Headlines from October 16, 2015

Even if Russia is in Syria to further prop up Assad, so far it hasn’t achieved much toward that goal.
US special ops analysts knew the hospital in Kunduz was a hospital.
Homeland is TV’s most Islamophobic show.
Homeland graffiti artist: “This kind of stereotyping…helps form people’s perceptions of an entire region.”
I don’t care about how much the house costs. I care that our ancestors left it for us. World Bank projects displace indigenous people.
Elephant poachers in Zimbabwe are using cyanide, causing agonizing deaths for their prey and other predators.
After thousands of years of coexistence, elephants’ capacity to cry for freedom still shocks humans.
Corporate America is trying to get rid of workers’ comp.
The FEC has become a “rancorous, demoralized, and polarized bystander to our cash-drenched elections.”
Thirty-three years after launching, the right-wing Washington Times achieves profitability.
The collection agencies utilities use to recoup owed money target lower-class black neighborhoods.
The LAPD has skewed violent crime statistics for eight years.
Applicants must to be able to use Microsoft Office and the internet. Disney is hiring an anti-terror intern.
Nickelodeon taught kids about AIDS in a powerful, humane way.
Before we figured out pulsars, we posited they were alien beacons—that’s right, we’re alone in the universe.
College football coach stargazes to inspire new offensive formations.
I hum a bit of some score during playback to see if it’s having the effect I want.  Sam Mendes interviews A-list directors.
A brief history of “robust.”