Today's Talking Points 08-20-15



TODAY'S TALKING POINTS
North Korea and South Korea exchanged fire. After North Korea launched a projectile toward a South Korean loudspeaker playing anti-Pyongyang broadcasts, South Korea fired a few dozen artillery rounds back. Both countries had launched "loudspeaker propaganda warfare" last week, and this escalation makes their shaky relationship even more tense. This is reportedly their first armed conflict in five years.
Jared Fogle reached a plea deal over child pornography allegations. The ex-Subway spokesman agreed to plead guilty to possessing and distributing child porn and to crossing state lines to pay for sex with minors. Under this deal, he could serve five to 12 ½ years in prison.
  • Fogle will pay $100,000 to each of the 14 victims, some as young as age 6, who were secretly photographed in the images he possessed or with whom he had sex. He will also be required to undergo treatment for sexual disorders and register as a sex offender.
  • His wife of five years, Katie McLaughlin, said she will file for divorce.
Police arrested nine people protesting a St. Louis shooting. The unrest erupted after police shot an armed black teen Wednesday morning while trying to carry out a search warrant. 
Regal Entertainment Group has started checking bags nationwide. In the wake of several movie theater shootings, the nation's largest theater chain has begun to search bags of moviegoers. It's unclear exactly when the new policy was implemented, but some people have already had their bags inspected. Regal quietly added the procedure to its website, noting that "security issues have become a daily part of our lives in America."
Donald Trump became serious general election competition. The latest CNN/ORC poll showed the brash businessmen just six points behind Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton. While Trump surges in the polls, Clinton faces her lowest favorability rating since March 2001.
  • In a heated exchange with reporters, Clinton responded to questions about whether or not she wiped her email server herself by saying, “Like with a cloth or something?” One of her top aides later dismissed the concerns over her email usage as a media-driven controversy.
The Navy SEALs announced they could allow women. Two days after two women completed Army Ranger School for the first time in history, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan Greenert told reporters, “We're on a track to say: 'Hey, look. Here are the standards. Anybody who can meet them — they're gender non-specific — then you can become a SEAL.'"
North Korea and South Korea exchanged fire. After North Korea launched a projectile toward a South Korean loudspeaker playing anti-Pyongyang broadcasts, South Korea fired a few dozen artillery rounds back. Both countries had launched "loudspeaker propaganda warfare" last week, and this escalation makes their shaky relationship even more tense. This is reportedly their first armed conflict in five years.
Jared Fogle reached a plea deal over child pornography allegations. The ex-Subway spokesman agreed to plead guilty to possessing and distributing child porn and to crossing state lines to pay for sex with minors. Under this deal, he could serve five to 12 ½ years in prison.
  • Fogle will pay $100,000 to each of the 14 victims, some as young as age 6, who were secretly photographed in the images he possessed or with whom he had sex. He will also be required to undergo treatment for sexual disorders and register as a sex offender.
  • His wife of five years, Katie McLaughlin, said she will file for divorce.
Police arrested nine people protesting a St. Louis shooting. The unrest erupted after police shot an armed black teen Wednesday morning while trying to carry out a search warrant. 
Regal Entertainment Group has started checking bags nationwide. In the wake of several movie theater shootings, the nation's largest theater chain has begun to search bags of moviegoers. It's unclear exactly when the new policy was implemented, but some people have already had their bags inspected. Regal quietly added the procedure to its website, noting that "security issues have become a daily part of our lives in America."
Donald Trump became serious general election competition. The latest CNN/ORC poll showed the brash businessmen just six points behind Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton. While 

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