Stingray surveillance systems have been detected near White House and other capitol locations, are they hacking our Dear Tweeter’s smartphone?...--read the report here
--departing from historic practices, again, Trump tweets about job growth before numbers are released
--Trump officially un-cancels Singapore summit with Kim Jong-un
--Trump’s trade war with allies angers Europeans, and likely concessions will come with bitter feelings
--Spain replaces conservative prime minster with socialist
--Italy forms new right wing populist government
--in Syria, Assad tells US to get out
--European human rights court finds Lithuania and Romania complicit in America’s rendition and torture regimes under Bush
--in new, in-depth interview, authors Stephen Vittoria and Mumia Abu Jamal talk about Murder, Incorporated an alt history of the US
--following employee protests, Google will not pursue Maven, the Pentagon program to use AI for drone targeting
--at Facebook annual meeting, Zuckerberg faces critics who have no power to remove him, due to the lopsided voting rights of the founder
--2 journalists—one American and one Pakistani—sue to be taken off the secret US “kill list”, reports Prof. Marjorie Cohn
--Iowa’s unconstitutional abortion law is blocked by federal judge
--despite Trump’s policies of zero tolerance and family splitting, March and April each had more than 50,000 arrests at border
--while Trump complains about negative media coverage, a Jeb Bush ally argues that media are too easy on 45
--California’s primary is next Tuesday, and self-funding Dems have dumped $16 million into 3 House contests
--The Intercept obtains copy of phishing email alleged to be from Russians trying to hack into voting systems
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