“More than half the states in the country have legalized medical marijuana, but some hospitals still bar users from life-saving organ transplants. The policy delayed the late Riley Hancey’s lung transplant for months.”
Read more: https://www.buzzfeed.com/alysonmartin/smoking-pot-can-get-you-kicked-off-transplant-lists-even-in
“A dad returning from Mexico with his 3-year-old daughter was briefly detained on suspicion that he was engaged in sex trafficking. (And not to pile on, but it was a United flight.) Despite papa having her passport, his passport, and a notarized letter from the mom saying that she gave them her permission to travel, the authorities felt compelled to act upon a ‘tip’—a tip that was nothing more than a passenger’s hysteria-fueled hunch that 3-year-olds are being trafficked right and left in the USA.”
Read more: http://reason.com/blog/2017/04/19/dad-and-daughter-hauled-off-plane-becaus
“70% of millennials in China and 46% of Mexican millennials own a home versus 35% of young adults in the U.S. Young people in China are benefiting from wage growth that is projected to outpace the rate of home price appreciation set last year. And the U.S. doesn’t just fall behind China — France (41%) also came out ahead. In the United Arab Emirates, only 26% of millennials own a home, and Australia does only slightly better at 28%. (The average millennial U.S. homeownership rate in a separate WalletHub study rested around 40%.)”
“Online stock trading app Robinhood, whose core demographic has an average age of 30, says that Thursday was its biggest day ever, and that 43% of all its traders that day went for Snap stock. ‘Snap’s IPO revitalized investing among the younger generation,’ notes Baiju Bhatt, the co-founder of Robinhood. ‘We also saw a surge in new accounts, with many new customers opening up their first brokerage account.’ The median age of Robinhood investors buying Snap on Robinhood has been 26, the same age as Snap CEO Evan Spiegel.”
“Meet Isaac Morehouse, founder of the apprenticeship program, the Praxis, built on the belief that college degrees are less valuable than work experience. He tells Tucker how he helps people who don’t go to college with apprenticeships.”
“A finalist in the U.S. State Department’s Science & Technology competition and the first software developer at Konga, Nigeria’s largest e-commerce site, Celestine was flying to New York from Lagos to work with one of Andela’s partner companies. While it had been a long trip, things had gone fairly smoothly. When Celestine got to customs, however, that all changed. Although he had complied with all visa and immigration protocols, he was brought into a small room where he was told he didn’t look like a software engineer and was asked to take a coding exam — after 23 hours of travel — to prove it. Upon his release three hours later, Celestine tweeted about his ordeal of trying to enter the U.S. as an African engineer.”
Read more: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-engineer-looks-like-jeremy-johnson
“The move to target children signals Duterte’s determination to intensify his drug war, which faces outrage abroad and growing unease at home. National police chief Ronald Dela Rosa recently announced that he was suspending anti-narcotics operations, which have killed more than 2,500 people, while the force rids itself of corrupt cops. The announcement came after it emerged last month that drug squad officers had killed a South Korean businessman at national police headquarters. Duterte has signaled he intends to continue his drug war. In late January, he said the campaign would run until his presidency ends in 2022.”
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-philippines-drugs-children-insight-idUSKBN15T1NB
“In a separate protest in the northern city of Thessaloniki, protesters burned a U.S. flag. The visit comes only two days before the anniversary of a bloody 1973 student revolt that helped topple the 1967-1974 military junta which was backed by the U.S. government. Obama, who will be succeeded in January by Donald Trump, arrived in Greece on Tuesday on his last foreign tour as president of the United States.”
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-greece-obama-protests-idUSKBN13A2DT
“Hillary Clinton’s support for a female draft is sparking outrage as she continues to fuel war tensions with Russia. Clinton initially backed requiring women to register for the draft back in June, but the backlash really exploded as Clinton started taunting Russia after the last presidential debate. The Twitter hashtag #DraftOurDaughters is trending, with memes mocking Hillary’s ‘total war’ policies which could easily ignite World War 3.”
http://www.infowars.com/draftourdaughters-pro-war-hillary-faces-backlash-over-female-draft/
“Dubbed as ‘the world’s first robot lawyer’ by its 19-year-old creator, London-born second-year Stanford University student Joshua Browder, DoNotPay helps users contest parking tickets in an easy to use chat-like interface. The program first works out whether an appeal is possible through a series of simple questions, such as were there clearly visible parking signs, and then guides users through the appeals process. The results speak for themselves. In the 21 months since the free service was launched in London and now New York, Browder says DoNotPay has taken on 250,000 cases and won 160,000, giving it a success rate of 64% appealing over $4m of parking tickets.”