July 27, 2016

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Five takeaways from the night that Hillary became the first female major-party nominee in US history.

Confirming the FLOTUS’s speech: Historians have long acknowledged the role of slaves in building the White House.

The joke that Sarah Silverman didn’t use at the DNC: “This past year I’ve been with the possibly agnostic Jew.”

It smells oppressively like smoke. Report from the Republicans’ corruption-themed DNC party.

White supremacists—who prefer the term “the alt-right”—are infatuated with Trump.

Trump’s complete inability to build in Russia points to his likely independence from Putin.

Just because Trump loves Putin doesn’t mean he’s Putin’s stooge. #opinions

Spy agencies think the Russian Army was behind the DNC hack.

“Avowed foe of Clinton,” Julian Assange timed the hacked emails’ release for maximum damage.

If Clinton loses in November due to her support for the TPP, it will be hard to argue she was in the right.

The failure to close Guantánamo doesn’t lie squarely with Obama, but his inactions and missteps haven’t helped.

Protesters rage against Zimbabwe vice-president’s penchant for spending long terms in $1,000-a-night hotel rooms.

Report details “arbitrary” jailings, torture, and disappearances in Russia-controlled Eastern Ukraine.

Taser looks to cash in on police shootings of black people by becoming the dominant body-cam supplier.

The recent rise in Korean food’s popularity is the result of a concerted effort by the South Korean government.

Dutch men and Latvian women are taller than all other nationalities.

My life is a nightmare: My husband is more stylish than me. But that’s okay.

Pictures of strange attempts at making nature more comfortable. #photography

Youree Dell Harris, actress who played quasi-Jamaican infomercial psychic Miss Cleo, dies at 53.

See also: Harris’s 2006 coming-out interview in the Advocate.

Your random Wednesday fact: Jewish women were an integral part of early Indian cinema, especially the silent era.