Today’s comic by Jen Sorensen is Pod people::
Press harder:
It’s back-to-school time — as well as campaign season — and lawmakers are becoming increasingly focused on the growing cost of pens: EpiPens, that is.
Members of Congress are expressing rising alarm about the increasing costs of the lifesaving injection device for people with severe allergies, and they are hearing from anxious parents.
How many more like her are out there?
If you’ve spent any time in downtown Washington, you’ve probably seen 80-year-old Wanda Witter. [...]
For years, Witter bedded down for the night at 13th and G streets NW, on the concrete in her blue sleeping bag, pulled up tight to keep the rats and cockroaches out. Her tower of three suitcases was stacked on her hand cart and bike-locked to the patio chairs next to her.
She may have even told you that inside those bags is all the paperwork to prove the government owes her more than $100,000. And she was right. [...]
“She had all the paperwork there, neatly organized, in order. She was right all along. They did owe her all that money,” marveled Turner, 56.
Drip, drip, drip:
Former Fox News host Andrea Tantaros says in a lawsuit she was sexually harassed by former network chief Roger Ailes and other top executives. [...]
She says in the suit that the network "operates like a sex-fueled, Playboy mansion-like cult, steeped in intimidation, indecency and misogyny."
Mind. Blown.
With a little help from fast-food chain KFC, thousands of fried chicken lovers aren't going to find themselves a little extra crispy from laying out in the sun too long this summer.
Some 3,000 tubes of fried chicken-scented sunscreen were snapped up in two hours Monday in a promotion for KFC's extra-crispy recipe, officials said.
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: Trump hikes his HQ rent. Lewandowski says it’s too dangerous to campaign in black neighborhoods. TX maternity morbidity skyrockets under “pro-life” policies. You can’t just shut down & then restart health clinics. A little like the Clinton Foundation?
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