By Lauren Weber
Tuesday August 4th, 2015
TOP STORIES
FIVE WAYS OBAMA'S SUCCESSOR CAN UNDERMINE HIS CLIMATE CHANGE RULES "Undoing regulations isn’t as easy as it may sound. But environmental advocates told The Huffington Post that Obama’s successor could stall or undermine the regulations in myriad ways -- and maybe even reverse them altogether, although that would be difficult." The fight against Obama's plan, which aims to cut carbon emissions from power plants, has already begun. Meanwhile, the world’s glaciers are melting at record speed. [Jonathan Cohn, HuffPost]
SENATE DEMOCRATS BLOCK ATTEMPT TO DEFUND PLANNED PARENTHOOD Republicans fell seven votes short of the 60 they needed to advance a bill to the Senate floor that would defund the program. [Laura Bassett, HuffPost]
BEHIND THE THAW WITH THE EGYPTIAN REGIME John Kerry's meeting with top Egyptian officials follows the recent sale of a "sophisticated, military-grade mobile surveillance system" to the country. [Akbar Ahmed, Ali Watkins and Sophia Jones, HuffPost]
DELTA AND AMERICAN AIRLINES WILL BAN THE SHIPMENT OF BIG GAME TROPHIES The two airlines have said they will no longer fly buffalo, elephant, leopard, lion and rhino trophies. [Alexander Kaufman, HuffPost]
POLICE CHIEFS TRY TO PIECE TOGETHER REASONING FOR NATIONAL VIOLENT CRIME SPIKE “'We had this meeting as an urgent summit because we felt a sense of urgency because people are dying,' D.C. Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier said at a news conference after the summit. 'We have not seen what we’re seeing right now in decades.'” [WaPo]
EXPECTING SILICON VALLEY BENEFITS IN YOUR NEW JOB People want to feel like they work at Google, and free food and glamorous spaces can go a long way toward keeping employees happy. [WSJ]
KRAFT RECALLS 36,000 CHEESE SINGLES The singles in question have an adhesive packing film that "may remain adhered to the slice after the wrapper has been removed," thus causing a serious choking hazard. [Susy Strutner, HuffPost]
WHAT’S BREWING
LOVE APPEARS TO BE DEAD Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale are calling it quits after 13 years of marriage. And Reba McEntire and Narvel Blackstock are divorcing after 26 years of marriage. [HuffPost]
BUT WAIT... Will Smith is making it clear he and Jada Pinkett still got it. [HuffPost]
AMY SCHUMER ENLISTS SOME FAMILY HELP IN CALL FOR GUN CONTROL She and her cousin, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), made an emotional plea yesterday for gun control. Their joint press conference comes two weeks after two people died after John Houser opened fire at a screening of Schumer's new movie, "Trainwreck." [HuffPost]
WE WILL REALLY MISS JON STEWART "In considering the place he has come to occupy at the nexus of pop culture, politics and satire -- not to mention media literacy -- it's fair to ask: Is Jon Stewart, as cast in his 'Daily Show' role, irreplaceable?" [Reuters]
BEHIND BRITAIN'S ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM "From the beginning, my investigations revealed a once-unimaginable scope of governmental surveillance, collusion, and concealment by the British and U.S. governments -- practices that were always as much about domestic spying during times of peace as they were about keeping citizens safe from supposed foreign enemies, thus giving the British government the potential power to become, as our source that night had put it, a virtual 'police state.'” [The Intercept]
ULTIMATE FRISBEE MAY BECOME AN OLYMPIC SPORT Better practice that long reach. [HuffPost]
YOUR COLLEGE TEXTBOOK IS 1041 PERCENT MORE EXPENSIVE Than it would have been if you went to school in 1977. [NBC]
WANT NIGHTMARES? Check out these photos of abandoned insane asylums. [HuffPost]
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WHAT'S WORKING
BEHIND THE POTENTIAL EBOLA VACCINE "A group of researchers from several organizations, including Doctors Without Borders and the World Health Organization, are currently testing a preliminary vaccine in Guinea. The 2,014 patients who have received it have remained Ebola-free even after exposure to the virus." [HuffPost]
ON THE BLOG
THANK YOU, ZUCKERBERGS, FOR TALKING ABOUT MISCARRIAGE "Yes, losing my pregnancy was the worst thing that has ever happened to me. But it was also a universal experience, and one that now connected me to a cloud of mothers like Priscilla who gave me hope for myself and the future of my family." [HuffPost]
BEFORE YOU GO
~ Happy birthday, Mr. President.
~ The National Baseball Congress has suspended the use of batboys and batgirls in its World Series games in light of the death of 9-year-old batboy Kaiser Carlile.
~ Congrats to Zooey Deschanel, who welcomed a baby girl and got secretly married in June to Jacob Pechenik.
~ Eminem talks his 81-pound weight loss after getting clean.
~ Zendaya explains the difference between cultural appreciation and appropriation.
~ Your Mac is no longer safe from firmware worms.
~ Disney princesses as baller grandmas.
~ It's not in your head -- all the creepy pop song movie trailers are really disturbing for a reason.
~ Yeah, you're going to want to click on the famous movie character version of "Uptown Funk."
~ Quantam physics, mapped.
~ Amazon just skirted around the Woody Allen question.
~ The latest dinner party etiquette from the great-great-granddaughter of Emily Post.
~ You are allowed to start liking Tom Cruise again -- maybe.
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