Protests Continue, Delhi Bans Uber, Mark Wahlberg Wants Racially-Fueled Crimes Pardoned
Here's what I'm reading up on:
- Demonstrations continue nationwide to protest the death of black people at the hands of white police officers, including in Berkeley, Calif., where there have been confrontations between protestors and police.
- Two Los Angeles freeways are shut down following an enormous fire in Downtown L.A.
- The United States says it didn't know about plans to release a hostage from South Africa who was killed during a failed attempt to free a hostage from the U.S. in Yemen.
- Will the U.S. really end its war in Afghanistan?
- Uruguay receives four men from GITMO--four from Syria, one from Tunisia and one from Palestine--who were imprisoned for more than a decade but never so much as faced trial.
- From Leavenworth Prison, Chelsea Manning writes about how trans women--and trans women of color in particular--are routinely denied their rights.
- Delhi, India, bans Uber after a driver is accused of raping a customer.
- McDonald's numbers keeps slumping.
- North Korea, whose Kim Jong Un is the butt of the joke in an upcoming film, says hacking Sony was a "righteous deed," but denies doing it.
- Mark Wahlberg wants his criminal record wiped clean--including one of at least two times he beat people of color while yelling racial slurs at them--so that he can be a cop.
- Everything you ever wanted to know about Albert Einstein, free and online.