December 2, 2015

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Much of the $260M in nonlethal military gear—e.g., Humvees—the US supplied to Eastern Ukraine rebels is falling apart.

Profile of ex-Chicago PD superintendent from summer 2012, as the city’s murder rates were rising quickly.

You have to support the police and whatever they do is correct. Kern County, Calif., is home to America’s deadliest police force per capita.

In 2015, about one person per week has died after incidents in which they’ve been Tasered by police.

That “Taser” was named after a racist book doesn’t make it racist—that’s a job for the police.

Harvard House Masters want to change their title, since it sounds pretty racist.

Republican officials worry Trump’s ascension could equal yuuuge GOP losses in November.

The CEO who raised employees’ base pay to $70K may have done so because he was caught overcompensating himself.

Digital hoarding is a real, understudied problem that’s exacerbated by the difficulty, on some platforms, of deleting data.

For-profit genealogy and home health companies have a poor history of protecting user data, and the government can’t help.

His species is called, no joke, Mon Calamari. The LA Times has a Star Wars style guide.

When a Darth Vader impersonator made a seven-year-old cry. On purpose.

Julianne Moore steals Times Square impersonators’ thunder, delivering live performances of her roles. #video

The title of a Purple Rain remake in Tamajeq, which has no word for “purple”: Rain the Color of Blue With a Little Red in It.

Today’s video: Time-lapse tessellations of cities in motion. #video