Page 1 Roundup (09/30)

The Daily News: NYPD officer shot dead with own gun in tussle with ex-con in the Bronx, possibly also hit with friendly fire

Man who drove SUV through Chicago-area mall charged with terrorism

Trans man who gave birth in 2018 loses court battle to be named as the father, not mother, of his child

Cuomo announces L train construction is three months ahead of schedule, will wrap up in April

Instagram: First the blue briefs, and now these?

The Independent: Eddie Murphy says he ‘cringes’ at ‘ignorant’ old jokes about AIDS and homosexuality

SF Gate: But did you know he actually apologized for his homophobia in 1996? (I didn't.) Maybe Titus Burgess should have mentioned this to Andy Cohen instead of acting like a stupid queen when asked about Murphy's problematic past.

Medium: Once again, Facebook inexplicably blocks an LGBTQ user, this time for offering the names of reputable HIV/AIDS organizations in a post memorializing a friend he lost to the disease

The Randy Report: Olivia Newton-John: ‘I have much to live for and I intend to keep on living it’

Boy Culture: 'Real World' star Danny Roberts is still positively adorable

Greg in Hollywood: Wait. Do we have to cancel Ryan Murphy for loving Martina Navratilova (as much as I do)?

Twitter: Katie Herzog helps flesh out what I've been saying all along. Don't other yourself. Rather than remaking gender and the English language, make society adapt to whatever kind of man or woman you want to be

From the "It's Never Enough" files.

Associated Press: Judge blocks Michigan attorney general's deal to stop LGBT discrimination in adoptions

USA Today: 'Gem of a person, a beautiful soul': Houston mourns trailblazing Sikh deputy Sandeep Dhaliwal gunned down during traffic stop

New York Post: Slain NYPD cop Brian Mulkeen remembered as local hero: ‘Everybody loved him’

Why have a robocat when you can adopt the real thing?

Teen commits suicide after he’s outed as bisexual on Snapchat, family says

The Washington Post: Democrats count on Schiff to deliver focused impeachment inquiry of Trump

Intelligence panel has deal to hear whistleblower’s testimony

State Department intensifies email probe of Hillary Clinton’s former aides(!)

The New York Times: Trump was repeatedly warned that Ukraine theory was ‘completely debunked’

 The internet is overrun with images of child sexual abuse. What went wrong?

The emerging psychology of pedophiles: “People don’t choose what arouses them -- they discover it. No one grows up wanting to be a pedophile.”

The tide is high (really), but Debbie Harry is staying put (WARNING: If you read this you probably don't need to read her new memoir)

P.S. The Washington Post is getting shit for its poorly framed review of "Face It" -- and Chris Stein is enjoying the fallout



The Wall Street Journal: Google draws House antitrust scrutiny of internet protocol

‘Who is this?’ Friendly texters annoy strangers with ‘number neighbor’ messages

Does getting stoned help you get toned? Gym rats embrace marijuana