The Morning News

Interest in Texas's Senate race has caused a massive voter registration spike in Austin—some may have to cast provisional ballots.

↩︎ Electionland 11h

When suspicious deaths occur at America's national parks, the ISB is there, facing complex problems and inaccessible crime scenes.

↩︎ Outside 12h

The balkanized web: With the EU's data regulations and a censored Google for China, there may soon be three internets.

↩︎ The New York Times 12h

Photos from the abandoned Bloomingdale Line in 2009, before Chicago turned it into an elevated greenway.

↩︎ David Schalliol 12h

Yellowstone National Park's ecology has shifted thanks to wolves' reintroduction over 20 years ago—even the trees have changed.

↩︎ EurekaAlert! 12h

An investigation into "a new and incendiary business: militarized contract killing, carried out by skilled American fighters."

↩︎ BuzzFeed 12h

"Over a third of American pet-owners...would pay for animal-related expenses by putting less into their retirement accounts."

↩︎ The Economist 15h

A manufacturer that knowingly produced defective vaccines has been fined $1.2 billion by Chinese authorities.

↩︎ CNN 15h

Views of the world in seven-square-mile segments.

↩︎ The Atlantic 15h

Citing his press attacks, PEN America is suing Trump for violating "the First Amendment and his oath to uphold the Constitution."

↩︎ Observer 16h

In every US state, science is up for election in 2018. Find the most important science issue in your area.

↩︎ Popular Science 16h

Some Republicans may be OK with what their party has become under Trump—but many suburban women aren't, and they're organizing.

↩︎ BuzzFeed 16h

He sent colleagues an email with video of the near-collision. Its subject line was “Prius vs. Camry.” He remained in his leadership role and continued taking cars on non-official routes.

A longread on Google’s overambitious former head of autonomous cars makes you wonder whether self-driving cars are worth the hype.

↩︎ The New Yorker

16h

↩︎ TMN Newsletters 16h

After nearly 50 years as the voices of Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, Caroll Spinney is retiring from Sesame Street.

↩︎ Sesame Workshop 18h

A study finds a link between people who have a good sense of navigation and those who have a good sense of smell.

↩︎ Science News 18h

Numbers of boomer and millennial voters in America are nearly equal—but boomers turn out, and they're electing themselves.

↩︎ Intelligencer 18h

West’s words sound almost exactly like the words of James Brown and other Black Power activists who abandoned the movement in favor of the Nixon administration.

Kanye isn’t the first influential African-American recruited by a GOP that doesn’t care about black people.

↩︎ The Washington Post

18h

It's the best of times and the worst of times for many sports fans: All four major North American sports are playing right now.

↩︎ Deadspin 18h

Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum is set to begin restoring Rembrandt’s "The Night Watch." All of it will stream live online.

↩︎ The Guardian 1d