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GENERAL INTEREST
How to Improve Your Memory (Even if You Can’t Find Your Car Keys)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/12/smarter-living/how-to-improve-your-memory-even-if-you-cant-find-your-car-keys.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

You've been cooking pasta all wrong! Experts reveal why the 'authentic' al dente texture is a myth - and the reason you should NEVER add more than a spoonful of sauce
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-6872245/How-cook-traditional-Italian-dishes-home.html

Watch All of These Pieces Become a Single Motorcycle 
https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/motorcycles/watch-all-of-these-pieces-become-a-single-motorcycle/ar-BBVTfHs?ocid=spartandhp

HEALTH
A User Manual for Your Knees
https://www.nytimes.com/guides/well/a-guide-to-your-knees?smid=nytcore-ios-share&redirect=true

PROGRESSIVES RUNNING AMOK
Trolling of Bill Barr shows how language is twisted to politics
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/438745-trolling-of-bill-barr-shows-how-language-is-twisted-to-politics

Democrats’ Foolishness Sweepstakes 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/04/democratic-party-2020-candidates-proposals/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WIR%20-%20Sunday%202019-04-14&utm_term=WIR-Smart

BUSINESS
Executives Must Be the Adults in the Room
See the second Wall Street Journal article, below.

ENERGY
Green New Deal has a dirty secret
https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/438754-green-new-deal-has-a-dirty-secret

AVIATION
A Private Jet May Break the Sound Barrier
See the third Wall Street Journal article, below.

CHIROPTOLOGY
Muscle power: Bats power take-off using recycled energy
https://phys.org/news/2013-07-muscle-power-take-off-recycled-energy.html

SPACE
It may sound incredible but the Pillars of Creation don't exist anymore
https://gizmodo.com/it-sounds-incredible-but-the-pillars-of-creation-dont-e-1677857108

ENERGY
One way to save the planet: Build more nuclear plants 
https://nypost.com/2019/04/13/one-way-to-save-the-planet-build-more-nuclear-plants/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

CYBER SECURITY
Hackers are stealing millions in Bitcoin — and living like big shots
https://nypost.com/2019/04/13/hackers-are-stealing-millions-in-bitcoin-and-living-like-big-shots/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

DEFENSE
This Country Has a Choice to Make: F-35s, F/A-18 Super Hornets or a European Fighter
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/country-has-choice-make-f-35s-fa-18-super-hornets-or-european-fighter-52487

An F-35 Will Never be Alone: Russia Seems to Warn America's Stealth Fighter
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/f-35-will-never-be-alone-russia-seems-warn-americas-stealth-fighter-52472

You Will Get Shot Down: Why America's Stealth F-22 and F-35 Can't Be Matched
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/you-will-get-shot-down-why-americas-stealth-f-22-and-f-35-cant-be-matched-52477

LAW AND THE COURTS
Why Isn’t Assange Charged with ‘Collusion with Russia’? 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/04/why-isnt-assange-charged-with-collusion-with-russia/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WIR%20-%20Sunday%202019-04-14&utm_term=WIR-Smart

MEDIA


IMMIGRATION
Texas oasis of wealth and luxury thrives on trafficking near border
https://nypost.com/2019/04/13/texas-oasis-of-wealth-and-luxury-thrives-on-trafficking-near-border/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

TERRORISM
The West’s Foreign Fighter Problem
See the first Wall Street Journal article, below.

POLITICS
With Polls and Private Meetings, Republicans Craft Blunt Messaging to Paint Democrats as Extreme
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/12/us/politics/democrats-republicans-2020.html

Rashida Tlaib claims Dem leadership uses party’s minority members as tokens of diversity
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rashida-tlaib-claims-dem-leadership-uses-partys-minority-members-as-tokens-of-diversity

McConnell lays out agenda as House bills pile up
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/438724-mcconnell-lays-out-agenda-as-house-bills-pile-up

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FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL (without permission)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-wests-foreign-fighter-problem-11555110979?emailToken=eccc243f3145f2badf5d58424ec876f1nQ8V4YmlgdeqvBaFcSqgWHSCTUo3QyxXtMFUOq6b0r06H1b2uP2PjCXAyfJvqemKc05yUZpmyiQK8IyFfyzWsw%3D%3D&reflink=article_email_share

The West’s Foreign Fighter Problem

Some in Europe won’t take them back, endangering the world.

By

The Editorial Board

April 12, 2019 7:16 p.m. ET

A fighter of Syrian Democratic Forces stands on the back of a pick-up truck, with a weapon installed on it, in Qamishli, Syria, March 30. Photo: ali hashisho/Reuters

With Islamic State’s physical caliphate destroyed, the West faces an urgent challenge: what to do with foreign fighters and their families. Mishandling the problem could create decades of security threats in the U.S. and Europe, and several American allies are bungling this test.