Here’s what I’m reading up on this morning:
- Suspected Nazi war criminals have been collecting millions in social security benefits.
- The U.S. military airdrops weapons to Kurdish fighters near Kobane; Turkey is now allowing Iraqi Kurds to cross the Syrian border to fight IS.
- Hong Kong’s C.Y. Leung essentially blames outside agitators for pro-democracy protests.
- With the death toll at 38, Nepal concludes its search for additional victims from a series of avalanches and blizzards in the Himalayas.
- Obama clears his schedule for the week to deal with Ebola; urgent care clinics, meanwhile, are urging potential Ebola patients to go to hospitals instead of clinics.
- An unidentified man carries another one out of a burning home in Fresno, California.
- For $200, you can say hello to the Amazon Kindle Voyage.
- Two women protesting the death of Michael Brown are arrested after clashes outside of a St. Louis Rams game.
- The grossest episode of The Walking Dead yet airs (warning: spoilers!).
- Women are more likely to develop depression and anxiety following a heart attack than men.
- Have you seen the puppy-sized spider observed in Guyana yet? It’s so big that the etymologist that stumbled upon it first thought it was a possum.