* Appeals court reinstates most of Texas's abortion restrictions, which will remain in effect until January. * Unfortunately not related: A sinister history of Halloween pranks, from riots to bigotry. * Whatever Obamaism really is, it has run its course. * Profile of John Ramsey, one of the Libertarian kids who are
* Syria wants to turn its chemical weapons factories into civilian chemical facilities, alarming inspectors. * Columnist detained in Saudi Arabia for writing about women drivers. * Greenwald on leaving The Guardian: "Reporting the NSA story has never been easy." * The Pacific Ocean has warmed 15 times faster in the last
* Mother explains why you shouldn't spy on your children, despite the myriad ways technology now allows you to track them. * Petraeus: How we won the surge in Iraq. * Potential HIV treatment completely wipes out virus from lab monkeys; effects may not apply to humans. * Architectural profile of the
* Google and Yahoo outraged yesterday at reports the NSA can collect information "at will" from hundreds of millions of user accounts. * Dick Cheney re-emerges in order to support the Tea Party and his daughter's campaign for Senate. * Boston wins the World Series at home for
* The portions of the Texas abortion law that remain still make it burdensome for women to get abortions. * To win a seat in Congress, it helps to have a family member who's been in Congress. * Woes continue for healthcare.gov, with news that hacking into people's
* Spy chiefs say listening to foreign leaders is par for the course—and that Europeans would spy on Obama if it wasn't for his badass Blackberry. * Former Greek foreign minister admits to eavesdropping on American diplomats. * Haiku generator makes poetry out of NSA-flagged words. * Our security services&
* China does its best to scrub away evidence—both physically and online—of yesterday's car crash in Tiananmen Square, but images get free. * ABC scrubs clip and apologizes after child on Jimmy Kimmel Live! suggests killing everyone in China. * Related: Excellent remembrance of "Tank Man" and
* White House poised to ban spying on heads of allied countries; former intelligence director tells leaders to get off cell phones. * Obama didn't know before the Snowden leaks that the NSA was targeting as many as 35 world leaders. * Brief introduction to the "five eyes" club,
* According to Spiegel research, the NSA and CIA have used the American Embassy in Berlin as a listening station. * The largest business in death care in North America expects by early 2014 to ingest the next-largest chain. * Related: America’s funeral parlors mostly rely on one man to provide
* Nineteen Syrian rebel groups reject participation in peace talks, demand end of the al-Assad government. * No matter what you read in the news, bullying is not on the rise and it does not lead to suicide. * Relatively large, never-seen-before asteroid very likely will not strike Earth on
