Before his apparent poisoning, the Pussy Riot member Pyotr Verzilov was working with three Russian journalists who were killed in the Central African Republic.

By Masha Gessen @ NewYorker.com, Sept. 19

By Sheera Frenkel & Mike Isaac @ NYTimes.com, Sept. 19

MENLO PARK, Calif. — [....] Although it is not much to look at now, as of next week the space will be Facebook’s headquarters for safeguarding elections. More than 300 people across the company are working on the initiative, but the War Room will house a smaller team of about 20 people focused on rooting out disinformation, monitoring false news and deleting fake accounts that may be trying to influence voters before coming elections in the United States, Brazil and other countries.

A slip of the tongue at a congressional hearing forced Treasury officials to scramble to come up with a sanctions plan to match what was said.

By Andrew Desiderio & Erin Banco @ DailyBeast.com, Sept. 19

There really is no one running this country's foreign policy and related.

Funny how China hated those imperialist 100-year leases on HK & Macau, but just ended up with one for Sri Lanka's port?