Axios: Catch me up. Russian authorities quarantined a hospital and are monitoring contacts of a Siberian plague research institute employee who contracted pneumonia from an “unknown” cause. Local state TV said the woman died last week

Catch me up
 
Lab workers at the Russia-based Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and the Far East. Photo: AP

Russian authorities quarantined a hospital and are monitoring contacts of a Siberian plague research institute employee who contracted pneumonia from an “unknown” cause. Local state TV said the woman died last week. What to know

🧠 The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded to three scientists whose work led to a tool that uses light to help unravel how the brain works. Two are German and one, Dr. Karl Deisseroth, 54, is a Stanford professor. Read the announcement

✈️ The White House is barring Politico from boarding Air Force One today, CNN reports — the latest in an ongoing battle between the press and the Trump administration. Go deeper

🗳️ House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) is scaling back expectations and zeroing in on a narrowed battlefield as Republicans’ prospects of keeping their majority look increasingly bleak. More from Axios’ Kate Santaliz

🏛️ Dennis Hastert — the longest-serving Republican speaker of the House, who later admitted to sexually abusing teenage wrestlers and was imprisoned on charges tied to hush-money payments — died Saturday at 84 at his home in Plano, Ill., under hospice care. N.Y. Times obit.
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Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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