November 17, 2014
By The Morning News
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- State Dept. shuts down entire unclassified email system in response to possible security hack.
- Japan unexpectedly falls into recession as its GDP shrank in the third quarter—rather than grew, as predicted.
- Corruption in the US military, where the low-paid manage large budgets, isn't so different from any other corporation.
- Forty-eight members of Congress—or their families—are Apple investors.
- As RT debuts in the UK, it faces accusations of propagandism meant to divide the West.
- Oil, Russia, Ukraine: The dizzying array of connections just under the surface of Obama's recent trip to Beijing.
- I was in Brooklyn, seven blocks from my apartment, but my body was back in Yemen, locked in a dark room with three Yemeni men.
- Pimps' tattoos can be a stumbling block for women trying to recover from being sex trafficked.
- Disentangling an Anonymous hacker's relationship with the FBI—and the writer.
- The architects for the new Sandy Hook Elementary focused on invisible safety and community outreach.
- How a Memphis hospital's attempt to hide Elvis's drug abuse obscured the King's actual cause of death.
- Jean-Paul Goude's Kim Kardashian photos may not be Photoshopped, but he has a history of astounding image alteration.
- There's not enough chocolate. Blame disease, drought, and—most of all—insatiable demand.
- This American Life co-founder shares wide-ranging manifesto of techniques influencing the current golden age of podcasting.
- Gorbachev asked H.W. Bush to ask David Lynch who killed Laura Palmer.
