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Journalism has taken Bektour Iskender through revolutions, death threats and even a crowdfunded space venture.

For Bektour Iskander, a death threat from government security services arrived at just the right time.

For its first four years, nobody paid much attention to Kloop, the scrappy youth news organization of “strange teenagers who write about politics” that he founded. That changed in 2010 when Kloop published an investigation into corruption by the son of Kyrgyzstan’s president. Just weeks after the death threat, protests across Kyrgyzstan against the corrupt administration turned violent, and President Almazbek Atambaev was ousted.

Authorities had shut down access to websites hosted outside of the country, and on one April night, when the central government first lost control of a key region, Kloop found itself the only news organization in Kyrgyzstan reporting the truth, with all other outlets shut down or scared of censorship.

India has more vegetarians than anywhere else. But you wouldn’t know it in the southern state of Telangana.

If you’re from India, it isn’t uncommon to be asked in the West if you’re vegetarian. And there’s a reason for that: India has more vegetarians than the rest of the world combined, and the lowest per capita meat consumption of all nations, according to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization. But visit the southern Indian state of Telangana, and you wouldn’t know it.

Here, you’ll see restaurants everywhere selling meaty biryani and kebabs. Surprised? Don’t be. Telangana, India’s youngest state — it was carved out of the larger Andhra Pradesh in 2014 after years of struggle for separate statehood — is also the most meat-happy in the country. According to a 2017 study from India’s National Academy of Agricultural Research Management 98.8 percent of Telangana's population eats meat — a higher fraction than famously meat-loving countries like the U.S. or Australia.

Roger Stone has been arrested. Could Don Jr. be next? And could another Roger’s legal troubles be his ticket out?

The last day of Bill Clinton’s presidency in January 2001 was chaotic to say the least. With just hours to go before George W. Bush was sworn in, Clinton issued presidential pardons to 140 people, including onetime Whitewater business partner Susan McDougal, heiress-turned-bank-robber Patty Hearst and financier Marc Rich. Some of these pardons were controversial, some were not. One was historic. And it’s that last-minute Clinton pardon that could serve as a political life raft for another president who has already started contemplating the scope and propriety of his own pardoning power: Donald Trump.

In the wake of the indictment of Trump adviser Roger Stone, arrested on charges of lying to Congress, obstruction and witness tampering, the legal noose is tightening around Donald Trump Jr. in the investigation helmed by special counsel Robert Mueller. Not only are there hints in the Stone indictment that a senior Trump campaign official was involved with Stone in reaching out to WikiLeaks about the release of stolen Hillary Clinton campaign emails, but several Democratic members of Congress are alleging Don Jr. hasn’t been entirely honest in his congressional testimony about matters including WikiLeaks and negotiations for a Trump Tower Moscow. Knowingly lying to lawmakers under oath — as we already know from the charges against Stone and former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen — constitutes a federal crime. But while one Roger’s recent arrest has helped place the president’s son in legal jeopardy, another Roger’s legal troubles might be his salvation.