Why the Pentagon Is Doing Polygraphs, and Officials Prepare to Release Huge Set of 9/11 Documents

Plus, could crushable concrete stop the next plane crash?

Here’s what we’re covering:

• In Major Leak Hunt, Pentagon Gives Polygraph Tests to Joint Staff Members, by Jonathan Swan, Adam Entous, Maggie Haberman and Eric Schmitt
• Trump Officials Draft Plan to Pay At-Home Parents, Using Funds for Working Ones, by Coral Davenport
• Trump Floats Renaming New Mexico as ‘New America,’ Prompting Pushback, by Dan Watson
• After 9/11, Documents Suggest New Yorkers Were Misled About Air Quality, by Sally Goldenberg and Nina Agrawal
• Miami Plane Crash Starts Debate About Requiring a Buffer for Runways, by Karoun Demirjian
• Miami Plane Crash Starts Debate About Requiring a Buffer for Runways, by Karoun Demirjian
• Kenyans Did College Students’ Homework for Years. Then A.I. Arrived., by Adam Satariano and Paul Mozur

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