August 15, 2016
By The Morning News
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- Polls favor Clinton in the presidential election, but Wikileaks and unknown geopolitical events still threaten.
- If Mr. Trump could make progress in reunifying Republicans, Mrs. Clinton would quickly find herself in a tighter race.
- Ukraine's anti-corruption bureau discovers millions earmarked for Trump's campaign chief.
- Diary of political lessons learned while canvassing for Sanders.
- Universal basic income won't alleviate poverty and may undercut benefits to the poor.
- Warren Buffett's sister needs volunteers in Boston to help give away her brother's money to needy cases.
- American schools spend big money on security against shootings, to little definite result.
- Ryan Lochte and other US Olympic swimmers robbed at gunpoint.
- Photos of child boxers in Cambodia, where the sport is seen as a way out of poverty.
- Hope Solo is comfortable playing the anti-heroa rare, welcome role for a female athlete.
- Food salvaged from Olympic Village feeds 5,000 daily in Rio.
- Polio is back in Nigeria because Boko Haram prohibited vaccines.
- Native Americans and movie stars arrested at protest of oil pipeline in North Dakota.
- Conviction overturned for Brendan Dassey, featured in Making a Murderer.
- Pioneer in user-centered design asks Saudi teens how they use their phones.
- I was 15 when I took my short, cold dip into pageant life, and I cant shake that naive voice.
- Powerful IBM chip that uses brain-like computation allows for gesture recognition.
- Following a suggestion from the late Vonnegut, computer analysis reveals six basic plot structures.
- More than 500 physics papers go to waste as data disproves new particle.
- Headline of the day: "MouseTube Is Like Pornhub for Mouse Research."
