* Genome sequencing data from Icelanders shows that our oldest human ancestor lived about 239,000 years ago. * Humans are the only animal to suffer from schizophrenia, thanks to our big, complex brains. * Returned US soldier Bowe Bergdahl charged with desertion. * With US forces gone, Yemen quickly becoming a model of
* Nearly a third of the $1.6 billion Fukushima cleanup budget has been wasted through expensive and ineffective technology. * Obama pushes back Afghanistan troop withdrawal until after 2015. * Congress looks to add a permanent slush fund to the budget for war. * From yesterday's Tournament of Books decision, where
* The Senate's treatment of Loretta Lynch confirms its anti-Obama pathology. * Cities clamoring to host sports franchises siphon off millions of public dollars, but an Obama budget provision would make incentives illegal. * Related: Sports world imagined without jingoism, racism, sexism, or owners. * What Ted Cruz would need to
* Lee Kuan Yew, founder of modern Singapore, father of the “Singapore model,” dies at 91. * Chinese Communist Party demands the Dalai Lama to reincarnate on its terms. * Man sees an argument with his parents, recorded in 1985, turned into a cartoon. * Profile of an amnesiac illustrator who can't
* With an eye toward legacy, Obama emerges as a leading architect of an emerging global climate treaty. * Survey of Federal Reserve transcripts shows officials laughed most just before 2008's crash, and Greenspan landed the most jokes. * Chicago police commander resigns following "black site" revelations and civil
* Obama tells seventh grader he wishes he'd ordered Gitmo closed when he still had the chance. * It's time for everyone, including Dick Cheney, to stop playing "the race card" card. * Trend alert: Wealthy women are putting their babies in Hermès Birkin bags, thanks to
* Netanyahu reelected Prime Minister with 72 percent of Israeli citizens voting. * Haiti's president Martelly now runs the country without any checks and balances from parliament. * Presbyterian Church amends constitution to allow gay weddings. * Druckerman: To succeed at French dinner parties, “you must be a little bit mean but
* "Surging rhetoric" against Iran and the Palestinians from Netanyahu before today's election in Israel. * US Army opens investigations into Iraqi detainee abuse allegations from 2003. * What to expect on the first few days following the death of Queen Elizabeth II. * See also: One-third of the
* Robert Durst, subject of HBO doc The Jinx, arrested in murder charges after accidentally admiting his guilt on camera. * Putin re-appears after a 10-day sabbatical from public life, refusing to explain his disappearance. * Putin’s carefully cultivated image rests on never showing weakness, which is crucial in hypercompetitive
* Giuliani says Obama is to blame for the latest shootings in Ferguson, calls Brown's death “a justifiable homicide." * Protests in Ferguson—or fear thereof—drove huge spike in Missouri gun sales. * NASA launches four spacecraft to study the give-and-take of the Earth and sun'
