A former undercover cop, Jake Kelton has developed a device to help police officers deal with exposure to the deadly synthetic heroin.

The nightmare scenario for narcotics specialist John “Jake” Kelton goes as follows.

A man smuggles a pen filled with fentanyl onto a flight from New York to Los Angeles. Somewhere over Las Vegas, he flings the pen’s contents into the aisle. A dozen passengers immediately fall unconscious. With fentanyl in their lungs, they’ll have six minutes before they overdose.

“You’re going to see panic at 37,000 feet,” Kelton says. “You’re not going to have enough Narcan to help everyone. You’d have to have drums of it. And the sad thing is, the pilot will never land that plane in time.”

The Balkans remain among Europe’s most gender-biased regions. A growing number of female activists and artists are trying to change that — with humor. 

When Bosnian politics graduate Hana Ćurak created the ‘Sve su to vještice’ (All of them are witches) Facebook page in 2015, she wanted to take on sexist stereotypes with humor. She wasn’t sure how her conservative country would respond. Four years later, the page is a vibrant platform for sardonic thoughts on sexism, with more than 50,000 followers.

She’s not alone. The Balkans are among Europe’s most gender-unequal regions. Seventy percent of women in the region who participated in a 2019 survey by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said they had experienced violence since the age of 15 — and 31 percent had been victims of violence in the year prior to the survey.

The impeachment case playing out during the day showed the importance of foreign affairs on the debate stage.

Jennifer Psaki, a former White House communications director who served under President Barack Obama, analyzes last night's debate.

Watching the Democratic presidential debate Wednesday night, after spending the last two weeks glued to the endless hours of impeachment hearings, was a jolting and welcome contrast. For a few hours, these candidates brought a little joy back to politics.

There were moments of earnest advocacy for substantive policy issues and there were even flashes of humor.