23 June 2011: Morning

Chinese artist Ai Weiei returns home "on bail," freed for "good attitude in confessing his crimes."

Sexual violence remains widespread in U.S. prisons, though perpetrators are largely staff.

North Carolina may compensate victims after its eugenics board sterilized nearly 7,600 from 1933-74.

I was lied to and butchered, sterilized like I was some type of animal.

Photos of "fitter families," other relics from the American Eugenics Society.

Pulitzer-winning journalist outs himself as an undocumented immigrant.

Bolivia legalizes 70,000 cars smuggled into the country with bad paperwork.

China's meth problem traced to North Korea; anti-drug posters go up in Pyongyang.

Portland, Ore., drains eight million gallons from city reservoir after local man caught peeing in it.

With demand high, Kentucky now stores more barrels of bourbon than it contains people.

Barnes & Noble's e-books outsell all formats of print books by a factor of three to one.

Why a male blogger posed as a Syrian lesbian: to secure a book deal.

I draw a hot sorrow bath / in my despair room. Keanu Reeves releases book-length poem, "Ode to Happiness."

Incomplete list of writers who met death by motor vehicle.

Study finds few people told to chase a jogger will see an assault occurring nearby.

This should go down hilariously in the annals of history. Alice Walker sails to Gaza.

Interview with Ryan North, creator of Dinosaur Comics.

Primer on the business of pet cremation in NYC.