April 29, 2016
By The Morning News
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- Anticipating this weekend's White House Correspondents Dinner, a list of jokes told by every president.
- Boehner calls Ted Cruz “Lucifer in the flesh,” “the most miserable son of a bitch in my life.”
- Don’t underestimate Trump’s top advisor, who made “a booming business working with dictators.”
- Wilson Quarterly puts together an illustrated guide to the history of camouflage.
- Southern German city of Augsburg installs traffic lights in the pavement for pedestrians staring at their phones.
- Economist creates table to measure how much competitive runners slow down as they get older.
- How Leicester City, against 5,000-to-1 odds, may win England’s Premier League soccer championship this weekend.
- How to drink in Qatar, where alcohol is mostly illegal.
- Dispatch from Nepal, where a government-aided fuel crisis is used to suppress ethnic minorities.
- Colombia becomes Latin America's fourth country to legalize same-sex marriage, following Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay.
- Oklahoma ruling spotlights the yawning gap between changing mores about consent and laws on the books.
- Lawmakers don’t understand encryption.
- Panda-suited man shot by Baltimore police after he threatens to bomb a TV station.
- Anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist is the keynote speaker at a New York summit for hundreds of police officers.
- Five moments trace hip-hop's love affair with Phil Collins.
- You binged-listened and -watched Lemonade all week. Now see the only review you can agree with.
- NFL owners in the ‘80s found a way to fight labor by convincing star quarterbacks to sign over their jersey rights.
- Top NFL prospect tumbles after a draft-day Twitter hack shows him smoking a bong through a gas mask.
- Brief history of Twitter's Ed Balls day.
- Related: Ed Balls celebrates this year's anniversary by baking his famous tweet a cake.
- Weight Watchers Connect is the only social media network remaining that doesn’t make me hate myself.
- Astonishing story of skiiers who survived a blizzard in Alaska by digging themselves a cave without a shovel.
- See also: Wikipedia's amazing, very entertaining list of missing aircraft.
- Armed with a macro lens, an artist shows how everyday objects are anything but average.
