January 21, 2016

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Report finds Putin “probably” approved the poisoning of former KGB officer Alexander Litvinetko.

“As he lay dying, he traced the lethal substance to a former comrade in the Russian secret service.”

Inside a Russian attempt to engineer unending daylight.

Two scientists indicted for emailing confidential GlaxoSmithKline research to a pharma startup overseas.

Anticipating the “pure chaos” of a GOP convention where multiple candidates are still vying for the nomination.

“Merkel’s decision…remains the correct one. But Merkel has failed to promptly impose order on the streams of refugees.”

After years of decline, air pollutions deaths are on the rise in the UK.

There were more suicides in Northern Ireland for nearly two decades after the Troubles than during them.

If you’re white or Asian, you have a nearly 25% chance of becoming a millionaire; if you’re Latino or black, 6%.

My blue-eyed grandfather was the unlucky inheritor of the brutal way history unfolded. Life as “mostly Bengali.”

“Evolutionary psychologists believe our preoccupation with the lives of others is a byproduct of a prehistoric brain.”

Expanded federal background checks leaves no one to process appeals from the rejected.

Inside Kentucky’s booming, unregulated private probation industry.

How Rick Snyder’s corporatization of Michigan state politics facilitated the Flint water crisis.

Cleveland is trying to wriggle out of two police misconduct settlements by using personal bankruptcy laws.

Tennis’s trickle-down economics make the sport particularly ripe for corruption.