May 3, 2013: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- After six months of meetings, Halliburton and North Carolina set fracking rules.
- Map shows the extent of Mexican drug cartels' reach in North America.
- According to the CDC, more Americans now die of suicide than in car accidents.
- Photos of children proudly displaying their "My First Rifle."
- Two decades later, what happened to the kids from Kids.
- Lesser-known facts about Bollywood, which turns 100 today.
- An 1817 cheat sheet for nervous dancers.
- Experimenting with a brain region that controls aging, scientists extend mice lifespans by 20%.
- Displaying containers labeled with different creeds, homeless man tests behavioral economics.
- Beginning next year, the first scholarly journal dedicated to pornography will be published.
- Roundup of articles about our gun culture—about which so many talk, but rarely listen.
- Ecuador stands behind its ambassador to Peru after he was caught on a supermarket video swatting women with a magazine.
- Egyptian activist defends her anti-Israel stance against critics who want her disqualified from consideration for a human rights award.
- Just don't cheer too much until I'm decently out of the way. Love, Dad.
- Artist sends offensive postcards to Twitter responders.
- Meet Steve Buttleman, who as the Kentucky Derby bugler is the most famous man in America for 15 seconds a year.
- "Kentucky Derby," by Andrea Cohen.
- NASA asks public to submit haikus for Mars-bound spacecraft.
