* Since the disappearance of 43 students in Mexico on Sept. 26, police have found many mass graves—but not the right one. * Tackling Obamacare's false narratives. * The US government will profit $5 billion from renewable energy loans, which include failures (Solyndra) and successes (Tesla). * India has little recourse
* State Dept. shuts down entire unclassified email system in response to possible security hack. * Japan unexpectedly falls into recession as its GDP shrank in the third quarter—rather than grew, as predicted. * Corruption in the US military, where the low-paid manage large budgets, isn't so different from
* As unmarked troops and tanks arrive in Ukraine, Moscow and Kiev trade accusations of breaking the ceasefire. * Increasingly advanced counter-surveillance helps ISIS leader elude US strike. * Obama's immigration overhaul could allow millions of currently undocumented adults to legally work and reside in the US. * As in many
* House and Senate to vote on Keystone XL pipeline, with pols on both sides lining up to endorse it. * The Valerie Jarrett profile everyone in DC is reading. * Doctors Without Borders to host experimental Ebola treatments in West Africa. * China fails to trumpet the big climate change deal, possibly because
* Today at 11 am ET, ESA mission control will webcast its attempt of the first-ever probe landing on a comet. * US and China—who together emit 40% of the world's greenhouse gases—make a deal to reduce carbon emissions. * Five banks, including Citigroup and JPMorgan, to pay
* An estimated 120,000 Americans in prison are innocent, many thanks to the plea-bargain system. * FBI says rates of violent crime are lower than at any point since the '70s. * Firm that predicted the 2008 financial crisis sees 65% chance of recession in 2015. * In 2009, 42% of
* Protesters set Mexican President Nieto's palace on fire as anger over 43 missing students shows no sign of abating. * Unencrypted federal government websites providing AIDS-related resources have been leaking sensitive user information for years. * YouTube’s video blogging community...can sometimes enable an alarmingly specific type of
A decade ago, and then again five years later, we gathered a set of music bloggers who pioneered online music discovery—often to the chagrin of record labels. Now we reconvene to discuss the current state of listening to and reading about music online.
* Homeland Security says malware sponsored by Russia has been inserted into critical US infrastructure. * Putin says there was nothing wrong with the Soviet Union's pact with Nazi Germany, which secretly carved up Poland * Synthetic drug Spice rips across Russia, spread by kids and anonymous networks. * A year after
* Republicans want to define themselves affirmatively rather than by opposition; they should look to Friedrich Hayek. * Related: Birds found using human musical scales for the first time. * State judge overturns Missouri's constitutional ban on gay marriage. * Beheadings, massacres, and wholesale killings aren't limited to Islamic State
