Good morning.
Tuesday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of sixty-two. Sunrise is 6:54 AM and sunset 6:33 PM, for 11h 39m 20s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 48.1% of its visible disk illuminated.
Today is the six hundred ninety-third day.
Whitewater’s Common Council meets today at 6:30 PM.
On this day in 1780, British Major John André is hanged as a spy by the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War for assisting Benedict Arnold’s attempted surrender of the fort at West Point, New York.
Recommended for reading in full — Manafort meets Mueller’s team, children in detention, Nobel laureates in physics, a playoff guide to the Brewers, and video of what’s up in the sky for October 2018 —
The Committee to Investigate Russia writes Manafort and Mueller Teams Meet:
Politico reports Paul Manafort is meeting with Robert Mueller‘s team, based on seeing Richard Westling and Tom Zehnle, two of Manafort’s lawyers, speaking with lead prosecutor Andrew Weissmann outside the special counsel’s Washington, DC office Monday.
The men parted ways to buy lunch and then were seen returning with their food to the secure building where the special counsel’s team is headquartered.
Manafort pleaded guilty last month to charges of conspiracy against the United States and conspiracy to obstruct justice and agreed to cooperate with government and law enforcement officials “fully, truthfully, completely, and forthrightly.”
Sentencing for the longtime GOP operative is not scheduled to occur until after the November midterms, with a joint written report from the special counsel and Manafort’s lawyers due Nov. 16.
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[Manafort] exchanged emails with other campaign aides about then-foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulous’ efforts to arrange a meeting between Trump and Russian officials. He also attended the 2016 Trump Tower meeting with a Russian lawyer who promised dirt on Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton.Trump, his lawyers and allies have nonetheless downplayed the guilty plea, saying the information Manafort is providing to the special counsel has no bearing on the president.
“I believe that he will tell the truth. And if he tells the truth, no problem,” the president told reporters last month.
Manafort meets with Mueller prosecutors (Politico)
The New York Times editorial board writes Hundreds of Children Rot in the Desert. End Trump’s Draconian Policies (“The administration created this crisis”):
It doesn’t take a psychologist to understand that ripping children from their beds in the middle of the night, tearing them from anyone they’ve forged a connection with, and thrusting them into uncertainty could damage them.
Yet the crisis that has led federal immigration authorities to bus nearly 2,000 unaccompanied children (so far) from shelters around the country to a “tent city” in the desert town of Tornillo, Tex., is almost entirely of the American government’s own making.
The Trump administration has struggled for solutions as the 100 or so shelters that house minors who’ve crossed the border without parents have filled to capacity. More children stuck in immigration limbo for increasing periods of time have strained the system that manages such kids. (As The Times reported, officials feared that the children being taken to Texas — among 13,000 being detained nationwide — would run off if they were told ahead of time, or moved them during waking hours.)
Sarah Kaplan reports Nobel Prize in physics awarded for ‘tools made of light’; first woman in 55 years honored:
The 2018 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded Tuesday to Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland for their pioneering work to turn lasers into powerful tools.
Ashkin, a researcher at Bell Laboratories in New Jersey, invented “optical tweezers” — focused beams of light that can be used to grab particles, atoms and even living cells and are now widely used to study the machinery of life.
Mourou, of École Polytechnique in France and the University of Michigan, and Strickland, of the University of Waterloo in Canada, “paved the way” for the most intense laser beams ever created by humans via a technique that stretches and then amplifies the light beam.
“Billions of people make daily use of optical disk drive, laser printers and optical scanners … millions undergo laser surgery,” said Nobel committee member Olga Botner. “The laser is truly one of the many examples of how a so-called blue sky discovery in a fundamental science eventually may transform our daily lives.”
JR Radcliffe writes The beginner’s guide to the Milwaukee Brewers in the playoffs: Who do they play, when do they play and more:
The Milwaukee Brewers won the National League Central with a 3-1 tiebreaker victory over the Chicago Cubs on Monday, meaning they get to skip the win-or-go home wild card game Tuesday and advance directly to Thursday’s NL Division Series.
HAUDRICOURT: Brewers claimed the NL Central crown the hard way, snatching it from the Cubs at Wrigley
So what comes next? If you need the basics, here are the things to know.
When are the Brewers back at Miller Park?
When the Division Series starts Thursday.
The Brewers clinched the best record in the National League and will have home field advantage as long as they’re alive in the National League playoffs. That means the Brewers will play Games 1 and 2 of the best-of-five NLDS (opponent to be determined Tuesday) at Miller Park, then hit the road for Games 3 and 4 Sunday and Monday. If the decisive Game 5 is necessary, that will be back at Miller Park next Wednesday, Oct. 10.
Who are they playing?
They’ll play the winner of the National League wild-card game Tuesday night between the Cubs and Colorado Rockies. The loser of that game is out of the playoffs, and the winner is ticketed for Milwaukee. Cubs rematch?