Jared Kushner, Rodrigo Duterte, Russia: Your Tuesday Briefing
[The New York Times] Tips, both new and old, for a more fulfilling life.
[The New York Times] • The Afghan Taliban claimed
that a bombing that killed dozens of people in Kabul was aimed at the National Directorate of Security, but security officials said that most victims were civilian workers for the Ministry of Mines.
[The New York Times] • The Pakistani Taliban said it was targeting police officers,
but only nine of the 25 people killed by its suicide bomber in the eastern city of Lahore were policemen.
[The New York Times] • Michael Phelps raced a shark —
but the televised competition between the 23-time Olympic gold medalist and a great white seemed about as realistic as a sharknado.
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[The New York Times] • In Beijing, hundreds of Chinese investors who paid into what
officials call a pyramid scheme protested against the government’s investigation.
_____ • Plans to transform Beijing and create a new nearby supercity in "the project of the millennium" may destroy celebrated wetlands —
and erase the communities’ centuries of aquatic traditions.
