Today in 5 Lines
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President Trump confirmed that CIA Director Mike Pompeo met secretly with North Korea Leader Kim Jong Un earlier this month, and said “a good relationship was formed.”
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White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney said his office will investigate Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt’s spending of $43,000 on a phone booth for his office.
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Three men from rural Kansas were found guilty in a plot to bomb a mosque and apartment complex housing Somali refugees.
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The Senate advanced the nomination of Representative Jim Bridenstine to be the new NASA administrator, after Arizona Senator Jeff Flake switched his vote to support the nomination.
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A federal judge ordered that Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach be held in contempt of court for ignoring her orders in a proof-of-citizenship voter registration case.
Today on The Atlantic
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Why the Statue Had to Come Down: J. Marion Sims was known as the “father of gynecology.” But his medical advances were made through experimentation on enslaved women. (Adam Serwer)
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Why Aren’t Disadvantaged Students Going to Elite Colleges?: Well, for starters, they aren’t even applying. (Adam Harris)
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Snark and Sick Burns: In the…
