The first death potentially linked to vaping was reported Aug. 23. A month later, the number of deaths grew to nine. That’s nine fatalities out of the estimated 14 million Americans who report using e-cigarettes. Over the same amount of time, an estimated 7,333 people died from alcohol related incidents, 5,850 from prescription drug overdoses and 25 from falling off of a ladder, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s latest yearly statistics.

Smoking guns are the stuff of spy movies. In real-life intelligence-gathering, they are exceptionally rare. That’s why the business of intelligence typically requires collecting and analyzing fragments of information—putting together secret nuggets with unclassified information—to try to make sense of complex reality.

The U.S. president needs the public’s trust to conduct foreign policy. Donald Trump has forfeited it.

Sometime shortly after 2 p.m. on July 30, 1975, Jimmy Hoffa vanished. The once-formidable labor movement pit bull — who had cozied up to the Mafia in his rise to power, traded televised Punch-and-Judy blows with an ambitious young attorney general named Bobby Kennedy and single-handedly built the International Brotherhood of Teamsters into one of the most politically influential unions in America — was last spotted outside the Machus Red Fox restaurant in the Detroit suburbs. He would never be seen again, dead or alive. He was 62 years old.