PLATT - CURATED News

Defend the American Experiment by Protecting the Constitution
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/04/protect-constitution-defend-american-experiment/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-04-17&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

GENERAL INTEREST
The Flying Frenchman’s Duesey – a 1930 Duesenberg Model J convertible sedan by Murphy
https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2019/04/17/the-flying-frenchmans-duesey-a-1930-duesenberg-model-j-convertible-sedan-by-murphy/?refer=news

Pet deer kills man and injures wife in rural Australia
https://nypost.com/2019/04/17/pet-deer-kills-man-and-injures-wife-in-rural-australia/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

HEALTH
How a Chicago Woman Fell Victim to Candida Auris, a Drug-Resistant Fungus
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/health/candida-auris-fungus-chicago.html?emc=edit_ne_20190417&nl=evening-briefing&nlid=5893540820190417&te=1

Eating just one slice of bacon a day linked to higher risk of colorectal cancer, says study
https://start.att.net/news/read/article/cnn-eating_just_one_slice_of_bacon_a_day_linked_to_hig-cnn2/category/lifestyle

This $4 quick fix for bad breath has the internet going berserk — but it may disgust you
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-4-quick-fix-for-bad-breath-has-the-internet-going-berserk-but-it-may-disgust-you-2019-04-17

HEALTH CARE
Health Stocks Crumble as Fears of ‘Medicare for All’ Snowball
https://news.yahoo.com/health-stocks-28-billion-beating-223819572.html

FINANCIAL
President looms large over McConnell-Pelosi spending ceiling talks
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/439224-president-looms-large-over-mcconnell-pelosi-spending-ceiling-talks?userid=288549

EDUCATION
Mike 'Dirty Jobs' Rowe Routs America's School System: "We're Obsessed With Credentialing, Not Education"
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-16/mike-dirty-jobs-rowe-routs-americas-school-system-were-obsessed-credentialing-not

CULTURE
Why Is the Violent Gang Culture that Killed Nipsey Hussle Being Celebrated?
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/why-is-the-violent-gang-culture-that-killed-nipsey-hussle-being-celebrated/

SPORTS
What makes Curry, Crosby so dominant? This book credits their brains over bodies
https://www.thescore.com/nhl/news/1751213

ENVIRONMENT
‘When the Glaciers Disappear, Those Species Will Go Extinct’
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/16/climate/glaciers-melting-alaska-washington.html

ENERGY
5 of the Best TED Talks About Renewable Energy
https://www.ecowatch.com/renewable-energy-ted-talks-2634775197.html

SCIENCE
When you die ‘you know you’re dead because your brain keeps working’, scientist claims
https://www.foxnews.com/science/when-you-die-you-know-youre-dead-because-your-brain-keeps-working-scientist-claims

‘Partly Alive’: Scientists Revive Cells in Brains From Dead Pigs
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/science/brain-dead-pigs.html?emc=edit_ne_20190417&nl=evening-briefing&nlid=5893540820190417&te=1

ASTRONOMY
Saturn's moon Titan has 330 feet deep lakes full of METHANE, Cassini data reveals
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6923849/Saturns-moon-Titan-330-feet-deep-lakes-METHANE-Cassini-data-reveals.html

TECHNOLOGY
Video game could be key to rebuilding Notre Dame
https://nypost.com/2019/04/17/video-game-could-be-key-to-rebuilding-notre-dame/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Detailed 3D laser scans of Notre Dame Cathedral captured by late historian could be used to save the building, as officials pledge to restore it in the wake of the fire
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6928363/3D-laser-scans-Notre-Dame-Cathedral-captured-late-historian-used-save-building.html

Terrifying robo-dogs now travel in PACKS: Boston Dynamics releases footage of 10 bots working together to haul a truck
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6929763/Boston-Dynamics-releases-footage-10-robo-dogs-working-haul-truck.html

AI agent offers rationales using everyday language to explain its actions
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/04/190411172526.htm

DEFENSE
Bad News for China: J-20 Stealth Fighters Can't Touch an F-22s or F-35
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/bad-news-china-j-20-stealth-fighters-cant-touch-f-22s-or-f-35-52917

SMOLLETT
Kim Foxx meddled in Jussie Smollett case weeks after ‘recusing’ herself, texts show
https://pagesix.com/2019/04/16/kim-foxx-meddled-in-jussie-smollett-case-weeks-after-recusing-herself-texts-show/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Victor Davis Hanson DESTROYS Jussie Smollett!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG6d86iTOSw

SOCIAL MEDIA
How One Man’s Deleted Tweet Launched a Worldwide Notre Dame Conspiracy Theory
https://news.yahoo.com/one-man-deleted-tweet-launched-000602994.html?soc_src=hl-viewer&soc_trk=ma

The Most Measured Person in Tech Is Running the Most Chaotic Place on the Internet
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/business/youtube-ceo-susan-wojcicki.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&login=email&auth=login-email

HOMELESS
San Francisco airport officials say there's a 'surge' of homeless people taking shelter
https://www.foxnews.com/travel/san-francisco-airport-officials-surge-homeless-people-taking-shelter

IMMIGRATION
In New Effort to Deter Migrants, Barr Withholds Bail to Asylum Seekers
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/16/us/politics/barr-asylum-bail.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

What Is Asylum and Who Can Seek It? Explaining Trump’s New Restrictions
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/us/politics/trump-barr-asylum-migrants-border.html?emc=edit_ne_20190417&nl=evening-briefing&nlid=5893540820190417&te=1

Fear of a Nonwhite America
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/04/immigration-debate-white-identity-politics-whiteshift-book/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-04-17&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

NKOR
North Korea Tests New Weapon, State News Agency Says
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/world/asia/north-korea-missile-weapons-test.html

****** GATE
Judicial Watch Announces Depositions of Senior Obama-era Officials and Former Hillary Clinton Aides
https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-announces-depositions-of-senior-obama-era-officials-and-former-hillary-clinton-aides/?utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=press%20release

SCOTUS
Should we expand the Supreme Court?
https://news.yahoo.com/should-we-expand-the-supreme-court-090000499.html

TRUMPGATE
Nadler, Pelosi, other Dems blast DOJ ahead of Mueller report release r, Pelosi, other Dems blast DOJ ahead of Mueller report release
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/nadler-pelosi-other-dems-blast-doj-ahead-of-mueller-report-release/ar-BBW30Se?ocid=spartandhp

POLITICS
Trump is a master at pushing Democrats’ buttons
https://nypost.com/2019/04/16/trump-is-a-master-at-pushing-democrats-buttons/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

GOPers want Roy Moore to run for Alabama Senate seat: poll  (Good grief !!)
https://nypost.com/2019/04/17/gopers-want-roy-moore-to-run-for-alabama-senate-seat-poll/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

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which you can never afford to lose – with the discipline to confront
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