Summary: On The Gist, get your clutching pearls ready. Russia alleges that the U.S. is trying to interfere in its election. <br>Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has been politically precocious since well before his own sports scholarship at UCLA. His latest column for the <em>Guardian</em> argues it's "time to pay the tab for America's college athletes.” He says student players should unionize. <br>In the Spiel, the tactics that responsible Republicans use to communicate their potential opposition: They speak in their home-state argot.
