Texas Tribune Daily Brief
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| The Brief for May 4 |  | In today’s Brief: A nurse has sued the government for taking her cash but never charging her with a crime, fallout continues at the state’s health agency, and hysteria over a military exercise may have been fueled by "Russian bots and the American alt-right media."
Cassi Pollock, Texas Tribune 05/04/2018    | | Read Article: Texas Tribune |
| The Tragic Diagnosis They Already Knew: Their Brother Died With C.T.E. | | To the family of the former N.H.L. player Jeff Parker, the posthumous diagnosis of C.T.E., or chronic traumatic encephalopathy, was the predictable conclusion. All those hits to the head, including that final one that knocked him out of the game altogether, and all those subsequent years of struggle? In the final, difficult years before Parker’s death last September at age 53, the family figured that it must be C.T.E. To the N.H.L. and its commissioner, Gary Bettman, the diagnosis is likely to be the latest piece of evidence to dismiss or combat. Even as links build a chain bridging the sport to C.T.E., the degenerative brain disease associated with repetitive head trauma, and some of the game’s most revered names push the league to take a more open-minded approach, the N.H.L. has denied any connection between long-term brain damage and hits to the head.
JOHN BRANCH, The New York Times 05/04/2018 | | Read Article: The New York Times |
| VW Recalls 71K older Passats for 2nd Time | | Volkswagen is issuing another recall for more than 71,000 of its older Passat sedans connected to the Takata air bag ordeal, but this time the automaker says it has a "final" fix for the issue. The automaker reports in National Highway Traffic Safety Administration documents that many of the Passats in the original recall had not been fixed yet, but that this revised remedy would be the "final" repair.
Benjamin Raven, MLive 05/04/2018 | | Read Article: MLive |
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