August 13, 2014
By The Morning News
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- The Israel-Hamas ceasefire ends this afternoon, and neither side appears ready to end their military campaigns.
- For a few hours yesterday, the FAA restricted air travel above Ferguson, Mo., following the riots over Michael Brown's death.
- Following the chokehold homicide of Eric Garner, NYPD is urged to mandate cameras be worn by its officers.
- Stanford professor Maryam Mirzakhani has become the first woman to win the highest prize in math, the Fields Medal.
- Chelsea Manning has yet to receive any of the hormone therapy approved by Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel.
- Living HIV-positive in 2014.
- Texas man who tried to defend a group of women from catcallers was attacked.
- Related: Hannah Price's photographs of men who harrassed her on the street.
- Things Indian politicians have blamed rape on: chow mein, cell phones, the liberal media.
- The US, UK, Sweden, and Switzerland were the only nations not to experience a coup between 1901 and 1960.
- Norwegian children nap outside in winter and French kids eat camembert: parenting around the world.
- Only 14.6% of people over the age of 60 believe they will stop working entirely after their official retirement.
- If every pro football player were rostered by their hometown team, here's how the NFL would look.
- Sarah Viren talks with Iowa Public Radio about moving to Texas, where her same-sex marriage became unrecognized.
- See also: "How to Unmarry Your Wife" by Sarah Viren.
- "Lauren Bacall, who taught Humphrey Bogart how to whistle, dies at 89."
- "Young people, even in Hollywood, ask me, ‘Were you really married to Humphrey Bogart?’ ‘Well, yes, I think I was,’ I reply."
