Transatlantic border crisis.
If Trump closes any portion of the US-Mexico border, as he's threatening to do, it would cost US businesses billions, and would be, according to El Paso's mayor, "a critical killer to us, frankly." 1/20
Brexit remains in disarray after Parliament voted on four new proposals yesterday and was unable to agree on any of them. 2/20
Related: The economic damage of Brexit has already happened, as corporations move assets to Europe and scrap business plans in Britain. 3/20
Senior Trump administration officials granted security clearances to at least 25 individuals whose applications had been denied by career employees for "disqualifying issues" that could put national security at risk. 4/20
By violating due process in their rush to revoke trans rights, US courts are setting troubling precedents for all citizens. 5/20
NASA chief slams India's anti-satellite test, the debris from which placed the International Space Station and its astronauts in danger. 6/20
Leading Democrats use Google Translate for their error-ridden Spanish-language outreach pages. (Trump doesn't have one at all.) 7/20
A comedian who plays Ukraine's president on TV leads the country's presidential elections after the first round. 8/20
Researchers confused Tesla's autopilot feature by placing stickers into the opposite lane, which the car then steered into. 9/20
"All I'm saying is that it's not inevitable." YouTube's product chief says its algorithm doesn't intentionally radicalize users. 10/20
Facebook's "Why am I seeing this post?" feature will reveal a tiny part of the News Feed's top-secret formula. 11/20
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"I've had a couple experiences where I was writing something and a lawyer and musicologist said, 'It sounds like this old song, it's a very active estate, they're going to come after you.' I changed a few notes." Today's popular-music machine is as much about songwriting as following legal precedent. 12/20
The Rolling Stones tour of North America, set to kick off this month, has been postponed so Mick Jagger can undergo heart valve replacement surgery. 13/20
Researchers can use data from online April Fool's pranks to better understand how people detect hoaxes and fake news. 14/20
The name on the book jacket, Danny Santiago, lent it authenticity, even though there was no accompanying author photo. The author was actually Daniel Lewis James, the son of a wealthy Kansas businessman who attended Andover and Yale. One hundred years of literary frauds. 15/20
Last updated in the early '90s, the term "healthy" will be redefined by the FDA to match new dietary recommendations. 16/20
Arkansas, the largest rice-producing state in the US, bans the marketing of "cauliflower rice" as "rice." 17/20
Those beautiful, vintage USDA-commissioned watercolors of fruits and nuts were originally created as horticultural patents. 18/20
"Boys are bigger bullshitters than girls, children from higher socioeconomic backgrounds tend to bullshit more than those from lower ones, and North Americans bullshit the most." A study of 15-year-olds from Anglophone regions finds which demographic groups are the most likely to tell lies. 19/20
When combined with elevation data inside a 3D viewer, 18th-century maps of Scotland take on an astounding effect. 20/20
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