November 3, 2015
By The Morning News
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- Keystone XL pipeline company requests a delay for its government review—Obama still plans to veto anyway.
- Antarctica is gaining more ice than it's losing; the bad news is there's a sea-level rise, and now we don't know why.
- "It's the consumption habits of the wealthy that put our climate in peril to begin with, so they broke it, they pay to fix it."
- First Pelosi, now Ryan must deal with the wreckage of Boehner's cigarettes.
- Obama pushes "ban the box" policy to end the practice of asking about convictions on job applications.
- The Army is using data to predict which soldiers will likely commit criminal acts.
- US says it's planning more frequent naval sail-bys near China's artificial islands.
- The Pentagon spent $43 million of taxpayer money on a gas station in Afghanistan.
- Estonian government offers 10 writers and artists a state salary for three years to continue their work.
- Illinois school breaks anti-discrimination laws by requiring a transgender student to use a privacy curtain in the locker room.
- On the ballot today in Houston: a law to discriminate against transgender people, but everyone thinks it's about bathrooms.
- "If someone would like to film or take pictures of parts of your body to masturbate to once they get home, that's their right."
- A visual history of birth control.
- Google Photos labeled pictures of blacks as "gorillas" because its white tech team didn't collect enough pictures of nonwhites.
- "Before Facebook can make its robot act like lots of humans, it needs a lot of humans to act like robots."
- Activision buys the studio behind Candy Crush for $6 billion.
- "Hip-hop is for the sex, the drugs, the violence, the beefs, the culture… so I felt like the site needed to be R-rated."
- Ireland is opening "injection rooms" for drug users to safely indulge, following a European model.
- "The first thing you notice when you smoke weed with Willie Nelson is how much weed Willie Nelson smokes."
