* As unmarked troops and tanks arrive in Ukraine, Moscow and Kiev trade accusations of breaking the ceasefire. * Increasingly advanced counter-surveillance helps ISIS leader elude US strike. * Obama's immigration overhaul could allow millions of currently undocumented adults to legally work and reside in the US. * As in many
* House and Senate to vote on Keystone XL pipeline, with pols on both sides lining up to endorse it. * The Valerie Jarrett profile everyone in DC is reading. * Doctors Without Borders to host experimental Ebola treatments in West Africa. * China fails to trumpet the big climate change deal, possibly because
* Today at 11 am ET, ESA mission control will webcast its attempt of the first-ever probe landing on a comet. * US and China—who together emit 40% of the world's greenhouse gases—make a deal to reduce carbon emissions. * Five banks, including Citigroup and JPMorgan, to pay
* An estimated 120,000 Americans in prison are innocent, many thanks to the plea-bargain system. * FBI says rates of violent crime are lower than at any point since the '70s. * Firm that predicted the 2008 financial crisis sees 65% chance of recession in 2015. * In 2009, 42% of
Whitney Bedford’s paintings of ships and shipwrecks, ocean ice and fireworks, are simultaneously hot and cold, catastrophic and serene. It’s a tension that makes for some very turbulent art.
* Protesters set Mexican President Nieto's palace on fire as anger over 43 missing students shows no sign of abating. * Unencrypted federal government websites providing AIDS-related resources have been leaking sensitive user information for years. * YouTube’s video blogging community...can sometimes enable an alarmingly specific type of
A decade ago, and then again five years later, we gathered a set of music bloggers who pioneered online music discovery—often to the chagrin of record labels. Now we reconvene to discuss the current state of listening to and reading about music online.
* Homeland Security says malware sponsored by Russia has been inserted into critical US infrastructure. * Putin says there was nothing wrong with the Soviet Union's pact with Nazi Germany, which secretly carved up Poland * Synthetic drug Spice rips across Russia, spread by kids and anonymous networks. * A year after
* Republicans want to define themselves affirmatively rather than by opposition; they should look to Friedrich Hayek. * Related: Birds found using human musical scales for the first time. * State judge overturns Missouri's constitutional ban on gay marriage. * Beheadings, massacres, and wholesale killings aren't limited to Islamic State
* Yesterday's GOP victory began months ago, when Republicans realized they had to quell the extremism within their party. * How the GOP did it. * The Senate now has enough votes to approve the Keystone XL pipeline. * Penal reform passes in California, downgrading some nonviolent felonies to misdemeanors, and potentially
