DEVELOPING

Two people were shot to death at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard in Hawaii

A gunman believed to be a US sailor shot and killed two Defense Department employees and wounded a third at Pearl Harbor, authorities said.

The gunman, who was tentatively identified as an active duty member serving aboard the USS Columbia, died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, Rear Admiral Robb Chadwick told reporters.

Authorities did not release a possible motive, saying the investigation remains ongoing.

THE BIG STORY

Here’s the full story of how a university in Hong Kong went to war with police

For nearly two weeks in November, Hong Kong Polytechnic University became the site of a violent standoff between police and students. Officers had students trapped on the campus — and the students took the fight to the police.

The standoff happened as Hong Kong’s demonstrations for democracy evolved into street battles between protesters and authorities. Universities unexpectedly became the sites of these battles.

Some students used the swimming pool to practice tossing Molotov cocktails, others learned to shoot bows and arrows, while police surrounded them and threatened to use lethal force. Some students had to crawl through sewer pipes to get to freedom.

Our reporter Rosalind Adams spent two weeks on campuses and in the streets talking to dozens of students, people on the frontline, and medics, to tell the story of how the battle at Polytechnic became one of the darkest chapters in Hong Kong’s fight for democracy.

Read her harrowing, extraordinary report.

A protester with his self-made bow and arrow. Sopa Images / Getty Images

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STAYING ON TOP OF THIS

Kashmiris are disappearing from WhatsApp

In August, the Indian government revoked the autonomy of the disputed geographical territory. Now, citizens of Kashmir are abruptly departing WhatsApp groups, leaving behind only a “[Phone number] left” message.

It's been four months since India’s government shut down Kashmir’s internet services, cutting off the region from the rest of the world.

A spokesperson for Facebook, which owns WhatsApp, said the disappearances were the result of the messaging app's policy on inactive accounts: after four months of inactivity, accounts are automatically deleted.

SNAPSHOTS

World leaders were caught on video apparently mocking Donald Trump at the NATO summit. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, French President Emmanuel Macron, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, and the British Princess Anne laugh while seemingly discussing Trump, in a video that has since gone viral. Trump later called Justin Trudeau “two-faced” and left the summit early.

A protester disrupted Pete Buttigieg’s black allies’ attempt to show their support, and it was really tense. A man whose race and identity could not immediately be verified took the microphone from a black South Bend leader at a Buttigieg campaign event. Here’s a video of the confrontation.

A man says he was beaten bloody in a California jail while police yelled racist comments at him. Authorities are investigating after Jacob Angelo Servin said that deputies “held me down beat me, choked me, kicked me and tried to snap my neck, with their fists and batons one by one” after he was arrested on suspicion of being drunk in public.

NBC has launched a formal investigation into America’s Got Talent after Gabrielle Union complained about toxic workplace culture. Last week, Variety reported that Union’s contract was not renewed after she reported a racist joke to producers and was told that her hairstyles were “too black” for viewers. Now, after Union said she had a 5-hour meeting with the network, NBC says it will formally investigate.

Peloton is defending its new ad, which people have called “dystopian” and like a “horror movie.” The ad for the luxury exercise bike went viral and was widely mocked. Shortly thereafter, Peloton's stock dropped 10%. Still, Peloton is standing by the ad, because what are they gonna do, not stand by it? Those things cost money!

THE STANS ARE HERE TO STAY

Kamala Harris dropped out but the #KHive and stan culture aren’t leaving politics

By this point, you’re familiar enough with stan culture — the internet has facilitated increasingly intense levels of fandom. Politics stan culture is not especially different than pop music stan culture.

Ryan C. Brooks explains it like this: “Candidates' superfans, or stans, have become ubiquitous on Twitter — a new daily part of doing business in politics. People build fandoms around everything from sets of policies to how many languages a candidate can work into a press gaggle. And once the stans settle in, they’re defending their candidate from any slight, especially criticism from other candidates’ fans.”

Brooks lays out how stan culture has transformed politics for the long haul: “Politics Twitter and Stan Twitter have always been intense, niche corners of the internet — but this presidential primary has converged the two and spit out tribes of supporters that are willing to go off on the internet for their candidates, spawning free rapid-response communication teams.”

HONESTLY, SAME

Amy Schumer’s lawyer sent her trainer a fake cease and desist letter because the workouts were too hard

Honestly, who among us hasn’t been there. The whole thing is great. I will be copy and pasting the fake legal notice and sending it to my trainer, too.

Remember that you deserve kindness from yourself, too,

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