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Passenger Plane Crashes Over Alps, UVA Frat May Sue Rolling Stone, Cops Shoot 1 Person Per Week in Philly: A.M. Links

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 3.24.2015 9:00 AM


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    No survivors are likely in the crash of a German passenger plane over the French Alps Tuesday morning.

  • University of Virginia fraternity Phi Kappa Psi is considering a lawsuit against Rolling Stone magazine after police found no evidence of a reported gang rape at the fraternity house.  
  • A U.S. Justice Department review of Philadelphia policing between 2007 and 2014 found 364 officer-involved shootings, or a little more than one per week.  
  • Chicago police officers stop and frisk at a much higher rate than NYPD counterparts, according to a new report from the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois.
  • The European Union and NATO plan to engage in "informational warfare" against Russia.
  • "A libertarian must necessarily be a feminist," writes Cato Institute Vice President David Boaz.
  • Facebook will begin hosting in-site content for several big media companies, likely starting with The New York Times, Buzzfeed, and National Geographic.
  • Inside the Kafka-esque world of redacted complaints against Amtrak cafe cars.

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Elizabeth Nolan Brown is a senior editor at Reason.