August 4, 2014
- Israel bombards the Gaza town of Rafah, killing 100 people in 24 hours.
- Israel declares a seven-hour ceasefire—a "humanitarian window"—for most of Gaza.
- How the ICC can determine war crimes.
- The conflict may be deescalating: Israel is pulling troops out of Gaza and stationing some troops on the border.
- The New York Times's Israel bureau chief self-insulates herself from Palestinian voices and opinion.
- The spread of ebola is quickly gaining speed; 729 have now died in Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Liberia.
- Russia’s "ugly, mean" suburbs are an inspiration to contemporary photographers.
- New low: Amtrak train leaves New York's Penn Station without its passengers.
- Registered sex offender arrested after Google finds explicit emails in his email.
- A first-person narrative of crystal meth addiction.
- Engaged couple holds soccer match to decide their family's surname.
- Remote-controlled birth control: A new microchip implant can be stopped and started at the push of a button.
- Art professor uses grafting to create a tree that will grow 40 types of fruit.
- Male smallmouth bass in Chesapeake Bay are switching gender—the likely culprit is industrial chemical overflow.
- Ants might be cooling the earth's climate through carbon sequestration.
- Newly discovered fossils reveal the largest penguins on record—at more than six feet tall and 250 pounds.
- The first full face transplant patient.