Headlines from March 5, 2015

Some of these protesters were right. Justice Dept. investigation finds endemic civil rights abuses in Ferguson PD.
Related: For evidence of racial bias in Ferguson PD, look to an impartial judge: radar guns.
Fellow opposition leader Navalny blames Russian government for Nemtsov murder.
Russia accuses the US of stoking mass protests and financing opposition movements within its borders.
The favorite clothing brand of neo-Nazis is working its way into mainstream Eastern European fashion.
The underpaid and overworked Afghan National Police are all that stand between the Taliban and rural villages.
Jawbone found in Ethiopia dates human origins half a million years earlier than previously thought.
You will be shot on sight by one of my assassins on July 24, 1973. The history of death threats in professional sports.
From his 2013 Prince bio, Touré recalls shooting hoops and shit-talking at Paisley Park.
States are systematically dismantling workers’ comp, denying benefits and sending taxpayers the bill.
A single business in Switzerland hoards all the country’s lost items, then sells them after three months.
A startup wants to improve the way we teach writing by tracking AO Scott’s keystrokes.
It’s easy to forget Britain didn’t conquer India; the East India Company did.
Andrew Jackson wasn’t that great—a great American woman should be on the $20 instead. #video
Plastic companies and retailers go on the offensive against plastic bag bans.
Quaker environmentalists succeed in convincing banks to cease investment in mountain-top removal.
Halving prison populations means contacting the third rail of prison reform: softer punishment for violent crime.
In the Bible, God’s name can’t be spoken; writing about the powerless, authors are using fewer names.
Sunday is the last day you can pre-order your 2015 Tournament of Books T-shirt. #tob15