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| Munich, Republican Convention, Hillary Clinton: Your Friday Evening Briefing | Munich, Republican Convention, Hillary Clinton: Your Friday Evening Briefing |
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| (Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) | (Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) |
| Good evening. Here’s the latest. | Good evening. Here’s the latest. |
| 1. At least one gunman opened fire near a shopping mall in Munich on Friday, killing at least eight people and wounding several others in what the German police said they suspect was a terrorist attack. | 1. At least one gunman opened fire near a shopping mall in Munich on Friday, killing at least eight people and wounding several others in what the German police said they suspect was a terrorist attack. |
| A manhunt for the gunman shut down traffic and public transportation across the city, Germany’s third-most populous. | A manhunt for the gunman shut down traffic and public transportation across the city, Germany’s third-most populous. |
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| 2. With the Democratic convention coming up Monday, Hillary Clinton announced that Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia will be her running mate. Mr. Kaine, above, is a popular politician, and his state is a November battleground. | |
| Backers of Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary had hoped for a more liberal No. 2, like Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts. | |
| But Mr. Kaine may help Mrs. Clinton attract white male voters and independents, who could be critical in her contest with Mr. Trump. | |
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| 3. A day after Donald J. Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination with a hard-line, 75-minute speech in which he vowed to restore order to a nation he said was in crisis, Mr. Trump revived a feud with Senator Ted Cruz, a primary rival who declined to endorse him at the Republican convention. | |
| “I don’t want his endorsement,” Mr. Trump said Friday at a news conference where he spoke of a “love-filled” convention. “If he gives it, I won’t accept it.” | “I don’t want his endorsement,” Mr. Trump said Friday at a news conference where he spoke of a “love-filled” convention. “If he gives it, I won’t accept it.” |
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| 4. Win or lose, Mr. Trump has ushered in what appear to be lasting changes to the Republican Party. Despite rejecting some of the G.O.P.’s core principles — on trade and immigration, for example — he is now the party’s standard-bearer. | |
| “Every successful Republican president — Lincoln, McKinley, Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagan — has remade the party in his own image,” said Roger Stone, an adviser to Mr. Trump. “We are leaving the Bush country-club party.” | “Every successful Republican president — Lincoln, McKinley, Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagan — has remade the party in his own image,” said Roger Stone, an adviser to Mr. Trump. “We are leaving the Bush country-club party.” |
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| 5. Word that 45 more athletes were suspected of doping in the last two Summer Games added fuel to an Olympic scandal. | 5. Word that 45 more athletes were suspected of doping in the last two Summer Games added fuel to an Olympic scandal. |
| Re-examined drug tests raised the tally of accused athletes to 98. More than half the new number were medalists. | Re-examined drug tests raised the tally of accused athletes to 98. More than half the new number were medalists. |
| Also on Friday, officials at the Paralympics opened proceedings to consider banning Russia from this summer’s games. That could add pressure on the International Olympic Committee to discipline Russia ahead of the Rio Games, which begin in two weeks. | Also on Friday, officials at the Paralympics opened proceedings to consider banning Russia from this summer’s games. That could add pressure on the International Olympic Committee to discipline Russia ahead of the Rio Games, which begin in two weeks. |
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| 6. Will Fox News lose some of the bite cultivated over more than two decades by Roger Ailes, whose departure this week was announced to employees by Rupert Murdoch, above left? | 6. Will Fox News lose some of the bite cultivated over more than two decades by Roger Ailes, whose departure this week was announced to employees by Rupert Murdoch, above left? |
| That’s a question for many Republicans, who have found the network a powerful amplifier of issues that hadn’t registered in the mainstream media. | That’s a question for many Republicans, who have found the network a powerful amplifier of issues that hadn’t registered in the mainstream media. |
| One major beneficiary of the network’s style: Mr. Trump. It gave him a venue for the “birther” controversy over President Obama, as well as twice as much airtime in this year’s Republican primary compared with his nearest rival, Mr. Cruz. | One major beneficiary of the network’s style: Mr. Trump. It gave him a venue for the “birther” controversy over President Obama, as well as twice as much airtime in this year’s Republican primary compared with his nearest rival, Mr. Cruz. |
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| 7. A rape victim in Texas has sued public officials, saying they jailed her for nearly a month out of fear that she would otherwise not testify against the man suspected of assaulting her. | 7. A rape victim in Texas has sued public officials, saying they jailed her for nearly a month out of fear that she would otherwise not testify against the man suspected of assaulting her. |
| The woman, identified as Jane Doe, says she was held at the same county jail as the suspect, where she was attacked by an inmate, denied medication and punched in the face by a guard. | The woman, identified as Jane Doe, says she was held at the same county jail as the suspect, where she was attacked by an inmate, denied medication and punched in the face by a guard. |
| “If you take out the sexual violation itself and you look at the underlying psychological trauma,” her lawyer, Sean Buckley, said, “this is exactly what these defendants did to her again while she was still in recovery for her rape.” | “If you take out the sexual violation itself and you look at the underlying psychological trauma,” her lawyer, Sean Buckley, said, “this is exactly what these defendants did to her again while she was still in recovery for her rape.” |
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| 8. Police officers from as far away as New Jersey and Los Angeles filed into a suburban church in Baton Rouge, La., to remember one of their own, Matthew Gerald, a 41-year-old rookie officer who was among three officers fatally shot there on Sunday. | 8. Police officers from as far away as New Jersey and Los Angeles filed into a suburban church in Baton Rouge, La., to remember one of their own, Matthew Gerald, a 41-year-old rookie officer who was among three officers fatally shot there on Sunday. |
| “When Matt answered the call to become a police officer, my prayers were answered and our marriage was made anew — as only God can do,” his wife, Dechia Badeaux Gerald, said in a letter distributed at the service. | “When Matt answered the call to become a police officer, my prayers were answered and our marriage was made anew — as only God can do,” his wife, Dechia Badeaux Gerald, said in a letter distributed at the service. |
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| 9. Despite her slim build, Claire Walker Johnson of Queens, above, has several medical conditions often linked to obesity. | 9. Despite her slim build, Claire Walker Johnson of Queens, above, has several medical conditions often linked to obesity. |
| She belongs to a small group of very thin people who are helping scientists unlock the mystery of why severely overweight people often develop serious medical conditions. | She belongs to a small group of very thin people who are helping scientists unlock the mystery of why severely overweight people often develop serious medical conditions. |
| They’ve learned that the link between obesity and conditions like Type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure has less to do with fat itself than with how people store it, a fact scientists are using to create new drug treatments. | They’ve learned that the link between obesity and conditions like Type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure has less to do with fat itself than with how people store it, a fact scientists are using to create new drug treatments. |
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| 10. Hugo, Colo., faces a peculiar problem: Officials say its water supply may be tainted by THC, marijuana’s psychoactive ingredient. | 10. Hugo, Colo., faces a peculiar problem: Officials say its water supply may be tainted by THC, marijuana’s psychoactive ingredient. |
| County officials found THC in the water in six out of 10 sites tested and, on Friday, state investigators took samples to a lab for more sophisticated tests. The town has no dispensaries or greenhouses, and no one has reported feeling sick or intoxicated from drinking its water. | County officials found THC in the water in six out of 10 sites tested and, on Friday, state investigators took samples to a lab for more sophisticated tests. The town has no dispensaries or greenhouses, and no one has reported feeling sick or intoxicated from drinking its water. |
| “What a way to get our town on the news,” said Patsie Smith, a former mayor. | “What a way to get our town on the news,” said Patsie Smith, a former mayor. |
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| 11. Meet the honeyguide: a woodpecker-like bird that lives up to its name by leading African tribesmen to the best beehives. | 11. Meet the honeyguide: a woodpecker-like bird that lives up to its name by leading African tribesmen to the best beehives. |
| New research details how the Yao people of northern Mozambique use sounds and gestures to communicate with the birds in order to find sources of honey, a relationship that may well predate humanity’s collaboration with dogs. | New research details how the Yao people of northern Mozambique use sounds and gestures to communicate with the birds in order to find sources of honey, a relationship that may well predate humanity’s collaboration with dogs. |
| What do the birds get out of the exchange? Fresh, yummy beeswax. | What do the birds get out of the exchange? Fresh, yummy beeswax. |
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| Your Evening Briefing is posted at 6 p.m. Eastern. | Your Evening Briefing is posted at 6 p.m. Eastern. |
| And don’t miss Your Morning Briefing, posted weekdays at 6 a.m. Eastern, and Your Weekend Briefing, posted at 6 a.m. Sundays. | And don’t miss Your Morning Briefing, posted weekdays at 6 a.m. Eastern, and Your Weekend Briefing, posted at 6 a.m. Sundays. |
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