Extra, Extra
Secrets Out: “The U.S. Secret Service has placed at least five agents on leave, including the head of the Pittsburgh field office, as a result of its investigation into last month’s assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump.”
+ Maduro Flame: “Venezuela’s highest court has upheld the re-election of Nicolás Maduro as president following accusations of widespread voter fraud in July’s poll. The decision by the Supreme Tribunal of Justice (TSJ) comes as the United Nations warned that the court lacked independence and impartiality.” This is disturbing for Venezuela and also serves as a warning for how messy our election could get.
+ Point Guard: “When Belle got a call last September that her 10-year-old had been sent to the vice principal’s office, she rushed over to the school. Her son Lee looked on anxiously as the vice principal explained the situation: The fifth grader had angrily pointed his finger in the shape of a gun. Belle scolded him for not thinking before he acted, agreeing with administrators at the East Tennessee public elementary school who felt that he had misbehaved.” But that’s not where things ended. ProPublica: A 10-Year-Old Pointed a Finger Gun. The Principal Kicked Him Out of His Tennessee School for a Year. (America is more strict about finger guns than real guns.)
+ Better Off Fed: “Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell sent a straightforward message to markets in a key speech on Friday, saying ‘the time has come‘ for the central bank to begin lowering interest rates.” Stop teasing us!
+ Ruffled Feathers: “For almost 20 years, a group of parrots and their owner lived at the Rutherford, a co-op apartment building in the ritzy Gramercy Park neighborhood of Manhattan. For almost as many years, the neighbors complained. The parrots shrieked and squawked, they said. The parrots shouted human words, but not clearly enough for the neighbors to follow their conversations. The parrots seemed to generally drive everyone mad. After years of complaints, the chorus of caws and cries became unbearable. So the building’s co-op board moved to evict the woman who cared for the animals.” Which brings us to this from the NYT (Gift Article): The Emotional Support Parrots vs. the Co-op Board.
