* FBI arrests revenge-porn site operator for paying a hacker to steal hundreds of nude photos from people's email accounts. * Morocco repeals law that exonerates rapist if they marry their victims, but marital rape is still legal. * Series of storms in the Atlantic tosses abandoned cruise ship of
* European Union proposes to end binding national targets for renewable energy production. * Sulphate pollution from China results in U.S. smog. * Multiple studies show that gentrification may be a boon to longtime residents, who likely don't leave the neighborhood. * Data based on disease models predicts Facebook will lose
* Interesting account of actor Jeffrey Wright's attempts to develop a gold mine in Sierra Leone. * Times of India's disturbing front-page headline. * Photos of Bombay's slum-surrounded residential skyscrapers titled after their ad slogans. * See also: Sketches of architecture and street life in Paris
* Two arrested at Texas-Mexico border with more than 100 fraudulent credit cards exploiting stolen Target data. * Korea Credit Bureau engineer arrested for stealing nearly half the South Korean population's credit cards. * Check to see if your email address or username has been compromised in a data breach.
* Egypt hires American PR firm to improve its image, then arrests its film crew within hours of setting foot in Cairo. * Times editor discovers a new relationship with her father when her dad discovers the joy of texting about the news. * Threats from Western countries to withdraw aid have slowed
* Four years after he went missing, video surfaces of the only U.S. soldier held captive by the Taliban. * Thorough explainer of what you need to know about this week's net neutrality decision. * What's it like to live as a gay family in Russia today? "
* The NSA can use radio waves to snoop on computers that aren't connected to the internet. * Federal judge strikes down Oklahoma's ban on gay marriage, calling it "arbitrary" and "irrational." * Ezra Klein on what liberals get wrong about single payer. * Bill Keller
* NBC defends how it plans to broadcast the Olympics alongside Russia's "anti-gay propaganda" law. * Terrorism case analysis finds NSA's phone record collection “has had no discernible impact on preventing acts of terrorism.” * Mexico to deploy federal forces in western state where narcos and
* China's steel manufacturing industry produces roughly a quarter of the world's steel—and is on the verge of collapse. * Researchers find MTV's 16 and Pregnant has led to a drastic decrease in teen pregnancy rate. * Ink-jet technology that prints retinal cells could help
* Rachel Maddow speculates: Christie wasn't targeting Fort Lee mayor with bridge closures, but NJ Senator Loretta Weinberg. * India firearms company launches exclusive revolver for women. * Until 1912, visitors to Niagara Falls could walk on the ice bridge—it's refrozen, but not to that point yet. * See
