MORNING READS: -Obama will give a primetime address tonight to lay out a strategy for dealing with the Islamic State. Some observers expect him to announce his intention to expand the current US air campaign to Syria. -“Once-in-1,000-years rains” in Arizona and Nevada killed at least two people on Monday. Andrew Freedman writes for Mashable that global warming “is leading to a greater proportion of rainfall falling in very heavy bursts.” -Jeffrey Toobin looks at a case of a prominent man who was caught on tape beating his wife. It wasn’t Ray Rice; Toobin writes that Mark Fuller, a sitting federal judge in Alabama, got “a plea deal so generous that [his] arrest record will be expunged — totally clean, as if the whole thing had never happened — if he receives some counseling in the next few months.” Those stories and others, in our Morning Reads.
Posted on: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 14:04:23 +0000
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