The Daily Populous

A Democrat Tries to Pull Off a Kansas Miracle

This time, the station was La Raza, a Spanish-language broadcaster that serves Wichita, Kansas, and its environs.

Last November, Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton there by a 60 percent to 33 percent margin.

It’s a deep red district in a deep red state, where the left has not challenged in years.

He says that as far as he can tell, that’s the most ever in a congressional race in Kansas, special election or otherwise.

After he left the military in 1994, he moved to Wichita, where his grandparents live, and attended Wichita State University.

“It’ll be a stunner if Thompson wins,” says Burdett Loomis, a University of Kansas political science professor and a sage of Kansas politics.

“It’s ours to lose at this point,” he says as the truck barrels down the Kansas road.

Stockholm lorry rams crowds, killing 'at least four people'

Authored by bbc.co.uk

A lorry has smashed into a store in central Stockholm, killing at least four people.

In a speech on Friday night, Mr Lofven said Swedish values of democracy and freedom would not be "undermined by hatred".

One eyewitness, Annevi Petersson, told the BBC she was in the shop's fitting room when she heard the screams.

Polisen: Tre döda i misstänkt terrordåd

Authored by svt.se

Polisen fick larm klockan 14.53 via SOS Alarm att en person i ett fordon hade skadat personer på Drottninggatan i närheten av Klarabergsgatan.

Säkerhetspolisen har inte höjt terrorhotsnivån på grund av händelserna på Drottninggatan i Stockholm, utan det bedöms fortfarande vara en förhöjd risk.

Lastbilen som körde in i varuhuset Åhléns på Drottninggatan i centrala Stockholm tillhör Spendrups och kapades tidigare på dagen.

TIL The maned wolf is the largest canid of South America. It looks more like a long-legged fox than a wolf. Genetic studies show that it is neither fox nor true wolf, but a distinct species. It is the only member of its genus, Chrysocyon.

Authored by nationalzoo.si.edu

They eat seasonally abundant fruits and vegetables and are particularly interested in lobeira, whose name means "fruit of the wolf."

Because of their large size, only the puma and domestic dogs have been reported to kill the maned wolf.

At the Smithsonian's National Zoo, maned wolves are fed Mazuri Maned Wolf diet, vegetables, mice and occasionally beef bones for treats.

This Solar-Powered Toilet Torches Poop for Public Health

Authored by motherboard.vice.com

"Why is a cell phone something someone will pay for when they won't pay for it in their house?"

With funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's Reinvent the Toilet challenge, the team has developed a toilet that uses concentrated solar power to scorch and disinfect human waste, turning feces into a useful byproduct called biochar.

With continued development, Linden hopes his teams toilet can be delivered to communities to kickstart the conversation around sanitation investment.