August 19, 2016
By The Morning News
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- State Dept. says $400m payment to Iran wasn't ransom, but was delayed to create "leverage" in hostage return.
- Before and after views of Southern Louisiana, devastated this week by historic flooding.
- Worried by Trumputin, Congress wants to obstruct removing Russian sanctionsenergy companies have already started.
- If Clinton wins, expect a new era of misogyny, just as Obama's presidency brought racism to the fore.
- "Old-fashioned sexual exploitation has been sold to today's teenage girls as their own 'sex-positive' choice."
- For women, walking can be a radical declaration of autonomy and creativity.
- Should Hillary win, Bill will step down from the Clinton Foundation, which will also start refusing foreign donations.
- Ryan Lochte was right when he said someone pointed a gun at him. It was a gas station security guard telling him to stop peeing on the walls.
- Uber's first self-driving fleet of Volvos will debut in Pittsburgh this month, but with backup drivers present.
- About 200,000 people are turning to GoFundMe to cover emergency medical expenses.
- Artificial intelligence researchers deploy autonomous internet defense bot for the first time.
- Caseworkers must deal with terrific ambiguity, which means plenty of kids are taken away from good parents.
- Justice Dept. says it will stop contracting with private prisons, which mostly provided low-security services at 13 locations.
- Behind the move to end private prison contracts: Shane Bauer's "My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard."
- Ancient Mexicans were said not to have raised any animals, but archaeologists at Teotihuacan just unearthed...a bunny farm?
- You think California is easy on pot, but this decade it arrested hundreds of thousands for marijuana-related offensesmost are black.
- "Until America's mortgage monster is brought to heel, the task of making finance safer will remain only half-done."
- Obamacare made a dent in extending coverage; a public option would bring down prices.
