Here’s what I’m reading up on this morning: 

• Pro-democracy student-led protests grow in Hong Kong, just ahead of Chinese National Day. 

• The Obama administration wants to keep a federal hearing on the torturous force-feeding of Guantánamo detainees secret. 

• Secret Service Director Julia Pierson is expected to be grilled in a congressional hearing in a congressional hearing today over a White House security breach. 

• Apple Pay (or, more likely, Carl C. Icahn) inspires eBay to split off PayPal. 

• The seller of a spyware app designed and marketed to abusive stalkers who suspect their partners of cheating is indicted for conspiracy.

• Wow. Aretha Franklin covers Adele’s "Rolling in the Deep."  

• Walmart stays doing the most, blaming Tracy Morgan for injuries in the car accident he didn’t cause. 

• Remember how Tim Tebow, a Christian, got penalized by the NFL for painting Bible verses on his face and praying? Neither do I. But Husain Abdullah, a Muslim, is penalized by the NFL for his prayer. 

• Thousands of Liberian children who’ve lost their parents to Ebola are deeply shunned. 

• Dolphins can detect and are attracted to magnetic fields, which guide their navigation.