October 8, 2014
By The Morning News
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- Hourly Amazon workers, who spend up to 25 unpaid minutes being screened for stolen goods—head to the Supreme Court.
- Walmart cuts benefits for its 30,000 part-time employees—and didn't even blame Obamacare.
- Following Monday's Supreme Court ruling, Ninth Circuit strikes down gay marriage bans—now up to 35 states.
- Proposed NYC law would allow almost any healthcare professional to change a person's gender on their birth certificate.
- With oil prices down, next year may be the first that American shale oil creates a surplus in the international oil economy.
- From 1980 to 2010, state incarceration rates for drug crimes increased tenfold, and the number of federal drug prisoners multiplied by 20.
- Drug assaults don't always involve roofies, don't only happen to women, and might be happening far more often than anyone thinks.
- There is a running joke in the [restaurant] industry that if you are not being sexually harassed, then you are not doing it right.
- #VamosAMorirTodos—"We are all going to die"—is trending in Spain, the site of Europe's first reported Ebola case.
- Australia's far-right PM is preventing "radical Islamist preachers" from entering the country.
- For his birthday, Vladimir Putin is taking his first vacation in 15 years.
- An abundance of psychology research has shown that experiences bring people more happiness than do possessions.
- The Milgram torture and obedience experiments were one way the young researcher dealt with survivor's guilt.
- The best real-life music subplots of Law & Order.
- Continue your Twin Peaks ramp-up with a guide to Angelo Badalamenti, Lynch's longtime composing partner.
