Headlines from May 21, 2015

New video of Freddie Gray arrest contradicts Baltimore Police report.
Photos of the ancient site of Palmyra, Syria, whose antiquities are now under threat by ISIS.
Crude oil spill along California coast threatens rare ecosystem that’s one of only five in the world.
Europe’s seal pelt ban destroyed Greenland’s coastal economy, resulting in overpopulation and disease.
A day-by-day account of the $350,000 black rhino hunt that’s been defended as protecting the species.
During last night’s filibuster, Rand Paul quoted Montesquieu, George Orwell, Thomas Paine, and Milton Friedman.
Limiting government data collection is inadequate say 65% of Americans—only 10% have started encrypting their data.
“All Americans should be reminded again and again that recent wars were based on lies.”
Lethal injection, once meant to ease executions, has become a way of experimenting with death.
Nebraska lawmakers vote to end death penalty, with enough votes to overrule the governor’s veto.
“From 1992-1999, prosecutors were three times more likely to seek the death penalty for black defendants than white.”
Seeing death-row inmates in a different light—through watercolor portraits.
Following her sexual assault allegations against Bill Cosby, Janice Dickinson sues him for defamation.
New research challenges conventional wisdom, finds substantial decline in rate of severe childhood mental illnesses.
If you are writing a rape scene, maybe you need to ask yourself why.
The singularity is further than it appears: There’s no incentive for sentience, so no one’s building it.
Computer scientists build algorithm that raps with 21% higher rhyme density than any human rapper.