Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Tuesday's Headlines: Trump’s tax mystery points toward dealings around his first bankruptcies

Trump suggests veterans with mental health issues 'can't handle it'; Scientists at Princeton, Brown and University of Washington awarded Nobel Prize in physics; In a wealthy Virginia suburb, they sleep in a parking lot; New smartphone from Google signals major shift into hardware production;
 
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Trump's tax mystery points toward dealings around his first bankruptcies
How could Donald Trump have potentially avoided federal income taxes at a time when he appeared to be thriving? A clue to his claimed loss of $916 million in 1995 may be related to the intricate backstory of how his Atlantic City gambling empire slid into bankruptcy in the early 1990s.
Trump suggests veterans with mental health issues 'can't handle it'
He made the comments at a town hall for Retired American Warriors. Mental health advocates have worked to destigmatize depression, PTSD and other issues to empower people to seek help.
 
Scientists at Princeton, Brown and University of Washington awarded Nobel Prize in physics
David J. Thouless of the University of Washington, F. Duncan M. Haldane of Princeton University and J. Michael Kosterlitz of Brown University were honored for revealing "the secrets of exotic matter."
 
In a wealthy Virginia suburb, they sleep in a parking lot
Largely invisible amid suburban strip malls and subdivisions, a mini-community of homeless men and women spend years living out of their vehicles.
 
New smartphone from Google signals major shift into hardware production
As it launches a phone that will employ artificial-intelligence that users can converse with, the software giant seeks to adapt to a technology landscape increasingly dominated by mobile and other connected gadgets.
 
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‘Brutal’ video shows white officer violently arresting black man sitting on his mother’s porch
Greensboro Mayor Nancy Vaughn called the officer's actions "ugly," "brutal" and "completely unnecessary."
Hurricane Matthew bears down on Haiti
The Category 4 storm had maximum sustained winds of 145 mph, producing life-threatening conditions with Haiti and parts of Cuba in its path, the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said.
Battle for Islamic State stronghold could trigger a new crisis: A million displaced Iraqis
Aid agencies are already struggling to shelter families displaced by the campaign against the militants, and the United Nations says it is nowhere near ready to deal with the fallout from the coming U.S.-backed offensive to retake the northern city of Mosul.
Being vice president is dreadful. Running for it is so much worse.
No one is casting a vote based on who's No. 2 on the ticket — but everyone's waiting to see how they might mess it up. And messing it up is basically all they have time for in the intense three-month stretch of running for vice president.
Fact Checker: Did Clinton and Kaine go too far in touting nuclear deal with Russia?
The Clinton campaign says a treaty with Russia cut nuclear arms, but there's less than meets the eye.
Trump says 'race riots' are happening every month
"Somebody said don't call them race riots, but that's what they are. They're race riots. And it's happening more and more."
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He's a wealthy entrepreneur turned reality TV star — and the new mayor of South America's biggest city
This is the year of the unconventional candidate, and not just in the United States.
Germany reunified 26 years ago, but some divisions are still strong
Many eastern Germans feel left behind and excluded from the economic prosperity in the west. But some western Germans have accused their eastern neighbors of complaining without being willing to embrace change.
Democratic and Republican doctors treat patients differently, study finds
Yale researchers found differences in treatment decisions when doctors faced hypothetical scenarios involving politically charged issues.
Mayor in Pa. won't stop posting racist Obama memes. He won't resign, either.
Charles Wasko's posts on social media have depicted the Obamas as orangutans and included an image suggesting the president should be hanged.
Amid an abuse scandal, Sarah Silverman asks the Marines: Will my nephew be okay as a recruit?
"I'm nervous by what I'm reading," the comedian tweeted after reading about the abuse scandal at Parris Island, S.C.
She needed treatment to save her life. Instead, she chose to live it.
After Norma Bauerschmidt learned she had cancer, she decided to travel with her family. She visited national parks. She got her first pedicure and went up in a hot-air balloon. She ate key lime pie and fried green tomatoes. Her doctor told her to have a "fantastic trip." And she did.
 
     
 
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