Did You Read About Baltimore Elizabeth Warren And Andrew Lesnie

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• RIP Andrew Lesnie

Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, alarm, amuse, or inspire us.

• About the bipartisan group in Congress trying to curtail domestic spying by the government? —Mick Dumke

• That the new official Obama White House dinnerware was made by Illinois’s own Pickard China, but trimmed in Hawaiian blue? —Deanna Isaacs