Chicago Parents On Hunger Strike, Edward Snowden Talks Hillary Clinton's Email Scandal & More September 4, 2015 Chatter
TGIF, kiddies!!!
To kick off your Labor Day weekend, here's your Enstars Rundown, a briefing of news and pop culture happening from around the world, for the day.
Parents and protesters in Chicago are on a hunger strike in reaction to it the city's plan for a troubled high school that was closed due poor student performance last year. The strikers have reportedly gone 18 days without food as an act of protest against what they see as a disparity in the public education options for poor Chicagoans.
NSA leaker Edward Snowden has some thoughts on Hillary Clinton's email scandal -- mainly that it's "completely ridiculous" to think that her private server was secure and that if she was "an ordinary worker at the State Department or the CIA" then she would have lost her job.
If you haven't heard, Europe is the in middle of a refugee crisis, as thousands of people fleeing the Syrian civil war and ISIS in Iraq desperately try to make their way to the west through dangerous and illegal routes. And one image of dead child has galvanized Europeans to the issue.
Residents and businesses in Salisbury, N.C. can now signup for 10 gigabytes of high speed internet (which is A LOT) provided by the city. It's part of a growing trend of municipalities around the country forming their own internet service providers due to the lack high speed quality internet available from private cable and telecommunications company.
Listen to this: Novelist Joanathan Franzen was on NPR's Fresh Air on Tuesday promoting his new novel Purity and talked about secrecy and privacy in the digital age, the act of revealing himself as a writer and how he almost adopted an orphan from Iraq.
William Smith, Jr and James Yates became the first gay couple to get a marriage license in Rowan County, Ky. today. The County Clerk Kim Davis had previously refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples despite the Supreme Court's ruling and federal orders, but a judge jailed Davis yesterday for her policy and her office has begun issuing licenses to gay couples. Meanwhile, Davis' husband spoke to reporters, saying that his wife's spirits were holding up in jail and should hold out for "as long as it takes"...all while hold a sign reading "Welcome to Sodom and Gomorrah."
A police officer in Mills, Mass., a town about 25 miles southwest of Boston has been fired and will be charged with crimes resulting from fabricating a story of being the target of shooting while on duty. It's believed the officer, who was part-time and training for fulltime status, shot and crashed his own cruiser and then claimed an assailant fired on him, sparking an intensive manhunt.
Watch This: Bloomberg Business has a video profile of the last audio cassette factory in the world.
