* Ahead of UN investigation on Gaza War beach deaths, Israeli military says no laws were broken. * When cops kill people, "excited delirium" is often listed as cause of death— doctors say it's not real. * "I’m tired of explaining I’m capable of complex, rational
* History shows if IS wins, we'll first contain it then begrudgingly accept it. * Paul Ford explains code. * Visual politics of the Israeli occupation, where social media documents one side or the other—but never both. * Diane Rehm asks Bernie Sanders if he's an Israeli citizen because
* US to send 400 military trainers to Iraq to battle IS, and hopefully stay out of combat. * Cushy capitalist gigs await ex-Obama staffers on other side of revolving door. * McKinney cop who pulled gun on teens resigns after investigation finds his actions were "out of control." * Albert
Calculating the probable dates for very bad things—a catastrophic solar megastorm; Seattle destroyed by earthquake—that are likely to occur.
* Patient zero in Seoul's MERS outbreak "coughed and wheezed his way through four hospitals." * Pools have a long history as a racist suburban site of urban ghettoization. * Summer: "the season of hyper-surveillance and even more aggressive policing of young people of color." * A
No one’s surprised in Silicon Valley when a 12-year-old runs the family e-commerce store. But going to the same high school as Steve Jobs and liking it are two different things.
* Kalief Browder, who received national attention after his torture at Rikers, commits suicide. * Suicide rate in black teenagers has doubled since the '90s, even as the white rate has fallen. * Turkish ruling party loss could open door to left-wing, pro-Kurd coalition—or extreme nationalists. * The HDP say
* Hackers expose US government employee data—that's three federal data breaches in the past year. * Officials believe China is behind the latest federal data attack, and that it was state-sponsored. * Yesterday marked the 26th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protest. * "It's not just that
* South Korea closes more than 700 schools as a third person dies of MERS. * Two drugs already on pharmacy shelves are discovered to help treat Ebola. * The Red Cross raised a half-billion dollars for Haiti and built six homes. * Las Vegas, the youngest of the Southwest's water-
Photographs that find stillness in turbulence, moments close to reverence when almost nothing's in control. Peter Bohler walks us through what it’s like to find a niche in the world of glossy assignments.
