Michael Cohen To Accuse Trump Of Criminal Activity: Reports – Once Trump’s right-hand man, Cohen has distanced himself from the president since pleading guilty to federal prosecutors last year. [huff]
Trump Arrives For Sensational Vietnam Summit As Kim Jong-Un Tours Hanoi – The paranoid leader was flanked by a swarm of bodyguards as he toured Vietnam in an armoured limo before Donald Trump jetted in. [newsau]
Dutch Customs Seize 90,000 Bottles Of Vodka Believed To Be For Kim Jong-Un – Authorities say investigations led to suspicions the haul was to be taken to Pyongyang. [guardian]
White House Press Corps Evicted From Hotel Ahead Of North Korea Summit – The forced move was highly unusual because the White House had approved of and supported the use of the space by media who cover the president. [nbc]
Black Cab Drivers Lose High Court Challenge Against Uber – The highest ranking judge in England and Wales dismissed the challenge that Uber’s license was issued by a “biased” judge. [sky]
Appeals Court Backs AT&T Acquisition Of Time Warner – An appeals court has rejected the Justice Department’s bid to overturn a ruling that cleared the way for AT&T’s acquisition of Time Warner. [cnn]
George Pell Returns To Court, Prosecutors Push For ‘Immediate’ Jail Sentence For Child Sex Abuse – George Pell’s lawyer has described his crimes as “no more than a plain vanilla sexual penetration case”, as the cardinal prepares to spend his first night in jail after withdrawing a last-ditch application for bail. [abc]
Robert Kraft Caught On Video Getting Handjob And Paying $100, Florida Authorities Say – Billionaire New England Patriots owner allegedly paid for sex hours before flying off to see his team play in a championship game. [beast]
SA: May 8 Officially Proclaimed Election Day – IEC – President Cyril Ramaphosa has officially proclaimed May 8 the date for the national and provincial elections, which means the voters’ roll closes at midnight, the Electoral Commission of SA (IEC) said on Tuesday. [n24]
TikTok Puts Facebook On Notice With 1 Billion Downloads – Love it or hate it, TikTok is turning into a force to be reckoned with. The video app, owned by Chinese company ByteDance, has now been downloaded more than one billion times around the world, according to new data from app analytics company Sensor Tower. [mash]
The Trauma Floor – The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America. [verge]
Selena Gomez Is No Longer Instagram’s Most Followed Woman – Selena Gomez lost an Instagram title today, although just barely. The singer has been dethroned as the platform’s most followed woman and second most followed user by Ariana Grande. Grande now has 146,258,213 followers to Gomez’s 146,257,849 followers as of press time: [elle]
‘Green Book’ Is The Worst Oscar Best Picture Winner Since ‘Crash,’ According To Movie Critics – When “Green Book” won the Oscar for best picture on Sunday, it immediately prompted backlash from film critics on the internet. It’s been 13 years since a worse-reviewed movie won the top prize at the Academy Awards. [busins]
Rami Malek Falls Off Stage After Oscar Win, Paramedics Called – Rami Malek took a tumble off the Oscars stage after accepting the Academy Award for best actor on Sunday night. [var]
Green Book Producer Sent Angry Emails To Critics Of The Film – Charles B Wessler, one of the Oscar-winning film’s producers, wrote to journalists at NBC and Vanity Fair in response to critical articles. [guardian]
Prince Harry Feigns Surprise At Meghan’s Pregnancy – Britain’s Prince Harry jokingly pretended to be shocked at his wife Meghan’s pregnancy, while visiting a girl’s school in Morocco. [cnn] Harry… always goofing around…
One Overlooked Way We Can Significantly Improve Our Mental Health: More Nature – Our mental health often feels like a mystery. A cheerful mood can inexplicably give way to sad or scary thoughts. Even though we might try to manage our emotional well-being through things like talk therapy, self-care apps, meditation, and medication, it’s easy to feel like contentment remains just beyond our grasp. [mash]
View From Inside Turbulent British Airways Plane Over Gibraltar – A BA plane travelling from London was unable to land at Gibraltar due to strong winds causing the plane to rock from side to side and had to divert to Malaga. [sky]
Why Food Could Be The Best Medicine Of All – Geisinger’s program is one of a number of groundbreaking efforts that finally consider food a critical part of a patient’s medical care–and treat food as medicine that can have as much power to heal as drugs. [time]
Martin Scorsese’s Risky Passion Project The Irishman Was Just Revealed [Trailer] – It’s quite possible you’ve heard about Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman. That’s because the film has been in development for nearly a decade, and, more notably, brings together a dream team of actors: Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro, and Joe Pesci. [esquire]
We Asked Actual Mafia Experts If Trump Is Really Acting Like A ‘Mob Boss’ – Comparing the president to a Mafia leader is almost a cliché at this point. Is it just a joke, or something more? [vice]
Lady Gaga Emerges In High Spirits After THAT Oscars Performance – While Bradley Cooper’s girlfriend Irina Shayk looks glum again amid claims of ‘tension’ [dm]
Katy Perry Recounts Orlando Bloom’s Suavely Clumsy Helicopter Proposal – In an era when outlandish proposals are in decline, the pop star has shared the klutzy—yet romantic—way Bloom popped the question. [vanfair] She says to me… get this, “hurry up, klutz”…
The Cirrus Life: Three Remarkable Days At The Cirrus Vision Center In Knoxville – How the Cirrus Life lets pilots use their airplanes to live a better, more fulfilled life. [flying]
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