September 10, 2013: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- Following days of violent protests, Indian court finds four guilty of raping and murdering a student on a bus in December.
- The war in Syria: what it looks like when six million people are displaced.
- Desperate to make the case for military action in Syria, the White House invokes the Holocaust and homeland threats.
- Barack Obama's unsteady handling of the Syria crisis has been an avert-your-gaze moment in the history of the modern presidency.
- Poll shows the majority of Americans, weary of nearly a dozen years of war, are opposed to military action in Syria.
- The less money Americans make, the more time they spend traveling to get cash.
- To operate in and around Central Park, food vendors must pay the city license fees exceeding $100,000.
- Choire Sicha on the Bloomberg era.
- How the perpetrators of the 2005 Brink's money plane heist got away with it—until they blew their own covers.
- Excellent Michael Wood on Only God Forgives and director Refn's deadpan violence.
- What Julian Assange has been doing in the year he hasn't set foot out of Ecuador.
- How to read a vaccine safety study.
- A funeral director on his job: Somebody said, "It's the perfect job for someone with ADHD because there is constant change."
- How five journalists interpret "off the record."
- See also: Journalists from Slate, Deadspin, ProPublica, NPR, and more on what readers should demand from reporters.
- Amazing mashups of aerial and fashion photography.
