Headlines from October 23, 2014

Shooter in Ottawa kills a soldier in what the PM calls a “terrorist” act—the suspect was recently designated a “high-risk traveler.”
Canada’s CBC News covered the shootings in a way US news no longer can: with respect and care for the facts.
Mexican attorney general thinks Iguala’s mayor and his wife were behind the events that led to the murder of 43 students.
McDonald’s profits dropped 30% last quarter, which executives chalk up to the company being “misunderstood.”
Child poverty reaches 20-year high in US—five are killed daily by guns; one dies every seven hours from abuse or neglect.
On evil: “Denying the shared humanity of others seems to be a universal human trait.” #longreads
Felicia Day finds another Gamergate casualty: the camaraderie that sheltered gamers from a world that didn’t understand.
Gaming is the least welcoming online space for women, according to a new Pew study.
Latinos will not easily be assimilated into US whiteness, despite growing population and high intermarriage rates. #opinions
“Douchebag” doesn’t apply only to white heterosexist males: Pitbull and Pharrell are also prime examples of douchiness. #language
Kenny G defends Hong Kong protest selfie, says he was walking around as a tourist.
Detroit finds a scapegoat in its tax-delinquent residents—142,000 of whom the city could evict over the next year.
From the time they walked through the doors, they were treated as if they were younger. What if age is nothing but a mindset? #longreads
Neuroscience community divided on brain-training games, which some call hokum and worry will undermine real science.
What Google is working on may instead result in the automotive equivalent of the Apple Newton.