April 10, 2015
- Obama likely to remove Cuba from the US list of state sponsors of terrorism.
- ISIS hackers take control of French television station, prompting emergency meetings of European media.
- Hillary Clinton to announce her presidential campaign on Twitter this weekend.
- Facebook users who don't realize their news feed is controlled by an algorithm termed "the unaware."
- News update: There's a Playboy Bunny emoji hiding in plain sight.
- Maya Angelou wrote many quotable lines, but not the one featured on a stamp recently issued in her honor.
- Month of protests leads to statue of Cecil Rhodes being dismantled in Cape Town.
- Far from Congressional gaze or public scrutiny, banks have done an end run around the regulatory process.
- Hospital patients on TV are nine times more likely to die than actual patients.
- US jets begin military drills in Bulgaria, to show NATO allies America's opposition to Russia's behavior in Ukraine.
- Ukraine passes legislation to open long-sealed KGB archives.
- Almonds aren't the devil behind California's drought, at least not compared to alfalfa.
- See also: Favorite foods at major league ballparks.
- Growing number of airline passengers share stories of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men refusing to sit next to women on planes.
- Allegations surface that Mad Men's star Jon Hamm was arrested in college for brutally hazing a fraternity pledge.
- In light of police shootings, Baldwin's If Beale Street Could Talk takes on renewed—and painfully deep-seated—meaning.
- The word "meme" originally referred to ideas; despite the informality of LOLcats, ideas are still what's at stake.
- Related: Penguins aren't cute; penguins are terrifying.
- Poem for the weekend, to celebrate April as Poetry Month: “1 Corinthians 13,” by Spencer Reece.