January 6, 2015
By The Morning News
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- The 114th Congress opens today; members are more diverse, but still 80% white, 80% male, and 92% Christian.
- A former rep reflects on 14 years in Congress.
- Decline in New York arrests foreshadows looming tension between proactive Bratton and a reticent force.
- Gender violence is so accepted in Mexico that despite record femicide rates, sentencing occurs in only 1.6% of cases.
- Bioengineered uteruses might be on the horizon, but they aren't a simple fix for infertility.
- Inside the corrupt anti-narcotics task force that spent years robbing drug dealers along the Texas border.
- From 2013 and as relevant as ever: We can't stop gun violence until we understand how criminals get guns.
- Tildes operate much the same way in modern ~internet-speak~ as they did in early programming languages.
- London, Chavez, Wooden: California's secular saints are complex, ideological, and misunderstood.
- California Gov. Brown announces clean energy goal, including plan to reach 50% renewables by 2030.
- Seven thoughts from inside ISIS.
- Video crew finds bag of cocaine in Syrian ISIS leader's home, purportedly for drugging soldiers before combat.
- New Jersey bill will allow cities to privatize their water supplies without public vote.
- Researchers use algae to clean up the wastewater effluent from Budweiser's brewery.
- Technophobes are moving to Green Bank, W.Va., where a government telescope forbids cell phones and Wi-Fi.
- Craft brewers are running out of new beer names to trademark—and running into lawsuits.
- A study of maritime disaster survival rates shows "women and children first" no longer holds.
- CNN's final emergency segment—to be broadcast in the event of apocalypse—features a band playing "Nearer My God to Thee."
- Wary of potential liability, more US cities ban sledding.
