May 18, 2015

• US and China may ratchet up sanctions on North Korea, whose nuclear program shows no sign of abating.
• A shootout between police, biker gangs in Waco, Texas, leaves nine dead, nearly 200 arrested.
• Former Egyptian President Morsi sentenced to death for prison outbreak during Mubarak's last days.
• For many of the nearly 400,000 Nepali migrants in Qatar, getting home after the earthquake can be impossible.
• BBC reporter recounts incarceration in Qatar for investigating 2022 World Cup labor conditions.
• The GOP's greatest rival is age.
• Northeast Corridor rails are chronically underfunded—it could take $21 billion to replace what's currently in use.
• Typically, if you grow up in a liberal county in the US, you're less likely to be married by age 26.
• The media's changing relationship with transgender people.
• Five transgender people on how the media—frequently off-key and sensationalizing—can stop injuring their subjects.
• Two athletes dead after illegal base jump in Yosemite.
• Pakistani company makes tens of millions every year on fake university diplomas.
• "As it turns out, giving cocaine to eels is a bad idea for reasons beyond my phobias."
• Spotify's shadow social network.
• "Yes, there are life forms on Sloane 10-b. But here’s the thing: They’re just like us!"
• SpaceX releases retro travel posters for Mars.