A young Black football player was arrested after claiming ‘cocaine’ on his car was bird poop. It was bird poop. ~sports.american_football Article 842 words 9 votes
Capital One says data breach affected 100 million credit card applications ~finance Article 658 words 11 votes
Elizabeth Warren, in detailed attack on private equity, unveils plan to stop ‘looting’ of US companies ~finance business Article 756 words 16 votes
Largest US drug companies flooded the country with seventy-six billion opioid pills, DEA data shows ~health medicine Article 3119 words 13 votes
Sweden says it won't sign UN nuclear ban treaty – the treaty in its current form is not ready ~society politics Article 152 words 4 votes
2020 US Census will not include citizenship question, DOJ confirms ~news politics usa Article 104 words 21 votes
YouTube under US Federal investigation over allegations it violates children’s privacy ~tech privacy google social media Article 906 words 9 votes
Michigan authorities drop all criminal charges relating to Flint Water Crisis ~enviro pollution.water Article 1144 words 6 votes
Shadow banks are back with another big bad credit bubble ~finance banking Article 2555 words 11 votes
How Dr. Seuss’s Oh, The Places You’ll Go! became a ubiquitous (and cliché) graduation gift ~books Article 1997 words 4 votes
Lawyers for Noah’s Ark theme park are suing its insurance company for rain damage ~life Article 824 words 6 votes
Facebook acknowledges Pelosi video is faked but declines to delete it ~tech facebook social media Article 1164 words 22 votes
I oversaw the US nuclear power industry. Now I think it should be banned. ~enviro energy Article 1838 words 12 votes
Answer Sheet California is overhauling sex education guidance for schools — and religious conservatives don’t like it ~life education.sex Article 1277 words 10 votes
In Alaska, climate change is showing increasing signs of disrupting everyday life ~enviro climate change Article 819 words 12 votes
World health officials take a hard line on screen time for kids. Will busy parents comply? ~life parenting Article 1397 words 8 votes
Hurricane Center reclassifies Michael to category 5, the first such storm to make landfall since 1992 ~enviro Article 552 words 7 votes
Mark Zuckerberg: The internet needs new rules. Let’s start in these four areas ~tech social media facebook internet Article 1068 words 13 votes
It’s not enough for JK Rowling to say her characters are queer. Show it to us ~lgbt Article 1382 words 17 votes
Inside YouTube’s struggles to shut down video of the New Zealand shooting ~tech social media Article 2162 words 11 votes
A shadowy group trying to overthrow Kim Jong Un allegedly raided a North Korean embassy in broad daylight ~news north korea spain politics Article 1018 words 11 votes
Advertisers ditch Carlson and Pirro’s Fox News shows; protesters urge other companies to join them ~tv Article 870 words 7 votes
The imitation game: Some of the most beloved objects in Washington museums are not as authentic as visitors might assume ~humanities.history Article 3313 words, published Feb 27 2019 3 votes
United Methodist Church votes to maintain its opposition to same-sex marriage, gay clergy ~humanities religion theology Article 778 words 21 votes
‘I am dreaming of a way to kill almost every last person on earth’: A self-proclaimed white nationalist planned a mass terrorist attack, the government says ~news usa politics Article 1012 words 34 votes
The US government and Facebook are negotiating a record, multibillion-dollar fine for the company’s privacy lapses ~tech facebook privacy social media Article 623 words 24 votes
In Central Asia’s forbidding highlands, a quiet newcomer: Chinese troops ~society politics Article 2131 words 8 votes
Farmworker vs Robot: Agricultural workers of the future may soon be made of tech and steel. Can a robot pick a strawberry better, faster, and cheaper than a seasonal farmworker? ~tech Article 1698 words 5 votes
Unvaccinated teens are fact-checking their parents — and trying to get shots on their own ~health Article 1041 words 19 votes
The world's oldest person: Guinness, 122-year-old Jeanne Calment and a Russian conspiracy theory ~science Article 3183 words 9 votes
Build the US wall? It could take at least ten years, even with 10,000 workers. ~finance Article 1158 words 11 votes
The world’s oldest woman was 122 when she died. A researcher believes that her daughter assumed her identity in the 1930s to avoid inheritance taxes. ~science Article 1103 words 28 votes
As a grocery chain is dismantled, investors recover their money. Worker pensions are short millions. ~finance business Article 3482 words 12 votes
New Mueller filing says Trump’s ex-lawyer Michael Cohen was in touch with a Russian seeking ‘political synergy’ with campaign ~news usa politics Article 605 words 11 votes
The Confederacy was built on slavery. How can so many southern whites still believe otherwise? ~humanities.history Article 7325 words, published Nov 28 2018 20 votes
Julian Assange has been charged under seal, prosecutors reveal inadvertently in court filing ~news usa crime Article 896 words 27 votes
‘I’m Dr. Cohen’: The powerful humanity of the Jewish hospital staff that treated Robert Bowers ~health healthcare Article 985 words 9 votes
Study of Puerto Rico rainforest shows massive, climate-driven decline in population of insects and insect-eating animals ~enviro climate change Article 1521 words 9 votes
Turkey: Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi was killed by ‘murder’ team ~news saudi arabia journalism crime turkey Article 950 words 4 votes
‘The trauma for a man’: American male fury and fear rises in GOP in defense of Brett Kavanaugh ~life.men Article 1614 words 23 votes
The bottom ninety percent are still poorer than they were in 2007 ~finance economics Article 628 words 10 votes
The bottom ninety percent are still poorer than they were in 2007 ~finance economics Article 628 words 23 votes
US President Donald Trump’s UN press conference, annotated ~news politics usa Article 2513 words 12 votes
Brazil’s jailed former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva barred from running again by electoral court ~society politics Article 659 words 6 votes