November 3, 2015

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Keystone XL pipeline company requests a delay for its government review—Obama still plans to veto anyway.

Antarctica is gaining more ice than it’s losing; the bad news is there’s a sea-level rise, and now we don’t know why.

“It’s the consumption habits of the wealthy that put our climate in peril to begin with, so they broke it, they pay to fix it.”

First Pelosi, now Ryan must deal with the wreckage of Boehner’s cigarettes.

Obama pushes “ban the box” policy to end the practice of asking about convictions on job applications.

The Army is using data to predict which soldiers will likely commit criminal acts.

US says it’s planning more frequent naval sail-bys near China’s artificial islands.

The Pentagon spent $43 million of taxpayer money on a gas station in Pakistan.

Estonian government offers 10 writers and artists a state salary for three years to continue their work.

Illinois school breaks anti-discrimination laws by requiring a transgender student to use a privacy curtain in the locker room.

On the ballot today in Houston: a law to discriminate against transgender people, but everyone thinks it’s about bathrooms.

“If someone would like to film or take pictures of parts of your body to masturbate to once they get home, that’s their right.”

A visual history of birth control.

Google Photos labeled pictures of blacks as “gorillas” because its white tech team didn’t collect enough pictures of nonwhites.

“Before Facebook can make its robot act like lots of humans, it needs a lot of humans to act like robots.”

Activision buys the studio behind Candy Crush for $6 billion.

“Hip-hop is for the sex, the drugs, the violence, the beefs, the culture… so I felt like the site needed to be R-rated.”

Ireland is opening “injection rooms” for drug users to safely indulge, following a European model.

“The first thing you notice when you smoke weed with Willie Nelson is how much weed Willie Nelson smokes.”