Time, gentlemen

When will the last all-male clubs admit women?
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Fury rises at Disney over use of foreign workers

At the end of last October, IT employees at Walt Disney Parks and Resorts were called, one-by-one, into conference rooms to receive notice of their layoffs.
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The Untold Story of Silk Road. How a 29-year-old idealist built a global drug bazaar and became a murderous kingpin.

The postman only rang once. Curtis Green was at home, greeting the morning with 64 ounces of Coca-Cola and powdered mini doughnuts. Fingers frosted synthetic white, he was startled to hear someone at the door. It was 11 am, and surprise visits were uncommon at his modest house in Spanish Fork, Utah, a high-desert hamlet in the shadow of the Wasatch Mountains. Green ambled over, adjusting his camouflage fanny pack.
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Bali Nine: Indonesia executes eight prisoners but reprieves Mary Jane Veloso

Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran and six other men are executed by firing squad, as Filipina Mary Jane Velosa wins a last-minute reprieve.
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Jon Jones stripped of UFC world title after hit-and-run incident

Jon Jones has been stripped of his UFC light heavyweight title and suspended indefinitely following his arrest in New Mexico on a hit-and-run that police say left a pregnant woman with a broken arm. The UFC announced the extraordinary penalties on Tuesday night for violations of its athlete code of conduct policy following Jones’ latest arrest in a string of misbehavior.
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Rubella Eliminated From the Americas, Thanks to MMR Vaccine

First we wiped out smallpox in North and South America. Then we rid the Americas of polio. Now, for the third time, the Americas are the first region in the world to eliminate yet another disease through vaccines: rubella.
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The Pentagon is Buying the Wrong Ship, and It’s Costing Taxpayers Billions

The Navy's plan is to revitalize its force with new vessels that will cost far more than the current ships and be far less effective.
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Improving the Map of Nepal

The availability of accurate maps is particularly important in times of emergency to help disaster response teams and aid agencies to effectively manage the teams on the ground. Humanitarian Open Street Map Team (HOT) is a non-profit organization which coordinates the creation and distribution of free mapping resources to support humanitarian relief. Since the devastating earthquake in Nepal HOT has been organizing the response of the Open Street Community to improve the OSM maps of Nepal.
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David Simon: 'My Country Is a Horror Show'

The man behind the hit series 'The Wire' gave an impromptu speech about the divide between rich and poor in America.
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Senators Approve Bill To Stop EPA From Using ‘Secret Science’

A Senate committee has advanced legislation that would change how the Environmental Protection Agency uses science to craft regulations intended to protect the environment and public health.
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AT&T sacks president Aaron Slator amid $100m racial discrimination suit

Knoyme King, a black woman who worked for Slator, alleges she was passed over for promotions because of her race.
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Anti-Gay State Rep Outed By Guy He Was Trying To Pick Up On Grindr

What's funnier than a straight anti-gay bigot named "Breda" (Brēd-ä)? A closeted gay Republican elected official named "Randy Boehning." Grand Forks Herald: A North Dakota lawmaker who sent an explicit photo of himself to another man says the exchange being made public is retaliation for a recent vote against expanding gay rights. State Rep. Randy Boehning, a 52-year-old Republican legislator from Fargo, says a Capitol employee told him a fellow lawmaker vowed to out him...
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Colombia just legalized euthanasia. Here's why that's a big deal

It's highly controversial: Only 3 other countries allow doctors to actually administer their patients' requested lethal dose.
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Baltimore Been Burning

As someone who has not closely followed Maryland politics, I will admit to being guilty of seeing photos of Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake come across my news feed and quietly smiling… By Jamilah Lemieux
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Baltimore imposes bail bonds of half a million dollars in legal crackdown

Republican governor extends 24-hour detention-without-charge limit ‘to protect public safety’ while courts impose sky-high bail bonds for minor offences.
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Rubella virus officially eliminated from the Americas

It's official: rubella, a disease that can be deadly for fetuses, has been eliminated from the Americas. The news was announced today by a scientific panel convened by global health authorities, reports The New York Times. The Americas is the first World Health Organization region to eliminate the disease.
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Judge: DEA not liable for botched sting that killed truck driver

If the government decides to destroy your property to fight the drug war, you're out of luck.
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71 get life sentences for torching Egypt church

An Egyptian court has sentenced 71 people to life in prison for their role in the August 2013 burning of a Christian church in the Giza province village of Kafr Hakim, state news reports. The Virgin Mary Church was torched and looted by a mob, some of whom chanted against Coptic Christians and called for Egypt to become an "Islamic state," one of at least 42 churches and many more businesses and homes targeted that August, the advocacy group Human Rights Watch reports.
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Will new laws give federal cybercops too much power?

Critics say the bills are about surveillance not security
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Are You A Good Citizen?: China To Issue Its People A "Social Rating" Based On Collection Of Big Data

The collection of big data by governments is one of the largest threats to liberty.
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Just before the earthquake in Basantapur, Nepal

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'A Gronking to Remember' Becomes Memorable Lawsuit Against Amazon, Apple

A couple is suing the tech giants after finding their faces on an e-book that went viral.
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Falling to Earth: unmanned Russian spacecraft ‘has nowhere else to go’

A Russian spacecraft that is tumbling around the Earth after it malfunctioned en route to the International Space Station (ISS) could remain in orbit for more than a week before crashing down to Earth.
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States can ban elected judges from asking for campaign money, Supreme Court says

The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld state laws that bar elected judges from asking for money to support their campaigns.
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What the United States Owes Warren Weinstein

The American hostage died in a "signature" drone strike. Those strikes should end. By David Rohde.
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Five billion people 'have no access to safe surgery'

Two-thirds of the world's population have no access to safe and affordable surgery, according to a new study in The Lancet - more than double the number in previous estimates. It means millions of people are dying from treatable conditions such as appendicitis and obstructed labour. Most live in low and middle-income countries. The study suggests that 93% of people in sub-Saharan Africa cannot obtain basic surgical care.
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Rand Paul, Who Accepts Bitcoin Donations, Is Trying to Kill Net Neutrality

Sen. Rand Paul is running for the GOP presidential nomination—and he's also vying for the title of "biggest net neutrality hater."
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Saudi King Resets Succession to Cope With Turbulent Times

Saudi King Salman appointed a new heir and made his young son second in line to rule on Wednesday, a major shift in power within the ultra conservative kingdom's elite at a time of almost unprecedented regional turmoil.
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Prisoner in van said Freddie Gray was trying to injure himself

According to a police document obtained by The Post, a prisoner in a separate compartment of the same Baltimore police van as Freddie Gray told officers he heard Gray “banging against the walls.”
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See Zuckerberg's first-ever TV interview in 2004

Eleven years ago this week, a 19-year-old named Mark Zuckerberg appeared on CNBC's "Bullseye" to discuss his new, expanding social networking site that had 100,000 users at the time.
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Watch This Unnerving Video of Defense Department's Self-Steering Bullets

The U.S. military has developed a self-steering bullet that can change direction midair to hit a moving target, and now you can see it in action. The Department of Defense’s research agency, DARPA, released footage on Monday showing the bullet, after completing a prototype in February, as part of DARPA’s Extreme Accuracy Tasked Ordnance (EXACTO) program.
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Violence 'Not Going to Happen Tonight,' Governor Says

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan said at a news conference today the immediate need is to restore calm in Baltimore and that the city is well on its way. "We're not going to have a repeat of last night," Hogan said. "It's not going to happen tonight." President Obama today called the riots in Baltimore "senseless violence and destruction."
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Tiny 'Thin Home' In Vancouver Sells For $1.35 Million

Believed to be the last of its kind, a rare "thin home" has sold in Vancouver for $1.35 million. Built in the late '80s and tucked away in the city's upscale Point Grey neighbourhood, the split-level home is a mere 3.6 metres (12 feet) wide. The floor space is only 945 sq.-ft., but manages to cram in a full kitchen, master bedroom, living room, garage, den and 1.5 bathrooms, according to its listing.
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Airbnb nightmare renters leave Calgary home trashed

A Calgary family says their hardwood floors are lifting from "pools of alcohol" and someone left chicken drumsticks in their shoes following an Airbnb rental that turned disastrous.
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New bank fees target kids' accounts and allow 'double-dipping,' say customers

Banking fees are going up at all of Canada's five big banks, but some customers of RBC in particular are outraged about the changes. They're accusing Canada's biggest bank of targeting children and those who can least afford it.​
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Hit by Avalanche in Everest Basecamp 25.04.2015

"The ground was shaking from the earthquake and as soon as we saw people running we were running ourselves to save our lives."
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Canadian Immigrants Interactive Map

This interactive map illustrates the immigrants that are most common in Canada by census division. You’ve certainly heard of Vancouver’s Chinatown. And Montreal could not truly be La Belle Ville without its Little Italy. But how about Toronto’s vibrant Little Jamaica, known for its jerk chicken street BBQs and famous barbershops? Or Laval’s growing Little Lebanon, which is increasingly drawing Arabic-speaking immigrants away from St. Laurent in neighbouring Montreal?
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Forest Fires Threaten New Fallout From Chernobyl

On April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine released a plume of radiation that eventually blanketed an estimated 77,000 square miles of Europe and Eurasia. While the worst of the contamination occurred near the plant — an area still closed to human habitation, now referred to as the exclusion zone — the effects are still seen further afield as well. Radioactive wild boars roam German forests, and radioactive mushrooms grow in Bulgaria.
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NFL Relinquishing Tax-Exempt Status

Every so often, in a bid to sound threatening, a member of Congress has vowed to revoke the NFL's tax-exempt status. Now Commissioner Roger Goodell says the league will give it up voluntarily to "eliminate this distraction." One result is that Goodell's compensation — about $35 million 2013, and approximately $44 million in 2012 — will no longer need to be made public.
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Oklahoma’s Key Expert in Supreme Court Lethal Injection Case Did His Research on Drugs.com

How the Supreme Court case over lethal injection shows it’s becoming nearly impossible to find experts to defend the practice.
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Fully Restored WWII Fighter Plane Up for Auction

A British warplane that was shot down in 1940 during World War II and was later meticulously restored to flying condition is slated to hit the auction block this summer.
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As protests continue, Baltimore looks to buy police body cameras

Facing criticism for a controversial veto, National Guard troops in the streets, and protesters clashing with police, the Baltimore Mayor’s Office says it is actively searching for vendors to supply police body cameras to fulfill a multimillion dollar program that’s been in the works since last year.
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The War Nerd: The Art of Turf War

There’s a war on now in South African cities, but no one’s calling it what it is. South Africans, mostly Zulu, are attacking shops run by foreigners, driving the aliens (mostly Zimbabwean, Somali, ...
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Asne Seierstad’s ‘One of Us,’ About Rampage in Norway

“One of Us” explores a dark side of contemporary Scandinavia through the life and crimes of Anders Behring Breivik, a mass murderer who killed 77 people, most of them teenagers.
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The supervillain’s guide to saving the Internet

I have been something of a critic of our professional online writing industry for some time, and I have never been shy about criticizing the people who work in it. Chief among my complaints is that online writing is a culture that thinks it isn’t one... By Fredrik deBoer.
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Nurse who raped unconscious patients in A&E jailed for 18 years

A nurse who filmed himself raping two patients while they were unconscious in A&E has been jailed for 18 years. Andrew Hutchinson, 29, carried out the assaults on women aged 18 and 35 who were brought in to the John Radcliffe hospital in Oxford, where he worked, after drinking too much alcohol on a night out.
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President Obama Demands Critics Tell Him What's Wrong With TPP; Of Course We Can't Do That Because He Won't Show Us The Agreement

President Obama is apparently quite annoyed by the fact that his own party is basically pushing against his "big trade deals" (that are not really about trade). Senator Elizabeth Warren has been pretty aggressive in trashing the TPP agreement, highlighting the fact that the agreement is still secret (other than the bits leaked by Wikileaks). In response, President Obama came out swinging against the critics of TPP arguing that "they don't know what they're talking about."
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Baltimore and the State of American Cities

The death of Freddie Gray and the protests that have sent Baltimore teetering into bedlam are part of a national tableau of frustration.
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Game of Fear

The Story Behind GamerGate. By Zachary Jason .
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No Escape From the Black Hole of a Police Database

Remember back in elementary school? How often were you cowed into socially acceptable behavior by the threat that something would go on your permanent record? You ain’t seen nothin’.
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