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Baton Rouge Police Fire Officer, Suspend Another for 2016 Shooting Death of Alton Sterling

Poll: 50 Years After MLK’s Assassination, Most Americans Think Inequality Reigns

Judge Says a Teacher’s Hugs With Students Were Sexual, Citing Their Private Facebook Messages

Russia May Be Targeting Undersea Internet Cables. Here’s Why That’s Bad

A Handy Guide to the References and Easter Eggs in Ready Player One

Howard Students Take Over Administration Building in Protest Amid Financial Aid Scandal

How to Travel the World Without Quitting Your Job, According to People Who Did It

The EPA Head’s Controversial Room Rental Is Not His Only Tie to Natural Gas

California Coffee Shops Will Warn Customers About This Possibly Cancer-Causing Chemical. Here’s What to Know About It

We Asked You to Caption This Photo and the Winner Was Hard to Pika-Choose

People Are Saying This Christian Surfing Movie Is the Next 'The Room'

What Being a Sex Worker Taught Me About Men

The Venezuelan Ceremony Where Spirits Take Over the Living

This Viral Twitter Story About a Stolen Office Lunch Is a Teaching Moment

Horoscopes Are Deadly in Neon-Soaked Murder Mystery 'Gemini'

A Teenager Used AI to Generate Bizarre, Surreal Nude Portraits

The Office That Vets Trump Appointees Is Full of Bros Icing Each Other

These Photos Capture the Angst and Apathy of Love in the Instagram Era

How Sex Offender Registries Can Result in Vigilante Murder

Is Trump ready for talks with North Korea?

The teenager sentenced to 241 years in prison

Obituary: Johan van Hulst, the teacher who saved Jewish children

West Bengal violence: Top developments

NDA allies want BJP to be more accommodative

Nita Ambani's heart-touching poem for Shloka

Hijab-wearing Muslim competes in Miss England

The Seemingly Random and Definitely Worrisome Cyberattack on Atlanta

Annie Duke Will Beat You at Your Own Game

Daily Cartoon: Thursday, March 29th

Two Views on the March for Our Lives and the Second Amendment

Beyond the Avocado Proposal: New Avo Innovations

The Goofy and Dead-Serious Profundity of Bill Hader in “Barry”

For Trump, Diplomacy Is a Four-Letter Word

New best story on Hacker News: Surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes (2016)

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New best story on Hacker News: Au Revoir

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A Chinese space station is hurtling toward Earth. Where will it land?

Just Because a Woman Is Childless Doesn’t Mean She Wants to Be a Workaholic

This Harrowing Twitter Thread Had Everything: Fried Rice, Lies, and Videotape

Tesla Is Having Its Worst Stretch Ever. It Could Be About to Get Even Worse.

What the President Won’t Say

Fox News Thinks It Found Hillary Clinton’s Facebook Scandal. It Didn’t.

The Angle: Special Delivery Edition

Controversial Concussion Doctor Says His Autopsy of Stephon Clark Contradicts Police Account of Shooting

What lottery players should know if they win the $521M Mega Millions jackpot

Britain Signals Harder Look at Wealthy Russians and Russian Wealth

Screams of Anguish at Venezuelan Jail Fire

Arresting architecture: New York's police stations – in pictures

Malala Yousafzai's emotional return to Pakistan

Russian spy: Yulia Skripal 'conscious and talking'

Meet the dogs fighting Heathrow Airport smugglers

Prince of Wales 'deeply moved' in televised Easter message

Alligator 'gender reveal party' causes controversy

Lagos street dancers go viral after Rihanna retweet

Quiz: Who has 'admitted' to biting Beyonce?

Volkswagen's car 'graveyard' in California

Turning bread into beer to fight food waste

Egypt election: Why were some voters dancing at polling stations?

Up close: The moment a cheetah joined a safari

Africa's week in pictures: 23-29 March 2018

The teenager sentenced to 241 years in prison

Obituary: Johan van Hulst, the teacher who saved Jewish children

Russian spy: How big is the Kremlin's diplomatic network?

Cambridge Analytica: Can targeted online ads really change a voter's behaviour?

Myanmar's Rohingya stuck in Bangladesh's 'no man's land'

El Salvador's shackled deportees become friends in adversity

Industry ferment: US wine industry crushed over tariffs

Making deliveries in a badly mapped world

New Zealand v England: Jonny Bairstow hits unbeaten 97 as batsmen struggle again