MARKET CHAOS: GENERAL MILLS STOCK PLUMMETS ON "TINY TOAST" ANNOUNCEMENT

Sam Biddle · 06/06/16 12:13PM

NEW YORK - Wall Street is roundly rejecting news out of General Mills (GIS) indicating that it will roll out “Tiny Toast,” its first new cereal product in 15 years, later this month. The cereal bowl shockwave could have destabilizing effects throughout the global breakfast economy.

Alex Jones: Trump University Judge Is Basically a Hispanic KKK Leader

Ashley Feinberg · 06/06/16 10:25AM

Alex Jones’s paranoid rantings have always been fun, sure, but they never really held any real world significance. Now that our presumptive Republican nominee gets a good portion of his news from Jones and others like him, though, it actually matters when these radio crackpots say things like, oh, “this [Trump University] judge is the equivalent of a Hispanic grand dragon,” for instance.

Thousands of Local Law Enforcement Agencies Have Failed to File Hate Crime Reports to the FBI for the Past Six Years

Brendan O'Connor · 06/06/16 10:05AM

There are an estimated 250,000 hate crimes a year, but you wouldn’t know it to look at city statistics. According to an Associated Press investigation, about 17 percent of all city and county law enforcement agencies across the country have not submitted a single hate crime report to the FBI’s annual crime tally in the past six years. The majority of the more than 2,700 city police and county sheriff’s departments identified by the AP were located in small towns, but the list also included the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office, which represents Portland, Oregon, and departments in Birmingham, Alabama; Jackson, Mississippi; and Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Trump Deems Republican Criticism of His Attempts to Smear Federal Judge "Inappropriate"

Brendan O'Connor · 06/06/16 07:50AM

For months, Donald Trump has been attempting to discount as racist the federal judge overseeing two class-action lawsuits against Trump University. Former House speaker Newt Gingrich, who has otherwise been very supportive of Trump, called the presumptive Republican nominee’s most recent attacks on the judge “one of the worst mistakes Trump has made. I think it’s inexcusable.”

New York Governor Cuomo Orders Blacklist of Groups That Support Boycotting Israel 

Hannah Gold · 06/05/16 04:45PM

On Sunday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed an unprecedented executive order for agencies under his control to divest from companies and organizations aligned with the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement (B.D.S.), which puts economic and political pressure on Israel to end its occupation of Palestine. Cuomo announced the order at the Harvard Club in Manhattan, then marched in New York’s Celebrate Israel Parade.

Trump Doesn't Trust a Muslim Judge to Give Him a Fair Ruling Either 

Hannah Gold · 06/05/16 12:05PM

Donald Trump continues to expound upon which ethnic groups should be barred from adjudicating his Trump University class-action lawsuit. The presumptive GOP nominee stands accused of defrauding students of millions of dollars in what New York’s attorney general has flatly described as a “scam.” Trump denies any wrongdoing.

Documents Reveal Snowden Tried to Register Concerns About Surveillance With the NSA

Hannah Gold · 06/04/16 04:30PM

Documents obtained by Vice News through the Freedom of Information Act show that Edward Snowden tried to express his concerns about government surveillance to the NSA before handing over files to journalists. These revelations contradict federal agencies’ assertion that Snowden never went through “proper channels” to address concerns over the constitutionality of certain NSA practices.