March 14, 2017
By The Morning News
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- Death toll from Turkey's car bombing in Ankara rises to 37; officials blame the PKK.
- Obama’s SCOTUS shortlist reportedly shrinks to three nominees.
- Less than nine months after Charleston, the move to remove Confederate symbols slows or stops.
- White voters hope Trump will restore the racial hierarchy upended by Obama.
- Trump’s policies are incoherent, but his ideology is clear: “consequences” for anyone who stands in the way.
- Academics explain why they support Trump.
- Jane Sanders is as much colleague as spouse: she pinch-hits as press secretary and helps guide Bernie’s TV spots.
- Like Clemens and Clinton before him, Cosby uses homeowners insurance to defray his legal costs.
- International trade court, under US influence, axes huge Indian solar project because it would have used Indian solar panels.
- Los Angeles confiscates tiny homes given to homeless population, calling them safety hazards.
- Textbook that shows Palestinian land loss since 1946 recalled after years in print.
- Venmo has difficulty processing transactions with “Persian” or “Iran” in the payment description.
- Over a million people protest in Brazil, where Rousseff is set to be impeached over corruption.
- Acclaimed Thai director's new movie about sleeping soldiers addresses Thailand’s catastrophes more directly than usual.
- Why some Civil War soldiers glowed in the dark: luminescent bacteria.
- Richard Simmons has disappeared from view—and his friends think he may be a victim of elder abuse.
- On National Pi Day, some notes on "pillish," the form where each successive word's number of letters must match the digits of pi.
- Chee: Modern Tarot is only about a century old, but it can provide a lifetime of questions and answers.
- The second week of the Tournament of Books begins with Syreeta McFadden, Kent Haruf, and Richard Price.
- Unrelated: Fascinating account of the methods and tech employed to preserve wildlife in the national parks.
