Extra, Extra

Wiped Off the Map: In a tense meeting last week, Putin “tossed aside maps of the front line and urged Kyiv to concede its entire Donbas region to Russia to clinch a deal.” Oh wait, that wasn’t Putin. That was Trump. WaPo: In tense meeting, Trump told Zelensky to concede land, meet Putin’s demands.

+ We’ll All Go Down Together: “The services affected included WhatsApp, the British government’s website and tax services, the payment app Venmo, the cryptocurrency platform Coinbase, games at The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal’s website. Dozens of other companies and retailers — including Amazon, Venmo, Hulu, Snapchat, McDonald’s, Ring doorbells and the game Fortnite — also experienced interruptions.” When AWS has an outage, it takes a lot of services with it. Amazon Outage Forces Hundreds of Websites Offline for Hours.

+ Is There an ER for ERs? “Alabama is one of 10 states that did not expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. Because many patients show up at emergency rooms without insurance, hospitals in Alabama deliver hundreds of millions annually in care that is uncompensated.” Alabama in danger of losing half of its rural hospitals. As I wrote last week, people are voting, and acting, against their own personal health and well being. Red, White, and Code Blue.

+ Jewel Case: “It was the most brazen — and possibly the most costly — theft ever staged at the Louvre, which houses the country’s most prized art collections. French politicians publicly mourned the loss and railed against those they deemed responsible, loudly demanding to know how such a thing could happen at the world’s most famous museum at 9:30 on a Sunday morning.” NYT (Gift Article): In Just 7 Brazen Minutes, Thieves Grab ‘Priceless’ Jewels From Louvre.

+ We Talkin’ Bout Practioner: A career path you may not have seen coming. The N.F.L. to Nursing Pipeline.

+ The Shohei Kid: “This is Beethoven at a piano. This is Shakespeare with a quill. This is Michael Jordan in the Finals. This is Tiger Woods in Sunday red. This is too good to be true with no reason to doubt it. This is the beginning of every baseball conversation and the end of the debate: Shohei Ohtani is the best baseball player who has ever played the game.” WaPo (Gift Article): Shohei Ohtani just played the greatest game in baseball history. (Let’s not let this otherworldly performance distract us from the fact that we hate the Dodgers.)