Significant Digits For Thursday, Aug. 18, 2016

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Denver would eliminate its limit on the number of needle exchange programs that can operate in the city and remove restrictions on their location under a new ordinance set for a final vote Monday. The city allows only three programs currently, but if the City Council adopts the new rules, an unlimited number of sites could open in areas zoned for medical offices.

Amsalu Kassaw came to the United States from Ethiopia 17 years ago. As he left, he feared arrest by the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front, a left-wing paramilitary group then in charge of the African country. The 42-year-old father of three now works as a lieutenant for the GEO Group, the private contractor that runs the U.

Here we go again. CNN's Jake Tapper allows another Republican senator to dance around his questions and lie to his face. This time it was Alabama Sen. Katie Britt. We all remember Britt from her infamous SOTU response which was trolled perfectly by Scarlett Johansson on Saturday Night Live. Britt was a guest on this Sunday's State of the Union, and was asked by Tapper about her support for corrupt Trump nominee to be Attorney General, Pam Bondi, and Britt responded by ignoring Bondi's election denialism, pretending there's any reason to believe she won't politicize the department, and continuing to spreading the lie that the DOJ was politicized under Biden. TAPPER: You're on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Attorney general nominee Pam Bondi will testify before your committee later this week.

Climate change cultists are using a flawed model to assert “systemic” risk in the insurance industry.

This political movement is sorely misnamed.