Egypt Jails Journalists for World Press Freedom Day

Ayah Aman Al-Monitor
On May 1, just two days before World Press Freedom Day, Egyptian police raided the offices of the Press Syndicate in Cairo and arrested two journalists, sparking mass demonstrations against Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s escalating attacks on the media. On April 25, 46 journalists were arrested for covering the mass demonstrations throughout Egypt against the al-Sisi regime’s decision to cede the Egyptian islands of Tiran and Sanafir to Saudi Arabia.

Friday Nite Videos -- May 6, 2016

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Trump Becomes the Nominee. Ravel's Bolero in Mexico. John Oliver: Cicadas. Georgetown University's Legacy of Slavery. Donald Trump: Nomination of a Birther.

Trump Becomes the Nominee

Seth Meyers takes a closer look at how Donald Trump became the presumptive GOP presidential nominee.

Ravel's Bolero in Mexico

Flash Mob performs Bolero in the town square of Toluca, Mexico. Performed by the Toluca Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Gerardo Urbán y Fernandez.

John Oliver: Cicadas

Billions of cicadas will soon emerge after spending 17 years underground. John Oliver fills them in on what's happened since 1999.

The GOP Now Belongs to Trump. What Are Republicans Going to Do About It?

Eugene Robinson The Washington Post
Republican elected officials and party leaders do not have time for retrospective contemplation. They have a decision to make. The party belongs to Trump now, just as Rome belonged to the barbarians, and GOP politicians have to decide whether to fall in line or take up arms against the new order.

Why “#BernieorBust” Is A Dead End

Ricardo Ochoa Medium.com
Does anybody truly believe that, had Sanders run as an independent, he would have made such a large political impact on this race? By running as a Democrat, Sanders has advanced progressive politics at the national level far more effectively than has Jill Stein, or even Ralph Nader. There is a lesson there.

Tiny Tests Seek the Universe’s Big Mysteries

Joshua Sokol Quanta Magazine
Huge supercolliders aren’t the only way to search for new physical phenomena. A new generation of experiments that can fit on a tabletop are probing the nature of dark matter and dark energy and searching for evidence of extra dimensions.