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1🏌🏾‍♂️Tiger Woods takes the Masters in a win for the ages

Tiger Woods completed a comeback from personal and professional adversity on Sunday, capturing his fifth Masters title and his 15th major tournament with a victory that snapped a decade-long championship drought and instantly returned him to the top of the sports world. It was a monumental triumph for Woods, a come-from-behind victory for a player who had had so much go wrong on the course and off after his personal life began to come apart on Thanksgiving night in 2009.

2🇷🇺 The Russians are screwing with the GPS system to send bogus navigation data to thousands of ships

The Russians are hacking the global navigation satellite system (GNSS) on a mass scale in order to confuse thousands of ships and airplanes about where they are, according to a study by Centre for Advanced Defense (C4AD). Law enforcement, shipping, airlines, power stations, your phone, and anything else dependent on GPS time and location synchronization, are vulnerable to GNSS hacking.

3Trump considers sending detained migrants to sanctuary cities

President Donald Trump said he’s considering releasing migrants apprehended at the U.S. southern border into so-called sanctuary cities — largely Democratic municipalities that prevent their police from cooperating with federal immigration authorities.

4🇸🇩 Sudan military stages coup and topples government

Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir has been ousted and arrested by the military after nearly 30 years in power. Speaking on state TV, defence minister Awad Ibn Auf said the army would oversee a two-year transitional period followed by elections. He also said a three-month state of emergency was being put in place. Sudan's intelligence service said it was freeing all political prisoners.

5☢️ Removal of Fukushima nuclear fuel rods from damaged reactor building begins

Workers at the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have begun removing fuel rods from a storage pool near one of the three reactors that suffered meltdowns eight years ago. The plant’s operator Tepco said the operation to remove the fuel rods, which are in uncovered pools, would take two years, adding that transferring them to safer ground would better protect them in the event of another catastrophic earthquake.
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