Today’s comic by Jen Sorensen is FOX's female follies:
• Clinton campaign puts together transition team headed by Ken Salazar
The campaign said Mr. Salazar would lead four team members: Tom Donilon, who served as national security adviser under President Obama; Jennifer Granholm, the former governor of Michigan; Neera Tanden, the president of the Center for American Progress; and Maggie Williams, the director of Harvard’s Institute of Politics and a longtime Clinton confidante.
Two top campaign policy advisers for the Democratic nominee, Ed Meier and Ann O’Leary, will also shift full-time to the transition efforts. Heather Boushey, the executive director of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, will be the team’s chief economist.
• French media have stopped publishing terrorists’ photos. Research indicates it was the right move.
• Obama administration released 15 Gitmo prisoners over the weekend: The Pentagon flew the 12 Yemenis and three Afghans from the military base in Cuba’s Guantánamo Bay to the United Arab Emirates, which has previously accepted five Gitmo prisoners. That leaves 61 inmates at the prison. On his second day in office, President Obama vowed to close the prison within a year. But Congress made that impossible by blocking his efforts. See Monday’s coverage here. See a list and mini-biographies of the 61 here.
• John Oliver skewers the American Petroleum Institute after it plagiarized opening sequence of his show:
Oliver pointed out on Sunday that the lobbying arm of the oil industry aired a commercial during the Rio Olympics that essentially carbon-copied the opening credit sequence of his own show. In response, he aired an imitation of one of API’s more shameless millennial-targeted ads.
A sunny, #relatable actress in Oliver’s version of the ad explains: “Did you know that [API] had research warning them about the link between fossil fuels and climate change as early as 1968? Maybe that’s why their logo looks like it’s being impaled by a polar bear’s dick.”
• It's Tuesday, August 16, and Day 185 since Justice Antonin Scalia died and Mitch McConnell decided no nominee would get any Senate attention: No meetings, no hearings, no votes. It's also Day 148 since Merrick Garland was nominated by President Obama to fill that vacancy.
• By the end of the 21st Century, the Earth may be too hot for the Summer Olympics.
• Sub-atomic particle may point the way to understanding “dark matter”:
Recent findings indicating the possible discovery of a previously unknown subatomic particle may be evidence of a fifth fundamental force of nature, according to a paper published in the journal Physical Review Letters by theoretical physicists at the University of California, Irvine.
"If true, it's revolutionary," said Jonathan Feng, professor of physics & astronomy. "For decades, we've known of four fundamental forces: gravitation, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak nuclear forces. If confirmed by further experiments, this discovery of a possible fifth force would completely change our understanding of the universe, with consequences for the unification of forces and dark matter."
• On today's “encore presentation” Kagro in the Morning show, it’s the 8/18/15 show: Greg Dworkin rounds up 2016 news. Trump drives Gop policy. Will voters convince themselves he's electable? Extreme birtherism! KY gov trolls VA. John Lott poses as a woman. Robots are coming for us all.
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