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Archives for October 2019

Michael Leiter, who led the National Counterterrorism Center during the Osama bin Laden raid, offers his thoughts on the Baghdadi operation.


“Last night the United States brought the world’s number one terrorist leader to justice,” Trump said. “Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead.”


Artists want Instagram’s Community Guidelines to change. Will Facebook finally “free the nipple”?


Philip Reeker testified about Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch’s removal and the withheld military aid in impeachment inquiry hearings Saturday.


The senator from Vermont just got a bump from Ariana Grande.


A lawsuit questions whether the White House can block testimonies by claiming “constitutional immunity.”


The most devastating witness yet, Republican struggles, Giuliani’s legal jeopardy, and more.


“The boomers inherited a rich, dynamic country and have gradually bankrupted it.”


And the rest of the week’s best writing on books and related topics.


Stuart Russell wrote the book on AI and is leading the fight to change how we build it.


Impeachment hearings continue amid Republican protests; Iraqis fed up with their government attempt to storm the Green Zone.


Immigrants on public benefits won’t get help paying for their citizenship and green card applications anymore.


Workers lost nearly $1 billion. GM lost even more.


Weinstein’s been going out in public a lot lately.


In all possible meanings of that phrase.