Los Angeles Times

Almost everyone raves when asked about the All-Star game in Chicago. The tributes to Kobe Bryant, the player introductions, the musical acts — it was all great. The format changes that led to one of the most competitive All-Star games in recent history? They were almost universally loved.

After years pushing a narrative that immigrants threaten the American economy, the Trump administration is reducing immigration to the U.S., and it’s not just illegal immigration––legal immigration is falling fast.

During President Trump’s first two years in office, his standing with many voters was buoyed by a surge in manufacturing that helped create millions of new jobs and undergirded the whole U.S. economy.

Michael Hicks, a regional economist at Ball State University in Muncie, Ind., said there was a greater than 50% chance of a national recession in the next 12 months. Indiana has the country’s largest concentration of manufacturing, accounting for some 22% of the state’s economy — about double the U.S. average.

While full-scale massacres like the one at Columbine remain rare, school shootings generally are becoming more common and more deadly.

Story quotes Dom Caristi, a telecommunications professor.