* From 1964, a JFK eulogy. * From Annie Hall to Slacker, finding humor in JFK assassination conspiracies. * I was in my gym class...Someone came in and said the president had been shot, and people cheered. * Alabama state parole board posthumously pardons nine black teenagers falsely accused of rape in 1931.
* Quotations and reports pulled from New York Times articles that ran in the four days following JFK's death. * Illustrated guide and plausibility reports for every JFK conspiracy. * Related: Time-lapse map of every nuclear explosion that's ever taken place on Earth. * Ezra Klein on the big
* White paper finds worldwide income inequality falling consistently over four decades, especially in the last decade. * Ballet dancers now think of themselves as brands, causing havoc among companies. * First people to hear Joy Womack's allegations about the Bolshoi Ballet were seated in a small Virginia library. * Study of
* By intervening in Mali, France may have saved other African nations from civil war, which often spills across borders. * Kenya's sex workers choose antiretroviral drugs over condoms. * For most Texans, the closest clinic to offer abortions after 20 weeks will stay open—it's in Albuquerque. * Exiled
* If Walmart wanted workers to have a living wage, it could end stock buybacks that don't improve the bottom line. * Oil companies try to stay hush on spills—it almost worked in Mayflower, Ark., until people started getting sick. * Scientists unearth ancient seawater, which they discover has twice
* In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court upholds Texas's brutal abortion restrictions. * Four in five have updated their social media privacy in the past six months. * Dutch officials pay alcoholics in tobacco and beer to be less disruptive and clean parks. * Africa is often portrayed
* U.S.-Israel ties strained over Iran accord. * Where the United States does stand out is in the level of inequality after taxes and transfers. * The eruptions of Indonesia's Mount Sinabung volcano, now active after 400 years of dormancy. * French newspaper goes image-less in support of photographers,
* George Zimmerman's history of violence against women, like OJ Simpson's, should have been a red flag for murder. * So was the America of 1947–1974...the great exception in the nation's economic history? * Walmart blames Obamacare for poor financials, but given its workforce and
* Five decades ago, JFK faced the same quagmire as Obama regarding Medicaid and socializing medicine. * Novelist and Nobel winner Doris Lessing, who wrote The Golden Notebook, dies at 94. * Atwood: "If there were a Mount Rushmore of 20th-century authors, Doris Lessing would most certainly be carved upon it.
* The worst job in DC: Obama cabinet member. * Science may find cures for rare childhood diseases—but for parents, eventually isn't soon enough. * Why do we ban cigarettes to minors [when] it’s OK to have 12-year-olds getting nicotine poisoning in the fields? * China is ending
