June 6, 2016

• Swiss voters overwhelmingly reject proposal to give citizens a guaranteed income.
• Wall Street lends Uber $1 billion to fund its subprime auto leasing scheme.
• Twenty percent of Title I funding—meant to help poorer school districts—ends up in rich districts.
• Over Memorial Day weekend in Chicago, 64 people were shot, six of them dead.
• Dispatch from reporters embedded at a Doctors Without Borders hospital in South Sudan.
• NPR photojournalist and translator killed by Taliban assault.
• Pentagon defends killing—and likely cover-up—of pregnant Afghan women as “appropriate” use of force.
• When Big Pharma declines to include pregnant women in its research, babies have unforeseen health problems.
• The largest single group of Bernie donors—25%—don't have a job.
• Trump essentially says no Latino or Muslim judges should be allowed to hear cases against him.
• Former LAPD detective spends 15 years trying to prove that his dad killed the Black Dahlia.
• David Mitchell's new novel won't be available for 100 years, and is currently buried in Norway.
• Pyramid expert told Megan Fox that the pyramids at Giza were “some kind of energy plant.”
• Study finds that Iron in a dagger buried with King Tutankhamun is of meteoritic origin.
• Muhammad Ali dies at 74, "titan of boxing and the 20th century."
• More than Ali’s courage in the ring, it was Ali’s courage in fighting the US government and much of the US public that made him a great American.
• Djokovic wins the French, becoming the first man since Laver to hold all four majors simultaneously.
• Former Stanford swimmer gets six months for raping an unconscious woman because a longer sentence would have “a severe impact on him.”
• Climbers ascend Everest without supplemental oxygen and send back realtime heart-rate data.
• Contrite young souvenir seeker returns giant sequoia cone to a national park.
• Fun report traces an owl's flight from a beach in Maryland to an island in Canada.