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Wednesday's Morning Email: The Fight to Retake Kunduz from the Taliban
By Lauren Weber
Wednesday September 30th, 2015
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THE FIGHT BEGINS TO RETAKE KUNDUZ FROM THE TALIBAN "U.S. airstrikes hit Taliban positions overnight around a key northern city seized by insurgents this week as Afghan troops massed on the ground Wednesday ahead of what is likely to be a protracted battle to retake Kunduz." Special forces from a U.S.-led coalition have also been deployed to take back the city. And here's an overview of the Taliban's advancement in Afghanistan. [AP]
WATCH YOUR MORNING NEWS RUNDOWN Check out the new HuffPost Morning Newsbrief. [HuffPost]
KIM DAVIS' LAWYER CLAIMS SHE MET THE POPE "A Kentucky clerk who went to jail for defying a federal court's orders to issue same-sex marriage licenses says she met briefly with the pope during his historic visit to the United States. Vatican spokesman Rev. Federico Lombardi didn't deny the encounter took place, but said Wednesday in Rome he had no comment on the topic." [AP]
U.S. PULLING SPIES FROM CHINA Over fears their identities were compromised in the OPM hack. [CNN]
'WHAT'S HOLDING WOMEN BACK IN THE WORKFORCE?' "Women are 15 percent less likely than men to be promoted to the next level -- and at the current pace, it will be more than a century before there is gender equality in the C-suite." [WSJ]
GEORGIA'S ONLY WOMAN ON DEATH ROW EXECUTED Kelly Renee Gissendaner, who conspired with her boyfriend to kill her husband, was the first woman executed in Georgia in 70 years. Her boyfriend, who carried out the murder, will be eligible for parole in seven years. [Kim Bellware, HuffPost]
PLANNED PARENTHOOD AND GOP FACED OFF In a marathon five-hour hearing. [Marina Fang, HuffPost]
WHAT’S BREWING
TWITTER MAY ALLOW MORE THAN 140 CHARACTERS The possibilities seem endless now. [Recode]
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO WATCH ON NETFLIX BEFORE OCT. 1 Bring on the popcorn. [HuffPost]
RALPH LAUREN IS STEPPING DOWN AFTER ALMOST 50 YEARS Stefan Larsson, the president of Old Navy, will take the reins as CEO in November. [HuffPost]
WHERE HAS THE NEIGHBORHOOD BAR GONE? RIP MacLaren's. [The Awl]
JIM CARREY'S GIRLFRIEND FOUND DEAD "Jim Carrey's on-again, off-again girlfriend, Cathriona White, was found dead in her home in Los Angeles on Monday night, according to TMZ. The 30-year-old's exact cause of death has yet to be released at this time, but a rep for the Los Angeles Police Department told The Huffington Post they don't comment on suicide investigations." [HuffPost]
GOOGLE KNOWS EVERYTHING You can now search in Google Photos, the gallery and photo-sharing app, for people by name. [HuffPost]
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WHAT'S WORKING
NIGERIA MARKS POLIO MILESTONE "Nigeria has officially rid itself of the transmission of polio, which means Africa is one step closer to being completely free of the disease, the World Health Organization has declared." [HuffPost]
ON THE BLOG
'I DON'T WANT TO DIE ON CANCER'S TERMS' "And when that day comes, I want to have the option, here in my home state of California, to experience what Dan Diaz calls 'a gentle death.' Maybe I won't need to. Maybe I won't want to. But after facing the trauma of years with cancer, the last thing I want is to die on cancer's terms: a painful, slow, horrible and dehumanizing death." [HuffPost]
BEFORE YOU GO
~ Is this the first footage of "Game of Thrones" season six?
~ Why you freak out when a police car pulls up behind you, even if you haven't done anything wrong.
~ It's hard to be a grandma reading Drake lyrics.
~ The iOS 9 feature that could be eating ALL of your data.
~ What New York City looked like 400 years ago.
~ Awkward: ABC mixed up its star Priyanka Chopra with another Indian actress in a promotion for Chopra's new show.
~ This dad stopped a wedding to grab his daughter's stepdad to join him in walking her down the aisle.
~ The Halloween traditions you cannot do without.
~ It doesn't pay to always kill the parasite.
~ Derrick Rose just can't stop getting injured.
~ Ann Friedman talks the "paradoxical quest to build a personal brand."
~ The dog walker noncompete agreement.
~ Everything we know about the Tesla Model X.
~ And check out the final chapter in Steven Brill's Johnson & Johnson expose.
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Tuesday's Morning Email: U.N. Features Icy Showdown for Putin, Obama
By Lauren Weber
Tuesday September 29th, 2015
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TOP STORIES
OBAMA, PUTIN STILL AREN'T FRIENDS "U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin sharply disagreed Monday over the chaos in Syria, with Obama urging a political transition to replace the Syrian president but Putin warning it would be a mistake to abandon the current government. After dueling speeches at the United Nations General Assembly, Obama and Putin also met privately for 90 minutes -- their first face-to-face encounter in nearly a year." Here's a breakdown of their competing worldviews, as well as a history of all their awkward photo ops. [AP]
KEVIN MCCARTHY ANNOUNCES RUN FOR SPEAKER And Steve Scalise is fighting for House majority leader ten months after his white supremacy scandal. [Laura Barron-Lopez, HuffPost]
WATCH TODAY'S MORNING NEWSBRIEF Take a look at the six news items driving the day. [HuffPost]
AFGHAN SPECIAL FORCES HEAD TO KUNDUZ "A day after the Taliban took their first major city in 14 years, a counterattack was underway Tuesday, but ground forces sent from other provinces to recapture the northern city, Kunduz, were delayed by ambushes and roadside bombs, officials said." [NYT]
MEET THE 2015 MACARTHUR FELLOWS The 24 recipients of the "genius" grant, which will award them $625,000 over the next five years, range from a tap dancer to a stem cell biologist. [Katherine Brooks, HuffPost]
YOUR INTERNET ADS ARE ABOUT TO GET A LOT MORE INTRUSIVE "Online advertising giant Google will soon let marketers target ads to specific people using their email addresses when they use its search engine, Gmail or YouTube video platform … The tool will enable marketers to target ads to their existing customers and potentially to tailor messaging to them based on their purchase histories or other information." [WSJ]
NASA ANNOUNCES LIQUID WATER FOUND ON MARS Life on the red planet could be possible after all. [Ed Mazza, HuffPost]
THE NEW YORK TIMES PROFILED DONALD TRUMP When asked when this crazy political ride might end, the candidate said, “I have no idea. But I’m here now. And it’s beautiful." [NYT]
HUMANS OF NEW YORK SHARES MIGRANT PHOTOS "A man whose brother was murdered by ISIS, a woman whose husband died in the harrowing sea journey, a child who cried out 'kill me instead!' when she saw her mother being crushed by a throng of people struggling to board a boat: These are the emotional stories of refugees in Europe that were captured this week in a poignant photo series." [Dominique Mosbergen, HuffPost]
WHAT’S BREWING
TREVOR NOAH TAKES OVER 'DAILY SHOW' And becomes everyone's "stepdad." [HuffPost]
WILL SNL BE UP TO THE TASK THAT IS THE 2016 PRIMARY? How will the show manage to parody the farcical? [Vanity Fair]
WOMEN, SPORTS AND THE INTERNET "The ugly truth about women in sports and social media." [Sports Illustrated]
LIKE BLOWING STUFF UP? We have the chemistry GIFs for you. [HuffPost]
YOU WILL NEVER NOT BLOT YOUR PIZZA AGAIN Blotting your pizza saves you the calorie-equivalent of 20 slices a year. [HuffPost]
GUESS HOW MUCH MONEY JAMES BOND WRECKS IN CAR CRASHES Hint, it's in the millions. [Vanity Fair]
COUGAR TOWN Looks like Kate Hudson, 36, and Nick Jonas, 23, maybe "watched Netflix and chilled" this past weekend. [HuffPost]
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WHAT'S WORKING
FACEBOOK IS BRINGING INTERNET TO U.N. REFUGEE CAMPS "Facebook will help provide Internet access to United Nations refugee camps around the world, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and founder of the social media giant, said over the weekend. 'Connectivity will help refugees better access support from the aid community and maintain their links to family and loved ones,' Zuckerberg said. 'And Facebook is in a unique position to help maintain this lifeline.'" [HuffPost]
ON THE BLOG
CLIMATE CHANGE COMMITMENTS MUST COME FROM EAST AND WEST "Beyond the formal negotiations in preparation for Paris, parallel emphasis is also now needed on the 'softer' components of sustainable development and climate change mitigation. These include the behavioral patterns of individuals and firms. In part this relates to policy prescriptions on carbon regulation and carbon pricing." [HuffPost]
BEFORE YOU GO
~ Welcome to online ordering at Taco Bell.
~ Turns out using the iPhone if you're left-handed isn't a party.
~ The man proposed with the cutest homemade monopoly game. Gentleman, the gauntlet has been thrown.
~ Meet the American prequel, of sorts, to "Harry Potter."
~ Matt Damon is very aware of how you felt about his ponytail.
~ These snails are teeny tiny.
~ Stop the Facebook privacy status posts -- you're not doing anybody any good.
~ Remember that time George and Amal Clooney got married and took all these gorgeous photos? Just take a spin through their wedding photos and think about the advantages of the genetic lottery.
~ Why your haircut is all kinds of wrong.
~ Ariana Grande has gotten into the opera game.
~ This can't be Gordo from "Lizzie McGuire" fame … can it?
~ When you spend a year without shopping. (Can you imagine the withdrawal? Maybe this is a sign we have a problem).
~ Check out the new U.S. web design standards.
~ Tom Brady is trying to walk back that endorsement of Donald Trump.
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