September 19, 2012: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Romney's mockery of Jimmy Carter encouraged the former president's grandson to find and spread the 47% video.
- Six charts analyze government benefits: Most flow to the middle class; a large chunk goes to the elderly and the disabled.
- As Europe moves closer to economic federalism, 11 foreign ministers call for more military, diplomatic, and political integration.
- Chanting Chinese protestors surround, damage car carrying U.S. ambassador.
- Video montage of how Middle Eastern news media is responding to violent uprisings.
- Wave of sick dictators trying to hide an illness is a reminder of their precarious position.
- UK debates ethics of three parent babies to help one in 200 children born with faulty mitochondria.
- Googling Germany's first lady's name autocompletes to prostitute: She's suing, enjoying bestselling memoir.
- Study of food cravings is essential science due to obesity, and scientists are getting answers.
- Steve Sabol, who died yesterday, helped transform football into America's national sport through NFL Films.
- A history of the songs that play at baseball games to enrage umpires, e.g., "Three Blind Mice."
