Friday, January 19, 2024

Reading archive 2024-01-19

Metro is falling short on critical safety practices, regulator says - "Metro workers responsible for maintaining key safety systems that help prevent collisions are not following internal procedures, and the engineers who are supposed to oversee them sometimes don’t notice because they aren’t looking at the data, according to an audit by the transit agency’s independent regulator."

Inside the breakup of Haley and Trump’s partnership over her U.N. role: Nikki Haley began her time as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations with diplomatic successes. Although she veered right on some issues to satisfy Trump, he attacks her as a ‘globalist’ in their primary fight. - "Haley talked with an array of experts to prepare for the role, but she later wrote that one of her most important pieces of advice came from her son, Nalin, who was then 15 years old and a foreign policy “buff.” He put together a chart split between countries that were and were not friends of the United States. The thinking behind the chart would guide her tenure."

The high-stakes diplomatic scramble to avert an Israel-Lebanon war

D.C. Lottery seeking new platform for troubled sports betting app: Officials said Thursday they were seeking to replace the GambetDC platform, which has underperformed and is marred with repeat issues

Science is revealing why American politics are so intensely polarized: Political psychologists say they see tribalism intensifying, fueled by contempt for the other side

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