Ignore daddy.
The Saudi government now claims journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed in a fistfight at the consulate in Istanbul. Five of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's officials have been fired, and 18 other Saudis have been arrested. 1/20
Strong judge of character and probing thinker Donald Trump says he has confidence in the Saudi government's account of Khashoggi's death. 2/20
The Justice Dept. files charges against an individual in Russia for engaging in a campaign to undermine the US midterm elections. 3/20
The Houston Chronicle, which recommended Ted Cruz in 2012, endorses Beto O'Rourke for US Senate. 4/20
Twenty percent of DC-area construction workers are in an immigration program Trump wants to end. 5/20
US Fish and Wildlife tells staff to be less transparent in FOIA responses, in order to avoid fueling endangered species lawsuits. 6/20
Not satire: McSweeney's categorizes Trump's 112 worst atrocities since 2011. 7/20
The founder of a company that ships abortion-inducement medication to your home launches a new service that delivers to the US. 8/20
Tom Scocca: We plan our families without regard to the one fact we refuse to discuss—we're going to die, sooner rather than later. 9/20
The Guardian's experiment in memberships is working: It now gets more revenue from readers than from advertisers. 10/20
It’s coming from the same place. Some kind of dog-whistle or some shit. Like, “Can we make it more authentic?” I’m often accused of not being “authentic” enough, and people don’t even realize how vile of a thing that is to say. Open Mike Eagle on the enduring realities of Robert Townsend’s Hollywood Shuffle and the marginalization of black actors. 11/20
The 19th-century maps of Emma Willard—possibly the first American female cartographer—charted Native Americans' dispossession. 12/20
The soothing geometry of farmland, captured in aerial photos. 13/20
A sortable database of paper airplane designs, with folding instructions. 14/20
"Juice in the Casket" and more fake Murder She Wrote title cards. 15/20
Internists are to Hercule Poirot as surgeons are to Sherlock Holmes. 16/20
Despite all my years of studying brain disorders, for the first time in my life I realize how profoundly unsettling it is to have a brain that does not function. After brain cancer affected her behavior, a neuroscientist comprehends mental illness in new ways. 17/20
A drug ring tried to transport meth disguised as Aztec calendars and statues. 18/20
Shadowy still-lifes by Alex Selkowitz. 19/20
I waded into the water and it was very soft on my skin and refreshing, a little bit cool but not too cold... Daddy was begging me to rush so he could watch the World Cup final, but I like to take my time about things so I ignored him. The eight-year-old Swedish girl who pulled an ancient sword from a lake writes about the experience, and she is amazing. 20/20
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