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A growing number of countries are grounding or banning Boeing 737 Max 8 plans, but the FAA stands firm on their safety. 1/26
Trump and Boeing’s CEO chat on the phone. Perhaps Trump said that he doesn’t want really, really smart people flying planes. 2/26
Worth remembering: An American Airlines flight had to land after a passenger refused to stop singing "I Will Always Love You." 3/26
After passing on May’s plan, the UK parliament will vote on whether to leave the EU in 16 days with no plan at all. 4/26
Fleeing sexual harassment, queer Central Americans find more of the same in ICE's custody. 5/26
The true reality of confronting white supremacy, as learned in South Africa: “It means white people giving things up.” 6/26
Read more stories like this in our editors' longreads picks. 7/26
Some odd details—"YouTube will always be my #1 passion"—from the college cheating scandal. 8/26
About 58 percent of students who started college in the fall of 2012 had earned any degree six years later. 9/26
All I can say is that some people are extremely desirous of an Ivy League degree. 10/26
Tucked away in Trump's budget proposal: cutting spending at the National Science Foundation by $1 billion. 11/26
A database is found tracking 1.8 million women, mostly in Beijing, with names, addresses, phone numbers, and "breed ready" status. 12/26
“The dirty little secret of AI training sets." IBM recently borrowed nearly a million photos from Flickr. See if yours were used. 13/26
The Web just turned 30. Tim Berners-Lee describes three sources of dysfunction to be fixed. 14/26
An unlikely place for a fight over “an unprecedented level of surveillance, oversight, and control:” electric scooters. 15/26
A doctor delivered news of a patient's dire prognosis via robot, prompting damage control at a Fremont hospital. 16/26
In the last decade, $7.4 billion in venture capital has gone to "Uber for X" companies that comprise a nascent "servant economy." 17/26
Watch: Drones replace dogs on farms in New Zealand. 18/26
Facial scanning for 100 percent of all international passengers, including American citizens, will reach 20 US airports by 2021. 19/26
The artist Coco Capitán has had two retrospective exhibitions in the last year. She's 27. 20/26
Janelle Monáe's stylist Ali Mandelkorn releases a new collection—of used clothes available through Goodwill. 21/26
A Georgia schoolteacher wins $10,000 from an insurance company after finding a contest buried in seven pages of fine print. 22/26
Not exactly known as a philanthropist, Howard Schultz gives to shady for-profit colleges, but not his alma mater Northern Michigan University. 23/26
A writer wonders, what is the point in talking about books? After all, “we do not argue with a friend who doesn’t like Brussels sprouts.” 24/26
Clearly dude is not aware of the Rooster. 25/26
Photographs from a trip to New York City in 1967. 26/26
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