Monday, October 15, 2018

Monday's Mire

Related: Sunday's Muck

From the top down:

Warren releases results of DNA test

Ahead of her likely 2020 bid.

State’s stalled plan to regulate Airbnb leaves cities in limbo

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Spotlight
Aaron Hernandez

MBTA will replace North Station drawbridges,

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Harvard, Brigham call for more than 30 retractions of cardiac stem cell research

Research papers “included falsified and/or fabricated data?” 

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Calls for new regulation mount as limo crash victims mourned

US lacks Latino historical sites and landmarks

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In Pakistan, an ambitious effort to plant 10 billion trees takes root

Boeing 737 flies into brick wall

It just keeps going, same as the jet that crashed into the South Tower.

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Democrats go all-in on health care in midterms

I'm told it's a new strategy, but it looks like an old strategy after the Kavanaugh failure.

Voters say they’re more likely to cast ballots in these midterms

The Washington ComPost tells me it will help Democrats.

Cuomo asks FBI to look into clash outside GOP club

Kavanaugh one of the Proud Boys?


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Archbishop Óscar Romero and Pope Paul VI are made saints

I have no opinion on that.

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Violent crime in Mass. fell in 2017, but homicides rose

Dueling rallies ahead of Harvard affirmative action lawsuit

Many protesters objected to the presence of huge banners in support of the president brought by a group called Chinese Americans for Trump.

It's an opportunity for change.

The Rev. F. Washington Jarvis III, headmaster who treated Roxbury Latin ‘like his parish,’ dies at 79

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Boy, are my wings tired

There is a hole in our family.’

Their pet died.

David Hogg and other panelists address gun violence at HUBweek

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Sears, once a place to buy everything, nears a bankruptcy filing

Vertex also faces a drug-price fight in Canada

That's because Canadians smoke a lot of pot.

"Last week was all about fear. This week, investors could turn to greed. After the stock market was rocked by its worst week in seven months, investors will now start to contend with the quarterly parade of updates on profits and losses from corporate America. These reports will either give credence to investors’ fears — that rising borrowing and operating costs, along with trade tensions, could hurt growth — or ease them. Strong economic growth and steep cuts in corporate tax rates produced overall jumps in corporate profits of 27 percent in the first quarter and 25 percent in the second. That helped push stock benchmarks to record levels as recently as September. For the third quarter, analysts at the financial data firm Refinitiv expect profit to rise 21.5 percent for the large companies in the S&P 500 index, but there are risks — and they mirror the worries that have dogged the markets in recent weeks. Foremost among them was a relatively sudden rise in interest rates....."

Except they have been telegraphing them for months, NYT!!

Yeah, nothing to $ee here!

"Harris Corp. and L3 Technologies Inc. have agreed to merge, giving rise to a major US defense contractor focused on communications and electronics with a current combined market value of $33.5 billion. The deal has been approved by both companies’ boards and will result in L3 holders getting 1.3 shares of Harris common stock, they said Sunday. Harris shareholders would own about 54 percent of the combined company. The new L3 Harris Technologies Inc. will be the nation’s sixth-largest defense contractor. New York-based L3 and Melbourne, Fla.-based Harris describe the transaction as a merger of equals. Each company is known for its capabilities in communications and electronics."

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Senator to help launch training for building submarines

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"Buying a used business jet is getting harder — and that’s a sign of a long-awaited shift in the market for luxury planes....."

That's why they were late to the summit.

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Wanna go to a ‘movie?’