Another Mueller indictment on the way? Plus the ethics of editing babies, the actual meaning of the term emotional labor, and more<\/b>
\nMueller Watch: Another indictment may be coming from Special Counsel Robert Mueller, this time for a defiant associate of the Trump-campaign confidant Roger Stone: \u201cI will not sign a statement that says I willfully and knowingly lied, because I did not,\u201d Jerome Corsi told Natasha Bertrand. Read her story on what adds up and what doesn\u2019t, here. President Donald Trump has been on the defensive as the final report on the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U. S. election looms.
Editing Babies: A Chinese scientist claims to have for the first time successfully created two babies whose DNA had been altered through a gene-editing technique known as CRISPR, eliminating a gene that could make the babies resistant to HIV. The claim hasn\u2019t been formally confirmed, and the scientist\u2019s own institution called the experiment a \u201cserious violation of academic ethics and standards.\u201d Here\u2019s why the implications of such work are so chilling, Ed Yong reports.
Diplomacy: The United Nations\u2019 Syria envoy is stepping down. What does the departure mean for the international community\u2019s role in formulating a peace plan for Syria, still roiling from the war? And the American ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, who most recently condemned Russia for its seizure of Ukrainian navy vessels off the Crimean coast, and has been a fierce\u2014and often solitary\u2014critic of Moscow\u2019s support for Syria\u2019s Bashar al-Assad regime, is stepping down at the end of the year. Who will stand up to Russia after she\u2019s gone?
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This remarkable community of 500 or so people, living on a small island off Australia\u2019s northern coast, speak nine different languages among themselves. Other than English, none of these languages are spoken by more than a few thousand others in the world.
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1. This Akron elementary school funded by a Los Angeles Lakers basketball star sets itself apart by being a public school, rather than a private or charter school.
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2. Anti\u2013affirmative-action stories with distorted headlines often flourish on this China-based messaging app.
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3. This former president of Michigan State University was charged with lying to investigators during inquiries into sexual-abuse allegations against Larry Nassar.
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Every week, the psychotherapist Lori Gottlieb answers readers\u2019 questions in the Dear Therapist column. This week, an anonymous reader from Philadelphia writes:
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