Power move.

Pacific Gas & Electric cuts power to 800,000 customers in California to avoid wildfires caused by winds damaging power equipment. 1/24

The utility has long warned it would make such a cut, but critics are still furious. SoCal may get cuts next as Santa Ana winds roll in. 2/24

Maybe it’s time for Californians to change the way they live. 3/24

Unrelated, probably: White Claw may have outsold Budweiser this summer. 4/24

Turkish delight? Pompeo insists Trump didn’t give Turkey’s attack on the Kurds a “green light.” 5/24

Trump insists the Kurds aren’t true American allies because they didn’t fight at Normandy. 6/24

The last time the United States abandoned allies in the Middle East, we wound up in a war with Iraq. 7/24

Outlets are jostling on the Trump-skeptical side of conservative media, admiring The New Republic of the '80s and '90s. 8/24

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky says Trump didn’t blackmail him during their phone call. 9/24

Worth noting: Before he became president, Zelensky was a comedian on TV who specialized in satire. 10/24

Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke win Nobel Prizes for Literature (for 2018 and 2019). 11/24

Checking your email in an airport after you win the Nobel Prize looks like this. 12/24

A "synchotron" accelerates electrons to nearly the speed of light, so they emit light 10 billion times brighter than the sun. 13/24

Using touch-screens as a training tool is opening up a whole new world of dog-human communication. 14/24

Apple bows to China by removing an app from its store used by Hong Kong protesters. 15/24

Average typing speeds on mobiles are now 38 words per minute compared to about 52 on a standard keyboard. 16/24

Your Thursday moment of Zen: How to make model apple trees for your trainset. 17/24

From Bessie Smith to Etta James, to The Band and Drive-by Truckers, 10 songs about trains tell a story of the South. 18/24

Stories come to light of horrific abuse endured by enslaved people working at Southern colleges before the Civil War. 19/24

Greenwich Village gentrified a long time ago. Now it's seen as a harbinger of New York City's future. 20/24

Nearly three years after Los Angeles passed Proposition HHH—$1.2 billion to fight homelessness—zero supportive housing units have opened. 21/24

The unseen victims of the "Varsity Blues" scandal are the more-deserving students who lacked shortcuts. 22/24

Watch: Felipe Nunes manages to skate professionally despite a train accident when he was six that left him without feet. 23/24

Slightly absurdist illustrations by Derek Zheng. 24/24

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