December 14, 2015
By The Morning News
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- How the DHS's shoddy beginnings begat pointless oversight and rampant fraud, smuggling, and sexual abuse.
- More than 33,000 people who built America's nuclear arsenal have died from health issues sustained in their work.
- Suburban office parks are becoming "obsolete."
- Investigation into corrections officer-on-inmate sexual abuse and battery in America's largest women's prison.
- When inmates die at the New York's Clinton Correctional Facility, corrections officers are rarely, if ever, punished.
- Lenny Pozner lost his son at Sandy Hook and is now targeted by conspiracy theorists.
- Gun industry execs celebrate mass shootings by telling investors how much they make gun sales spike.
- A map of everyone near you who's been shot in the past year.
- A hacker group with ties to various South American governments is aggressively and violently targeting dissidents and journalists.
- Dept. of Transportation opens civil rights investigation into the closings of over 30 DMV locations in black Alabama counties.
- The Kansas Dept. for Children and Families launches "witch hunts" into same-sex couples seeking to adopt children.
- The forgotten story of Kathy Kozachenko, the first openly gay person to win an election in America.
- "Masculinity can be a kind of disguise; it is perhaps brilliant that Grindr’s logo is a mask in silhouette."
- How to use Facebook: Put all of your crushes in a secret group.
- See also: Facebook privacy settings for bigamists.
- Mysterious entity buys Nevada's largest newspaper for $38M more than it was sold for last year.
- The South China Morning Post, a beacon of independence in Hong Kong, to be purchased by China's close friend, Alibaba.
- The seven salient points excerpted from the Paris climate deal.
- Egypt's investigation of downed airliner finds no evidence of terrorism, contradicting Russia's findings.
- "Posters for Trump's branded properties, featuring the billionaire and his daughter, have been pulled down from construction sites in Dubai."
- Today's video: George Saunders explains the difference between good and bad storytelling.
