Police chiefs in Dallas and Atlanta walked their cities' streets and talked directly with protesters, as demonstrations broke out over the death of George Floyd ~news usa.tx.dallas usa.ga.atlanta Article 346 words 4 votes
SpaceX Starship prototype SN4 destroyed in spectacular fashion after static-fire test ~space Article 375 words 9 votes
Sweden football coach Janne Andersson has signed a contract extension through to UEFA Euro 2024 ~sports.football Article 140 words 6 votes
Coronavirus patients flood hospitals in Indonesia's second-largest city ~health healthcare Article 345 words 5 votes
Australia's High Court decides 'Palace letters' written during the Whitlam dismissal can be accessed by historian Jenny Hocking ~news australia politics Article 390 words 6 votes
Claire Foy and Matt Smith to star in socially distanced live-streamed 'Lungs' at empty Old Vic ~arts theatre Article 208 words 6 votes
A group of Copenhagen residents sued the Danish government Wednesday over legislation that authorized dismantling neighborhoods designated as ghettos ~society Article 363 words 5 votes
Greta Thunberg scolds Danes for dumping wastewater – thirty-five billion liters of unfiltered sewer water have been pumped into the Oresund Strait since 2014 ~enviro pollution.water water.waste Article 226 words 10 votes
It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia now longest-running live-action comedy series ever after season fifteen renewal ~tv Link 10 votes
Boris Johnson's approval rating plunges twenty points in four days amid Dominic Cummings scandal ~news united kingdom politics Article 290 words 11 votes
Jimmy Cobb, drummer on Miles Davis's Kind of Blue, dies aged 91 ~music jazz Article 360 words 5 votes
A No. 1 hit vanished from Poland’s charts. It’s not going quietly ~music Article 318 words, published May 22 2020 14 votes
New Zealand opposition leader ousted as PM Ardern's popularity soars ~news new zealand politics Article 309 words, published May 22 2020 12 votes
'Highly unlikely' we'll return to lockdown, Australian Health Minister says ~health Article 144 words 7 votes
Taiwan will provide the people of Hong Kong with “necessary assistance”, after a resurgence in protests against newly proposed national security legislation from Beijing ~society politics Article 296 words 10 votes
The failure of meritocracy (Sam Harris & Daniel Markovits) ~society politics Article 243 words 6 votes
More than forty diagnosed with COVID-19 after Frankfurt church service ~health Article 172 words 8 votes
Pastor who claimed to cure coronavirus with faith dies of coronavirus ~health Article 264 words 12 votes
Brazil's Supreme Court releases video of Bolsonaro discussing replacing security officials ~news politics Article 337 words 9 votes
Norway terror attack – prosecutors demand twenty-one year jail sentence for mosque shooting ~news norway.oslo crime Article 317 words 6 votes
China drops word 'peaceful' in latest push for Taiwan 'reunification' ~news china taiwan politics Article 375 words 10 votes
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has instructed civil servants to make plans to end UK's reliance on China for vital medical supplies and other strategic imports ~news united kingdom china politics Article 187 words 8 votes
The Joe Rogan Experience podcast will be exclusive to Spotify later this year, with a multi-year deal ~tech Article 298 words 17 votes
Colombia's FARC rebels agreed to peace — but they're still being killed: “The peace process is just a facade.” ~news colombia politics Article 300 words 5 votes
Johnson & Johnson to stop selling baby powder in US and Canada after tens of thousands of lawsuits from consumers claiming its talc products, including Johnson’s Baby Powder, caused their cancer ~science chemistry medicine Article 374 words 10 votes
America’s only public bank, the Bank of North Dakota, is number one in saving small businesses ~finance banking economics business.small Article 334 words 10 votes
Introducing Signal PINs: A method of storing some account data (profile, settings, etc.) securely on Signal servers in case you lose or switch devices ~tech privacy Article 386 words 16 votes
How fast are people returning to pre-COVID lifestyles? ~health Article 325 words, published May 11 2020 3 votes
Sweden suffers one of its strongest earthquakes at an Arctic iron ore mine – quake measured magnitude 4.1 and forced the mine to close ~enviro Article 331 words 8 votes
The need for software testing: Neil Ferguson's unstable epidemiologic model ~tech Article 319 words 10 votes
Apple Store's temperature checks may violate EU privacy rules, says German data protection office ~tech apple privacy Article 217 words 5 votes
Two Rohingya refugees have tested positive for coronavirus in the world's largest refugee camp in Bangladesh ~health Article 371 words 8 votes
A first look at Unreal Engine 5, including a real-time demo running on PS5 ~games Article 299 words 32 votes
Ohio has stopped kicking workers off unemployment after a hacker targeted its website ~life work Article 314 words 12 votes
A hacker is trying to break Ohio’s tool for reporting workers who quit during the pandemic ~tech Article 339 words, published May 8 2020 23 votes