By Lauren Weber
Wednesday September 23rd, 2015
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TOP STORIES
BASEBALL LEGEND YOGI BERRA DEAD AT 90 Baseball Hall of Famer Yogi Berra, a three-time MVP and member of 10 World Series championship teams as a player for the New York Yankees, died Tuesday of natural causes. He was 90. Tributes are pouring in for the legend -- check out some of his favorite "Yogisms." [Ed Mazza, HuffPost]
POPE FRANCIS LANDS IN U.S. The Pope landed Tuesday to much fanfare in D.C. for his first visit to the U.S. Take a look at his schedule, and the evolution of the Popemobile over the last 215 years. [Jaweed Kaleem]
THE LATEST IN THE HILLARY EMAIL KERFUFFLE The State Department contests that the request for Hillary Clinton's email was cursory, and the FBI allegedly recovered emails off her wiped server easily. [WaPo]
PRESIDENT XI JINPING: CHINA WANTS TO FIGHT CYBER CRIMES "Chinese President Xi Jinping said Tuesday that China and the United States could work together to address cyber crimes, a problem that has sparked mutual tension. Xi's statement came shortly after leaders from both countries signed an agreement to advance renewable energy and clean technologies to combat climate change." [AP]
RUBIO PICKS UP WALKER DONORS All about that money: Marco Rubio will allegedly inherit about two-thirds of Scott Walker's fundraising apparatus. [WSJ]
DRUG CEO TO CUT PRICES AFTER BACKLASH "Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli said Tuesday he would roll back the massive price increase for lifesaving drug Daraprim after a fierce public backlash ..." [Andy Campbell, HuffPost]
WHAT’S BREWING
SYRIAN WAR FORCES DOOMSDAY VAULT SEED WITHDRAWAL "The doomsday seed vault on Norway's remote Svalbard archipelago houses the world's backup supply of seeds to ensure crop diversity. It contains deposits of nearly 865,000 varieties of seeds buried within a mountain in case of catastrophe. Due to Syria's civil war, it will now allow a withdrawal of its contents for the first time in its existence." [Nick Robins-Early, HuffPost]
PRINT LIVES TO DIE ANOTHER DAY E-book sales are dropping. But still, RIP Borders. [NYT]
GOOGLE: YOU CAN NOW BLOCK AND UNSUBSCRIBE EMAILS Just not The Morning Email. [The Verge]
THIS IS REPORTEDLY THE NEXT CASE FOR 'SERIAL' Could they have one-upped Adnan Syed's case by diving into the mysterious question of whether or not Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is a deserter? [Vanity Fair]
AMY SCHUMER LANDED QUITE THE LUCRATIVE BOOK DEAL It’s rumored to be around $8 million to $10 million. The woman of the moment is pulling in the dough. [HuffPost]
IT TAKES A LOT TO BE A STADIUM DRINK VENDOR "We outfitted him with a Fitbit Flex before Penn State's second home game of the season to find out just how much of a workout he gets. While most in the stadium sat and cheered, he took 11,773 steps, walking nearly five miles and burning over 1,300 calories." [GQ]
IS ANYONE SURPRISED? Self-parking cars are way better than humans at parking. [Fusion]
A DEEP DIVE INTO NEVADA'S NUCLEAR PAST "From 1951, over four decades, the U.S. government carried out almost a thousand nuclear tests at this test site, earning it the nickname of the 'most bombed place on Earth.' Here, they took the crude nuclear weapons that had been dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 and honed their destructive power." [The Guardian]
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WHAT'S WORKING
GOOGLE RAISED $11 MILLION FOR REFUGEES IN THREE DAYS "Google launched a massive fundraising appeal last week for refugees and migrants, and the entire world stepped up to the challenge. The search engine pledged to match donations until the collective effort raised $11 million. It reached the goal in just 2 and 1/2 days." [HuffPost]
ON THE BLOG
GRIEF: THE LAST TABOO "What fascinates me is that women today are more open about the pain of childbirth than they are about the pain of grief. We used to hide the reality of childbirth, but now we talk openly about ways to help each other cope with the pain." [HuffPost]
BEFORE YOU GO
~ Chris Wallace refuses to play the Trump phone game.
~ Ever wonder how the Potter family got all their money? J.K. Rowling decided to spill.
~ A look at Brian Williams’ first day back.
~ Can you spot the airplane from outer space?
~ All the "Empire" gifs to tide you over before the premiere of season two tonight.
~ Ryan Reynolds sucks at building an IKEA crib as much as you would.
~ Why no carmaker stays top dog for long.
~ So much for being team players: ESPN is considering laying off 200 to 300 employees.
~ The power of the blue blazer.
~ Congrats to Ta-Nehisi Coates, who will be writing a new "Black Panther" series for Marvel.
~ How old the presidential candidates would look by 2025.
~ In chapter 9 of Steven Brill's Johnson & Johnson expose, what happens when the Feds close in.
~ Yeah, you should worry about China's air pollution.
~ Five things you can buy from the Titanic today.
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