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1. DNA tests have helped millions of Americans understand their genetics, warning them about the disease and discovering long-lost parents. Elizabeth Warren, for example, simply used DNA to confirm that she had a distant Native American ancestor.
In an unexpected turn, these same tests open criminal investigations.
The free genealogy site GEDmatch is at the center of this transformation. It was built to solve the riddles of family history. Now, in a few months, he has helped solve 15 cases of murder and sexual assault – and no one is more surprised than the men who created it.
And in three years, the DNA of almost all Americans of North European ancestry will be identified by cousins from the GEDmatch database, according to a study released last week.
Turkish officials said that Khashoggi was killed by Saudi agents at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, above. But the president's words have opened the window to Saudi Arabia to defend it.
(Neither Turkey nor Saudi Arabia have shared the evidence so far. we do not know. And here is a portrait of Mr. Khashoggi's career.)
Mr. Trump will send Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to meet with King Salman. And for now, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin is still considering attending an investor conference in Riyadh this month, despite the departure of many heavyweights, including JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon .
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3. Mr. Trump and his wife, Melania, went around the Florida Panhandle destroyed by Hurricane Michael last week. Above, Lynn Haven, Fla.
On his way back to Washington, he was also scheduled to stop in Georgia, where rains caused severe flooding.
When asked Sunday in a 60-minute interview about the violent storms that hit his presidency, Trump rejected a long-held claim that global warming is a hoax – but he did several new claims unsupported by science. . We checked them.
4. Who has the highest?
This is the deadline for all candidates in the House and Senate to show how much they have raised and spent until the end of September.
As the deposits arrive, we will be posting updates for the 69 most competitive home runners.
This article will be updated regularly until the submission deadline at midnight.
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5 "We do not want them to treat us as if we were not human."
Workers in Chinese companies in Kenya describe separate bathrooms, physical abuse by their leaders, and harsh sentences. They say their bosses call them monkeys. Above, an employee of a Chinese motorcycle company who captured a video video of his boss.
As Chinese companies invest in the former British colony, colonial-era labor practices and racist attitudes towards the local population. The episodes, amplified by social media, create a national conversation at a time when the government is seeking to strengthen its ties with China.
6. A lawsuit against Harvard about his admission practices has been the subject of lawsuits, just as high school students are fighting over the college candidacies season.
The plaintiffs accused the university of establishing a quota for Americans of Asian descent and keeping it at a higher level than that of candidates of other races. The case, which divided Americans of Asian descent, is widely regarded as a referendum on positive action.
Harvard denies that its admissions policies discriminate unfairly.
The case is being carefully monitored as it could lead to a newly more conservative Supreme Court. In the past, the court has maintained "global" admission practices such as Harvard's, which treat race as one factor among many.
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7. With regard to marijuana, California can have a lesson or two to move to Canada, which is on the verge of becoming the second country in the world (after Uruguay) to legalize cannabis.
The marijuana economy in California is booming and associated businesses are growing: conferences, magazines, testing companies and specialty law firms. Above, a cannabis show in Oakland, California.
But the legalization, writes our correspondent Californian, is still half-cooked.
Sales are far from the hopes of advocates of legalization and the black market continues to thrive. One of the problems is the cost: red tape, taxes and environmental compliance are not easy, they can also raise prices by 75% or more.
8. Myanmar army exploited the wide reach of Facebook to unleash a five-year toxic propaganda campaign, fueling hatred against Rohingya Muslims, according to former military officials, researchers and civilian officials. Above, Rohingya Muslims stranded in a border area between Myanmar and Bangladesh.
Hundreds of soldiers were involved, creating fictitious accounts and celebrity pages, and then flooding them with incendiary posts, the sources said.
Facebook has confirmed this information, claiming to have found "clear and deliberate attempts at secret propaganda directly linked to the Myanmar Army". The accounts were canceled in August.
But at that time, the damage was done: more than 700,000 Muslim Rohingyas had fled the country in what American officials described as "a typical example of ethnic cleansing."
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9. Libraries are so much more only rooms full of books.
We asked Annie Proulx, Amy Tan, Neil Gaiman and nine other authors of Tell us about their local public library or share a memory of a library from their past.
"This is my thank you note to all the librarians who have never helped a child like me, no one from nowhere, find their way through a bookshelf to become the world's citizenship," wrote Barbara Kingsolver.
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10. Finally, Meghan Markle, who was looking for her fashion choices even before her wedding in the British royal family, had remained mysterious this weekend.
First, she covered with a coat the wedding of Princess Eugenie, above. Then she arrived in Sydney, Australia, with large purple binders at the waist, rather than a pretty pocket. She and her husband, Prince Harry, are at the start of a 16-day tour in four countries.
So it was not a surprise to some royal observers when the palace announced the couple are expecting a child this spring, the first.
The new royal baby would be seventh from the British throne, but would not be named prince or princess unless the queen decided to amend a 1917 decree of King George V.
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