May 13, 2016

• White House directs all US public schools to accommodate trans students' gender identities.
• Seven months after promising to relocate 10,000 Syrian refugees, America has settled under 2,000.
• Global urban air pollution is worsening, and most cities in developing countries fall far shy of WHO air quality standards.
• EPA announces first-ever regulations on methane emissions by the oil and gas industry.
• People in low-income rural areas are five times more likely to not have access to high-speed internet, creating a massive information gap.
• The FBI won't say whether or not it's wiretapping your Amazon Echo.
• The algorithm doesn't determine Facebook's trending topics, which means…something.
• Facebook Live is turning journalists into the cast of Jackass.
• Colombian government frightened that the US will rescind funding for peace talks to protect Big Pharma profits.
• A quarter of a million Big Poultry assembly line workers are routinely denied bathroom breaks.
• More than 6,500 US mail carriers were bitten by dogs last year.
• A writer discovers the unpleasantries of becoming a US mail carrier, including threats, lies, and dog attacks.
• What we would potentially learn from looking at Trump's tax returns, by someone who's seen them and can't talk.
• Realistic digital renderings of bicycles drawn by people from memory.