April 21, 2016
By The Morning News
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- Japanese officials raid Mitsubishi after the company admits cheating on fuel-economy tests.
- Divestment tactics are still polarizing, but public opinion is now against the fossil fuel industry.
- Latin American countries, besieged with drug violence, were rebuffed by prohibitionists at a special UN summit.
- Obama visits London to lunch with the Queen on her birthday and encourage the country to remain in the EU.
- See also: Eight thousand people sign up for London's new naked-dining restaurant.
- Representatives from the presidential campaigns meet with White House officials to discuss the power transfer.
- Looking at people looking at Donald Trump.
- Davy Rothbart joins a crowds-on-demand firm, to act as paparazzi or political supporters for hire.
- Young explorers applauded for media and fundraising savvy—and then ripped apart for being bad explorers.
- Related: Access to information is remaking culture in remote America.
- Years after his father died, a son rediscovers their Xbox—and with it, his dad's ghost car.
- Headline of the day: "Midwife Navigates Texas Flood Waters On Inflatable Swan."
- South Sudanese militias make violent incursions into Ethiopia to steal children.
- Lausanne, a city of 150,000 in Switzerland, joins Finland and Ontario as experiments in basic income proliferate.
- How to improve the value of Detroit's worst houses: build a portal to Manhattan—and other real-estate musings.
- Americans eat less chocolate these days, so Hershey’s is starting to push meat bars.
- Monks have always made great beer—now a pair of California nuns want to be the Trappists of weed.
- To celebrate "weed day," Snapchat creates a blackface "lens" to make users resemble Bob Marley.
- NBA players spend halftime reading texts, emails, and social media notifications.
- Forget the stereotypes: most millennials didn’t graduate from college and don’t live in big cities.
- Terrific deep dive on how infographics and optical illusions can trick the mind.
- Thirty years of research show we’re not the only ones who think.
- Photographs of how children play in different places around the world.
