Laundry is taking FOREVER.

Yaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwn.

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As prices soar, Gaza food crisis looms

With produce and meat selling at inflated costs, many Palestinians in Gaza are surviving on emergency food rations.

Manhattan man, 84, left bloodied after encounter with cops in jaywalking arrest says he’s now ‘scared’ to cross the street

Police officers in Los Angeles ignored pleas for help and complaints by a man who said he couldn't breathe and later died in custody, reports show.

Jailed By Mistake

Wrongful arrests jail about 100 people for over 2,000 days

Almost all the mistakes could have been prevented — or at least fixed immediately — had authorities paid attention to what fingerprints tried to tell them from the start.

Holy fuck, St. Louis! This article is about half a year old, but what are the odds things have improved?

For Many Politicians, Ferguson Isn’t Happening

Kurdish Forces Say They're Waiting For U.S. Weapons

American’s Release Shows Rival Militias Differ on Tactics

Islamic State can’t be beat without addressing Syrian side of border, top general says

Iraq pleads for global help in fight against jihadists

Syria conflict: Islamic State seizes Tabqa airbase

U.S. strikes in Syria against Islamic State would be hindered by intelligence gaps

Boko Haram chief declares ‘caliphate’ in Nigeria town

Nigerian police missing after Boko Haram raid

At least 35 officers training in Borno state - a rebel bastion - went missing after armed group attacked town of Gwoza.

Texas Court Decides Companies Can Legally Lie To Their Employees

5 Insane Right-Wing Rants This Week: Arch-Conservative Celeb Edition

Hundreds of Methane Plumes Spotted on Sea Floor

Bubble streams off the U.S. East Coast could be methane-rich ices warming and releasing the potent greenhouse gas

Israeli stealth drone downed at nuclear facility, Iran claims

Wow, that's a depressing set of articles! Here, watch this video of the super adorable dumbo octopus swimming along.

Girls are NOT on a regular schedule at all.

So we're going to ease into a normal school-type schedule, because if they sleep late I start late and then we won't end up learning much at all. I know me. Today we started at noon, tomorrow we'll start our day no later than 11, Wednesday and Thursday with their dad (I think...?), and by next week we'll be starting at 9ish, meaning that the week after that we'll be up and having breakfast by 8. Hopefully earlier, so they can say goodbye to their mom in the morning. Just not too early.

Eva has lost another pack of scrunchies. For crying out loud, we buy them 100 at a time! I told her that I will buy one more, and if I'm not satisfied that they disappeared organically - that is, due to falling apart with old age, that sort of thing - I'll bill her for them. Those things are super pricey if you run through them like she does.

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A unique harvest is under way in the rice fields of Cambodia where tens of thousands of wild rats are being trapped alive each day to feed a growing export market for the meat of rural rodents

Ukraine: Russian tanks cross border, open new war front

We Won't Go Back: March on Staten Island for Eric Garner

It Isn’t Ferguson, It’s the USA. The Broader Issue of the Unfolding US Police State

Darren Wilson’s Former Police Force Was Disbanded for Excessive Force and Corruption

Two More Unarmed Young Black Men Have Been Shot by Police Since Michael Brown's Death (this article is a week old)

Federal Law Ordering US Attorney General To Gather Data On Police Excessive Force Has Been Ignored For 20 Years

What I've Learned from Two Years Collecting Data on Police Killings

The Bank of America settlement and the “justice” of capitalism

IRS Is Scaling Back The Fight Against Financial Crime

Radical New Theory Could Kill the Multiverse Hypothesis

Detroit water shut-offs to return

Syria ready to cooperate with U.N. to fight terror

For sale: Systems that can secretly track where cellphone users go around the globe

A pioneering study of Australian passport office staff by a team of psychologists from Aberdeen, York and Sydney, revealed a 15% error rate in matching the person to the passport photo they were displaying.

Report: More Americans Putting Off Retirement Until Final Few Moments Before Death

A major seed company is being sued by 32 migrant farm workers and seven of their children over the workers' claims that they were underpaid and experienced unsafe conditions and poor housing while removing tassels from corn in southwestern Michigan.

India’s ‘Untouchables’ Are Still Being Forced to Collect Human Waste by Hand

China moves closer to developing supersonic submarine

New Ice Bucket Challenge? Gazans Launch 'Rubble Bucket Challenge'

How serious is California drought? Check out these before and after pictures, taken only three years apart.

Cutting carbon emissions pays for itself, researchers say

Darknet drug markets kept alive by great customer service

The areas of the U.S. with a troubling shortage of young people

Whole organ 'grown' in world first

The coral larvae, when in an attempt to find a place to settle, can smell the difference of a healthy reef to the damaged one, an interesting study reveals for the very first time.

Reason for this is because the damaged coral reef releases chemical cues that sicken the fish and young coral, thus discouraging them from dwelling in the destroyed habitat.

GOP surrenders on Obamacare: Why they slashed spending on anti-ACA ads

Obamacare has growing support, even if its name does not