March 16, 2016
By The Morning News
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- Myanmar elects Aung San Suu Kyi’s chosen president, ending decades of military control.
- Profile of two Chinese sisters who, after years in Boston’s Chinatown, are awash in gentrification struggles.
- Clinton and Trump win big in Tuesday's primaries, see path to nomination.
- All of the Republican campaigns have significant gender wage disparities; Hillary’s is the only one that has more women on staff than men.
- Betting markets now give Democrats a 70% chance of winning the presidency, up from 60% in late January.
- Obama to nominate Merrick Garland today for the Supreme Court.
- See also: POTUS helps helps Lin-Manuel Miranda freestyle in the Rose Garden at the White House.
- Trump warns of "riots" if he isn't named the GOP presidential nominee.
- Muslim student attacked at a Wichita gas station by a white man shouting, “Trump! Trump!”
- Kalamazoo mass shooter says Uber app took over his body and made him kill.
- One potential conclusion of the surveillance state: StingRays in the hands of your neighbors.
- The closing of European borders is a goldmine for smugglers and organized crime.
- I was a Ukrainian cigarette smuggler: The Marlboro Men of Chernivtsi.
- At least 15 people have died since November in Wisconsin from Elizabethkingia, a bacteria that causes blood infections.
- Studies show scant effectiveness for centers that treat eating disorders, many using treatments with no scientific evidence behind them.
- Primes, like the digits of pi, feel really random, but they’re not random at all.
- People in the Deep South click on internet ads at a far greater rate than the rest of the country.
- Data gleaned from e-book readers.
- Today in the Tournament of Books, Doree Shafrir decides between The Book of Aron and The Tsar of Love and Techno.
- Five weird teams to watch in the NCAA men's basketball tournament.
