Nineteen baby-four.
At least six men have been arrested since El Paso in separate threats to undertake copycat murders. 1/15
A lack of diversity in media is found in the short shrift given to the targeted nature of the El Paso attack. 2/15
A comparison of right-wing media and the El Paso killer's manifesto finds hundreds of examples of overlapping talking points. 3/15
Julián Castro releases an ad that directly blames Trump's rhetoric for El Paso—to air today on Fox News, including Trump’s favorite Fox & Friends. 4/15
Mere days later, your baby will appear on television with the very man who inspired the terrorist who killed both you and your husband. A photograph is taken, for posterity. On the photo of Melania Trump holding the youngest survivor of the El Paso massacre. 5/15
Trump's cold shoulder to Venezuela has left southern Caribbean nations in a lurch—and could open the door for Chinese influence. 6/15
As Hong Kong protesters occupy the airport again, China conducts military exercises near the border. 7/15
Newark's water supply is contaminated with lead, and it turns out the city-distributed filters don't work. 8/15
See also: A clothing line designed to confuse automatic license plate readers. 9/15
As phone call quality diminishes, the need for an agreed-upon spelling alphabet—think "foxtrot"—resurfaces. 10/15
Humans speak with their vocal cords; apes don't have them at all. Neanderthals are somewhere in between. 11/15
Listen: A musicologist offers multiple songs that fit the same musical pattern that decided the Katy Perry/Flame lawsuit. 12/15
In quantum mechanics, the smallest unit of sound is the phonon. For the first time we can hear one without destroying it. 13/15
Watch: A deepfake replacing Bill Hader's face with Tom Cruise's, while Hader performs an impression of Cruise. 14/15
The fake LaCroix flavor generator. 15/15
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