PLATT _ Misc News

GENERAL INTEREST
Harper, Texas Personality
http://www.texasescapes.com/DEPARTMENTS/Local_Personalities/Bones/bones.htm

The Week in Good News: A Lake on Mars, an Alzheimer’s Drug, 76 Ducklings
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/26/briefing/week-in-good-news-mars-lake-alzheimers-drug-ducklings.html?emc=edit_nn_20180727&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=5893540820180727&te=1

News Quiz: Test Your Knowledge of the Week’s Headlines (5 out of 11)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/07/27/briefing/27weeklynewsquiz.html?emc=edit_nn_20180727&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=5893540820180727&te=1

BUSINESS
Twitter Stock Falls 20 Percent Following Fake-Account Purge 
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/twitter-stock-falls-20-percent-after-fake-account-purge/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202018-07-27&utm_term=NR5PM%20Actives

U.S. Senate quietly votes to cut tariffs on hundreds of Chinese goods
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-congress-trade/u-s-senate-quietly-votes-to-cut-tariffs-on-hundreds-of-chinese-goods-idUSKBN1KG35R

'You are not welcome here': Pro-LGBTQ-rights consumers vow to boycott Chick-fil-A after it announces it's opening in Toronto
https://www.businessinsider.com/chick-fil-a-opening-in-canada-sparks-boycott-threats-2018-7?amp%3Butm_medium=referral

ENVIRONMENT
‘PAC-man’ set to Gobble up Ocean Garbage
https://weather.com/science/environment/video/pac-man-set-to-gobble-up-ocean-garbage?pl=pl-the-latest

Uranium Leaked Through Floor of South Carolina Nuclear Plant 
https://www.ecowatch.com/south-carolina-nuclear-plant-leak-2590122072.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=e852354bcd-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-e852354bcd-85328381

SCIENCE
The 'Scutoid' Is Geometry's Newest Shape, and It Could Be All Over Your Body
https://gizmodo.com/the-scutoid-is-geometrys-newest-shape-and-it-could-be-1827924643

ARCHAEOLOGY
A Farmer Found an Ancient Horse Head on His Property. Now He’s $1 Million Richer 
https://start.att.net/news/read/article/money-a_farmer_found_an_ancient_horse_head_on_his_proper-rtime/category/news+

IMMIGRATION
Abolish ICE Protesters in Portland Build a Wall to Keep out Police. The Irony Is Apparently Lost on Them.
https://politicalcowboy.com/watch-abolish-ice-protests-in-portland-build-a-wall-to-keep-out-police-the-irony-is-apparently-lost-on-them/

Republicans Vote to Gut Enforcement, Increase Foreign Workers 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/07/immigration-dhs-appropriations-bill-bad-amendment/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202018-07-27&utm_term=NR5PM%20Actives

UNIONS
Teachers’ Unions Plan to Become ‘More Political, Not Less Political’
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/07/teachers-unions-get-more-political-after-janus-decision/

SCOTUS
NYT Seeks Emails Sent by Kavanaugh’s Wife Containing ‘Gay,’ ‘Abortion’ 
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/brett-kavanaugh-wife-new-york-times-examines-emails/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202018-07-27&utm_term=NR5PM%20Actives

TRUMPGATE
Why Trump Will Survive the Cohen Tape
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/07/michael-cohen-tape-trump-advantage-is-power-of-low-expectations/

Mueller Examining Trump’s Tweets in Wide-Ranging Obstruction Inquiry
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/26/us/politics/trump-tweets-mueller-obstruction.html?emc=edit_nn_20180727&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=5893540820180727&te=1

POLITICS
Charisma Rules Politics as Never Before 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/07/modern-politics-charisma-more-important-than-parties-obama-trump/

Trevor Noah Asks Ocasio-Cortez: 'How Do You Pay for All These Ideas?'
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/laurettabrown/2018/07/27/trevor-noah-asks-ocasiocortez-how-do-you-pay-for-all-these-ideas-n2504413?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=

Poll: Scott Walker trails by double digits in bid for third term
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/congress/poll-scott-walker-trails-by-double-digits-in-bid-for-third-term?utm_source=Examiner%20Today_07/27/2018&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Examiner%20Today

100 days: Dems have midterm edge, but it's not historic
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/399175-100-days%3A-Dems-have-midterm-edge-but-its-not-historic

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"When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found;
they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along."
           - Carl Sandburg