{"id":33499,"date":"2024-09-04T14:37:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T14:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/wednesday-headlines-dot-dot-jail#id33234"},"modified":"2024-09-04T14:37:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T14:37:00","slug":"wednesday-headlines-dot-dot-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wednesday-headlines-dot-dot-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday headlines: Dot dot jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Venezuelan strongman Nicol&aacute;s Maduro moves Christmas to October, to distract from his seemingly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/sep\/03\/venezuela-nicolas-maduro-christmas\">stealing the election.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ The Guardian<\/span><\/p>\n<p>An Iranian writer is sentenced to 12 years in prison for tweeting a period to Iran&#39;s supreme leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/09\/02\/g-s1-20579\/iran-sentenced-12-years-tweet-supreme-leader\">Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ NPR<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Lebanon&#39;s former central bank governor, arrested over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/lebanon-former-central-bank-governor-riad-salameh-arrested-judicial-source-says-2024-09-03\/\">alleged financial crimes<\/a>, is said to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/middle-east-and-africa\/2023\/07\/31\/the-worlds-worst-central-banker-retires\">&#8220;the world&#39;s worst banker.&#8221;<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ Reuters, The Economist<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Margaret Sullivan breaks down &#8220;an ugly case&#8221; of false balance <a href=\"https:\/\/margaretsullivan.substack.com\/p\/an-ugly-case-of-false-balance-in\">in the New York Times.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ American Crisis<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Republicans are upset that Americans aren&#39;t talking more about the assassination attempt <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/09\/03\/2024\/to-the-gops-amazement-the-trump-assassination-attempt-fades-into-the-rearview\">on Donald Trump.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ Semafor<\/span><\/p>\n<p>See also: An art-world wishlist for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theartnewspaper.com\/2024\/09\/03\/art-world-wish-list-next-us-president-donald-trump-kamala-harris\">next American president.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ The Art Newspaper<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A session in the sauna at the Finnish embassy is said to be one of DC&#39;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/08\/25\/style\/sauna-finnish-embassy-washington.html?unlocked_article_code=1.IE4.As9N.P6B7BKM1__Zc&amp;smid=url-share\">more oveted invitations.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ The New York Times [+]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Whatever happened to the Bolivian women who skateboard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/goats-and-soda\/2024\/09\/02\/g-s1-20283\/skateboard-bolivia-indigenous-women\">in Indigenous garb?<\/a> The 300 young Afghan musicians <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/goats-and-soda\/2024\/09\/03\/g-s1-20028\/afghanistan-taliban-musicians\">who fled the Taliban?<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ Goats and Soda<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Cyber attacks rose 30 percent in 2023, with the United States as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/pro\/critical-infrastructure-sustained-13-cyber-attacks-per-second-in-2023\">the top target.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ techradar<\/span><\/p>\n<p>An anarchist collective teaches people how to make DIY versions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.404media.co\/email\/63ca5568-c610-4489-9bfc-7791804e9535\/\">of expensive pharmaceuticals.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ 404 Media<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As &#8220;the Jevons paradox&#8221; 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