* Dallas Ebola cleanup hampered due to the difficulty in finding people to clean up a contaminated apartment. * Freelance NBC cameraman in Liberia tests positive for Ebola. * Former Chicago police commander, jailed for perjury over torturing 118 black men, released after four years. * On the Secret Service’s failures. * Most "
* Ebola races across Sierra Leone, where the government appears to seriously undercount victims. * Man diagnosed with Ebola in Dallas visited the ER last week, only to be sent home. * America's secret weapon against Ebola: Obamacare. * Grand jury convened over Ferguson investigated for misconduct following tweets of "leakage.
At 36, a schoolteacher learns how to ride a bicycle from his former student, who’s still struggling to succeed in school programs that value order above all else.
* Ebola containment in Nigeria and Senegal appears successful; no new cases have been reported in Nigeria since Aug. 31. * Elon Musk on Mars colonization: "to safeguard the existence of humanity in the event that something catastrophic were to happen." * Life in Liberia, before and after the Ebola outbreak,
Continuing our series where we ask novelists to write restaurant reviews that are absolutely not restaurant reviews, the author of the Southern Reach trilogy meets his match in a Dublin brie.
The bread and butter of online journalism, epitomized by lists like “The 25 Most Kimye Things That Have Ever Happened,” got its start in a 19th-century column in the New York Times.
* US bankruptcy judge has allowed Detroit to continue shutting off water for some of its residents. * Although the Sixth Amendment guarantees "the right to a speedy and public trial," in the Bronx the concept of speedy justice barely exists. * Seventy-five percent of all worldwide migrant deaths in
A new book captures Chicago’s financial markets at a moment when there are no offers for trades—any trading company’s horror vacui.
* Thousands of pro-democracy protesters take to Hong Kong's streets, leading the city to deploy tear gas for the first time in years. * What Hong Kong's protests and Beijing's response share: They could force the public to choose whether to accept China's
* FBI identifies ISIS militant in beheading videos of James Foley and Steven J. Sotloff. * In addition to attacks in Iraq and Syria, the US should go after the Islamic State's true safe haven: social media. * ISIS tortures and executes Iraqi women's rights lawyer, Sameera Salih Ali
