* China explains why it didn't respond when American and Japanese jets flew through its new air defense zone over the East China Sea. * Putin usually makes guests wait 30 minutes to see him, but the Pope waited nearly an hour. * New Snowden document says the NSA has been
* Consumers turn to private insurance-market websites to buy coverage while healthcare.gov remains troubled. * Private company purchases 150 acres of Detroit, with plans to turn the derelict East Side into farmland and orchards. * Though its strategies have proven ineffectual, no one can blame the USPS for trying to save
* D.C. Republicans increasingly furious at the Heritage Foundation, notably its 31-year-old "revolutionary." * Iran and America's top diplomats are selling the landmark nuclear agreement very differently at home. * Primer on the Iran nuclear agreement. * "A Guide to Eating Very Particular Feelings." * The
* Last year there were 223 cases of polio; to reach zero, we need to spend billions and fight the Taliban. * Health authorities struggle to convince America that there's a post-antibiotics crisis coming soon. * See also: the "happy-hour virus," for when your computer needs to
* Possible nor'easter predicted to ruin Thanksgiving travel plans on the East Coast this Wednesday. * In the next 50 years the island of Kiribati will sink into the Pacific; its government needs to relocate 103,000 citizens. * Six-month deal reached to keep the Iranian nuclear program in check,
* 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
