Military Base Loses Funding for New School to Trump’s Border Wall

By BY HELENE COOPER from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2ZveaRg

Jeffrey Epstein’s Donations Create a Schism at M.I.T.’s Revered Media Lab

By BY TIFFANY HSU, MARC TRACY AND ERIN GRIFFITH from NYT Business https://ift.tt/2ZSlNko

Environmental Justice Was a Climate Forum Theme. Here’s What It Means.

By BY MAGGIE ASTOR from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2UtHphM

They Posed as Soldiers in Love. Over 30 People Lost $2.1 Million.

By BY AZI PAYBARAH AND JACK NICAS from NYT New York https://ift.tt/2UDpXYg

Hurricane Dorian Becomes a Carolina Problem With a Fierce Lashing of the Coast

By BY RICHARD FAUSSET AND NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2POeFBG

Trump says 'I don't know' how map was altered to show Alabama in Hurricane Dorian's path

During an Oval Office briefing, the president showed reporters an enlarged map that he said was the initial forecasted path of the storm. It appeared to have been altered with a marker to include Alabama.

Kamala Harris wants to ban plastic straws but says paper straws too 'flimsy'

During CNN's climate change town hall Wednesday, the California senator said that she believes single-use plastics like plastic straws need to be banned, but that the paper alternative breaks too often and is ripe for some innovation.