| By Derek Caney (@stax920)
OK, so it wasn’t a perfect Olympiad. There were lots of empty seats. A pool with an odd tint of green. All against the backdrop of Brazil’s worst recession since the 1930s. But hey! Usain Bolt, the Brazilian soccer squad, Simone Biles, Katy Ledecky, eh? Be proud, Rio. It could have been worse. Much worse. Much much worse. 
Don't rain on my parade 
Brazilian singer Mariene de Castro performs during the closing ceremony. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Emily Samuelson retired from ice dancing after the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. But like many Olympians, she never earned enough to cover her expenses. So, like a number of Olympians, she moved into banking. Five feet of water swept through the Park Forest neighborhood in Baton Rouge. But residents are being told they don't live in a flood zone. Thus, they are ineligible for flood insurance. Now they're at the mercy of FEMA, who will provide reimbursement for a fraction of their losses.
Around the country - A senior aide to Donald Trump signaled a possible shift in his hardline immigration policies, which have been THE centerpiece of the campaign, saying his plans to deport 11 million people who are in the country illegally were under review. No word, yet, on the wall that Mexico was going to pay for.
- The mosquito-borne Zika virus could extend its reach across the Gulf Coast. "It would not be surprising we would see additional cases perhaps in other Gulf Coast states," Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the allergy and infectious diseases unit of the National Institutes of Health. Zika has expanded into a second region of the tourist hub of Miami-Dade County in Florida. Miami's Wynwood area last month became the site of the first locally transmitted cases of Zika in the continental United States.
Around the world - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan blamed the attack that killed at least 51 people at a wedding over the weekend on a child affiliated with Islamic State.
- The United States and South Korea kicked off annual military exercises, prompting warnings of retaliation from the North. Tensions on the peninsula are even higher than normal after a series of nuclear and missile tests by the North, new sanctions by the United States and were further inflamed by the defection of a Pyongyang diplomat last week in London.
- The Philippines has recorded about 1,800 drug-related killings since President Rodrigo Duterte took office seven weeks ago and launched a war on narcotics, far higher than previously believed. Duterte threatened to leave the United Nations and start a new world organization.
Around Wall Street - A national security panel has cleared ChemChina's $43 billion takeover of Swiss pesticides and seeds group Syngenta, the companies said, boosting chances that the largest foreign acquisition ever by a Chinese company will go through.
- Pfizer plans to buy cancer drug company Medivation for close to $14 billion.
Today's reason to live Opelousas – Maria McKee |
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