Headlines from September 17, 2015

For Putin, helping restore peace in Syria could mean an end to Western sanctions over Ukraine.
When pressed on the issues, Trump withers—here’s a guide to what he stands for, as best as one can figure.
People are finally talking about Trump’s anti-vaccine position.
Joe Biden is proof that a career of gaffes doesn’t make you any less of a political force.
Everything wrong about the Secret Service code names the GOP candidates’ gave themselves.
George W. Bush’s nicknames for every single Democrat in the 110th US Congress.
Interviews with drug dealers on how the dark web has made their job safer—and more efficient.
Cocaine paraphernalia ads from the 1970s were high-production affairs.
Photos from inside the Emerald Triangle, California’s clandestine world of weed cultivation.
When wildfires erupt, animals know to evacuate, and yellow jackets get thirsty—and angry.
It’s the type of thing you might expect to happen once in a millennium. “The Blob” is making the ocean weird.
“People want to express more through a button. It’s so much easier to press a button than typing a lot.”
A group of friends builds the first scale model of the solar system—then they then drive the orbits in a car. #video
On the topic of sandwich copyright, confusion and puns abound.