Saturday, August 11, 2018

Saturday's Headlines: Manafort’s scramble: Raising millions for himself as he ran Trump’s campaign

 
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Manafort's scramble: Raising millions for himself as he ran Trump's campaign
With 3 a.m. emails and a flurry of loan applications, Paul Manafort was trying to save a tanking business. Months ahead of the election, there was no sign, campaign insiders say, that he was in crisis.
New evidence emerges of China forcing Muslims into 'reeducation' camps
Beijing denies the charge, but new court testimony corroborates claims of extralegal detention and forced indoctrination. 
 
Democrats all but acknowledge Kavanaugh is headed toward confirmation to Supreme Court
The Senate is poised to install Brett M. Kavanaugh on the high court and take the next step toward fulfilling President Trump's pledge to remake the Supreme Court — and the wider federal judiciary, potentially for decades.
 
Supreme Court nominee Kavanaugh wrestled with graphic nature of Clinton impeachment report
Brett M. Kavanaugh took a leading role in making the 1998 Kenneth Starr report more persuasive and "internally consistent," documents show.
Airline mechanic steals plane without passengers from Seattle airport and crashes
Sheriff's officials say a man who stole an Alaska Airlines plane from an airport in Washington state was "suicidal" and there is no connection to terrorism. Witnesses reported seeing the plane being chased by military aircraft before it crashed near Ketron Island.
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Trump is mad that Turkey's crisis has made its currency weaker, so now he's hurting it even more
Turkey has hurt itself with bad policies and tried to blame foreigners for this fact, but then President Trump seemed to vindicate the scapegoating by trying to bring the country's economy down in retaliation for the Turks bringing it down themselves.
 
 
Judge clears Nebraska to carry out nation's first fentanyl execution
A German drug company sued to stop the state from using its product in an upcoming execution, which would be Nebraska's first lethal injection and the first in the United States to use the powerful opioid.
 
FBI agent acquitted of lying about shooting of militia member during standoff at Ore. wildlife refuge
W. Joseph Astarita, a member of the FBI's elite Hostage Rescue Team, was the only federal or state officer charged in connection with the 41-day takeover.
Uber driver convicted of raping female passenger in Md., faces 20 years in prison
The jury took less than two hours to deliver a verdict after a three-day trial. Evidence included surveillance video that showed a man lifting a woman from the back of his car and carrying her into a motel room.
 
If filling up is a pain, now you can have the gas brought to your car
Some start-ups are banking on the idea that millions of urban professionals are willing to outsource a chore that has been a feature of car ownership since the inception of the automobile.
 
The devastating, weeks-long journey of an orca and her stillborn calf
"She doesn't want to let it go. She's not ready," said one of many biologists astonished by the journey of Tahlequah, as the mother has come to be called.
 
     
 
 
 
 

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