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Friday, November 30, 2018 - The Day's Most Fascinating News from Dave Pell Friday, November 30, 2018 1 EVERYTHING IS SH*T You probably want to sit down for this. Or squat. Or maybe not. If you find a better position, then definitely share it on social media. Everyone else is doing it. Aside from death and taxes (and Trump news), it's the topic we most share in common. And talking about it is all the rage these days. So while every other publication is leading with stories about Individual One, let's take a moment and talk about Number Two. From The Guardian : Bowel movement: the push to change the way you poo . "It's the banal Squatty Potty that's doing the most to change not just how people discuss poop, but how they actually do it. 'It's piercing that final veil around bodily use and bodily functions,' Barbara

50 years on the council A email Friday, November 30, 2018 By Oliver Roeder You're reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. 50 years on the council The office of Edward Burke, the longest-serving alderman in the history of Chicago at 50 years, was raided by the FBI yesterday morning. This wasn't especially new to Burke. "As you are aware, there have previously been several other investigations such as this," he said in a statement. As a lawyer, he's also done work for President Trump's Chicago tower. [ Chicago Tribune ] 70,237 people In 2017, 70,237 people died from drug overdoses in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control. That's the most ever, and the number eclipses the peaks of deaths from car crashes, H.I.V. or gun violence. There have been so many overdose deaths that the U.S. life expectancy has decreased — by nearly four months over the past three y

Presented by PhRMA:   View in browser   Presented By PhRMA   Axios AM By Mike Allen · Nov 30, 2018 ☕️ Good Friday morning ...     1 big thing: POTUS is now "Individual 1" On Nov. 5, 1996, "American real estate mogul Donald Trump" checks out sites in Moscow for luxury residential towers. (Igor Tabakov/AP) Until this week, public revelations about special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation focused on characters who had been around President Trump. For the first time, the special counsel's narrative has suddenly come alive with pre-presidential actions and entanglements by Trump himself. "Investigators have now publicly cast Trump as a central figure of their probe into whether Trump's campaign conspired with the Russian government during the 2016 campaign," the WashPost reports . Why it matters: Th