The wild card.

Tropical Storm Barry presents New Orleans with an unprecedented problem: a Mississippi river cresting at 19 feet. 1/18

Secretary of Labor Acosta steps down amid criticism of the Jeffrey Epstein plea deal. 2/18

See also: R. Kelly arrested on a 13-count federal indictment of child pornography and sex trafficking charges. 3/18

Trump’s social media summit yesterday offers “an incredible view into one of the hallmarks of this presidency: how he tweets.” 4/18

New research says the amount of time that teens spend on social media perhaps isn’t a meaningful metric influencing their wellbeing. 5/18

A mob of Instagrammers take pictures of a lake in Russia, seeming not to care that its color derives from toxic waste. 6/18

Not only is your Google Home device listening to you, Google contractors are listening as well. 7/18

Watch: 10-gram “Tribots,” inspired by ants, can talk to each other, assign roles to one another, and work together to complete tasks. 8/18

California's housing crisis has led to the rise of "vanlords," people renting out parked vans that don't run. 9/18

The Cleveland Clinic delivers the first baby in North America after a womb transplant from a dead donor. 10/18

Volkswagen's bestselling product is a sausage (not sold in the US), which it started making in the 1940s to feed its employees. 11/18

"Flops are worth more dead than alive." Paper shares in Bear Stearns, or Trump’s failed casinos, fetch high prices online. 12/18

For the first time, Wimbledon will pay the same total amount of prize money to men and women. Yes, it took until 2019. 13/18

Through Airbnb, you can book Bob Ross painting workshops around the world with Certified Ross Instructors. 14/18

Watch: A tiny house in Tokyo built for “all five elements that the ancient Romans called for a happy life—knowledge, bathing, drama, music, and food.” 15/18

A recent favorite song: “Elastic” by Joey Purp. 16/18

Dacre Montgomery, who plays Billy in Stranger Things, explains how to properly perform a villain. 17/18

"The uranium is the wild card in that situation." A traffic stop turns up a rattlesnake, a stolen vehicle, a firearm, a bottle of whiskey, somebody under arrest, and a canister of radioactive powdered uranium. 18/18

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