June 16, 2015

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US drone strike kills al Qaeda leader who refused to join ranks with ISIS.

Nearly 27 years after his father was elected president, Jeb Bush officially announces his campaign.

Source code of Jeb’s website contained several paragraphs summarizing the Die Hard films.

South Korean government requires smartphone users under the age of 19 to use app that monitors their web activity.

Emoji passwords, which are more secure and easier to remember, could replace traditional four-digit PINs.

Chinese university hiring students to post pro-China comments.

More than 100 years after foot-binding was banned in China, some of its practitioners are still alive.

Craig Hicks’s motive for murdering three Muslim students in North Carolina last February may never be entirely clear.

Cold weather trapped dolphins in Arctic ice, where polar bears are hunting and freezing them for later.

The island nation of Palau flexes its territorial muscle by burning commercial fishing boats at sea.

Since 2011 Chuck Blazer has been an informant on FIFA corruption for US prosecutors.

“I just want one morning where I don’t wake up thinking about the flood.”

Epidemiologist employes news aggregator to expose international wildlife crimes.

Mathematicians are hoarding chalk from a recently shuttered Japanese brand.

The top guest star on The X-Files is a Vancouver forest that’s been everywhere from Puerto Rico to Siberia.

June 16 isn’t just Bloomsday. It’s also when James Joyce met the love of his life.

Study finds posting fitness goals on Facebook doesn’t coerce you to exercise more.

“School is for suckers” and other myths Silicon Valley needs to destroy to survive.

Unlike card games like bridge and poker, the classic game of euchre resists easy digitization.