September 11, 2015

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Chicago police are focusing more on seizing firearms than arresting low-level drug offenders.

Chicago’s South Side, where much of the city’s violence takes place, to get long-overdue Level 1 trauma center.

US officials block documents detailing the Gitmo torture of Abu Zubaydah, who lost an eye while in CIA custody.

The CIA may also have failed to surveil and rescue a Western al-Qaeda captive killed in an airstrike earlier this year.

How global terrorism has changed since Sept. 11, 2001.

US says IS is making its own mustard weapons and using them in Iraq and Syria.

Iran deal to advance thanks to Senate Democrats blocking a Republican resolution to reject the accord.

US to accept 10,000 Syrian refugees over the next year; four years after the conflict began, it’s taken just 1,500.

Inhospitable journeys, unwelcoming destinations: parallels to refugees from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos after Saigon fell.

Far fewer students are buying school lunches; school administrators believe healthier meals are to blame.

Donation-run Precious Lamb Preschool is one of the rare programs that serves homeless children under the age of six.

Death by the law operates in two ways. Kafka and the Black Lives Matter movement.

“The High Times softball dynasty is at least partly a byproduct of the booming marijuana industry.”

You could have worse than insomnia; you could be a time-lapsed painting version of yourself. #video

Predicting who we will be is harder than predicting what we will be able to do. Futurology privileges technology over human behavior.

If a skater travels out of the city, far from urban parks and handrails, he does not cease to skate. #video

The Weather Channel is finally moving away from tangentially related entertainment programming.