August 5, 2016
- Former CIA chief endorses Clinton, calls Trump a threat to national security.
- Sturm Ruger CEO links Clintons perceived opposition to gun rights to a spike in sales.
- How a top GOP lawyer guided a Chinese-owned company into influencing US presidential politics.
- Missouri public defender, fed up with a funding crisis, appoints governor to a misdemeanor assault case.
- South Africa's Democratic Alliance takes Nelson Mandela Bay, looks likely to win Johannesburg and Pretoria.
- Protests near Heathrow and in Nottingham try to start a Black Lives Matter movement in the UK.
- Buffalo's only black firefighter loses his apartment to arson two days after he received a racist letter telling him to quit his job.
- It is disturbingly easy to legally acquire the ingredients to make a dirty bomb in America.
- San Francisco Chinatown gangster Shrimp Boy gets life in prison.
- Profile of Shrimp Boy circa last October, in the midst of a court battle to prove he'd turned his life around.
- Humpback whales around the globe are mysteriously rescuing animals from orcas.
- Olympics begin tonight in Rio.
- Fascinating profile of the outsider athlete and her once unruly horse who dominate the strange world of dressage.
- On the secret, confusing pain of being an Olympic alternate.
- Venezuelan women choose to be sterilized instead of raising babies in their chaotic country.
- Startup behind Just Mayo fakes success by secretly buying back tons of its own products.
- Facts about insider trading.
- How to shop at a good bookstore.
- College-age Tinder users have lower self-esteem than peers who steer clear of the app.
- The case against Dunkin Donuts cold brewa trendy, soulless substitute for its classic iced coffee.