March 16, 2016

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Myanmar elects Aung San Suu Kyi’s chosen president, ending decades of military control.

Profile of two Chinese sisters who, after years in Boston’s Chinatown, are awash in the neighborhood’s gentrification struggles.

Clinton and Trump win big in Tuesday’s primaries, see path to nomination.

All of the Republican campaigns have significant gender wage disparities; Hillary’s is the only one that has more women on staff than men.

Betting markets now give Democrats a 70% chance of winning the presidency, up from 60% in late January.

Obama plans to nominate Merrick Garland today for the Supreme Court.

See also: POTUS helps helps Lin-Manuel Miranda freestyle in the Rose Garden at the White House. #video

Trump warns of “riots” if he isn’t named the GOP presidential nominee.

Muslim student attacked at a gas station by a white man shouting, “Trump! Trump!” in Wichita.

Kalamazoo mass shooter says Uber app took over his body and made him kill people.

One potential conclusion of the surveillance state: StingRays in the hands of your neighbors.

The shuttering of European borders is a goldmine for smugglers and organized crime.

I was a Ukrainian cigarette smuggler: The Marlboro Men of Chernivtsi.

At least 15 people have died since November in Wisconsin from Elizabethkingia, a bacteria that causes blood infections.

Studies show scant effectiveness for centers that treat eating disorders, many using treatments with no scientific evidence behind them.

Primes, like the digits of pi, feel really random, but they’re not random at all.

People in the Deep South click on internet ads at a far greater rate than the rest of the country.

Women tend to quit after 50 to 100 pages, men after 30 to 50. Data gleaned from e-book readers.

Today in the Tournament of Books, Doree Shafrir decides between The Book of Aron and The Tsar of Love and Techno. #ToB16

Five weird teams to watch in the NCAA tournament.