Headlines from August 18, 2015

“President Obama declared a bank holiday, to the chagrin of President-Elect Trump.”
Footage shows the prime suspect in the Bangkok bombings that killed 20 on Monday.
The IRS breach of more than 300,000 taxpayers’ records fits the pattern of being worse than initially believed.
States move to defund Planned Parenthood, some in violation of federal law.
The code behind Stephen Hawking’s speech program is now open source.
National Labor Relations Board rejects Northwestern football players application to unionize.
Five years of research supports what we already knew: Torture doesn’t work.
Inmate councils, a fixture of California state prisons, find their way into LA County jail.
The surreal Texas retrial of Ed Graf, whose 1986 murder conviction was based on bad science.
“If I had been born in a country with fossil-fuel reserves, would I have a different opinion about what’s good for the world?”
Chinese internet censors debunk rumors about Tianjin explosions—or that’s what they want you to think.
More in conspiracies: Here are our favorite shadowy plots.
Wax figures never die, they’re just reborn as Biblical characters in Ohio.
A New Jersey media company is asking people how much money they’d pay for an extra year of life.
In “Sabbath,” Oliver Sacks finds inner peace before a final day of rest.
Why don’t you make and wear pseudoscopic glasses and see what happens! My letter from Oliver Sacks.