September 11, 2015
By The Morning News
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- Chicago police are focusing more on seizing firearms than arresting low-level drug offenders.
- Chicago's South Side, where much of the city's violence takes place, to get long-overdue Level 1 trauma center.
- US officials block documents detailing the Gitmo torture of Abu Zubaydah, who lost an eye while in CIA custody.
- The CIA may also have failed to surveil and rescue a Western al-Qaeda captive killed in an airstrike earlier this year.
- How global terrorism has changed since Sept. 11, 2001.
- US says IS is making its own mustard weapons and using them in Iraq and Syria.
- Iran deal to advance thanks to Senate Democrats blocking a Republican resolution to reject the accord.
- US to accept 10,000 Syrian refugees over the next year; four years after the conflict began, it's taken just 1,500.
- Inhospitable journeys, unwelcoming destinations: parallels to refugees from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos after Saigon fell.
- Far fewer students are buying school lunches; school administrators believe healthier meals are to blame.
- Donation-run Precious Lamb Preschool is one of the rare programs that serves homeless children under the age of six.
- Kafka and the Black Lives Matter movement.
- "The High Times softball dynasty is at least partly a byproduct of the booming marijuana industry."
- You could have worse than insomnia; you could be a time-lapsed painting version of yourself.
- Futurology privileges technology over human behavior.
- If a skater travels out of the city, far from urban parks and handrails, he does not cease to skate.
- The Weather Channel is finally moving away from tangentially related entertainment programming.
