December 12, 2014
By The Morning News
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- Senate to begin debate on a $1.1 trillion spending bill that narrowly passed last night, avoiding a government shutdown.
- Related: Cromnibus spending bill passes over objection of liberal lights Warren, Pelosi.
- See also: National Democrats consistently use liberal DC policies as bartering chips in federal disputes with Republicans.
- Nurse faces court martial for conscientiously objecting to force-feed Guantanamo prisoners.
- Disney, Koch, Skype others pay as low as 0.3% tax on billions in profit, thanks to complex restructurings that base subsidiaries in Luxembourg.
- History remembers the Zodiac Killer, but is silent on the Doodler, whose victims were gay men in '70s San Francisco.
- Costs from drug-resistant infections will top a year's worth of GNP by 2050, with the developing world hit hardest.
- Spanish newspapers tried to make money off Google News; after the move backfired, Google to shut down that feature in Spain.
- Malcolm Gladwell failed to attribute stories told in his New Yorker columns.
- Peru seeks criminal charges against Greenpeace for walking on the Nazca Lines during a PR stunt.
- Subconsciously, she knew that her black son could grow into a dangerous man, one who could bring pain into her life.
- The First Amendment let the hate music industry blossom; companies like Spotify and Amazon are pressured to crack down.
- Twitter's profit motive ensures the continuation of racist harassment.
- From the archives: A writer witnesses a crime, then gets a first-hand look at racial profiling with police.
- If the medical profession used research the way police use research, we'd still be using leeches.
- NFL players are injecting untested stem cell treatments in hopes of speeding injury recovery time.
- On discovering you're a character in a novel.
- By midnight tonight: Apply to be our 2015 Tournament of Books reader judge.
