* Pentagon investigates whether its ISIS intelligence skewed too optimistic. * Police get new high-tech toys, including unregulated phone-hacking Stingrays ("spy first, ask judges later"). * Freddie Gray's life was testament to another bulwark of racism: poisonous lead paint and the scams that preyed on its black
* Tensions ease between Koreas—North "regrets" land-mine maimings; South to switch off loudspeakers. * Every time the stock market loses this much this quickly, a rebound follows. * A young investor in China: "I have no confidence with regards to the future of our capitalist market." * "
* Russia blocks all of Wikipedia over a page that explains how to make hashish. * Literary magazines for socialists funded by the CIA, ranked. * Twitter kills Politwoops, which monitored worldwide politicians' deleted tweets. * "Racism won't really get addressed in this country 'til people stop looking for
* Science: "Why so many humans are disgusting, heartbreaking, cheating scumbags." * The secret to a happy relationship could come down to science—if only it was so straightforward. * How couples will break up in 2115. * "I can tell you about the moment I heard Pimp C was dead.
* The Bernie Bunch is the problem. * Increased longevity means Japan can no longer afford to gift 100-year-olds with a silver sake dish. * Around 15,000 government email addresses were exposed in the Ashley Madison hack. * Latino children are scared of Trump. * UN will let Iran inspect its own
* German Parliament approves third Greek bailout, as Merkel faces conservative revolt. * Some 2,000 migrants are now arriving daily on the Greek island of Lesbos. * New Orleans, 10 years after Katrina: Officials tout recovery, while 100,000 black residents still haven't returned—and likely won't. * Hillary
* "President Obama declared a bank holiday, to the chagrin of President-Elect Trump." * Footage shows the prime suspect in the Bangkok bombings that killed 20 on Monday. * The IRS breach of more than 300,000 taxpayers' records fits the pattern of being worse than initially believed. * States
* 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
* US has "credible information" ISIS used chemical weapons on Kurdish forces in Iraq. * Over the past year, ISIS has developed a horrific, systematic market of sex slavery. * On the anniversary of Japan's WWII surrender, Abe expresses remorse, but—significantly—doesn't apologize. * Explained: Why Japan&
* "The heroin epidemic of the 21st century is largely a white person's scourge." * Connecticut Supreme Court rules death penalty unconstitutional. * Children of incarcerated parents suffer from depression and PTSD—which should be no surprise. * Workers' children are those most affected by unpredictable work schedules. * To
