April 18, 2016
By The Morning News
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- Supreme Court to decide if Obama overstepped by granting amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants.
- Supreme Court opinions in Citizens United prefigured the Sanders-vs-Clinton dynamic.
- There is no Bernie movement.
- Manitoba offers voters a "none of the above" option if they don't like any of the candidates but still want to vote.
- Pilot program to sell ads on NBA jerseys will debut in 2017.
- Polls finds vast majority of Americans prefer paying lower prices for items made overseas instead of paying a premium for things made in the US.
- Iran unexpectedly scuttles OPEC deal to freeze oil production, ensuring continuation of low prices.
- Monday's poem: Sherman Alexie wonders if comedy is even possible in Germany.
- If it were to join the US as a state, Sweden would be poorer than all but 12 states, with a median income of $27,167.
- YouTube still relies on low-ranking employees to root out disturbing videos.
- Stunning video shows what the Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis look like from space.
- Riddle: Spend a billion dollars to win a space race.
- UC Davis spent $175,000 on “strategic communications” to scrub the infamous pepper-spray incident from search results.
- No accident that the people of Sichuan are as fiery as the regional cuisine, say science and history.
- World's first "Pastafarian" wedding takes place on a pirate ship in New Zealand.
- "Food plagiarism" may be real, but Cronut maker says chefs waste their time worrying about imitators.
- Tim O'Brien, author of The Things They Carried, performs magic shows in his living room.
- Competition seeks a board game to honor Robert Caro.
- Alumni and genealogists try to find out what happened to 272 slaves—men, women and children—who were sold to save Georgetown University.
- Reporting sexual violence in Kashmir is worse than futile.
- The problem is not that overworked professionals are all miserable. The problem is that they are not.
- Nomad spends more than a decade tromping up and down California with three mules and a message of environmental emergency.
- Hiker asks for money to trek 500 miles in Colorado with authentic 19th-century gear, clothing, and hunting practices.
- Abstract think piece for the afternoon: Narration of air strikes betrays perversion at the heart of drone warfare.
