* India has left it to America to crown the first Indian beauty queen who looks...well, Indian. * France advances on banning beauty pageants for children under 16; organizers could face jail time. * On Pickering's Harem, the forgotten female research assistants who pushed astronomy forward. * Now that Facebook likes
* American Journal of Medicine fast-tracks publication of study proving high gun ownership makes the U.S. less safe. * The next mass shooting will take place on February 12, 2014, in Spokane, Wash., by a 38-year-old white man at a place he used to work. * Related: "It’
* Washington's awful politics are exactly what we should expect "in a country where a successful economic model has broken down." * In the House, Democrats voted with Mr. Obama 90% of the time in 2009 but 77% last year. * I think we’d have a better justice
* Big photos of Colorado's historic flooding. * On average, drivers who search for a "good" parking spot end up no closer to their destination than those who park immediately. * Most universities lose money on sports; they make up the difference through tuition and state tax hikes. * A
* CDC issues report on the top antibiotic-resistant infection threats. * Actually, John McCain won't be published in the print Pravda, but Pravda.ru, which split from the the Communist organ years ago. * In Russia, an argument over Kant ends in a shooting. * Studies show Facebook makes us sad
* Multiple fatalities at a shooting in a naval office building not far from Capitol Hill. * By the end of this century, scientists predict, seas may be 150 percent more acidic than they were in the 18th century. * Franzen: "Real anger, anger as a way of life, was foreign to
* Syrian National Coalition says, if you're going to ban chemical weapons, could you please also ban aerial bombing, too. * Pravda agrees to publish column by John McCain attacking Putin's leadership. * State-sponsored Voice of Russia proposes transferring Obama's Nobel prize to Putin. * Aerial footage
* National Guard sent to rescue the 2,000 residents of flood-besieged Lyons, Colo. * The more we fixate on chemical weapons as "bad" warfare, the more we make conventional weapons seem like "good" warfare. * Japan to file formal complaint over French newspaper's inappropriate jokes
* In case you were wondering: How exactly that Putin op-ed made its way to the New York Times. * Related: Putin's op-ed annotated and fact-checked. * Violence in Syria foments a new tradition of and interest in poetry. * Egyptian Army soldiers superimposed on idyllic postcards. * The "
* Ken Layne interviews Satan 12 years after 9/11 and reviews what has occurred as a result. * Putin says Americans aren't exceptional; Senator Menendez says that makes him want to vomit. * "Trader Joe’s Is Dropping Coverage For Some Part-Time Workers—And That Means Obamacare Is
