July 5, 2016

• Suicide bombers attack sites in Saudi Arabia, adding to violence in Baghdad, Istanbul, and Dhaka.
• Rio de Janeiro police officers stand outside airport with a sign saying "Welcome to Hell."
• Lengthy report on the state and history of Chinese restaurants in small Canadian towns.
• Conservative MPs begin to choose the next UK prime minister.
• “Leave” campaigner and UKIP leader Farage resigns—an "unpatriotic quitter" just like Boris Johnson.
• Wimbledon player threatens to urinate on the court, stages sit-down protest when refused.
• Although the referendum result was close nationally, Remain piled up many of its votes in a relatively small number of constituencies.
• Related: "The magical thinking of America's pro-Brexit conservatives."
• Brexit risks becoming "the start of an unravelling of globalization and the prosperity it has created."
• The opposite of Brexit: African Union to launch continent-wide passport for freer travel.
• Mass security measures at airports appear to do little to actually protect people.
• San Francisco police routinely “disappear” items owned by the city’s homeless population.
• Nearly 30,000 people have gone missing from Mexico in the last decade.
• Long-awaited drone-death stats released by Obama are just a fraction of what independent monitors have recorded.
• Obama relies on private hours alone at night to read, think, watch sports, and play Words With Friends.
• Profiles of America’s five deadliest prosecutors, responsible for sending some 440 to death row.
• America ranks disquietingly low on the 2016 Social Progress Index.
• Elie Wiesel, chronicler of the Holocaust, dies at 88.
• Resistance to Wiesel.
• Brief literary history of writing software.
• Small town in Italy uses silent fireworks for celebrations to be nicer to its animals.
• Related: "The curious case of crabs crawling crazy ’cause of climate change."