October 20, 2015
By The Morning News
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- The Democrats are set to win the White House—and lose just about everything else.
- Washington Post accidentally publishes Biden announcement "shell story."
- A brief history of Trump quitting before he could be fired.
- Harper out, Trudeau in as PM. Atlantic Canada showed notable shift in support away from Tories.
- Teens allegedly gain access to CIA Director Brennan's AOL email.
- Chicago is forced to release records of secret warehouse where arrestees were questioned without their attorneys.
- Like Google, Facebook will now tell you if your data has been hacked (or asked for) by a nation-state.
- Every time you ask OK Google a question, the sound of your voice is collected inside a server.
- Cameron unveils sweeping measures to cut off terror recruitment, but Muslim community calls it McCarthyism.
- Private prisons deserve anger, but their role is smaller than many believe.
- New schizophrenia study shows fewer drugs, more therapy and family support provides better outcomes.
- "Expressed as a rate, the average person's risk from gun homicides and car crashes is almost the same."
- The tragic story of Sean Smith, who fatally shot his little sister when he was 10, and has spent 26 years blaming himself.
- There's a Borders bookstore open in Malaysia—when chains die, individual franchises sometimes live on.
- See also: "The Day Borders Got the Wobblies."
- Great art, like great writing, is revered because the artworks tell a story with an emotional arc.
- "Looking back through art history...thinking Renoir sucks is a popular and well-established sentiment."
