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Profile by Ian Parker @ NewYorker.com for Sept. 3 print issue, online now
A leftist journalist’s bruising crusade against establishment Democrats—and their Russia obsession.
Americans struggling with addiction need treatment and reduced access to deadly drugs. They do not need a taxpayer-sponsored haven to shoot up.
By Ana Swanson, Katie Rogers & Alan Rappeport @ NYTimes.com, updated 5 min. ago
By Lachlan Markay @ DailyBeast.com, Aug. 27
Hikvision could be barred from getting government contracts. It’s hoping an influx of lobbying muscle can clear things up.
Revolutions in what people ate, how they communicated, what they thought, and their relationship with the land that nourished them emerged. Somehow, those living on the western edge of the continent of Europe changed the trajectory of the development of human society, and changed the trajectory of the development of the Earth system, creating the modern world we live in today. Nothing would be the same again.
By Kristine Phillips @ WashingtonPost.com, Aug. 25
Nicholas Dagostino hated female drivers, authorities say, so much so that he shot them while they were driving.
Police in Texas linked Dagostino to two recent shootings in which women said they were shot in the arm. Both incidents happened during the day, within a few miles of each other in the Katy area of Harris County, west of Houston. And both involved a suspect — Dagostino — who claimed that he shot the women in self-defense, according to criminal complaints.
But social media ramblings indicate that Dagostino “held a very dim view of women,” thought female drivers were “incompetent,” and that their sole purpose “is to give birth to male children,” investigators wrote in court documents.
Dagostino, 29, is facing two felony charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon [.....]
@ CNN.com, live updates What we know now, Updated 2 min ago, 3:27 p.m. ET, August 26, 2018
Andrzej Lukowski reporting from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for NYTimes.com, Aug. 26
EDINBURGH — As Britain stands on the cusp of major change, an unfamiliar mood of introspection has taken hold at its biggest comedy and arts festival, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
For two years, Britain has been preoccupied with its imminent departure from the European Union, set for March 2019. Brexit, as the process is known, is everywhere in the press, on television and on social media.
But the precise details of how it will take place have remained maddeningly elusive, and are the subject of acrimonious political debate. “It’s hard to make comedy out of situational paralysis,” said Nish Kumar, a comedian whose show at the Fringe is called “It’s In Your Nature to Destroy Yourselves.”
Brexit is, nonetheless, a hot topic at the last edition of the Fringe before Britain is due to withdraw from the bloc [....]
The appointee, a Republican likely named by Gov. Doug Ducey, will hold McCain’s seat until the next elections in 2020.
Democratic Party officials voted Saturday to strip superdelegates of much of their power in the presidential nominating process, infuriating many traditionalists while handing a victory to the party’s left flank.
The measure’s overwhelming approval – met by cheers in a hotel ballroom here – concluded a tense summer meeting of the Democratic National Committee, which had labored over the issue since 2016. Superdelegates that year largely sided with Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders, enraging Sanders’ supporters.
The president's comments are being read as a signal that he wants to ignore his lawyers and exonerate his former campaign chairman.
By Nancy Cook @ Politico.com, Aug. 24
Anonymice galore, so i would say first and foremost: caveat emptor, as to: honest opinions or tactical leaks?
...according to eight current and former administration officials and outside advisers.
...Three senior administration aides said....