* Latest UN climate change report predicts if emissions ceased, climate change effects will "continue for centuries." * Why scientists know humans cause climate change: The rate carbon dioxide absorbs heat doesn't match our temperature increase. * Cory Gardner might win Colorado by embracing birth control, college loans, and
It's time once again for our annual Halloween ritual, where we dust off a classic urban legend and reanimate it with a few new endings.
* Police find accused sniper Eric Frein in a Poconos airplane hangar after a 48-day manhunt. * With Frein captured, Halloween officially resumes in Barrett Township. * Ebola threatens to derail the legacy of Liberia's Sirleaf, Nobel Peace Prize winner and the first woman elected president of an African country.
* In the past five years, since the financial crisis, the world's number of billionaires has more than doubled. * Goldberg: Netanyahu's "chickenshit" behavior undermines US-Israel alignment at the highest levels. * Until mid-century, hundreds of thousands of Swiss kids were taken from home and
More than 200 letters to the editor, op-eds, and editorials from newspapers across the US reveal a country divided on who should be allowed to vote.
* Unmanned rocket explodes over Virginia in first accident since NASA began outsourcing to private contractors. * Stunning highlights from the 45,000 photos astronaut Chris Hadfield took while on the International Space Station. * The FBI created a fake online news story in a Seattle newspaper to hack a suspect in 2007.
Media depictions of trans culture seem more prevalent than ever, but off-key representations sensationalize and injure their subjects. It’s time to change that. Five transgender people discuss how.
* In a rare, school-specific survey, 17% of female MIT students and 5% of male students report being sexually assaulted. * Ebola vaccines must be tested, but administering frontline workers a placebo could be unethical. * In distancing themselves from an unpopular president, midterm candidates have succeeded only in disowning their own
* For the first time in the history of independent Ukraine, the pro-Russian Communist Party failed to win the votes needed to enter parliament. * Latin America has the highest concentration of compulsory-voting states—a policy suppressed elsewhere for fear of union power. * Following controversial Ebola quarantine of health worker
Portraits of the hustlers, businesswomen, singers, and teachers who were regulars at one of Manhattan’s most notorious dives.
