| Good afternoon. Today's newsletter might take just a little bit of cheer out of your afternoon with its slightly post-apocalyptic bent. We've got monsters trespassing and anthrax-spewing zombie deer. Consider yourself warned. If you need something a little lighter after this, sign up for the weekly Game Plan newsletter, which will hit your inbox tomorrow with first-time home-buying tips and life advice. |
| | Not in This Backyard | | | A New Jersey resident with a pocket monster in his backyard filed what may be the first lawsuit against Niantic and Nintendo for unleashing Pokemon Go across the U.S., claiming players are coming to his home uninvited in their race to "catch 'em all." |
| Here are today's top stories... | | Buffett ripped into Trump. Campaigning on behalf of Clinton, the billionaire investor tore into the Republican nominee on Monday for his refusal to release tax returns, his business bankruptcies, and his attack on a fallen soldier's family. He even repeated a famous phrase from the McCarthy era: "Have you no sense of decency, sir?" Meanwhile, Trump's rhetoric on the trail grew darker. He called Clinton "the devil" and said the election is rigged in her favor. | | Zombie deer are spewing anthrax. Conditions that are melting Arctic permafrost in northern Russia recently thawed the carcasses of deer felled by anthrax 75 years ago. The warmer temps then reactivated the infectious disease, causing dozens of people to be hospitalized. But that's not even the strangest or most dangerous side effect of retreating ice and softening frozen ground. | | American tech giants are humbled in China. Uber's decision to throw in the towel in China holds lessons for the likes of Facebook, Apple and others still craving success in the world's biggest technology market. Uber's ordeal reflects a changing reality for Silicon Valley stalwarts that may view China as a gold mine, but wind up floored by formidable competition and shifting consumer tastes. | | Timothy L. O'Brien: What about Trump's Putin bromance? The real danger in this political season isn't that Donald Trump knows Vladimir Putin well (which he doesn't), or even that he has dark ties to Russia. It's that Trump is running his foreign policy shop in the same way he ran his business in Russia over the years: as improv. Putin, on the other hand, is playing the great game. | | The latest on Zika's arrival. Florida health officials said recently that four cases were probably transmitted locally in Miami by mosquitoes. The announcement suggests that Zika could eventually become endemic to parts of the mainland U.S. Here's a two-minute explainer on the virus. | |
| | Sun, Fun, and Robot Bartenders | | | Royal Caribbean's Harmony of the Seas is a veritable floating suburb, with a population of 8,880. Its gleaming hulk stretches 1,188 feet long and 215.5 feet wide. Its seven "neighborhoods" are spread over 18 decks connected by 24 elevators. Passengers tucked into staterooms without balconies can stream real-time video of what they'd see if they had an actual window. | | |
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