PLATT - CURATED News

GENERAL INTEREST 
Tricky mental maths quiz promises to test your knowledge of addition, subtraction and multiplication - so do YOU have what it takes to score full marks?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-6946497/How-good-mental-maths.html

HEALTH
Are Granola Bars Healthy?
https://www.ecowatch.com/granola-bars-healthy-2634977687.html

HEALTH CARE
Hospitals Stand to Lose Billions Under ‘Medicare for All’
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/21/health/medicare-for-all-hospitals.html?login=email&auth=login-email

CULTURE
Henry Kissinger, Shouted Down at NYU, Addresses Yale’s WFB Society (Well, this is different ...)
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/04/henry-kissinger-shouted-down-at-nyu-addresses-yales-wfb-society/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-04-22&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

HUMOR
The News in Zingers
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0419/hamilton.php3

SPORTS
For Kenyan Runners, Winning Can Be a Road to Ruin
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/22/sports/kenyan-runners.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

EDUCATION
Silicon Valley Came to Kansas Schools. That Started a Rebellion.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/21/technology/silicon-valley-kansas-schools.html?emc=edit_NN_p_20190422&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=58935408ion%3DlongRead&section=longRead&te=1

BUSINESS
How 11 People Are Trying to Stop Fake News in the World’s Largest Election
https://news.yahoo.com/facebook-assembled-small-army-fact-230000455.html

WEATHER
Tornado Alley and Deserts Have Shifted East in U.S.
https://weather.com/science/environment/video/tornado-alley-and-deserts-have-shifted-east-in-us?pl=pl-eco-news

ENTOMOLOGY
Dragonflies Make Epic Migrations, But Climate Change Could Foil Their Itineraries
https://www.ecowatch.com/dragonfly-migration-climate-change-2635092369.html

GEOPHYSICS
Mystery of Weird Jerks in Earth's Magnetic Field Solved
https://start.att.net/news/read/article/newsweek-mystery_of_weird_jerks_in_earths_magnetic_field_so-rnewsweek/category/news+

CYBER SECURITY
Think You’re Discreet Online? Think Again
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/21/opinion/computational-inference.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

NATIONAL SECURITY
Wary of Chinese Espionage, Houston Cancer Center Chose to Fire 3 Scientists
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/22/health/md-anderson-chinese-scientists.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

IMMIGRATION
Migrants pay billions each year in fees to smugglers
https://washingtontimes-dc.newsmemory.com/?token=089e90f0cfe6b3359bf56f06b046f6be_5cbddb77_5cd1fdb&selDate=20190422&goTo=A01&artid=3&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=washingtontimes-E-Editions&utm_source=washingtontimes&utm_content=Read-Button

United States Gives Millions To Central American Nations To Deter Illegal Immigration, Yet Doesn't Keep Track Of Result (The obvious solution, IMHO, is to shut down the southbound cash flow.)
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/timothymeads/2019/04/21/united-states-gives-millions-to-guatemalan-school-to-deter-illegal-immigration-yet-doesnt-keep-track-of-results-n2545101?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=04/22/2019&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

GOVERNMENT MALFEASANCE
Why Bob Kraft’s ordeal should alarm us all
https://nypost.com/2019/04/21/why-bob-krafts-ordeal-should-alarm-us-all/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

TERRORISM
Christians Persecuted by Islamists Worldwide
https://patriotpost.us/articles/62528?mailing_id=4223&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4223&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

ISIS jihadi bride who slipped back to the West had photos on her lost mobile phone that showed her posing with her two terrorist husbands, toddlers playing with guns and a Bin Laden birthday cake
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6944649/Exposed-photos-lost-mobile-phone-ISIS-bride-recruited-dozens-British-women.html

TRUMPGATE
Dems plot next move in Trump tax-return battle
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/439723-dems-plot-next-move-in-trump-tax-return-battle

Trump, businesses sue Oversight chairman to block subpoena for financial records
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/439979-trump-businesses-sue-oversight-chairman-to-block-subpoena-for?userid=288549

House Judiciary chairman subpoenas former White House lawyer McGahn
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/440090-nadler-subpoenas-former-white-house-lawyer-mcgahn?userid=288549

How Michael Cohen Turned Against President Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/21/us/politics/michael-cohen-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Donald Trump Will Need to Hand over His Tax Returns
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/04/donald-trump-will-need-to-hand-over-his-tax-returns/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-04-22&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

POLITICS
Is Denmark Socialist?
https://www.prageru.com/video/is-denmark-socialist/

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez targeted by mystery multimillionaire donor
https://nypost.com/2019/04/21/ocasio-cortez-targeted-by-mystery-multimillionaire-donor/

Amy Klobuchar’s Big Idea: Bipartisan Appeal Can Beat Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/22/us/politics/amy-klobuchar-2020-president.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Ex-college football coach Tommy Tuberville reveals why he will run for Alabama Senate against Doug Jones
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/tommy-tuberville-alabama-senate-doug-jones

Buttigieg surges in Democrats’ polls while riding rainbow wave
https://washingtontimes-dc.newsmemory.com/?token=089e90f0cfe6b3359bf56f06b046f6be_5cbddb77_5cd1fdb&selDate=20190422&goTo=A01&artid=4&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=washingtontimes-E-Editions&utm_source=washingtontimes&utm_content=Read-Button

Bye Bye Biden
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0419/morris042219.php3

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which you can never afford to lose – with the discipline to confront
the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be."
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