G.O.P. Takes Senate, Amnesty Accuses Israel of War Crimes, Skin Tone-Changing Emoji
Here's what I'm reading up on this morning:
- As expected, the Republicans won big Tuesday; you might not like it, but U.S. stock futures sure do.
- Voters in Washington, D.C., Oregon and Alaska passed varying marijuana legalization measures.
- Amnesty International accuses Israel of committing war crimes during this summer's military campaign against Gaza.
- A British man named Rurik George Caton Jutting is suspected of killing two Indonesian sex workers, Sumarti Ningsih and Jesse Lorena, in Hong Kong--stuffing one of their bodies into a suitcase on his balcony.
- In a sign that employment growth is, well, still growing, 230,000 new private jobs were added in October, according to major payroll firm ADP.
- The unelected and rather bizarre international group known as the Unicode Consortium, which sets emoji conventions, says it will allow users to set skin tones for emoji based on the Fitzpatrick scale.
- You know how you can browse the Web in private mode on your smartphone? It turns out it's actually not so private, thanks to Verizon and AT&T's "supercookies."
- Beyoncé tops Forbes' list of top earners among women in music.
- Chagas, a deadly disease that ravages the poor in other parts of the Americas, is making its way to the United States. Who knows? Maybe they'll find a cure for it now.
- Ooh... A gorgeous hole punch cloud appears over Australia.