April 29, 2015
By The Morning News
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- History weighs heavily on justices in the Supreme Court's first day of oral arguments on same-sex marriage.
- Pilot Viruet, "Black Exhaustion."
- While the city protested, Baltimore County celebrated its annual Hunt Cup with underage drinking, pastels, and no second thoughts.
- Police unions may be the biggest stumbling block to reform in Maryland.
- What we don't talk about when we use the word "riots."
- Today's Orioles game marks the first time in Major League Baseball history that a game will be closed to the public.
- NFL voluntarily relinquishes tax-exempt status, but its antitrust exemption remains unaffected.
- Big interactive explainer on how a senior female ISIS agent uses social media to recruit militants.
- A software glitch on American Airlines pilots' iPads grounded several dozen flights yesterday.
- As color film processing proliferated, color-balancing techniques were optimized for caucasian skin tones.
- Opp, Ala., doubles its population during the annual Rattlesnake Rodeo, an event of prayer, bouncy castles, and poison.
- See also: TMN's 2003 visit to the world's largest rattlesnake roundup in Sweetwater, Texas.
- This year, 10 inmates in Texas prisons will have spent 30 consecutive years in solitary confinement.
- Hoover Dam's Lake Mead has sunk to its lowest level yet, which means less electricity for locals.
- Senate Republicans are blocking the nomination to a new position for one of the torture report's lead investigators.
- Medical officials describe the ownership chain of your body parts after they've been surgically removed.
- In the Wilderness: The fate of rural American Judaism through a community's last girl.
- Children's playgrounds around the world, from first-world quads to third-world slums.
