Parents Charged After Baby Girls Killed By Fallen Dresser

Allie Jones · 07/24/14 03:35PM

A Pittsburgh-area father has been charged with involuntary manslaughter after his daughters were crushed and killed by a dresser on the 4th of July. David Beatty, 28, allegedly waited 10-15 minutes before checking on two-year-old Brooklyn and three-year-old Ryeley after hearing a crash.

J.K. Trotter · 07/24/14 03:00PM

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How Are Airlines Making So Much Money?

Hamilton Nolan · 07/24/14 01:52PM

If you've taken a commercial airline flight recently, you could be forgiven for assuming that airlines are broke as hell, forced to penny-pinch and slash service to the bone. Not so! Several airlines reported record profits this week. But how?

The 10 Worst New Yorker #Longreads

Leah Finnegan · 07/24/14 01:25PM

The New Yorker, a magazine, has just opened its Internet "archives" (dating back to 2007) as a readers' jubilee in advance of its upcoming move to the world of paywalled journalism, three months hence. So much New Yorker to muck around in! So many words! So many stories! So many stories with so many words in them!