Hong Kong Protests Continue, Aretha Franklin's Stunning Cover, Ebola's Orphans
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.