April 29, 2015

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History weighs heavily on justices in the Supreme Court’s first day of oral arguments on same-sex marriage.

How do you not feel like a broken record when the world is a broken record of broken bodies? Pilot Viruet, “Black Exhaustion.”

While the city protested, Baltimore County celebrated its annual Hunt Cup with underage drinking, pastels, and no second thoughts.

Police unions may be the biggest stumbling block to reform in Maryland.

We don’t have a word to talk about white mobs burning buildings in Northern cities. What we don’t talk about when we use the word “riots.”

Today’s Orioles game marks the first time in Major League Baseball history that a game will be closed to the public.

NFL voluntarily relinquishes tax-exempt status, but its antitrust exemption remains unaffected.

Big interactive explainer on how a senior female ISIS agent uses social media to recruit militants.

A software glitch on American Airlines pilots’ iPads grounded several dozen flights yesterday.

As color film processing proliferated, color-balancing techniques were optimized for caucasian skin tones.

Opp, Ala., doubles its population during the annual Rattlesnake Rodeo, an event of prayer, bouncy castles, and poison.

See also: TMN’s 2003 visit to the world’s largest rattlesnake roundup in Sweetwater, Texas. #photos

This year, 10 inmates in Texas prisons will have spent 30 consecutive years in solitary confinement.

Hoover Dam’s Lake Mead has sunk to its lowest level yet, which means less electricity for locals.

Senate Republicans are blocking the nomination to a new position for one of the torture report’s lead investigators.

Medical officials describe the ownership chain of your body parts after they’ve been surgically removed.

In the Wilderness: The fate of rural American Judaism through a community’s last girl.

Children’s playgrounds around the world, from first-world quads to third-world slums. #photos