In Other News Today...

What is going on while everyone is distracted by main-stream news.

• Protesters Gather in 100 Cities Across Russia; Top Putin Critic Is Arrested
• Carmen Carrera Has a Message for Brazil and Betsy DeVos
• The Government Is 'Incidentally' Sucking up Tens of Millions of Americans’ Communications a Year, And It’s a Privacy Nightmare
• The Senate Just Sold Out Your Privacy Online to Corporations Like Comcast
• The Evidence That Russia Hacked the DNC Is Collapsing
• Rules Are for Schmucks: The Censored UN Report
• Trump Insults the Media, but Bush Bullied and Defanged It to Sell the Iraq War
• PRUITT EMAILS REVEAL COMMUNICATIONS WITH ALEC AND KOCH GROUPS
• Military Experts Issue a Warning Climate Skeptics Won't Want to Hear
• The Brad Blog Sunday TOONS!
• The public favors cutting defense spending, not adding billions more, new survey finds
• Trump Budget Horrifies Majority of Voters, Poll Finds
• Psychedelic DMT Experience Now Legal In US; First Ayahuasca Retreat Opens In Washington State
• Global Coal in Freefall, Tar Sands Development Drying Up (Bad News for Keystone XL)
• With No Proof, Rep. Gowdy Defends Nunes' Wacky White House Excursion
• Steve Bannon Is Cleaning House. He Posted A "S*it List" In WH War Room; And Paul Ryan Is Toast.
• Dark Data: Trump Backers Bankroll Firm Developing Psychological Profiles of Every U.S. Voter
• Dark Money Billionaires Push for Pro-Nuclear Radiation Climate Denier for White House Science Post
• Jane Mayer on Robert Mercer & the Dark Money Behind Trump and Bannon
• Bernie Sanders Storms CNN And Stops A Lie About Democrats Dead In Its Tracks
• Repealing prevailing wage laws hurts construction workers
• USDA Drops Plan to Test for Monsanto Weed Killer in Food
• Introducing Ask SciCheck
• Dan Goldberg on Neil Gorsuch, Marianne Lavelle on Climate Change Denial
• Tainted soy butter spurs recalls one by one; FDA remains mum
• Who gets XL Pipeline Bonanza? Koch
• Data Shows You Are More Likely To Be Shot In A Republican State
• Following Dramatic Drop In Coverage, U.S. Senators Condemn Irresponsible Lack Of Climate Change Coverage
• Alex Jones Apologizes for Pizzagate: ‘I Made Comments About Mr. Alefantis That in Hindsight I Regret
• LGBTQ+ content is being restricted on YouTube. Queer youth need these videos to survive.
• Despite Ag Industry Efforts, First Bee Species Listed As Endangered
• A "Tidal Wave" of Overdoses is Filling Up This Morgue
• PizzaGate Believers Rally At White House After Alex Jones Apologizes For Spreading Theory
• Al Franken Should Stay Exactly Where He Is
• These Cities Are Pulling Billions From the Banks That Support the Dakota Access Pipeline
• Democrats Should Focus More on Jobs, Less on Russia
• “Massive” May Day strike begins to take shape
• Latest from Politifact.
• The Age of Mass Unemployment Is Nigh, and That’s Not the Worst of It
• Heritage Foundation Alum Critical of Transgender Rights to Lead HHS Civil Rights Office
• China Is Building a 100,000 Strong Marine Corps
• Iran sanctions 15 US companies over alleged backing of Israeli ‘atrocities’
• A SOCIALIST PLAN FOR GREEN JOBS
• WHEN SMALL GROUPS OF PEOPLE SHUT DOWN CONTROVERSIAL SPEAKERS ON CAMPUSES
• Kochs Bankroll Move to Rewrite the Constitution
• Ukrainian Ammo Depot Explodes — Authorities Suspect Foul Play [VIDEO]
• 'People aren't spending': stores close doors in 'oversaturated' US retail market
• Climate Catastrophe Is Here: 2016 Hottest Year on Record
• Trump Just SCREWED Millions Of Americans With Student Loan Debt [video]
• The Warring Kleptocrats
• The DLC Lives: "Third Way" Democrats Are Trying to Push the Party Rightward
• Monsanto collusion on glyphosate & cancer
• The law no one asked for: Students can now carry concealed guns on campus in Arkansas
• Who'll help Antarctica? Claimed by everyone, protected by no one
• China warns US strategic bomber in East China Sea
• GOP Senator Really Sorry He Made Fun Of Your Boob Cancer
• Is Bankruptcy For Illinois The Answer?
• "They're Baaack! And Why You Should Be Worried – Very Worried"

News not about Trump or Lochte

• Addicting Info
• Anti-Gay Conservative ‘Christian’ Group Gets OWNED By J.K. Rowling On Twitter
• The Advocate
• Attack of the Closeted Church Queens
• American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
• A South Carolina Student Was Arrested for ‘Disturbing a School’ When She Challenged Police Abuse, So We Sued
• AFL-CIO Now
• The Federal Reserve and Black Unemployment
• Anonymous
• NEWSChilean artist steals $500 million worth of student debt papers and destroys them
• Anti-Media
• FBI Just Found 15,000 More Emails From Hillary’s Private Server
• ALEC Exposed
• AARP To Drop ALEC after Members' Outcry
• Expedia Latest to Exit ALEC
• Alternet
• The Decline of Religion Is the GOP's Real Demographic Crisis 
• There's a Monster Loophole in the Feds' Move to Stop Working With Private Prisons
• Boiling Frogs Post
• Assault on Judicial Transparency: From 4th Amendment to Lengthy Pre-Trial Detention & One-Sided Plea Deals 
• The Center for Public Integrity
• America scrubs millions from the voter rolls. Is it fair?
• New Panama Papers series exposes secret deals in Africa
• Common Dreams
• Report Shows Whopping $8.8 Trillion Climate Tab Being Left for Next Generation
• Counter-Current News
• Dissecting The ‘Humanitarian’ Propaganda Driving US Intervention In Syria, Again
• Anonymous Takes 9 Central Banks Offline — Unleashes Massive Assault on ‘Global Banking Cartel’
• Counter-Punch
• Arctic Death Rattle
• Daily Kos
• Hey look, the GOP is drowning. Throw them an anvil, STAT!
• Democracy Now
• Thousands Protest U.S.-Backed Bombing Campaign in Yemen
• Democratic Underground
• 'Troubled Man' Alice Cooper launches White House bid
• Economic Policy Institute
• Teachers earn 17 percent less in wages than similar workers
• EcoWatch
• Is Eating a Raw Diet Healthy?
• Election Protection
• Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel
• Appeals court blocks voter ID changes
• (Basically a new tactic to confuse and disrupt voting: Tying up voting requirement changes in the judicial system.)
• Food Safety News
• BPI drops some defendants from ‘pink slime’ civil action
• 3 brands of frozen corn recalled in 15 states because of Listeria
• Hot Air
• Massachusetts moves to directly help taxi unions by taxing Uber
• Mic.
• The richest colleges and universities are incredibly stingy with their money
• Mint Press News
• (UPDATE) CIA Whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling Close To Death In Federal Prison
• Mother Jones
• These Sunscreens Could Actually Increase Your Risk of Getting Skin Cancer
• New Civil Rights Movement
• Anti-LGBT Think Tank's New 'Study' Says 'No Evidence' People Are Born Gay, or Trans Kids Are Real
• New Republic
• The Stolen War: How corruption and fraud created a failed state in Iraq—and led directly to the rise of ISIS.
• People's World
• OSHA fines Tyson 263k after faulty machine amputates worker’s finger
• The Progressive
• Author of Alarming Minimum Wage Study Has Alarming Alliances
• Pro-Publica
• Uncovering a $1 Billion Deal to Detain Unauthorized Immigrants
• Raw Story
• Judge sets aside rape charges for probation so ex-athlete can enjoy ‘a college experience’
• Jesus Wept!
• Real Clear Politics
• The Racist Roots of Welfare Reform
• https://www.reddit.com/r/news/
• Insulin price spike leaves diabetes patients in crisis
• Ring of Fire Network
• How to Change Our Pathetic Green Infrastructure – The Big Picture
• Salon
• Federal judge in Texas blocks President Obama’s new trangender policy for schools
• Shadowproof
• Appeals Court: Prisoners Have ‘Liberty Interest’ In Not Being Put In Secretive Prison Units
• The Daily Caller
•  Media Blackout On The Massive Soros Email Leak 
• The Real News Network
• Time is Running Out - Help Us Expose the Koch Brothers' War on Climate Science
• Think Progress
• The Troubling Disparities Plaguing America’s National Parks
• True Activist
• Ingenious First Aid Blanket Is Covered With Instructions To Save Lives
• Truthdig
• The Idea of Peace in the Quran
• Truthout
• No Way to Call Home: Incarcerated Deaf People Are Locked in a Prison Inside a Prison
• U.S. Right To Know
• There are too many important articles to just single out one.
• U.S. Uncut
• Chicago Police Kill Teen — Then Charge His Best Friend for the Murder
• Wonkette
• Texas Defunding Of Planned Parenthood Improving Women’s Health By Killing Them
• Zero Hedge
• Merkel Accused Of "Fearmongering" After Telling Germans To Stockpile Food "In Case Of Catastrophe"
• When rhetoric becomes more desperate it may indicate instability.

I skipped over many sources because they were too full of Trump or whatever. I try to find news you can use but it's tough. Click here for my full list of sources.