Juvenile polyglots 4-year-old Russian girl speaks and reads 7 languages Mark Frauenfelder

Technology Damien Patton, CEO of tech surveillance company Banjo, once helped KKK shoot up a synagogue: Report Xeni Jardin

police Police called to school over stolen juice box David Pescovitz

crime Boy, 10 years old, fires shotgun at cops during 2-hour SWAT standoff in San Diego, CA Xeni Jardin

corn pop What in the world is Joe Biden going on about in this video? Mark Frauenfelder

zero-tolerance gone bad Teacher calls cops on 6-year-old with Down syndrome who pointed a finger gun at her Mark Frauenfelder

obituaries Little-known, criminally underappreciated 70s singer-songwriter, Judee Sill, finally gets an obit in the New York Times Gareth Branwyn

News Fishermen rescue deer floating at sea 5 miles off Maine coast Xeni Jardin

elections Clown Car 2.0: Matt Taibbi on the Democratic nomination race Cory Doctorow

torture The treadmill was commonly used to punish prisoners with hard labor David Pescovitz

yes they're concentration camps On the history of concentration camps, and what Trump's doing on the border Xeni Jardin

Kids After American juvenile offenders are released, they can be re-imprisoned for failing to make restitution payments Cory Doctorow

uk UK government is using child spies Seamus Bellamy

police Chicago police discourage use of mobile phone cases that look just like handguns David Pescovitz

Kids Chicago is demanding that children on bail wear private-sector ankle-cuffs with mics that can record them without their consent Cory Doctorow

drugs US FDA approved chemical twin of dissociative psychedelic ketamine to treat depression David Pescovitz

Real things you can actually buy Two brothers deface worthless baseball cards for fun and profit Rusty Blazenhoff

News Colorado runner chokes 80-pound mountain lion to death Xeni Jardin

Science US governmental conservationists really hope that young endangered seals will stop getting eels stuck in their nostrils Cory Doctorow

News FBI report shows thousands more hate crimes in Trump's first year, a record high Xeni Jardin