Same-sex marriage… soon to be legal for all Americans? In a measured but significant announcement, the United States Supreme Court this morning said it wouldn’t hear appeals from five states who’d didn’t like that lower courts had told them to let same-sex couples marry. Which means marriage in those states—Indiana, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia and Wisconsin—is now decidedly legal. Justices seem to be waiting for an appellate court to say no to same-sex marriage, which hasn’t yet happened, before issuing something more sweeping.
Thought Veterans Memorial Coliseum was safe from the wrecking ball, owing to sentiment and its historic, midcentury architecture? Think again. Demolition is among the options city hall wants to study as it prepares for another go-round over how and whether to fix up the Rose Quarter.
The Belmont goats are no longer the Belmont goats. They’ve moved six miles east to Lents, making way for development at their old site in closer-in Southeast—proving they really are an apt symbol for this city.
YOU GUYS! It’s true! An honest-to-Lynch revival of Twin Peaks is heading to Showtime!
The man in Texas trying not to die from Ebola had come to the United States in hopes of rekindling a long-ago romance with the mother of his teenage son. His family’s quarantine is still sending panicked shockwaves through Dallas’ Liberian community.
Everyone should read this weekend story from the Washington Post tracing how a shockingly slow response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa mushroomed into something so out of control that, one just one day, 121 people in Sierra Leone were reported dead because of the disease.
Hong Kong’s democratic fires appear to have cooled considerably. The number of protesters has diminished greatly after beatings by pro-government thugs, Chinese threats, and a general dampening of enthusiasm in the face of exhaustion. But as hundreds, if not thousands, persist in demanding truly open elections, other potentially restive territories in Beijing’s sphere—from Taiwan to China’s distant western provinces—remain watching keenly.
The Pentagon, over the years, has tended not to get this kind of question right: Which rebel army in Syria should we arm to fight ISIS so we don’t have to?
Iran’s ruling cleric/supreme leader—supreme as in, despite the countries democratic trappings, like elections and parliaments and presidents, he’s the boss—could be too ill to lead, if rumors and whispers and photographs of elite Iranians’ pilgrimage to his bedside are to believed.
The rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer. The rich are somehow now giving less and less to charity. The poor are giving more.
“DO YOU WANT TO CALL HER WHEN WE GET HOME?” “SHE LIED TO ME, MOMMY.”