Eighty-five percent of parents said they were concerned about rising prices due to tariffs when thinking about back-to-school shopping. read more
Trump signed an executive order Thursday afternoon reinstating the national fitness assessment implemented in public schools from 1956 until 2013. read more
Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, who had been serving a 20-year prison sentence in Florida, has been moved to a lower-security federal prison camp in Texas. "We can confirm, Ghislaine Maxwell is in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) at the Federal Prison Camp (FPC) Bryan in Bryan, Texas," BOP spokesperson Donald Murphy said in a statement to CNN. The move comes a week after Maxwell met in private with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche at the US attorney's office in Tallahassee. read more
The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History has removed explicit reference to President Donald Trump from an exhibit about impeachment. read more
According to the White House press release: "The White House Ballroom will be substantially separated from the main building of the White House, but at the same time, it's theme and architectural heritage will be almost identical. The site of the new ballroom will be where the small, heavily changed, and reconstructed East Wing currently sits." read more
From NYT (www.nytimes.com):
Mr. Brown joined the Army in January 2001 and had deployed to Iraq for a little over a year between 2004 and 2005 before leaving the service in May 2005 as a sergeant, an Army spokeswoman said. He was in the Montana National Guard for about two years until March 2008.
Two relatives of Mr. Brown said he had returned from the Army with physical ailments and severe post-traumatic stress disorder that gave him night terrors. They said he was later diagnosed with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
One of the relatives, a sister who spoke on the condition that her name not be used, said that Mr. Brown would claim that famous movies had been based on his actions overseas. He sometimes told people that he was Jason Bourne, or a five-star general on a secret mission.
" Ninety. Thousand. Square. Feet. A football field is only 57,600 square feet. The square footage of the ground, state, and residence floors of the White House combined are only 55,000 square feet. (This does not include the West Wing or the apparently-soon-to-be-demolished East Wing, but those are not huge.) The Taj Mahal is less than half the size of this ballroom (approximately 35,100 square feet), and way less garish."
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From the NYT:
According to Bureau of Prison regulations, inmates [like Ghislaine Maxwell] designated as sex offenders are generally supposed to be held in low-security prisons, like the facility in Tallahassee, Fla., where Ms. Maxwell had been previously held, not in minimum-security facilities, like her new prison camp in Bryan, Texas.
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What makes her different?
Peter York's Dictator Style: Lifestyles of the World's Most Colorful Despots (www.amazon.com) came out a few years back, but it's well worth tracking down for those who appreciate the tasteless tackiness associated with so many narcissists who attain serious political power. York wrote a related article in 2017, "Trump's Dictator Chic" (www.politico.com).
"Families Going Into Debt for Back-to-School Supplies Jumps by Double Digits"
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