us news Delta Flight 89 en route LAX for emergency landing dumps jet fuel on school playground in Cudahy — 17 children, 9 adults treated Xeni Jardin

fake news Tom Cruise’s healing touch, Nazi Roseanne, and Vanna White’s hooker scandal, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

class war Behold! The astonishing mental gymnastics of TSA apologists explaining why rich people don't need to be screened Cory Doctorow

disasters How the worst airline accident in history was avoided Rob Beschizza

computer science Messy: When automated anti-disaster systems make things worse, and what to do about it Cory Doctorow

Business Normalizing deviance: why tech companies repeatedly do stupid, destructive things Cory Doctorow

Business America's airlines send planes to El Salvador, China for service by undertrained technicians Cory Doctorow

russia Rebels seize MH17 plane crash black boxes and bodies, human remains shipped on train to unknown site Xeni Jardin

russia Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 reported shot down in Ukraine near Russian border Xeni Jardin