* St. Louis police officer shoots and kills teenager whom witnesses claim was unarmed. * There's little evidence airport fever screenings can prevent Ebola's spread—passengers may not show symptoms during travel. * Actually, America does negotiate with terrorists, and the FBI—or a proxy foreign government—will help
Life in a city, including its dangers, can be evaluated in a thousand ways. But dangerous and scary are different adjectives, and different measurements. Especially after a man appears below your stairs.
* 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
* Soldier from Wisconsin explains why (anger) and how (plane ticket) he joined Kurdish fighters in Syria to battle ISIS. * Sketches from Raqqa, Syria, a city that's completely under ISIS control. * Obama's "latte salute" notwithstanding, the pejorative term "latte liberal" has lost its
A week’s worth of street photographs and interviews from the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong—that most civil of civil disobedience movements.
* Roberts Supreme Court faces history-making docket. * California ballot initiative could overturn the state's mandatory sentencing laws, the harshest in the country. * From December 2013 to today, a timeline of Ebola's spread throughout West Africa. * Like Thomas Eric Duncan in Dallas, nine others who came in
* 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,
