Today’s comic by Ruben Bolling is The true, top-secret story behind Trump's North Korea conflict:
• Well, better late than never. Ex-RNC spokesman say he can’t urge people of color to vote for Trump: Ya think?
Former Republican National Committee (RNC) communications director Douglas Heye on Wednesday said President Trump's remarks about the violence in Charlottesville, Va., make it difficult to make the case that minorities should vote for GOP candidates.
"After that Trump press conference, I don't know how I can tell any minority why they should vote Republican," Heye said.
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• While Houston touts its green transformation, one neighborhood left out. Would it surprise you to know that the divide is racial and economic?
The toxic tour sometimes concludes in the neighborhood of Manchester, a six-square-mile grid of streets where the petrochemical industry towers directly over small homes. Where, according to EPA databases, Valero Refining can produce up to 160,000 barrels a day of gasoline and other fuels. Where the Ship Channel Bridge, one of the busiest stretches of Interstate 610, carries tens of thousands of vehicles per day (along with their emissions) directly over homes. And where about 4,000 people live — more than 95 percent of whom are people of color, and 90 percent low income.
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• Father and son first responders on 9/11 die of cancer within a year of each other:
On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Robert Alexander and his father, Raymond, both had the day off — until two airliners crashed into the World Trade Center towers.
Raymond Alexander, a New York City firefighter, immediately reported to his firehouse in the Bronx as his son, a New York Police Department officer, headed to his precinct in East Harlem. Then, along with thousands of first responders, the father and son rushed to Lower Manhattan, where ash and debris rained onto the streets. [...]
In November 2016, Raymond Alexander died at the age of 76 after battling seven different types of cancer over 13 years, a disease his family says was linked to his rescue and recovery work after the 9/11 attacks. On Monday, less than a year later, his son Robert, 43, died of brain cancer, also related to toxin exposure at Ground Zero, his family said. They had no family history of cancer, relatives told The Washington Post, and both men lived healthy lifestyles.
• Idaho town of 5,500 stocks up on portable potties as it awaits 70,000 people to show up for the eclipse: You don’t even have to do the math. Patrick Nauman will do it for you: “It’s about a thousand per ... It’s all we could get.”
• Florida Uber driver sues over no-firearms policy. He says it violates a 10-year-old state law. Says he was essentially “carjacked” by a woman with a walker who wouldn’t get out. And, he says, she could have had a knife or gun.
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: We’re not quite done with Nazi Sergeant Pepper yet. Did Russian hackers screw with NC’s bluest county on election day? Perv-a-Lago doesn’t even try to hire Americans. Another conflicted Trump DoJ nominee. Still more possible Russian banking connections.
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