Wednesday, August 8, 2018

Wednesday's Headlines: GOP declares victory in a U.S. House race in Ohio that’s too close to call

 
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Today's Headlines
The morning's most important stories, selected by Post editors
 
 
GOP declares victory in a U.S. House race in Ohio that's too close to call
The race in the solidly red northern Columbus suburbs is the latest example of increased Democratic energy and tepid Republican candidate performance that has defined recent special elections.
Analysis
Even if they don't win it, Ohio special election shows that Democrats remain on the march
Democrats are routinely beating their 2016 performance by double digits, and Ohio shows that the suburbs are trending sharply away from Republicans.
 
Democratic Party's liberal insurgency hits a wall in Midwest primaries
Six weeks after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez toppled a powerful incumbent in New York, voters turned to establishment candidates over more liberal challengers in almost every closely watched race across several states.
 
In victory for unions, Missouri voters projected to defeat GOP-backed 'right to work' law
The vote nullifies a law that would have prevented unions from collecting mandatory fees from the workers they represent.
 
Rick Gates forced to admit affair as Manafort's defense attacks his credibility
Gates testified that he had a transatlantic extramarital affair and that he embezzled money from onetime Donald Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, describing in detail the lies, phony documents and fake profits he said he cooked up at Manafort's direction.
 
Brett Kavanaugh once predicted 'one race' in the eyes of government. Would he end affirmative action?
Interest groups on both sides of the affirmative-action debate say the Supreme Court nominee could be the vote conservatives have been looking for to speed up its demise.
 
Perspective
The summer of Meghan Markle and all the tired ways we talk about royal women
Is the queen a mean girl? Is Meghan dying of pasta deprivation? Unpacking the silly sport of royal watching.
 
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Opinions
 
The West has spent a decade playing right into Putin's hands
 
The Chinese threat that an aircraft carrier can't stop
 
Your workplace wellness program probably isn't making you healthier
 
Putin is afraid of one thing. Make him think it could happen.
 
Manafort is on trial. So is Trump's judgment.
 
Canada won't look the other way on Saudi Arabia. We shouldn't either.
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Elon Musk's tweet on taking Tesla private roils the stock market
Trading in the Silicon Valley company's shares was halted for 92 minutes shortly after Musk said he had the funding lined up to take the carmaker private at $420 a share.
 
 
Senior U.S., Turkish officials to meet over dispute about American's detention
The house arrest of Pastor Andrew Brunson has become the primary irritant in increasingly tense relations.
 
How low can investment fees go? Fidelity launches a race to zero.
Fidelity Investments recently announced it was launching two zero-cost index mutual funds, escalating a price race that could leave investors questioning whether to pay mutual fund management fees at all.
 
Thermostats latest source of border controversy amid complaints
So notoriously cold are the U.S. Border Patrol's detention cells that those heading north are warned about the hielera, or "icebox." Immigration advocates have accused officials of using the thermostat to deter migration and gain leverage over detainees.
 
Review
'BlacKkKlansman' is Spike Lee's best, and most necessary, movie in years
In telling the story of a black detective in Colorado who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan, "BlacKkKlansman" is wildly entertaining and wisely prescient, albeit clunky at times.
 
More than 600 people got sick after eating at one Chipotle. Health officials don't know why yet.
Chipotle voluntarily closed the store — located outside Columbus, Ohio — for 24 hours to replace all the food and to clean and sanitize the restaurant. Tests have so far come back negative for salmonella, shigella, E. coli and norovirus.
 
This man wants to turn Mount Everest's 'fecal time bomb' into gas
A retired engineer wants to build a biogas digester to make fertilizer and methane from the tons of excrement left by mountaineers. "It's my responsibility because I'm a climber and I can't walk away saying my crap doesn't smell," Garry Porter said.
 
     
 
 
 
 

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