Criminal Fear; Police Use Twitter, Too; Tearing Down Gandhi; Russin' War Crimes; Duterte Doesn't Need You; Nuclear. Activity. Again.; Great Balls of Fire; Growing Food in Space; North Star Moon Shot; and the AI's in the Details

Society

In Fear of Public Scrutiny, Chicago Officer Didn’t Use Gun While She Was Beaten ktla v

While wrestling on the ground, the the man allegedly grabbed the officer's head and slammed her face into the pavement repeatedly until she lost consciousness, [the superintendent] said.

Mosque Replaces Synagogue; The FBI's Coming Power; When 'None' are the Majority; No Roundabout Peace; Brain-ictionary; Penciled in Woman Draft; Hubble's Golden Replacement; Avatar Driver

French Jews

Marseille Synagogue Becomes Mosque, French Muslims Want Churches Converted As Well jewishpress

Zvi Ammar, President of the Marseille Israelite Consistory, said the move was positive. “For the past 20 years or so we have seen the shift of the Jewish community to other neighborhoods,” he said, adding, “We all have the same God, the main thing is for this to proceed in harmony.”

Sealing the UN Deal; Earth Day Passover; Slaughtering the Type; World To Meet on 2-State (Parties Not Invited); Israel's Red Line in the Sand; Hail to the (Chinese) Chief; China Deploys Troops to NK Border; South Seas Intercontinental Missile Test; Lights Out, Venezula; Aussies Pride-Fund; O Canabis!; Gender-Neutral In LA; 3D 'Iceman' Rises; Mice Livers go Bad in Space; Hubble Bubble; Augmentation Suit; and Real Fake Studymates

Today's major items include Israel telling Russia that the Golan Heights is their 'red line' and France calling a summit on restarting the 2-state 'peace' process without inviting either Israel or the Palestinians. We've also got China preparing for NK's next nuclear test while they flex some muscle of their own with an intercontinental missile test. Oh, and mouse livers going bad in space :)

Climate Change

Milestone events at UN to kick-start action on new sustainability goals, climate pact un.org

“From a historical perspective, this will be a great day for the United Nations,” Selwin Hart, the Director of the UN Secretary-General’s Climate Change Support Team, recently said in reference to this coming Friday, when leaders from more than 160 countries are expected at UN Headquarters to sign the Paris Agreement, adopted last December at the UN climate change conference (COP21).