Backyard Crows Bring Gifts To 8-year-old Girl Who Feeds Them: ‘it’s Showing Me How Much They Love Me’

This story was originally published by Atlas Obscura and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Sado Island perches like a butterfly with its wings outstretched just off the curved west coast of Japan. Yet this land mass is better known as the home of another winged creature: the crested ibis, called toki in Japanese. Hop on a shinkansen (a high-speed train) from Tokyo to Niigata, then board a ferry, and you will arrive at the port of Ryotsu, where a Welcome to Sado sign awaits above a larger-than-life photo of a toki mid-flight.

Hopefully, these new revelations might help exonerate the officers.

How often have Americans screamed obscenities at their TV sets when they’ve seen, yet again, media lies, smears and obfuscation?

There is no evidence that hiring based on quotas instead of merit, improves the government, colleges, or businesses.

Justice must be equal to the crime if it is to be just.

The Milwaukee Jewish establishment fails to back two Jewish heroes.