August 17, 2015
By The Morning News
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- The NSA's decades-long partnership with AT&T was essential to the agency's surveillance program.
- How ProPublica determined the NSA's unnamed telecommunications partner was AT&T.
- The Iowa State Fair is hell on a candidate's campaign-trail diet.
- Trump wins Iowa Fair by offering free rides on his helicopter.
- Beware fascism, not immigrants.
- Canada's PM steered the country into a decade of ignorance by cutting data-gathering programs, including the census.
- Brewers' minor-leaguer is Major League Baseball's first openly gay player, sort of.
- Glenn Burke was MLB's first openly gay player—it wasn't publicized, but his team was well aware.
- In Louisiana's Caddo Parish, prosecutors dismiss black potential jurors three times more than whites.
- When Kanye called out Bush over Katrina, he set the scene for viral, measured, political anger—the language of Black Lives Matter.
- NBC cuts from Janelle Monae as she declares, "God bless all the lives lost to police brutality."
- White House to target heroin epidemic by combining public health and law enforcement efforts.
- Real vampires: Not all drink blood, most aren't goth, and many suffer medical ailments.
- Revisiting high school mock trial, 10 years after winning nationals.
- A Detroit house burns to the ground when firefighters can't locate a working hydrant.
- Add gas stations to list of internet-connected things a hacker can easily target.
- Airbnb's biggest business hurdle could be insurance, as company tiptoes around hosts' criminal acts.
- "If we were smart about the accounting, we'd be asking Facebook to pay us."
- Policies for a fairly paid music economy.
- Silicon Valley and Stephen Spielberg are already laying the groundwork for Obama's post-presidency.
- A proper assessment of Obama's tenure requires measurable, non-political categories: golf, homebrewing, and more.
- "In 1919, Eisenhower suffered through history's worst cross-country road trip."
- A visit to South Dakota's most famous roadside kitsch store.
- The Kenyan village of Umoja is home to 47 women, 200 children, and no men.
