Felicity and The Fourteen.
Actress Felicity Huffman gets two weeks in prison for paying to rig her daughter’s university entrance exams. 1/17
“I don’t wish this for anyone, but a sentence of 14 days for actual serious fraud just shows how unfair my sentence is.” A response from Crystal Mason, the black Texas woman sent to prison for voting in the 2016 presidential election. 2/17
California orders implicit bias training for doctors, nurses, lawyers, and court officers to address disparities in medical and criminal justice outcomes. 3/17
See also: A round-up of California’s latest batch of liberal bills likely to become laws. 4/17
Los Angeles in 2019 photographed to look vintage, by Franck Bohbot. 5/17
A list of 50 cities around the world and which fictional films define them best. 6/17
Watch: Frenchman Philippe Caneri hydrofoils down a milk-chocolate Seine River. 7/17
A Frenchman dies while having sex on a business trip. A court decides his family is due compensation for "an industrial accident." 8/17
Soon after Dorian, the Bahamas brace for Hurricane Humberto, which may land as soon as tonight. 9/17
A Guantánamo defense lawyer says the FBI was deeply involved in CIA black site interrogations despite years of denials. 10/17
"The writer Malcolm Gladwell went on the jet, but says he had no idea who Epstein was." Perusing Jeffrey Epstein's address book. 11/17
Go down the rabbit hole of ICE’s new “hyper realistic” training complex, where the agency will prepare teams for “combat conditions.” 12/17
"If Taliban comes back in power, women will be the first ones to suffer." Portraits of women in Kabul. 13/17
The immigrant success story in America of assimilation, integration, self-betterment—can best be told through independent donut stores. 14/17
A momentous discovery in 1964 led neuroscientists to argue against free will. That discovery has been debunked. 15/17
The generally accepted age of the universe is 13.7 billion years. A new study suggests it's actually two billion years younger. 16/17
"A certain type of lady of a certain age." Portraits of shoppers at Zitomer, the Upper East Side pharmacy/department store. 17/17
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