December 4, 2015
By The Morning News
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- Obama will veto, but the Senate just killed the ACA, defunded Planned Parenthood, and voted against denying terror suspects firearms.
- A bill filed in Missouri requires those seeking firearms to face the same scrutiny as those seeking abortions.
- The Massachusetts medical examiner takes an average of 242 days to find an official cause of death in cases of childhood abuse and neglect.
- Profile of the 2016 Presidential race's only Transhumanist candidate.
- Choose your own gerrymandering: Interactive tool lets you swing a state by altering voter turnout by demographic.
- 15,000 lose food stamps as Scott Walker's budget cuts take effect in Wisconsin.
- Former coal CEO Blankenship found guilty, becoming the highest-profile coal CEO to go to jail for a crime related to mining deaths.
- Here is the damning 2011 Rolling Stone investigation that forced Blankenship to resign as Massey Energy CEO.
- Pharmaceutical companies host "health camps" in India for doctor, in return for prescriptions written for their medicines.
- Ogden, Utah, has the smallest metropolitan wealth gap in America.
- The story of publications losing their unique websites, audiences, and voices is the story of publications losing access.
- Scientists detected up to 67 different bacteria strains in the drip trays of capsule coffee machines.
- Marijuana growers are using about 1% of all US electricity, costing around $6B a year.
- Photos from inside the once-secret world of cannabis cultivation.
- Today's video: Black & White in Color
- Pitchfork reviews the Pope's new album.
