Monday, August 15, 2016

Monday's Headlines: U.S. skipped standard bid procedure, provided windfall deal for asylum facility

As Trump stumbles, supporters worry that an 'amateur politician' is blowing it; Man shot, officer injured as Milwaukee protests turn violent for a second night; Tim Cook on Steve Jobs, coming out and the future of the iPhone; Sex, money, politics: The Fox News scandal the network has barely covered; Gabby Douglas responds to social media critics; Usain Bolt runs into history, takes place among greatest athletes of all-time;
 
Today's Headlines
The morning's most important stories, selected by Post editors
 
 
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Ilana Panich-Linsman / For The Washington Post
U.S. skipped standard bid procedure, provided windfall deal for asylum facility
The Obama administration bypassed the standard public bidding process and agreed to a four-year, $1 billion contract two years ago with Corrections Corporation of America to build a massive detention facility for Central American women and children surging across the U.S. border seeking asylum.
As Trump stumbles, supporters worry that an 'amateur politician' is blowing it
They still want the GOP nominee to win the White House but are frustrated as Donald Trump's unforced errors pile up.
 
Man shot, officer injured as Milwaukee protests turn violent for a second night
Police used an armored vehicle to retrieve the man and take him to the hospital. An officer was injured when a police vehicle windshield shattered after being pelted by rocks.
 
Tim Cook on Steve Jobs, coming out and the future of the iPhone
The Apple CEO sat down with The Post to discuss his first five years in one of Corporate America's most glaring spotlights.
 
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Sex, money, politics: The Fox News scandal the network has barely covered
Ever since former Fox host Gretchen Carlson filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Roger Ailes, the network's co-founder, Fox has been tight-lipped about telling its viewers about the allegations.
 
Gabby Douglas responds to social media critics
The darling of the London Olympics had a much harder time in Rio -- on the floor and with the public. "I've been through a lot," she said.
 
Usain Bolt runs into history, takes place among greatest athletes of all-time
The retiring champion became the first athlete, male or female, to win three straight Olympic gold medals in the shortest and most swaggering event in the sport.
 
 
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What our Olympians can teach us about politics
 
U.S. allies unite to block Obama's nuclear 'legacy'
 
The final insult: Donald Trump is a bore
 
The stimulus wore off. What now?
 
Texas should stop trying to kill a non-killer
 
A porous ethical wall between the Clinton Foundation and State
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To curb radicalism, France targets foreign funding for mosques
French Muslims bristled at the creation of the Foundation for Islamic Works, a mosque-monitoring body led by a non-Muslim that will also oversee the training of foreign-born imams.
Hillary Clinton's breakout moment at Wellesley College
She was a college conservative, but her remarks at Wellesley's commencement ceremony transformed her, virtually overnight, into a national symbol of student activism.
Fact Checker: The NRA's 4 Pinocchio claim about Hillary Clinton
The NRA earns Four Pinocchios for a fear-mongering ad based on little evidence but leaps of logic
Wonkblog: What Donald Trump gets totally right about the economy
Almost everyone supporters one of Donald Trump's ideas for the economy — except Republicans.
Tension roils New York immigrant community after killings
"Yes, it was a hate crime," some Muslims chant a day after an imam and his assistant were shot at point-blank range in the head on a Queens sidewalk just a few blocks from their mosque in the Ozone Park neighborhood.
Today's men are not nearly as strong as their dads were, researchers say
Researchers tested whether millennial guys are as strong as their dads. Someone's not going to be happy with the answer.
Their goal: Meet the Beatles on tour in 1966. Their solution: Impersonate the opening act.
The D.C. teenagers' plan to meet their idols included costumes, a rented limo, decoy groupies and even the unwitting participation of D.C. police, who provided the fake band with a real motorcade escort.
 
     
 
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