Car calls 911 after alleged hit-and-run, driver arrested →

A driver allegedly involved in two hit-and-run incidents was tracked down after her car alerted the police.
As reported by local news outlets, an unusual 911 call to emergency services took place on Friday in Port St. Lucie, Florida. You would usually expect a human voice on the end of the line, but in this scenario, a Ford vehicle alerted the police to a collision.
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The car's safety features, used by by Ford, BMW and other automakers, make use of sensors and Internet connectivity to shave down the time emergency responders take to get to the scene of an accident.

Will the Paris Climate Agreement Save the World? →

For a quick peak at what's been happening in France:

The Paris conference is in its final hours. France pushed the deadline for a new—potentially final—draft text to Saturday morning, and if all goes well, countries could adopt it later in the day. Jonathan M. Katz, reporting for the New Republic in Paris, breaks down who wants what in the final deal.
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Until then, here’s our progress report on COP21. Blue bars indicate progress toward the goals, compared to yesterday, red bars indicate backward momentum, and gray bars indicate no change:...

I am a Muslim. But Trump’s views appall me because I am an American. →

In his diaries from the 1930s, Victor Klemperer describes how he, a secular, thoroughly assimilated German Jew, despised Hitler. But he tried to convince people that he did so as a German; that it was his German identity that made him see Nazism as a travesty. In the end, alas, he was seen solely as a Jew.
This is the real danger of Trump’s rhetoric: It forces people who want to assimilate, who see themselves as having multiple identities, into a single box. The effects of his rhetoric have already poisoned the atmosphere. Muslim Americans are more fearful and will isolate themselves more. The broader community will know them less and trust them less. A downward spiral of segregation will set in.
The tragedy is that, unlike in Europe, Muslims in the United States are by and large well-assimilated. I remember talking to a Moroccan immigrant in Norway last year who had a brother in New York. I asked him how their experiences differed. He said, “Over here, I’ll always be a Muslim, or a Moroccan, but my brother is already an American.”

A pillar of medical treatment is under threat →

When you’re sick, you expect the medicine a doctor gives you to work. But the effectiveness of one of the most important types of drugs — antibiotics — is under threat.
In the United States alone, there are 2 million antibiotic resistant infections causing 23,000 deaths each year. You say that you never get sick, so this isn’t your problem. But what if I told you that antibiotics make modern medicine possible, including surgery, cancer treatment and organ transplants? Half of men and a third of women will get cancer in their lifetimes. Many treatments for cancer weaken the immune system, putting you at risk for infection.
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Doctors are a big part of the problem. We’re prescribing broader and broader big gun antibiotics, and this creates stronger evolutionary pressure on bugs to mutate and become resistant, mostly because we aren’t sure what we’re treating. We figure that if we cover all our bases, we won’t go wrong. Better diagnostic tests that were quick, easy and work well would make us feel more confident we haven’t missed something.

Chicago mayor 'welcomes' US Justice Department inquiry into police practices →

Beleaguered Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel said on Monday that he “welcomed” the Justice Department’s investigation into his city’s police practices, hours after it was announced by the attorney general, Loretta Lynch.
The pressure from Washington comes amid calls for his resignation following the release of dashcam footage that showed a white Chicago police officer fatally shooting a black teenager, Laquan McDonald, 17.
Earlier on Monday, Lynch launched the federal investigation into whether the city’s police department was guilty of a pattern of deadly violence against the African American community. She said the inquiry – initially resisted by Emanuel – would proceed with or without cooperation from the city, which has alreadysacked its police superintendent, Garry McCarthy.
The announcement of the sweeping DoJ investigation came after similar responses to police killings in Ferguson, Baltimore and New York. That prompted Lynch to issue a rare warning about the danger of collapsing trust in policing.
“When suspicion and hostility is allowed to fester, it can erupt into unrest,” said the attorney general during a press conference to unveil the latest so-called “pattern and practice” investigation.

Pfizer and Allergan to merge in $160 billion inversion →

Pfizer and Allergan on Monday morning announced they would merge in a massive, $160 billion deal that will create the world's largest drugmaker, producing treatments as varied as Lipitor and Botox.
The deal is structured as a reverse merger, with smaller Dublin-based Allergan buying New York-based Pfizer, and it is likely to renew concerns over "inversions," where U.S. companies are bought by or merge with foreign firms in order to reduce U.S. corporate tax burdens. In a press release, Pfizer said the combined company would generate more than $2 billion in savings over the first three years and would enjoy a tax rate of 17 to 18 percent -- far less than Pfizer's current corporate tax rate of 25 percent.
Just days ago, the U.S. Treasury Department issued rules seeking to crack down on these types of deals, which President Obama has labeled "unpatriotic."

NSA Collected Americans' E-mails Even After it Stopped Collecting Americans' E-mails →

In 2001, the Bush administration authorized -- almost certainly illegally -- the NSA to conduct bulk electronic surveillance on Americans: phone calls, e-mails, financial information, and so on. We learned a lot about the bulk phone metadata collection program from the documents provided by Edward Snowden, and it was the focus of debate surrounding the USA FREEDOM Act. E-mail metadata surveillance, however, wasn't part of that law. We learned the name of the program -- STELLAR WIND -- when it was leaked in 2004. But supposedly the NSA stopped collecting that data in 2011, because itwasn't cost-effective.
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When Turner said that in 2013, we knew from the Snowden documents that the NSA was still collecting some Americans' Internet metadata from communications links between the US and abroad. Now we have more proof. It turns out that the NSA never stopped collecting e-mail metadata on Americans. They just cancelled one particular program and changed the legal authority under which they collected it.