Your Wednesday Briefing

Good morning. We’re covering the latest developments in the impeachment inquiry, a settlement in a major opioids case, and India’s ban on onion exports.

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N.Y. Weather: Record Heat in October? It’s Possible

It’s Wednesday. Weather: Sunny and hot, then possibly rainy. See our coverage below.

from Pocket https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/nyregion/ny-weather-heat.html
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Twitter and TweetDeck are experiencing partial outages

It’s not just you, Twitter has gone wobbly again. Users of the social network in Asia and Europe are reporting a range of problems tweeting and viewing certain types of content this morning.

from Pocket https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/02/twitter-and-tweetdeck-are-experiencing-partial-outages/
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Impala builds a single API for the entire hotel industry

Meet Impala, a London-based startup that wants to make it easier to interact with hotel data. The startup is building a layer on top of legacy hotel systems to standardize everything with a modern REST API. And Impala has just raised an $11 million Series A funding round from Stride.

from Pocket https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/02/impala-builds-a-single-api-for-the-entire-hotel-industry/
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Anger Grows in Hong Kong Over Shooting of Teenage Protester

The shooting of a student protester by the police threatens to further inflame a protest movement that paralyzed the city on Tuesday with spasms of violence.

from Pocket https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/world/asia/hong-kong-shooting-protests.html
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What Jamal Khashoggi’s Murder Did to Us

After the Saudi columnist’s murder, intellectuals, writers and activists across the Middle East are increasingly censoring themselves out of fear of their governments. Mr. al-Muslimi is a co-founder of the Sana Center for Strategic Studies.

from Pocket https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/opinion/jamal-khashoggi.html
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Why India and the World Need Gandhi

The great leader envisioned a world where every citizen has dignity and prosperity. Mr. Modi is the prime minister of India.

from Pocket https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/opinion/modi-mahatma-gandhi.html
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