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'Veep' dropped impeachment storyline over Trump | TheHill

posted onSeptember 18, 2017
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“Veep” star Julia Louis Dreyfus revealed during her Emmys acceptance speech that the show had planned for an impeachment to take place but dropped it in case President Trump was impeached. Dreyfus, who won her eighth Emmy for outstanding lead actress for her role as Selina Meyers — and her sixth for that part alone — revealed the dropped plot line to laughs during her speech. “We did have a whole storyline about an impeachment but we abandoned that because we were worried someone else might get to it first,” Dreyfus said. Dreyfus also

‘The Handmaid’s Tale,’ Politics and ‘S.N.L.’ Dominate the Emmys - The New York Times

posted onSeptember 18, 2017
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• “The Handmaid’s Tale” won best drama series and a total of eight awards, with Elisabeth Moss winning best lead actress. See all the winners. • “Saturday Night Live” won nine awards, the most of any show, on a night where politics were front and center. Alec Baldwin and Kate McKinnon took supporting acting awards. • HBO won the most awards of any network.

4 U.S. Women Hit by Acid Attack in France - The New York Times

posted onSeptember 18, 2017
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PARIS — Four American college students were attacked with acid by a woman on Sunday at a train station in southern France, injuring at least two of them, according to the local police. The assailant, a 41-year-old woman, was quickly arrested in the Mediterranean port city of Marseille. The police prefecture said they were not treating the attack on the American women as a terrorist assault. The suspect has “a psychiatric history,” a spokeswoman for the police prefecture in Marseille said.

St. Louis Protests: A Guide to the Police-Shooting Case - The New York Times

posted onSeptember 18, 2017
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ST. LOUIS — Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside this city’s police headquarters on Sunday, and stood silent for six minutes — one for every year that has passed since the death of Anthony Lamar Smith, who was fatally shot by the police in 2011. It was the third day of protests following the acquittal of a white former St. Louis police officer, Jason Stockley, who shot Mr. Smith, a black 24-year-old, five times. The shooting has been a matter of intense debate in St.

His Home Flooded, the Port Arthur Mayor Puts His City First - The New York Times

posted onSeptember 18, 2017
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PORT ARTHUR, Tex. — On a winding street of older brick homes in the center of town, only one house is without a mountain of debris on the front yard. The house, a two-story at the end of the cul-de-sac, had not been spared by the recent storm, which submerged three-quarters of this coastal industrial city. The homeowner, Derrick Ford Freeman, has just not had time to worry about his own affairs. He is the mayor of Port Arthur. Normally the job of mayor is part-time, requiring only one white button-down shirt bearing his name and the city logo.

Walking the Line Between Covering a Rohingya Refugee Story and Changing It - The New York Times

posted onSeptember 18, 2017
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Noor slid to the ground. “It seems I will die here,” he said, with an almost clinical detachment. “I will die in this place.” Minutes before, in the Balukhali refugee camp in Bangladesh, Noor had tapped my shoulder. It was an unusual sensation in a Muslim community where men and women keep to themselves. I turned around, and he showed me his bullet wound. Bruises mottled his body.