September 8, 2014
By The Morning News
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- The production values of ISIS beheading videos—good cameras, lapel mics—underscore the group's carefully crafted message.
- A group of young women recruit for ISIS on Twitter, posting about marrying jihadis and raising more.
- A new Ebola vaccine shows a 100% success rate in monkey trials—researchers will now begin human tests.
- In a study involving a competitive strategy game, chimps outplayed humans—their working memories are superior.
- As the Sept. 18 vote approaches, a poll shows a slight majority of Scots now support independence from the UK.
- Resale ticket prices plummet for today's US Open men's final between the 10th- and 14th-seeded players.
- Book claims to have identified Jack the Ripper via DNA analysis from semen stains left on a 126-year-old shawl.
- Blue whales, once hunted to near extinction, are now a "conservation success story."
- After five people died from rabies, a Chinese province slaughtered 5,000 dogs to curb the disease's spread.
- The women of West Point.
- For more than 20 years, Alameda County, Calif., jails have been forcing female prisoners to take pregnancy tests.
- Without protection of child-labor laws, undocumented immigrant children work at Tennessee's tobacco farms.
- Since 2006, Mexican police have found more than 170 narcofosas—mass graves for the victims of drug traffickers.
- Released thanks to the Freedom of Information Act: the NSA's advice column, "Ask Zelda."
- The history of Vampira’s rise to fame.
- “Nonpartisan” think tanks rake in millions yearly from foreign governments looking to expand their Washington influence.
- John McCain's awful op-eds.
- A new app will wake you up with phone calls from strangers.
