April 15, 2014
By The Morning News
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- Tension high in Ukraine as authorities announce an "anti-terrorist operation" against pro-Russian separatists.
- If you live in Russia and you think Crimea now belongs to the motherland, this map tells you that you're right.
- California contract killer "Mano Negra" busted after a "sloppy" death in Alabama, possibly his 34th.
- Related: Laurie Taylor interviews academic studying British hit men—mostly amateurs and prone to mistakes.
- Despite years of political crackdowns, NGOs find new room to breathe in China, knitting together an emerging civil society.
- One year later, Sean Flynn's tick-tock account of the Boston Marathon bombing.
- The 19th-century race to build America's first subway system was—no surprise—a competition between Boston and New York.
- Maitre d' of New York City's Eleven Madison Park googles every customer before they arrive.
- Big art buyers save millions by loaning their art, post-purchase, to museums in tax-friendly states like Oregon.
- Scenes in the life of the American West.
- On tax day, dealers discover that deductions on labor and rent don't apply to legal marijuana dispensaries.
- Champagne-flavored Viagra ice cream is finally here.
- After learning their plane to Iran held a refugee facing deportation, Swedish passengers kept the airplane grounded by refusing to fasten their seatbelts.
- Finnish town's plan to pay parents to have babies backfires when town runs out of family-sized housing.
- Archaeologist refutes the claim that Neanderthals were bad parents, citing toy hand axes and elaborate burial plots.
- In 1746, a woman impersonated a man, marrying at least three women before getting caught.
- Peter Rosenberg, Nicki Minaj, the New Yorker's Andrew Marantz, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, and Frannie Kelley on who belongs in hip-hop anymore.
- Tournament of Books zombie The Goldfinch wins Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
