* Two officers shot outside the Ferguson Police Department during night of protest. * White millennials appear to be no less prejudiced than the rest of the white population. * Critics who say Empire uses the worst of black stereotypes forget that black characters are free to be flawed. * Republicans startled by PR
* Towelette that washed up in Western Australia being tested to see if it came from lost flight MH370. * Utah reinstates firing squad as backup to lethal injection. * Lebanese TV host pulls the plug on a sexist Islamic scholar after he tells her to "shut up." * Review of the
* US calls Venezuela a national security threat and sanctions top officials. * Isaac Herzog emerging as genuine threat to Netanyahu in Israel's March 17 elections. * Bill Clinton's portraitist reveals that he worked some of Lewinsky’s stained dress into the official portrait. * See also: George W. Bush&
* Obama tells a crowd in Selma, "We know the march is not yet over." * Selma today is a place expected to carry perhaps more symbolic weight than any small city can bear. * Senator Lindsay Graham reveals he has never sent an email. * For media geeks: War stories from
* White supremacy is the machinery of Galactus which allows for the potential devouring of everything you own. * Federal agencies, especially DOJ, launch quiet resistance against FOIA reform. * Ballooning campaign contributions to judges fly under the radar, despite growing attention to money in politics. * Oil company won't let youth
* Justice Dept. investigation finds endemic civil rights abuses in Ferguson PD. * Related: For evidence of racial bias in Ferguson PD, look to an impartial judge: radar guns. * Fellow opposition leader Navalny blames Russian government for Nemtsov murder. * Russia accuses the US of stoking mass protests and financing opposition movements within
* Amid steelworker negotiations, Shell announces plan to deploy scabs at refineries nationwide by summer. * An al Qaeda founder-turned-spy tells how he indoctrinated new Islamist recruits and how theology drove him to leave. * Air pollution concerns spur talk of a "Silent Spring" in China—but the air
* Hillary Clinton used only personal email to conduct government business during her Secretary of State tenure. * Kurdish Workers Party attracts Western volunteers in ISIS fight—some are loath to accept its leftism. * Forty percent of Syriza condemn austerity deal; many in Greece believe the Euro is worth saving. * Cuba remains
* Jewish Democrats are stuck in the middle. * Arizona conservatives petition US Supreme Court to strike down independent review of redistricting. * A chronological visualization of all 1,175 people killed by police in the US in 2014. * Reneging on promises, France has yet to provide reparations to Algerians affected by nuclear
* German lawmakers expected to pass a four-month extension of Greece’s bailout plan. * Ski resorts experiment with variable pricing, rewarding customers for committing early. * Environment committee chairman and noted climate-change denier throws snowball on the Senate floor to make a point. * "Rich white boy" New Orleans
