Review: Latest Reports from The Washington Posts ‘Morning Mix’

‘Sweatergate’: Bare-shouldered female meteorologist handed cover-up cardigan on air. Twitter erupts.
A Los Angeles television station has come under fire after a male anchor handed his female colleague a cardigan so she could cover her bare shoulders. The video below comes from the 8 a.m. Saturday broadcast on KLTA, a local station serving the greater Los Angeles area. In it, meteorologist Liberté Chan, donning a black cocktail […]

While celebrating his own baptism, Hawaiian man shot in back at Seventh-Day Adventist Church
Police investigating shooting in Kalihihttps://t.co/8VQQrDmyPT pic.twitter.com/qVlxItPV94 — Star-Advertiser (@StarAdvertiser) May 15, 2016 Nearly 100 worshipers spilled into the courtyard Saturday afternoon at the Samoa Tokelau Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Honolulu, beginning the celebration of a mass baptism that had just taken place inside. Among them was Tali Talitonu, a 59-year-old man who had just been christened himself. Children […]

How Sheryl Sandberg learned to live with her husband’s death
This time of year, it’s common for commencement speakers to share with new graduates what they’ve learned in life. On Saturday, while addressing graduating students at the University of California at Berkeley, Sheryl Sandberg flipped the script and instead offered a poignant and fiercely candid speech about what she has learned in death. It was the […]

Barber charged for pulling gun after telling customer ‘I don’t cut black hair’
Arthur Hill stepped into a barbershop Tuesday in Rock Hill, S.C., and asked for a haircut. The barber responded “that he does not cut black hair,” according to a York County Sheriff’s Office report. Hill asked the barber what he meant by that response, and then saw it: a chrome-colored, .38 caliber snub-nose revolver, in […]

A child swallows a battery every 3 hours. This remarkable pill-sized origami robot could remove them.
After 1-year-old Emmett Rauch ate a lithium battery, he began vomiting blood, prompting a visit to critical care and emergency surgery. A doctor would later compare the toddler’s throat to the scene of a detonated firecracker. It took years and dozens of procedures to reconstruct Emmett’s windpipe before he could breathe on his own. Across […]

This canned Canadian air goes for $32 a can; The Washington Post Morning Mix team tested it out
How much should a breath of fresh air cost? Most people would likely respond to that question with an obvious answer: Nothing! Most people, though, are not Moses Lam, who almost inadvertently discovered people will pay for the life-sustaining mixture of gasses that hangs around on Earth. Well, to be more specific, he discovered people […]

‘Straight into the paper shredder:’ Texans the first to decry Obama’s school directive about transgender bathrooms
News of the president’s forthcoming directive requiring educators to let students use bathrooms according to their gender identity — not their birth certificate — offered a welcome set of guidelines to some school administrators Thursday night about how they ought to proceed amidst the ongoing legal and cultural bathroom battle embroiling the nation. “It really gives some […]

The long history and slow death of a word once used to describe everyone from Egyptians to the Chinese to rugs
There is a late 19th-century painting called “The Snake Charmer” which depicts a naked boy facing a group of huddled, dark-skinned men gawking and seated cross-legged on the ground before him. Coiled around the boy’s upper body is a python, whose head he holds up for the watchers. Sitting off to the side is an […]

‘You want to record it now?’: Woman recorded her own murder, police say
Wesley Webb and her boyfriend, Keith Smith, were having an argument in their Schuylkill Township, Pa., living room last week when she activated her cellphone’s audio recording function. The kids were upstairs, and things were getting heated. In the ensuing moments, police say, Webb, 40, preserved the sounds of her own murder. The dispute started […]

Complaint says Facebook hid right-wing news. Now Mark Zuckerberg plans to meet conservative leaders.
Mark Zuckerberg will meet with “leading conservatives” as well as “people from across the political spectrum” over the next few weeks, the Facebook founder and chief executive wrote Thursday night. His announcement comes days after allegations that the social media behemoth suppressed conservative viewpoints in its trending news section — the small rectangle of curated topics […]

Target CEO responds to nationwide boycott of the store over transgender bathroom policy
Target CEO Brian Cornell has now spoken publicly about the backlash the company experienced after releasing a statement declaring that transgender individuals shopping at the retail giant can use whichever bathroom corresponds with their gender identity. Among that backlash is an online petition by the American Family Association, a Tupelo, Miss.-based religious non-profit organization founded by […]

‘The thanks you gave them was murder’: Teen pleads guilty to killing the couple that raised him
Robert and Patricia Cogdell helped raise Justin Staton. They were the teen’s legal guardians, a role they took on even after learning that Staton wasn’t their biological grandson, according to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. But in 2015, the Cogdells were fatally shot, their bodies found near their Arkansas home, and Staton, at the age of 14, was among those charged in […]

‘CSI: Cyber’ has been canceled, putting an end to the influential ‘CSI’ franchise after 16 years
When a writer refers to a moment in television as “seminal,” he or she is often employing hyperbole. After all, the medium is ever-changing — we’re currently in a cultural climate that produced more than 400 scripted televised shows last year and has been called an era of “peak TV” by the very people who make […]

Today in 10: White House lets students choose, would-be SEALs die in training, writer eats Trump words with guac
White House: Bathroom choice is student’s choice: A letter to be issued Friday effectively tells public schools that they could lose federal aid if they don’t give students access to areas — including bathrooms and locker rooms — that match their chosen gender identity. Full story Navy SEALs are dying during training: A sailor has […]

Parents discovered a dead newborn while making their teenage daughter’s bed, police say
Authorities in Southern California said they are investigating after a newborn was discovered dead in the bed of his 17-year-old mother, who said she did not know she was pregnant until she gave birth. Police said the teenager’s parents called 911 on Monday evening from their home in Chula Vista, near San Diego, after they found the infant’s body while making the bed. The girl’s parents […]

Today in 10: Brazil president impeached, Zimmerman selling Trayvon gun, Scherzer joins baseball royalty
Brazil’s president suspended: President Dilma Rousseff, the once-popular leader of South America’s biggest country, will be suspended for up to 180 days while an impeachment trial is held for her alleged budget law violations. Full story Ryan and Trump prepare for Thursday’s major clash: House Speaker Paul D. Ryan faces intense pressure from GOP leadership […]

A London receptionist refused to wear heels and was dismissed from her job. Now she’s petitioning Parliament.
Just filmed an IV with #NicolaThorp about being sent home for not agreeing to wear heels at work.#heelgate pic.twitter.com/PAnR0Gr9pk — Light Hackers (@LightHackers) May 11, 2016 When Nicola Thorp showed up at PwC, a finance company in London, late last year, she was wearing flats — what she thought were smart, sensible shoes for her first […]

Why a mother says she fed a deadly drug cocktail to her severely disabled daughter
Bonnie Liltz, it seemed, had reached a desperate moment. At home in a Chicago suburb late last spring, Liltz penned a final note to her family, authorities said. “I am so sorry to put you all through this but I can’t leave my daughter behind,” she wrote, according to court documents cited by the Chicago Tribune. “I […]

‘I don’t know why papa left me’: Arizona man sentenced after abandoning 5-year-old granddaughter in desert with loaded gun
Grandpa abandons 5-year-old granddaughter in desert with loaded .45-caliber gun, police say https://t.co/iQPihFiIPE pic.twitter.com/OFyAjT1v44 — CBS News (@CBSNews) November 3, 2015 His truck had broken down in the Arizona desert, so, with his 5-year-old granddaughter by his side, Paul Armand Rater started walking. But as they trudged, looking for help, the young girl started crying, Rater […]

George Zimmerman’s many, many controversies since the Trayvon Martin case
George Zimmerman’s name trended on Twitter late Wednesday night, and it will likely be filling most social newsfeeds throughout Thursday. That’s the day his auction begins — he’s selling the very gun he used to kill unarmed, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin on February 26, 2012. He calls the gun an “American Firearm Icon” and wrote that proceeds […]

Tales from the prom: Heartbreaking, heartwarming and staggeringly absurd
Jared Springer gets a new prom https://t.co/rfTcwrXMKS — SLO News (@slonews) May 12, 2016 From the Fresno Bee comes word that on Saturday, “Arroyo Grande High School senior Jared Springer dressed up in black dress pants, a button-down shirt and vest with a pink tie he had picked out for that night. His mother drove him […]

After nearly five decades of marriage, a woman in India finally gave birth. But some ethicists say 70 is too old.
The couple from Amritsar, India, had been married without children for nearly five decades. Those long years were enough, Daljinder Kaur told her husband Mohinder Singh Gill. She was having a baby with or without him. “Due to a family feud we never focused on our dream to become parents,” Gill told Barcroft TV. In September […]

Feds investigating gender discrimination in Hollywood, ACLU says
In 2010, the Academy Award for Best Director went to Kathryn Bigelow for the “Hurt Locker,” making her the first woman to ever win in that category — and only the fourth to have been nominated. Six years later, she remains the first and only. No female directors have been nominated since, and as of […]

Police said woman and four teenage daughters fought off would-be kidnappers in basement
A baseball bat, shotgun, duct tape and zip ties. That list of items is the stuff of nightmares, of horror movies, and it’s what police said Wednesday that 51-year-old Flint Wayne Harrison and his 22-year-old son Derek James Harrison allegedly had waiting in their basement when they lured a woman and her four teenage daughters […]

These foreign exchange students were told they’d be working at a Florida yoga studio but were allegedly sold for sex.
The college students from Kazakhstan came to Florida in 2011 for a sunny summer by the beach. They’d signed up to work at a yoga studio near Miami and got visas through a program with the U.S. Department of State — an opportunity that was supposed to expose them, as foreign students, to the “people, culture, and […]

George Zimmerman to auction off gun he used to kill Trayvon Martin
George Zimmerman shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin on February 26, 2012. Zimmerman was charged with second-degree murder and manslaughter, then acquitted by a Florida jury on July 13, 2013. The case sparked a nationwide debate and protests over “stand your ground” laws and race relations in the United States. Now, Zimmerman is auctioning off the 9-millimeter pistol […]

Man climbs down from KTLA tower after shutting down Sunset Boulevard for more than three hours
LAFD responding to a man climbing up the @KTLA tower at Sunset & Bronson. Video credit @ScottyDubsLA pic.twitter.com/EfCDTb3Yvj — Nidia Becerra (@nidia_b) May 11, 2016 Update: The man has climbed down from the tower by his own will at around 7:50 Pacific Time. #BreakingNews Man Who climbed KTLA 10p news tower climbs down on his […]

‘Bring her home’: Search continues for missing girl believed to be in ‘imminent danger’
On May 4, Gary Simpson took his niece, Carlie Trent, out of school, collecting the 9-year-old “under false pretenses,” according to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. Authorities have been searching for her ever since. In the days that followed Simpson’s and Carlie’s disappearance, investigators have received hundreds of tips. They’ve released video footage and pictures of items that Simpson bought before picking […]

Turbulence on JetBlue flight from Puerto Rico to Orlando sends 8 people to the hospital
Just moments after the flight attendants ran to their seats, the JetBlue Airways airplane flying from Puerto Rico to Orlando Monday night took a steep plunge toward the earth. The plane shook and shook, tossing passengers around in their seats and rattling loose food from the cabin refrigerators. “It’s like the tower of terror,” passenger Veronica Hernandez […]

Six days worth of commercials: That’s how much watching Netflix instead of cable saves the average TV viewer annually
Taking several concrete stats, the folks over at the streaming data website CordCutting.com engaged in some number crunching. Its discovery is that (spoiler alert), if the average user spent as much time watching regular cable as he does Netflix, then he would consume around 160 hours of television commercials every year. That’s more than six and […]

Somehow, a high school art project from the 1970s was valued at $50K on ‘Antiques Roadshow’
It was the jug’s strange composition that caught Alvin Barr’s eye. The antiques broker from Oregon was at an estate sale when he noticed the object in the barn, covered by a layer of straw and dirt and chicken poop. Upon closer inspection, the many-hued purplish-brown jug had six faces jutting out from its textured clay […]

‘Reprehensible to no end’: Indie rock band YACHT fakes sex tape leak, sparking Internet outrage
Indie rock band YACHT tried to pranks its fans, but ended up enraging them. Marketing gimmicks in music are nothing new. Just last week, Radiohead slowly disappeared (then reappeared) on the Internet to promote a surprise album. And speaking of unanticipated releases, Beyoncé dropped her chart-busting “Lemonade” on a Saturday night along with an hour-long short film. But deleting […]

Australian researchers say they’ve found the world’s oldest hatchet
Some 44,000 to 49,000 years ago, a prehistoric Australian chipped off a piece of her or his stone axe while honing its edge. The flake of basalt rock, not much larger than a shirt button, fell to the ground. For nearly 50 millennia a piece of the world’s earliest hatchet lay buried, only for an archaeologist to collect it in […]

How a 1989 ‘glass ceiling’ case unrelated to bathrooms or gender identity, led to the Obama administration’s case against N.C.
There is no act of Congress making it illegal to discriminate against transgender people or against people claiming a different gender identity than the one on their birth certificate. There is no Supreme Court ruling declaring that they are protected by the nation’s premier civil rights act, Title VII, which prohibits employment discrimination on account […]

A Jewish school bus — and old tensions — allegedly set aflame by black men in N.Y. neighborhood
The young men ran into the school bus one by one, carrying empty cardboard pizza boxes that they discarded by the driver’s seat. They seemed to scamper as quickly as they came, and the bus was left alone for a moment. A flame ignited by the door. It started small, then glowed larger and larger […]

‘He really makes up for it with his personality’: World’s ugliest dog wins hero award
Mugly wasn’t set up for success in life. At just three days old, the Chinese crested dog was abandoned by a breeder. Then, he grew into a very ugly dog — so ugly that a panel of human judges crowned him the World’s Ugliest Dog in 2012. But lest you think that a dog’s worth is measured […]

Today in 10: Trump is D.C.-bound, Cruz is back and Queen Elizabeth says Chinese were ‘rude’
Trump and Ryan on collision course: The presumptive GOP nominee will head to Washington on Thursday for a series of meetings with top Republicans. House Speaker Paul Ryan will be the first to meet with Trump. Ryan said on Tuesday that no endorsement should be expected after Thursday’s get-together at the Republican National Committee headquarters. […]

High school lacrosse team accused of killing guinea pig, using blood like face paint
Lacrosse, to hear historians tell it, has always been a high-energy, high-contact sport. Reports of injuries from slashing sticks, head-butts and spiked shoes date back to the Aboriginal Canadian game that served as lacrosse’s inspiration. In an alleged case of one lacrosse team’s bonding taken to a bloody extreme, however, the violence was not aimed at humans […]

Four people stabbed at mall, home in Mass., leaving two dead. Attacker killed by off-duty law enforcement officer.
Four people were stabbed Tuesday in separate but related attacks at a shopping mall and a home in Massachusetts. Massachusetts State Police have confirmed that two of the victims have died, along with the suspect. The stabbings occurred Tuesday in Taunton, a city about 40 miles south of Boston. Two people were stabbed at a home, […]

‘Where’s my pretty hair?’ 11-year-old girl loses scalp in spinning carnival ride
Seconds after Elizabeth Gilreath slipped from her seat on a spinning carnival ride at a Cinco de Mayo festival in Omaha, Neb., her long, red hair was sucked into the ride’s machinery, family members said. For several minutes, they said, the 11-year-old girl was whipped around — until her scalp was ripped from her body. “She was […]