August 24, 2015

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Paris subway attacker claims he found the weapons and planned to jump out a train window after robbing passengers.

Europe officials face too many militant suspects and potential targets to mount effective surveillance.

Boston police arrested two Pokemon masters who arrived at the world championships with a weapons cache.

Biden pokes into his 2016 chances, meets with key Dems Elizabeth Warren and Jerry Brown to sound his case.

Though some would prefer Warren run, Biden’s entry and her support would upend Clinton’s assumed Dem dominance.

White House insiders say if their minds are with Hillary, their hearts are with Joe.

I don’t believe you change hearts—you change laws. Clinton’s unscripted Black Lives Matter moment.

Yale pays more to financial managers than to students—a sad symptom of higher education’s collective addiction to hedge funds.

“In many parts of the US, pedestrianism is seen as a dubiously counter-culture activity.”

Rust cannot be stopped, only slowed. Corrosion quietly rules the world.

While the world mourns Palmyra and other UNESCO Heritage Sites, ISIS takes real, living lives.

“The first tool to demoralize a people was the destruction of their language.”

The media hailed one woman’s recuperation after Katrina, but she’s “scarred by what happened after the cameras went away.”

Baylor accepted football star’s transfer despite his record of assaulting women—and hushed it up when the crimes continued.

Sexual abuser escaped crimes at apartheid South African asylums to continue his offenses in Alberta for years—as a licensed psychiatrist.

The disturbing double standard on female pedophiles, whose acts are treated as titillation, not abuse.

Four stories of disaster politics in South and Southeast Asia.

Jell-O salad was posh stuff in the American colonies. Now it’s out to pasture in bad-food Tumblrs.