GOP Operative Claiming Flynn Ties Sought Clinton Emails From Hackers
Wall Street Journal
Is this the "collusion" everyone's wondering about? Before the 2016 election, a Republican opposition researcher mounted an independent campaign to obtain emails he believed were stolen from Hillary Clinton's private server, likely by Russian hackers. In conversations and emails, the GOP operative, Peter W. Smith, and an ally implied they were working with retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn, then an adviser to candidate Donald Trump. Generics Increasingly Not the Same as Brand-Name Drugs
Bloomberg
The performance gap may be widening between generic drugs and their brand-name models, for two reasons. First, drugs are ever more complex, with features like extended release covered by separate patents often not available to generic producers. The second reason is inconsistent quality control, due to more low-cost generic production abroad. Case in point: a generic for anxiety drug Cymbalta. It's causing a different sort of worry. When the Mailman Unwittingly Becomes a Drug Dealer
Wall Street Journal
The "Fentmaster," a 28-year-old drug dealer, had a system in place: Pick up his shipment of fentanyl from UPS, divvy it up and mail it back out to his buyers. He was arrested in March, but that made little dent in the growing international drug trade via postal services. U.S. Customs and Border Protection reports that, in weight, seizures of fentanyl from international and express services lately are 400 times what was confiscated just five years ago. Philippine Police May Be Using Hospitals to Hide Drug War's Lethality
Reuters
As the deaths pile up in President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs, a troubling new trend is emerging in Manila: ever higher numbers of drug suspects turning up at the hospital dead on arrival. Independent investigators suspect that police are shooting to kill, then taking bodies to hospitals to minimize how lethal their raids are. Roadblocks and Racial Bias in Mississippi
Reason
Warrantless home invasions, aggressive street stops and roadblocks in minority neighborhoods: In Mississippi's Madison County, many have concluded that the rights you enjoy, or don't, depend on which side of the county you live in. Now a class-action lawsuit is challenging years of "illegal and discriminatory policing." |
