Early Addition: Man Loses Legs After Dog Licks Him
Aug. 1, 2018, 12:07 p.m.
Because Trump is spiraling, check out today's midday links: French tennis player's epic meltdown, the latest from the northern California wildfire's, Paul Manafort's ostrich-skin jacket, and much more.
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- Someone's sweating: President Donald Trump urged Attorney General Jeff Sessions to immediately end special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into the Trump campaign's alleged Russian collusion (which, by the way, is not a crime, unlike, say, conspiracy against the United States).
- A Wisconsin man lost both his legs after a dog licked him.
- Nicole Kidman will play Gretchen Carlson and Charlize Theron will play Megyn Kelly in a film about Fox News' Roger Ailes. This is different than the limited series about Fox News and Ailes from Showtime, which has Russell Crowe playing the network founder.
- Disgruntled and super mature NYPD pilots flew their spy plane in a pattern resembling a penis during a feud with their boss.
- Is this Paul Manafort's $15,000 ostrich-skin jacket?
- Hillary Clinton is working with Steven Spielberg to produce an adaptation of The Woman's Hour, Elaine Weiss's book about the women's suffragette movement.
- "It just goes on and on": reporting from the catastrophic wildfires in northern California.
- Strange day out here at Windswept Fields: Watch a French tennis player have a "meltdown for the ages" during a tournament in Washington.
- And finally, there's a first time for everything:
Puppy’s first time encountering a tennis ballfrom r/aww
