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Arts
‘Better Call Saul’ Season 4 Premiere Recap: Cross to Bear
Jimmy learns what happened to his brother. His reaction is … complicated.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/03/arts/television/better-call-saul-season-4-refresher.html
Netflix.
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U.S.
Pentagon Cracks Down on GPS Software on Devices in Combat Zones
The order, which stops short of an outright ban, came after data from the fitness app Strava highlighted the exercise routes of users on American military bases in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.Ok
Sell tracking GPS devices to the Taliban.
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Technology
A Generation Grows Up in China Without Google, Facebook or Twitter
Many foreign internet giants are blocked, leaving some young Chinese to wonder what those services even are — and reinforcing Beijing’s ideological control.Pointless worry.
Eye-candy sells.
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Magazine
Kevin McAleenan Says the Border Patrol Doesn’t Make the Laws
The commissioner of Customs and Border Protection on enforcing the Trump administration’s orders, child separation and the Abolish ICE movement.The results are criminal.
Prosecution will come.
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U.S.
Emmett Till Sign Is Hit With Bullets Again, 35 Days After Being Replaced
Four gunshots were fired into a sign on the banks of the Tallahatchie River in Mississippi, where Emmett’s mutilated corpse was found in 1955.Racism continues.
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U.S.
How Kris Kobach Built a National Profile
Mr. Kobach has advised President Trump and sought the spotlight on issues of immigration and voting fraud. His political career began in 1999 on a suburban City Council.Kris Kobach wants to be on the dole.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare
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World
A Dream Ended on a Mountain Road: The Cyclists and the ISIS Militants
Two American cyclists had a vision of the world, or, at least, what it could be. The men who mowed them down in Tajikistan had a starkly different one.Living is not safe.
Know the local politics.
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World
Ex-Hong Kong Leader Heightens Pressure on Journalists’ Group
A dispute over a talk by the head of a pro-independence political party may test the limits of free speech in the semiautonomous Chinese territory.Business as usual.
Keeping the Hong Kong identity and privilege is first.
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U.S.
Boston’s First Black Police Commissioner Is Sworn In
William G. Gross will lead a force that has faced criticism in recent months for racial disparities and is far less diverse than the city as a whole.This should mean little change.
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Sports
We Use Sports Terms All the Time. But Where Do They Come From?
From “wild-goose chase” to “throw in the towel” to “there’s the rub,” these sports idioms are part of our everyday conversation. Here’s a look at their origins.No surprise.
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