The Daily Populous

Monday September 18th, 2017 day edition

image for The Handmaid’s Tale wins Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series

Hulu took home the Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series tonight, won by Bruce Miller for “Offred,” the pilot of The Handmaid’s Tale.

The streaming service made a poor showing at last year’s awards, netting just two nominations and no wins.

This year it received 18 nominations, 13 of which were for the critically acclaimed adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s classic 1985 dystopian thriller.

The Handmaid’s Tale is also nominated for Outstanding Drama Series and several acting awards, to be announced later tonight, and Alexis Bledel already took home the Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama award earlier this week at the Creative Arts portion of the awards.

Accepting the award, Miller thanked Hulu and said that the Emmy “really belongs to three women: Reed Morano, who directed the pilot episode of The Handmaid’s Tale.

(Elizabeth Moss is nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series.).

The pilot episode of The Handmaid’s Tale was up against nominated episodes from FX’s The Americans, AMC’s Better Call Saul, Netflix’s The Crown and Stranger Things, and HBO’s Westworld. »

'I was just doing my job': Soviet officer who averted nuclear war dies at age 77

Authored by rt.com

A Soviet officer who prevented a nuclear crisis between the US and the USSR and possible World War III in the 1980s has quietly passed away.

Even Petrov’s wife, Raisa, who died in 1997, didn’t know anything of the role her husband played in averting nuclear war.

I never thought of myself as one – after all, I was literally just doing my job,” Petrov said. »

Why Didn't FPL Do More to Prepare for Irma?

Authored by miaminewtimes.com

Granted, Wilma and Irma were different storms: Irma was larger and raked South Florida with its powerful dirty side.

But the company also says harder-hit customers on the state's Gulf Coast could be out of power for 12 days or more.

Thanks to power-company rules, it's impossible across Florida to simply buy a solar panel and power your individual home with it. »

POLICE DROP BOMB ON RADICALS' HOME IN PHILADELPHIA

Authored by nytimes.com

The Police Commissioner said that the authorities did not know whether there were any bodies in the house.

Commissioner Sambor said that one police officer whom he did not identify was bruised in the back by gunfire.

The police said earlier that at least three officers had suffered slight injuries, including smoke inhalation, exhaustion and hyperventilation. »