September 24, 2014
By The Morning News
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- Officials say that despite claims of a broad coalition, the US is carrying out the vast majority of strikes against ISIS.
- The US has now bombed both sides in Syria's civil war, threatening mission creep and a third front in its campaign in the region.
- Western nations should admit more Syrian refugees, instead of relying on economically strained Lebanon and Jordan.
- CDC warns that Ebola cases could hit 1.4 million by mid-January if containment efforts aren't increased.
- This week the SEC promised a whistleblower $30 million—whistleblowers, however, often pay the price for alerting officials.
- Fifty-six percent of Americans believe minorities are treated unequally in the criminal justice system, up from 47% last year.
- The ACLU is suing Arizona over a revenge porn law criminalizing the distribution of nude images without the subject's consent.
- Related: Texas reverses a law against "upskirt" photos, since nefarious intent in public settings isn't always provable.
- Eric Holder credits policy reform for first decline in federal prison population in more than 40 years.
- The most popular name in Israel is Mohammed—not Yosef, as Israel's population authority previously reported.
- Photos from the eastern Ukrainian city of Luhansk, where nearly half the homes have been destroyed in the civil war.
- In the third world, bubonic plague never really went away—a report from the frontlines of a potential epidemic in Madagascar.
- Since the mid-19th century, Paris has used giant balls to clean its sewer system—"sort of like a drain snake."
- Cultural homogenization threatens our most vital creative resource: linguistic diversity.
- Threats against Emma Watson follow a familiar formula, used against women all over the world: get back.
- First there was coffee beer, now there's beer coffee.
