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A New York City Cop Is Facing Murder Charges Over a Road Rage Incident
A veteran city cop was charged by the state attorney general after shooting and killing a Brooklyn father in July.
Allie Conti
9.27.16
thump news

Kaytranada and Syd's New Video Pays Homage to Early 90s Black Sitcoms
The track is off his Polaris Prize-winning album '99.9%.'
Alexander Iadarola
9.27.16
Jose Fernandez

More Details Emerge of Night Jose Fernandez Was Killed
Texts between one of the men on the boat and another friend show there was concern for Fernandez.
Joseph Flynn
9.27.16
crime & drugs

Murders in the US are up more than 10% – but that's not as bad as it sounds
2015 actually had the third-lowest murder rate of any year since 1991, when the rate stood at 9.8 murders for every 100,000 people
Tess Owen
9.27.16
Sex

[NSFW] This Animation Perfectly Explains Where the Sexual Revolution Failed
From body-positivity to #freethenipple, there's a lot of talk about living in a sexually liberated society. But are we really all that free?
Beckett Mufson
9.27.16
lsu

LSU to Gauge Interest of Saban, Meyer; Jets Fans to Gauge Interest of Quarterback Who Doesn't Inspire Despair
This sounds like a very good plan, LSU.
Sean Newell
9.27.16
Motherboard Blog

SpaceX Just Announced What Would Be the Largest Rocket of All Time
This is how Elon Musk wants to take us to Mars.
Carl Franzen
9.27.16
FIGHTLAND

Roy Nelson's "Attack" on John McCarthy Is Now Before a Brazilian Superior Court
A new kind of justice comes to the MMA frontier.
Josh Rosenblatt
9.27.16
Stuff

When the Government Took My Grandmother's Home Away
One night in 1951, Romanian soldiers woke up my grandmother and put her on a train to a barren plain on the other side of her country.
Vlad Marko Tollea
9.27.16
News

Canada to Hold a Federal Summit to Address the Opioid Crisis
Hundreds of Canadians have died this year alone from fentanyl overdoses.
Allison Tierney
9.27.16
RACISM

To Make AI Less Biased, Give It a Worldview
Can “fairness” be expressed in numbers?
Jordan Pearson
9.27.16
News

Liveblog: SpaceX Announces What Is By Far the Largest Rocket of All Time
Elon Musk is finally unveiling his get-to-Mars master plan.
Jason Koebler
9.27.16
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