June 6, 2016

Swiss voters overwhelmingly reject proposal to give citizens a guaranteed income.

Wall Street lends Uber $1 billion to fund its subprime auto leasing scheme.

Twenty percent of Title I funding—meant to help poorer school districts—ends up in rich districts.

Over Memorial Day weekend in Chicago, 64 people were shot, six of them dead.

Dispatch from reporters embedded at a Doctors Without Borders hospital in South Sudan.

NPR photojournalist and translator killed by Taliban assault.

Pentagon defends killing—and likely cover-up—of pregnant Afghan women as “appropriate” use of force.

When Big Pharma declines to include pregnant women in its research, babies have unforeseen health problems.

The largest single group of Bernie donors—25%—don’t have a job.

Trump essentially says no Latino or Muslim judges should be allowed to hear cases against him.

Former LAPD detective spends 15 years trying to prove that his dad killed the Black Dahlia.

David Mitchell’s new novel won’t be available for 100 years, and is currently buried in Norway.

Pyramid expert told Megan Fox that the pyramids at Giza were “some kind of energy plant.”

Study finds that Iron in a dagger buried with King Tutankhamun is of meteoritic origin.

Muhammad Ali dies at 74, “titan of boxing and the 20th century.”

More than Ali’s courage in the ring, it was Ali’s courage in fighting the US government and much of the US public that made him a great American.

Djokovic wins the French, becoming the first man since Laver to hold all four majors simultaneously.

Former Stanford swimmer gets six months for raping an unconscious woman because a longer sentence would have “a severe impact on him.”

Climbers ascend Everest without supplemental oxygen and send back realtime heart-rate data.

Contrite young souvenir seeker returns giant sequoia cone to a national park.

Fun report traces an owl’s flight from a beach in Maryland to an island in Canada. #video

by via The Morning News