January 7, 2016

The Morning News http://ift.tt/1Od0NnI

“More people will get into more trucks. Most of them will get where they’re going. But a few of them will die.”

Turkish police raid business making fake life vests—that actually sink—for refugees.

Hundreds of thousands of indigenous Peruvians were sterilized under a nefarious “family planning” program in the 1990s.

Iconic North Korean news anchor came out of retirement to announce H-bomb, signaling a return to Cold War ideology.

Comparing the magnitude of North Korea’s 6-kiloton nuke test to the US’s 21 in 1945 and the USSR’s 58,000.

Defense industry-funded politicians wasted no time calling for more military spending after DPRK’s H-bomb.

NYPD’s claim that stop-and-frisk dropped 93% between 2011 and 2014 is based on suspect record keeping.

Chicago PD’s stop-and-frisk is in full swing, and many times worse than the NYPD’s at its peak.

States that have low gun ownership and tight gun regulations have less gun deaths—obviously.

Montenegrin PM wins dubious “Person of the Year” award from corruption watchdog.

Between 500,000 and a million extremely poor Americans will lose food stamp waivers in 2016.

NYer correction of the week: “An earlier version of this post misidentified one of the ships among the wreckage on the planet Jakku.”

When LBJ campaigned across Texas in the summer of 1948, he sweat through six or seven shirts a day.

“The most pens used by a president to sign a bill is 75, a record set by Lyndon Johnson in 1964.”