November 13, 2015
By The Morning News
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- US airstrikes intend to shut down two-thirds of the oil production controlled by IS.
- Police arrest 16 in Italy, Britain, and Norway who were planning to kidnap European diplomats.
- Donald Trump wants his poll numbers back, compares Ben Carson to a child molester.
- The long, bitter relationship between Obama and Netanyahu.
- Government demands for Facebook user data spiked in the first half of 2015.
- Illinois ACLU and Chicago PD secretly agreed to hide stop-and-frisk data from the public.
- Justice Dept. won't allow US Marshals to wear body cameras, even as it urges local police departments to do so.
- Los Angeles County police shoot and kill black people at triple the rate they do whites and Latinos.
- US airlines outsource maintenance to El Salvador, China, and Mexico, where most mechanics for the planes are not FAA-certified.
- Infamous pharma CEO Martin Shkreli is livestreaming his life in an ill-informed PR stunt.
- Hospitals are waiting for a major hack that exposes patient data—or gives hackers remote access to medical equipment.
- Americans are moving homes less, and when they do they're staying closer to home.
- "The people who are politically influential believe the smoking problem has been solved. It's not in their neighborhoods."
- Vox's excellent internal Code of Conduct could also be applied to your family's Thanksgiving.
- Sunday's papers will include the 1915 version of VR: a 16-page insert of classic comic strips.
- The Oatmeal: "It's going to be okay."
- Much to their creators' delight, VHS music releases irritate older generations.
- See also: Boomers are reinventing death, and irritating Generation X all the way down.
- Journalists remember what David Carr taught them.
- Related: What one journalist learned through David Carr's class syllabus and interviews with students.
