Monday, 24 October 2016

Evening Edition: Conflict over voter rights plays out in Ga. as presidential race tightens

Warren: Trump 'aggressively disrespects' half the voters; Sanders is prepared to be a liberal thorn in Clinton's side; McCain hangs on as Clinton aims at winning Arizona; 'Jackie' stands by account, says she had concerns about Rolling Stone article before it ran; The Pentagon demanded money back from National Guard soldiers. It’s still reviewing what to do next.; The DEA retreated as opioid addiction spiraled; A sign marking where Emmett Till was brutally slain in 1955 is now riddled with bullet holes; As 3 states flip, Trump's chances of winning slide closer to zero; Nazi slur for 'lying press' shouted at a Trump rally; A tale of two campaign headquarters: Clinton and Trump offices are miles away and worlds apart; 'Black Jeopardy' is SNL's best political sketch this year; 'The team to see': A veteran Post reporter recalls experiencing a Cubs game in 1945; Climate scientist dies after falling 100 feet into crevasse in Antarctica ; Doctors thought he just had jock itch. Then it spread.;
 
Evening Edition
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Conflict over voter rights plays out in Ga. as presidential race tightens
Activists said 100,000 voter registration applications have not been processed. One of the state's largest counties offered only one early-voting site. And the state's top election official has refused to extend voter registration deadlines in counties hardest hit by Hurricane Matthew.
Warren: Trump 'aggressively disrespects' half the voters
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, campaigning with Hillary Clinton, launched a broadside at the GOP candidate using his phrase from the last debate: "Nasty women have really had it with guys like you. ... And nasty women vote."
 
Sanders is prepared to be a liberal thorn in Clinton's side
Hillary Clinton's onetime primary rival wants to work with her if she is elected, but he will oppose appointments and legislation that don't pass muster with the left wing of her party.
 
McCain hangs on as Clinton aims at winning Arizona
It's a surprising turnaround for a senator who has come to symbolize Washington.
 
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'Jackie' stands by account, says she had concerns about Rolling Stone article before it ran
Jurors heard a deposition in which the University of Virginia student who described a brutal gang rape in the magazine said she felt pressured to cooperate with the reporter and expressed concerns about the article's veracity to friends and school administrators in the days before it published.
 
The Pentagon demanded money back from National Guard soldiers. It’s still reviewing what to do next.
Thousands of soldiers who received enlistment bonuses of at least $15,000 were later told the money wasn't really theirs and must be repaid.
 
The DEA retreated as opioid addiction spiraled
A decade ago, the Drug ­Enforcement Administration launched an aggressive campaign to curb a rising opioid epidemic that was killing thousands of Americans. But the drug industry fought back. Years later, enforcement cases dwindled to a "stunningly low" number.
 
A sign marking where Emmett Till was brutally slain in 1955 is now riddled with bullet holes
A graduate student working on a short film about the death of the black teen in Mississippi discovered that the marker had been vandalized.
 
As 3 states flip, Trump's chances of winning slide closer to zero
The electoral map just keeps looking grimmer and grimmer for Donald Trump.
 
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Nazi slur for 'lying press' shouted at a Trump rally
"Luegenpresse" is an anti-democracy rallying cry for xenophobic, right-wing groups.
 
A tale of two campaign headquarters: Clinton and Trump offices are miles away and worlds apart
The scenes outside are as wildly different as the candidates themselves.
 
'Black Jeopardy' is SNL's best political sketch this year
It starred Tom Hanks as a Trump supporter and showed that America's problems are as much about class as about race.
 
'The team to see': A veteran Post reporter recalls experiencing a Cubs game in 1945
"It felt as if we were being initiated into some sort of brotherhood of experienced baseball fans," he writes as Chicago advances to the World Series for the first time in 71 years.
 
Climate scientist dies after falling 100 feet into crevasse in Antarctica
Gordon Hamilton, 50, was studying how melting ice shelves would affect sea-level rise. He was driving a snowmobile when he hit the crevasse and fell into the ice.
 
Doctors thought he just had jock itch. Then it spread.
A pesky rash that a sales manager and his doctors had dismissed as inconsequential would take over — and threaten — his life.
 
 
     
 
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