June 2019 Archives
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Headlines Edition
Saturday Headlines: Music for asteroids.
Following a meeting with Xi at the G-20 summit in Osaka, Trump announces trade negotiations with China are "back on track." Trump tweets an invitation to Kim Jong-un to meet...
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Friday headlines: Hell hath no fury like a fulcrum scorned.
Trump is still so bothered about the legitimacy of his election, Russian hacking is now a joke he makes with Putin. Your weekly white paper: How Saudi Arabia is introducing ...
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Thursday Headlines: Life on Mars.
Among the takeaways from the first night of Democratic debates: Castro had a breakout evening, Warren stayed the course, and de Blasio surprised. Here's what to watch for in...
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Camp ToB 2019
Week Four: Daisy Jones & the Six
This week we wrap up our June reading—and it’s time for you to decide which of the two books we read this month heads to our end-of-summer finale.
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Wednesday headlines: Feminine, undefined.
Democrats pass a $4.5 billion emergency border aid bill tied to efforts to oppose Trump's broader immigration agenda. Republicans in the Senate have a different plan in mind. Robert...
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Tuesday Headlines: On the internet, nobody knows you’re a tenement.
Hundreds of migrant children are being moved from a Border Patrol station in Texas after lawyers visited last week and discovered the squalid conditions, where detainees aren’t provided...
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Saturday Headlines: Mourning the family robot.
Tomorrow's ICE raids in Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, New York, and San Francisco are intended to detain up to 2,000 families, targeting people "who...
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Friday Headlines: No one knows who they were or what they were doing.
Trump tweets that he called off a retaliatory strike on Iran with 10 minutes to go after learning it could kill 150 people, which he said wouldn't be "proportionate to shooting...
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Thursday headlines: Choose your drone adventure
It’s World Refugee Day. Here’s the story of a baby separated from his father while both of them tried to apply for asylum in the United...
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Them Headlines
Wednesday headlines: Yesterday, all—-.—- - .-.—-..—....-......
The most important news today: On its very first mission, Boaty McBoatface, the submarine named by the internet, uncovers a link between Antarctic winds and warming seas. Boris Johnson widens...
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Camp ToB 2019
Week Three: Daisy Jones & the Six
This week, we kick off our second book of the summer: a dive into the sex, drugs, and rock and roll of the late ‘60s LA music scene.
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Tuesday headlines: The kind survive.
Trump officially launches his reelection bid and quickly fires several pollsters after numbers leak showing the President trailing Democratic candidates in key states. Trump says ICE will make mass arrests...
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Saturday Headlines: Just you and I.
In a victory for trans rights, the 9th Circuit vacated a lower court's precarious decision that Trump's trans military ban is unconstitutional, and has ruled the ban discriminates...
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Friday headlines: “Of course.”
A British court will decide if Julian Assange will be extradited to the US where he faces charges under the Espionage Act. France bans the publication of statistical information about...
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Thursday Headlines: Word is the wind.
Two oil tankers, one owned by Japan and the other owned by Norway, have been attacked in the Gulf of Oman, as PM Abe was wrapping up talks in Tehran. ...
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Camp ToB 2019
Week Two: Bowlaway
Welcome back for the second week of Camp ToB 2019! Gather round for the conclusion of Elizabeth McCracken’s Bowlaway.
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Headlines Edition
Wednesday headlines: Don’t touch my tiny purse.
Protesters face off against riot police in Hong Kong. Sunday saw the city’s largest protest ever, opposing a controversial bill to make extraditions to China easier. Thanks to...
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Tuesday Headlines: What lies beneath.
A helicopter crashed on top of a midtown Manhattan building yesterday, killing the pilot. Officials say there's no indication of a terror threat. Mexico's foreign minister says there...
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Saturday Headlines: These microplastics are making me thirsty.
Trump calls off tariffs on Mexican goods following news that the US and Mexico have negotiated an agreement on immigration enforcement, details of which have yet to be announced. Photos...
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Friday Headlines: It’s been pouring.
Ahead of Trump's Monday tariff deadline, Mexico has arrested two caravan organizers and will send 6,000 national guard troops to its southern border in order to stem the flow of...
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Thursday headlines: A spliff from a rose.
A new report, modeling future scenarios based on existing research, says the climate crisis may pose a doomsday scenario as soon as 2050. Related: How many Americans will die in major...
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Camp ToB 2019
Week One: Bowlaway
Start swapping those friendship bracelets—it’s the first week of Camp ToB 2019! This time around, we’re discussing the first half of Elizabeth McCracken’s new novel.
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Headlines edition
Wednesday headlines: Normally having.
At least 60 people are dead after troops attacked pro-democracy protesters in Sudan's capital Khartoum. The UN’s deputy high commissioner for human rights says a recent global rise...
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Tuesday headlines: Don’t blame avocado toast.
It’s been 30 years since the massacre in Tiananmen Square. Hong Kong maintains its annual vigil. In a rare acknowledgement from the Chinese government, a minister actually defends the...
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Saturday Headlines: Shall we play a game?
A Virginia Beach city employee shot and killed 12 at a municipal center. It's the deadliest US attack since the November 2018 shooting in Thousand Oaks, Calif. Federal prosecutors have disregarded...