue Officials Submit Online University Proposal To Indiana State Commission;
Court Rules Iowa State U. Officials Violated Student Activists' Speech Rights; Consultant Controversy Drives Out President of Northern Illinois U.;
Louisville must vacate 2013 national championship unless it wins its appeal; Technology Puts College Athletics on a Whole New Playing Field;
6/9/17
TechNews for the week: June 9; June 7; June 5;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
6 people slain in 'terrorist incidents' on London Bridge and in nearby market; Trump reacts by stoking fears, renewing a personal feud;
Saudi, Egypt lead Arab states cutting Qatar ties, Iran blames Trump; New Leaked Emails Show How Qatar Crisis Developed In The U.S.;
The Persian Gulf crisis over Qatar, explained; Trump jumps into worsening dispute; Trump Takes Credit for Saudi Move Against Qatar;
Tillerson called for the Saudi-led bloc of nations to ease the blockade on Qatar. An hour later, Trump contradicted him.; Q&A: Qatar's falling out with its Arab neighbors;
On Mosul's Front Line: A Grueling Battle on Civilian Streets; U.S.-Backed Forces Begin Assault on Raqqa, ISIS Stronghold in Syria;
Islamic State claims responsibility for two deadly attacks in Iranian capital, its first major assault in the country; Iran Says Tehran Assailants Were Recruited Inside the Country;
US missile defense test triggers alarm in Russia, China as North Korea issues new warnings; South Korea suspends deployment of US missile shield;
North Korea Fires More Missiles as Seoul Puts Off U.S. Defense System;
Senior U.S. diplomat in Beijing embassy resigns over Trump's climate change decision;
India hits back at Trump in war of words over climate change; Poll: Most Americans oppose Trump's decision to scrap Paris climate plan;
Russian fighter jet 'dispatched' to intercept U.S. heavy bomber over Baltic Sea;
Britain's Conservative Party loses majority in Parliament amid calls for Theresa May to resign; Prime Minister Theresa May decides to remain in office despite election losses;
Center all but disappears from British politics, leaving the country as polarized as the U.S.;
Man attacks Paris police with hammer at Notre Dame 'for Syria';
'Last Secret' of 1967 War: Israel's Doomsday Plan for Nuclear Display;
Republican Sen. Burr orders return of 'CIA torture' report to Congress;
Nunes-led intelligence panel sought to 'unmask' Americans; Is the big story 'unmasking' or Trump-Russia connections?
Bank at Center of U.S. Inquiry Projects Russian 'Soft Power';
National security experts were floored by the leaked NSA document on Russia's election hack;
Top intelligence official told associates Trump asked him if he could intervene with Comey to get FBI to back off Flynn;
Intelligence officials Rogers, Coats say they won't discuss private talks with Trump;
James Comey laid out the case that President Trump obstructed justice. Here's our analysis; Four top law firms turned down requests to represent Trump;
Comey tells Senate the Trump administration 'defamed' him and the FBI; McCain explains confusing Comey questions;
Comey kept notes of conversations because he was concerned the president 'might lie about the nature of that meeting';
Trump Didn't Tweet During Comey's Hearing, But His Son Sure Did; Trump breaks his silence on Comey testimony, tweeting: 'Total and complete vindication';
Did Trump just acknowledge (in a tweet, of course) that he told Comey to back off Michael Flynn? GOP's emerging Trump defense: A naif in the Oval Office;
Trump misleads public on ambassador nominees;
Trump's latest tweets will likely hurt effort to restore travel ban;
Trump to nominate Christopher Wray as FBI director;
Trump made a critical decision in the coming debt-ceiling fight; Congress clears Trump-backed bill to fast-track firing of VA workers;
Twitter users, blocked by Trump, cry censorship;
Report: Eric Trump funneled charity funds to businesses;
'Infrastructure week,' designed to challenge Democrats, finds no takers;
Gorsuch Rejects Doubts Over 'Rule of Law Today';
The head of the U.S. patent office has abruptly resigned;
White House social-media director violated Hatch Act with tweet targeting GOP congressman;
U.S. top court again faults North Carolina on voting rights; Republicans are so much better than Democrats at gerrymandering;
Kansas Republicans raise taxes, rebuking their GOP governor's 'real live experiment' in conservative policy; Kris Kobach, 'King Of Voter Suppression,' Seeks Kansas Governorship;
Math, science and technology:
Security issues
Senator Tom Cotton Introduces Bill to Make FISA Section 702 Permanent; Supreme Court to Hear Case on Privacy of Cellphone Location Data; U.S. Voting Software Supplier Targeted by Russia Before Election; NSA Document Outlining Russian Attempts to Hack Voter Rolls;
Federal contractor charged, accused of giving classified NSA document to news organization;
U.K. Prime Minister Wants 'Safe Spaces' for Terrorists Online Eradicated;
Safety and Security and the Internet of Things; Auto Security Experts Work to Protect Cars' 'Computer Area Network';
WannaCry and Vulnerabilities; CIA's Pandemic Toolkit; Spear Phishing Attacks; Surveillance Intermediaries; Email Impersonation Attacks on the Rise;
Russian Hackers Blamed for Spreading Malware on Instagram; Al Jazeera News Network Fighting Massive Cyberattack;
Malware Uses LED Lights To Steal, Transmit Data;
Enigma: Why the fight to break Nazi encryption still matters;
Math and science
Discovering the Topology of the Universe;
Giant Hole on Mars Leaves NASA Scientists Confused; The Mystery Behind a 40-Year-Old Signal From Outer Space May Finally Be Solved;
Morocco fossil find unearths oldest Homo sapiens ever discovered ;
These days in baseball, every batter is trying to find an angle;
Web and computing issues
In Europe, Groups Try to Monitor Online Political Misinformation;
Machine learning comes to Google Sheets, boosting data visualization for users;
The six big things Apple announced today;
SC News and Politics
Citizens Fight Back Against Overdevelopment;
From a Tenant South to the Tech South; How a Charleston bar led to one of the Cold War's most damaging spy rings;
Finance and Economics
Claims for US jobless benefits fall by 10,000 to 245,000; States with more black people have less generous welfare benefits; the Study;
Consumers Are the Biggest Threat to the Economy; House votes to roll back Wall Street rules and reduce oversight put in place after 2008 financial crisis;
Trump To Kick Off Infrastructure Week With Focus On ATC Privatization; Plans to Shift Infrastructure Funding to Cities, States and Business;
When Companies Lead on Infrastructure, Taxpayers Often Bear the Costs; Trump, Who Pledged to Overhaul Nuclear Arsenal, Now Faces Increased Costs;
Investors bet Trump climate withdrawal to boost US drilling; EPA chief Scott Pruitt claims that 'almost 50,000 jobs' have been gained in coal. He isn't very close.;
Administration Touts US Clean Energy While Cutting Its Research Funding; Agency Studying Effects Of Drilling On West Texas Springs;
Retired Military Brass Say US Must Lead World On Clean Energy; Fort Hood Goes Green With Renewable Energy Project;
White House Climate Policies Unlikely To Overcome Trends Driving Coal Industry; Closure of Idaho Power Coal-Fired Plant Approved;
Swiss Firm Opens First Commercial Carbon Recapture Facility;
S. Africa Unexpectedly Tips Into Second Recession in 8 Years;
China to Capitalize on Clean Energy as U.S. Retreats;
Verizon's first move with Yahoo is to ditch 2,100 jobs;
Other news
How a 'shadow' network aided Donald Trump's rise to power; How G.O.P. Leaders Came to View Climate Change as Fake Science;
Unsealed 75 years after the Battle of Midway: New details of an alarming WWII press leak;
America's No. 1 song isn't in English. That doesn't happen often;
Education:
Does State Support Have 'Weak' Connection to Tuition? Association Begs to Differ; Colleges Working To Address Widening Skills Gap;
Study: Undergraduate Students May Owe $722 Million In Overdraft Fees;
Indian Students Worry About Trump's Proposed H1-B Visa Changes, Anti-Immigrant Sentiment; 180 College and University Leaders Sign Pledge on Climate Change;
What One University Likes About a Standardized Test of Student Learning;
Lawmakers Grill DeVos on Budget Proposal; Former Koch Foundation Officer, a Critic of Title IX Guidance, Will Join Education Dept;
Deadline Approaching For Decision On Higher Education Rules; Education Dept. Gives Firm Hint at Rollback of Gainful-Employment Rule;
Jerry Falwell Jr. to lead a Trump education initiative; Trump Will Push Apprenticeships, Using Accreditation and Student Aid;
For-Profit College Stocks Up Sharply Since Trump's Election;
When Fraternities Go Underground, Problems Surface; Harvard Reportedly Rescinds Admissions Offers to 10 Over Facebook Posts;
Teaching History: Can a Single Course Jeopardize an Academic Department?
6/2/17
TechNews for the week: June 2; May 31;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
North Korea fires Scud-class ballistic missile, Japan protests; Missile Defense Test Succeeds, Pentagon Says, Amid Tensions With North Korea;
U.S.-aided Iraqi forces begin assault on last Islamic State strongholds in western Mosul; U.S. Begins Arming Syrian Kurds for Final Assault on Raqqa;
Europe can no longer rely on 'others,' Merkel says after Trump's visit; Germans wonder why Trump keeps lashing out at them and not Russia or Saudi Arabia;
Merkel, After Discordant G-7 Meeting, Is Looking Past Trump;
Massive blast in the heart of Kabul's diplomatic quarter kills scores; Taliban Target: Scholars of Islam;
As Iran and U.S. Leaders Trade Barbs, Big Deals Proceed;
Trump Raged at Palestinian Leader In Bethlehem Meeting: 'You Lied To Me'; Abbas 'admits Donald Trump yelled at him' in West Bank talks;
Trump will not move U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem for now;
This fringe populist party won big with Brexit. Now it's falling apart;
Trump announces U.S. will exit Paris climate deal; Trump's climate deal decision alarms leaders worldwide; Explanation for Paris exit is based on spurious claims;
Paris withdrawal is the visceral expression of Trump's worldview; These titans of industry just broke with Trump's decision to exit the Paris accords;
Trump returns from foreign trip to familiar role: Tweeter in chief;
A guide to the five major investigations of the Trump campaign's possible ties to Russia;
Trump son-in-law had undisclosed contacts with Russian envoy; Explanations for Kushner's meeting with head of Kremlin-linked bank don't match up;
Russian Once Tied to Trump Aide Seeks Immunity to Cooperate With Congress; Flynn to hand over documents in response to Senate panel's subpoena;
Senate Intelligence Committee requests all Trump campaign documents dating to June 2015;
White House Backs Down on Keeping Ethics Waivers Secret; White House Waivers May Have Violated Ethics Rules;
White House grants ethics waivers to 17 appointees, including four former lobbyists;
Tillerson declines to host Ramadan event at State Department: sources;
There's a $2 trillion mystery in the middle of Donald Trump's budget;
Appeals court says essentially that Trump is not to be believed. Will the Supreme Court reach the same conclusion? Trump turns to Supreme Court for travel ban;
Trump calls for more spending on health care so it's 'the best anywhere,' but he just proposed big cuts;
Trump's Proposed Budget Cuts Trouble Bioterrorism Experts;
Trump demands brevity when he consumes top-secret intelligence;
The fake news is coming from inside the White House; Dubke resigns as White House communications director;
Trump: Change Senate rules 'immediately' to pass GOP plans;
Trump moves to return Russian compounds that Obama ordered vacated punitively;
Conservative Heritage Foundation wants to use public money to fund private education for 800,000 military kids;
U.S. Supreme Court to hear Ohio's bid to revive voter purge policy;
Math, science and technology:
Security issues
Ransomware and the NSA; The Dark, Terrifying World of Hackers; Who Are the Shadow Brokers; Tainted Leaks;
US official considers laptop ban on all international flights; New U.S. Visa Questionnaire Asks for Social Media Handles;
Putin Suggests Independent Hackers May Have Played Election Role; FBI Probes Attempted Overseas Cyberattack Against Trump Organization;
The FBI Phished A Cop With Poisoned Microsoft Docs; White House identifies three leakers of classified information;
Security Experts Ponder 'Attribution Problem' in Blame for Cyber Attacks;
Post-Quantum RSA;
Math and science
A 3.3 million-year-old toddler offers scientists a window into evolution; DNA from ancient Egyptian mummies reveals their ancestry;
Scientists detect gravitational waves from black holes colliding 3 billion light-years from Earth; NASA Announces Parker Solar Probe Mission To Visit Sun;
Apple Aiming To Expand Chip Development; Intel reveals its most powerful PC chip yet;
Research Team Develops Graphene Sieve That Could Make Sea Water Drinkable;
Web and computing issues
Is China Outsmarting America in A.I.?
"Trolley Problem" Facing Robocars Already Solved By Lawyers;
How Twitter Is Being Gamed to Feed Misinformation; How Trump and the GOP-led Congress swiftly dismantled Internet privacy rules;
Raspberry Pi's tiny but beefy rival: UP Core can run full Windows 10;
13 Books Technology Executives Should Have On Their Shelves;
SC News and Politics
18 downtown restaurants have closed so far this year;
Finance and Economics
U.S. job market falters in May, adding just 138,000 jobs; Trump Targets German Trade, and the South Grimaces;
As Americans take their time paying taxes, government is running out of cash; The ultra-rich are hiding way more money overseas than anyone realized;
Drug Lobbyists' Battle Cry Over Prices: Blame the Others; Once considered the titans of Wall Street, hedge fund managers are in trouble;
How a Supreme Court ruling on printer cartridges changes what it means to buy almost anything;
White House Acts to Roll Back Birth-Control Mandate for Religious Employers;
Seven Railroads Will Not Meet Extended Congressional Deadline For PTC Implementation;
US Considers "Safeguard" Tariffs On Imported Solar Cells;
Only Nebraska Increased Electricity From Coal In Last Decade; New England's Last Coal-Powered Plant Shutting Down;
DOE Approves First Floating LNG Terminal In Gulf;
Other news
Do voter ID laws help or hurt voter turnout?
The Death Knell for America's Global Leadership;
Education:
Think State Budget Cuts Explain Tuition Hikes? Not So Fast, Says One Researcher; Community Colleges In US Face Declining Enrollment And Tightening Budgets;
A scathing resignation memo from the top US student aid official reveals a Trump proposal that may delegitimize the Department of Education;
With state budget in crisis, many Oklahoma schools hold classes just four days a week; Nearly 200 D.C. Public Schools teachers have quit their jobs since the school year began;
Impact Of Moving Student Loan Office To Treasury Explored; Students Were Promised Loan Forgiveness. Under Trump, They Wait and Worry;
Trump's Budget Threatens to Reverse Years of Efforts to Boost Young Scientists;
The Good, Bad, and Ugly of Student Evaluations;
University of California Will No Longer Pay for Regents' Dinners and Parties; Northern Illinois U. Used Adjunct-Hiring Policies to Give Consultants Sweetheart Deals;
Princeton U. Professor Cancels Lectures After Fox News Labels Her as Anti-Trump;
How Colleges Can Curb Hazing;