Wednesday, 21 September 2016

Evening Edition: Man fatally shot by Charlotte police was armed, chief says

Debate swirls around black man's actions prior to fatal police shooting in Tulsa; Here are some reasons why Trump's tax returns haven't been leaked; Take a virtual tour of the African American Museum; Indian woman stabbed more than 20 times in broad daylight. Video shows passersby doing nothing.; Suspected NYC bomber Ahmad Rahami cited al-Qaeda and ISIS, FBI says; Lawmakers accuse executives who hiked price of lifesaving drug EpiPen of getting 'filthy rich'; U.S. calls on Russia and Syria to ground all aircraft in northwest Syria; Trump's campaign manager has no clue what a news conference is; Trump's absolutely ridiculous response to The Post's Trump Foundation story; Signs of panic and rebellion in the heart of the Islamic State's self-proclaimed caliphate; NASA spots a seemingly impossible cloud on Titan — for the second time; How scientists read an ancient and fragile biblical scroll without unrolling it; A mysterious polio-like illness that paralyzes people may be on the rise; Why I regret letting my teen sign up for an AP course;
 
Evening Edition
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Man fatally shot by Charlotte police was armed, chief says
Sixteen officers and numerous protesters were injured as they clashed after a black man was fatally shot by a black officer outside an apartment complex Tuesday. Police said the man was armed, but his family disputed that claim.
Debate swirls around black man's actions prior to fatal police shooting in Tulsa
Attorneys representing Terence Crutcher's family said he could not have reached into the window of his car, as police said, because photos show the window closed.
 
Here are some reasons why Trump's tax returns haven't been leaked
Tens of thousands of people could see the GOP nominee's tax returns. But not the public.
 
Take a virtual tour of the African American Museum
Underground, a stark path winds chronologically and unflinchingly from slavery through civil rights and beyond. Aboveground, bold, busy galleries celebrate some of the cultural contributions African Americans have made to the country and the world. "It's as sobering as it is triumphant," said curator Michelle Wilkinson.
 
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Indian woman stabbed more than 20 times in broad daylight. Video shows passersby doing nothing.
The man who allegedly killed the woman in North Delhi had stalked her for the previous year and a half after she rejected his marriage proposal, India media reported.
 
Suspected NYC bomber Ahmad Rahami cited al-Qaeda and ISIS, FBI says
A journal found with the 28-year-old when he was captured Tuesday, included a passage he had written that God willing, "the sounds of the bombs will be heard in the streets," according to an FBI complaint.
 
Lawmakers accuse executives who hiked price of lifesaving drug EpiPen of getting 'filthy rich'
Members of the House Oversight Committee wanted to know why drugmaker Mylan raised the price of the medication by 500 percent over the past decade.
 
U.S. calls on Russia and Syria to ground all aircraft in northwest Syria
The Obama administration has said Russia is responsible for an airstrike on a humanitarian convoy and accused Moscow of inventing its "own facts" to explain the attack.
 
Trump's campaign manager has no clue what a news conference is
Kellyanne Conway, Donald Trump's campaign manager, sat down for an interview with CNN's Erin Burnett on Tuesday to talk about the state of the campaign. It got a little weird. Here's the annotated transcript.
 
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Trump's absolutely ridiculous response to The Post's Trump Foundation story
A reporter isn't biased because you don't like the facts he or she has uncovered or because those facts don't comport with your broader vision of this race.
 
Signs of panic and rebellion in the heart of the Islamic State's self-proclaimed caliphate
ISIS has been carrying out mass arrests in Mosul as it faces the prospect of losing the largest city it controls, while an opposition group has launched a graffiti campaign.
 
NASA spots a seemingly impossible cloud on Titan — for the second time
The ice clouds on Saturn's moon puzzled scientists for years, but now they think that they form in the same way as those that threaten the Earth's ozone layer.
 
How scientists read an ancient and fragile biblical scroll without unrolling it
The 1,500-year-old Israeli scroll, which contains verses from Leviticus, was scanned and then digitally unrolled, preserving the original document.
 
A mysterious polio-like illness that paralyzes people may be on the rise
Most cases of acute flaccid myelitis begin as a fever or a respiratory illness before developing into paralysis. In the first seven months of this year, 17 states reported cases of the rare condition.
 
Why I regret letting my teen sign up for an AP course
The author said she had hoped her son would explore advanced academics, but found that the whole point of the class was to pass a regimen of tests and quizzes while hurtling from the prehistoric era to the 21st century.
 
 
     
 
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