WARNING: CONTENT MAY BE OFFENSIVE OR DISTURBING TO SOME AUDIENCES.
Trigger warnings—alerts that material may trigger someone to re-experience trauma—have been deployed more frequently in the past few years atop news stories, in university course syllabi, on signage accompanying art exhibitions. Offensive. Disturbing. Who decides for whom?
The headlines and story summaries offered here were culled from news articles last week in the Washington Post, The New York Times and the Arizona Daily Sun. None had a trigger warning. All offended. All disturbed.
Breast Implants Linked to Rare Cancer Are Recalled Worldwide. Under pressure from the Food and Drug Administration, Allergan will stop selling textured implants. Thirty-three deaths have been tied to the devices.
Lumberjack Football Player Allegedly Took Drugs Before His Death. The latest evidence from the Flagstaff Police Department indicates drugs could have played a role in the death of a Lumberjack football player earlier this month.
Amazon Protections Are Slashed and Forests Fall. When the populist leader Jair Bolsonaro became Brazil’s president, his government scaled back efforts to fight illegal logging, ranching and mining.
Discrimination Is Hard to Prove, Even Harder To Fix. Even when older plaintiffs win their suits, correcting institutional biases can take years.
Fifth N.Y.P.D. Officer Since June Dies by Suicide, Police Say. The officer, whose name was not released, was found in his Staten Island home on Saturday after he fatally shot himself.
Why Did This Extinct Bird Have Such a Weird, Long Toe? The Cretaceous Period flier, trapped in amber 99 million years ago, had features unlike any bird living today.
Man Dies of ‘Brain-Eating’ Amoeba After Swimming in Lake. Naegleria fowleri, a single-celled organism found in warm freshwater, can be fatal if it enters the body through the nose.
Hong Kong Protests: Clashes With Police Turn Downtown Into Tear Gas-filled Battlefield. For the second day in a row, thousands rallied on Sunday in Hong Kong to protest mob violence and what they say is police brutality against peaceful marchers. And for the second consecutive day, the police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at the throngs.
How Turkey Purged Its Intellectuals. For more than a century, one school of political science dominated the education of Turkey’s governing class—until the Erdogan regime set about destroying it.
Your Data Was ‘Anonymized’? These Scientists Can Still Identify You. Computer scientists have developed an algorithm that can pick out almost any American in databases supposedly stripped of personal information.
Border Collie Trained to Recognize 1,022 Nouns Dies. Chaser, often described as “the world’s smartest dog,” made headlines worldwide for being able to identify objects by their names.
5 Things To Know About Chardonnay, The World’s Most Popular White Wine. Chardonnay is so popular that it is nearly synonymous with white wine. We feel comfortable with it. It’s easy to say, and it sounds like it ends with a smile.
Juul Targeted Schools and Youth Camos, House Panel on Vaping Claims. Lawmakers grilled company officials about financing programs aimed at appealing to young people that familiarized them with Juul’s products.
Shooting at Brooklyn Block Party Kills 1 Man and Injures 11. Hundreds were gathered in a playground for the annual Old Timers Day when the shooting began in Brownsville just before 11 p.m.
Thieves Steal $5K in Equipment From Firefighting Truck. Police say more than $5,000 in firefighting equipment was stolen from a U.S. Forest Service truck stationed in Arizona to respond to wildfires.
Trump Campaign Sees Advantage In Divisive Appeal To Working-Class Whites. As condemnations have poured in over the past two weeks accusing President Trump of bigotry, his campaign has tried to turn his offensive remarks into a political plus with his base.
Obscure Makers of Generic Drugs Played Central Role in Opioid Crisis, Records Show. Though Purdue Phrama has long borne the brunt of the criticism for its role in the crisis, newly unsealed court records thrust a spotlight on a handful of little known drug manufacturers that by 2006 were selling the bulk of opioid pills flooding the country.
Amber Alert Issued for Girl Who Could Be In Area. An Amber Alert was issued Tuesday afternoon for a kidnapped West Virginia girl who could possibly be in the Flagstaff area.
Nearly 1,400 Detained in Moscow Protest; Largest in Decade. Police violently dispersed thousands of people who thronged the streets on Saturday to protest authorities for disqualifying independent candidates for the Moscow city council.
Trashy TV Made Children Dumber and Enabled a Wave of Populist Leaders, Study Shows. The longer viewers were exposed to vapid television, the more likely they were to vote for candidates offering simple messages and easy answers.
Why Crafty Internet Trolls in the Philippines May Be Coming to A Website Near You. The world of internet trolls—the gaslighting, the fabrications, the nastiness—is now a fact of life in the Web ecosystem nearly everywhere. But something new is happening here: Experienced public relations experts in the Philippines are harnessing the raw energy of young and aggressive social media shape shifters.
