May 10, 2016

• Sanders likely to win West Virginia today, but Clinton’s overall delegate lead looks insurmountable.
• Fictional political pundit out-guesses Nate Silver, 538, Vox, and other "science"-based poll predictions.
• Republican senators meet with and praise Supreme Court nominee Garland—and continue to block his fate.
• Obama to become the first sitting US president to visit Hiroshima.
• No matter what the White House says, US troops are increasingly playing combat roles against the Taliban and the Islamic State.
• Muslim high school student in California misidentified as “Isis” in her yearbook; school says it was a typo.
• London’s first Muslim mayor rebuffs Trump’s exception to the candidate’s plan to ban Muslims from the US.
• Trump changes tack, turns to the GOP for fundraising help.
• Philippines set to make thuggish mayor Duterte its next president, despite threats to kill criminals and jokes about committing rape.
• Ten years of a photographer's self-portraits, all taken while falling down.
• "Spotlight" team at the Boston Globe reports on hundreds of cases of children abused by staff at New England private schools.
• Complete history of Grant Park, Chicago’s “front yard.”
• Gap between black and white American life expectancy shrinks to 3.4 years.
• Minorities are underrepresented in studies of autism and have little access to treatment options.
• Sandberg: Only now do I know how hard is it for single moms to "lean in."
• Former employees allege Facebook “deep-sixed” conservative topics like CPAC from its trending topics section.
• The New Yorker runs its first augmented reality cover, with drawings by Christoph Niemann that become animations.
• This is what real giants would look like in the real world: often miserable.
• Drake's new Views sets record streaming tally, more than doubling Beyoncé's record established a week ago.
• Two-thousand new species are discovered each year, and yet 20% of the world's plant species face extinction.
• McDonald's tries selling garlic fries in the Bay Area—and quickly sells out.