September 5, 2014
By The Morning News
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- Despite talks about a peace plan, fighting continues between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russia rebels.
- Former Virginia governor and wife convicted on 11 counts of bribery, conspiracy, and extortion.
- Islands around the Caribbean seek to end the jury system, often because enough good jurors can't be found.
- Boy in Belarus threatened by police for nominating dictator Lukashenko in ALS ice-bucket challenge.
- Shirt of the SEAL who killed Bin Laden to be displayed at 9/11 Memorial Museum.
- Researchers establish that approximately half of Viking warriors were women.
- RIP, the great, great Joan Rivers.
- If I am going to sit down and eat with you, just tell me the truth and let me say to you, "Things are lousy and I'm sad."
- See also: 50 best Joan Rivers jokes.
- The great diarist Jenny Diski has cancer.
- E.O. Wilson calls for establishing half the planet as permanently protected areas for the 10m other species.
- Incredible pictures of the California drought.
- BP may pay up to $18 billion after being found "grossly negligent" in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
- Interviews with scientists on why they left their fields.
- Mississippi and West Virginia tie for fattest state, with obesity rates at 35%.
- The next sriracha could be hot honey, with two companies vying for national exposure.
- All four men's semifinalists in the US Open are currently coached by Grand Slam champs who used to play each other.
- In case you missed it: TMN's Rosecrans Baldwin teams up with champion Mats Wilander to enter the US Open.
