April 21 2016

The Morning News http://ift.tt/1VE3PtR Japanese officials raid Mitsubishi after the company admits cheating on fuel-economy tests. Divestment tactics are still polarizing, but public opinion is now against the fossil fuel industry. Latin American countries, besieged with drug violence, were rebuffed by prohibitionists at a special UN summit. Obama visits London to lunch with the Queen on her birthday and encourage the country to remain in the EU. See also: Eight thousand people sign up for London’s new naked-dining restaurant. Representatives from the presidential campaigns meet with White House officials to discuss the power transfer. Looking at people looking at Donald Trump. Davy Rothbart joins a crowds-on-demand firm, to act as paparazzi or political supporters for hire. Young explorers applauded for media and fundraising savvy—and then ripped apart for being bad explorers. Related: Access to information is remaking culture in remote America. Years after his father died, a son rediscovers their Xbox—and with it, his dad’s ghost car. #video Headline of the day: “Midwife Navigates Texas Flood Waters On Inflatable Swan.” South Sudanese militias make violent incursions into Ethiopia to steal children. Lausanne, a city of 150,000 in Switzerland, joins Finland and Ontario as experiments in basic income proliferate. How to improve the value of Detroit’s worst houses: build a portal to Manhattan—and other real-estate musings. Americans eat less chocolate these days, so Hershey’s is starting to push meat bars. Monks have always made great beer—now a pair of California nuns want to be the Trappists of weed. To celebrate “weed day,” Snapchat creates a blackface “lens” to make users resemble Bob Marley. Cellphones are people’s life now. NBA players spend halftime reading texts, emails, and social media notifications. Forget the stereotypes: most millennials didn’t graduate from college and don’t live in big cities. Terrific deep dive on how infographics and optical illusions can trick the mind. Scientists often act as if children and animals are defective adult humans. Thirty years of research show we’re not the only ones who think. Photographs of how children play in different places around the world.