Sunday, December 30, 2018

Evening Edition: Federal government shutdown enters second week with no resolution in sight

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Federal government shutdown enters second week with no resolution in sight
Republican officials try to pin the blame on Democrats, but they are not budging as the GOP debates what exactly constitutes a border "wall."
The Fix | Analysis
John Kelly paints yet another dim portrait of Trump
In an exit interview with the Los Angeles Times, the departing White House chief of staff echoes what other top Trump administration officials have said publicly and privately: President Trump is someone who needs containing.
 
Fact Checker: Trump's year of unprecedented deception
President Trump made nearly three times as many false or misleading claims in 2018 than during his first year as president
 
Former U.S. commander calls Trump dishonest and immoral
Retired Army Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the former commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, also criticized President Trump on foreign policy and disputed the claim that the Islamic State militant group has been defeated.
 
From sex selection to surrogates, American IVF clinics provide services outlawed elsewhere
Want a girl with blue eyes? Many clinics offer to deliver — and a growing number of experts are not okay with that.
 
 
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A year of online hate. Meet the people whose lives it changed.
Online hate presaged some of the year's most disturbing and deadly attacks. But the broader impact was more subtle and widespread, etching hidden scars into people's psyches.
 
Year in Review | Perspective
Dave Barry on the grotesque boof-a-palooza that was 2018
What made this year so awful? We could list many factors, including natural disasters, man-made atrocities, the utter depravity of our national political discourse and the loss of Aretha Franklin. Instead we'll cite one event that, while minor, epitomizes 2018: the debut of "Dr. Pimple Popper."
 
Shelby defends Fed chairman, says Trump can't fire him without cause
The Republican senator said Jerome H. Powell is "doing a good job." President Trump has repeatedly railed against Powell and recently asked advisers whether he has the power to fire him.
 
Women's March rally in California canceled over concerns that it would be 'overwhelmingly white'
The Humboldt County rally was set to take place on Jan. 19.
 
 
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Whitaker's role in immigration raid previewed aggressive stance as acting attorney general
A 2006 federal raid of a meat-processing plant in Iowa became one of the highest-profile and most controversial actions of Matthew G. Whitaker's five-year career as a prosecutor.
 
Perspective
Ordering a box of crickets online went about as well as you'd expect
A shipment of 250 crickets seemed like a reasonable amount for a pet dragon lizard. But there was no immediate way to transfer the clearly active and ravenously hungry creatures from the box to a storage container.
 
Hotel in Portland, Ore., fires employees seen on video evicting black guest
"Their actions were inconsistent with our standards & values," the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Portland said in a tweet.
 
Perspective
The 10 most wonderfully weird SNL sketches from 2018, ranked
"Saturday Night Live" had some great offbeat sketches this year, from a "House Hunters" spoof to a forbidden diner order.
 

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