The homebuilder industry has spent millions of dollars in state capitals to block rules requiring fire sprinklers to be included in the nation’s model building code.
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Reddit got a graffiti artist banned from a fifth of the US and the deadly fight over home sprinklers
FIRE FIGHT
WHAT'S HAPPENING
DEVELOPING
Today, House Democrats occupied the floor of the House to stage a sit-in — attempting to force a vote on gun control. The sit-in began with Representative John Lewis of Georgia asking his colleagues to join him on the floor. What followed was an impassioned call to act on gun control.
LIL MARCO IS BACK
"In politics, admitting you've changed your mind is not something most people like to do. But here it goes," Rubio said. "I have decided to seek reelection to the United States Senate."
LUCKY 31
The NHL became the first of the four major sports to bet on Las Vegas when it announced Wednesday the nation's gambling capital would be the home of the league’s 31st team starting in the 2017-18 season.
THE WRITING WAS ON THE WALL
Casey Nocket banned from all US national parks and sentenced to 200 hours of community service after users on Reddit tracked her down through social media.
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KNOPE'D
The perfect salve for the woman who wants it all but knows she can’t have it is to focus on a man at work who sucks, and not stop focusing until she supersedes him.
NSFW, NUDITY
Finding happiness isn't always easy. But this scarily truthful short from comedian Sara Benincasa proves that the last way you're going to find it is through the opinions of other people.
THE 'VEGGIETALES' GENERATION GROWS UP
But the gap is increasing between richer, better-educated, white Americans and everyone else.
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
APPROACH WITH CAUTION
Construction barricades are structures built for a clear purpose, without any pretensions of “design,” below the radar of codes and regulations. Yet they follow discernible conventions, often exhibiting an intuitive sense of symmetry, hierarchy, layering, and rhythm that makes them more appealing than many structures that are intentionally designed.
A JOINT EFFORT
Precise joinery is a beautiful thing, and this video of workers building a traditional wooden house from a bunch of interlocking joints is deeply impressive and satisfying.
AN INFERNAL TOWER
The 72-story building at 40 Wall Street has housed frauds, thieves, boiler rooms and penny-stock schemers since Trump took it over in 1995 in what may be the best deal of his career.
BEFORE YOU GO
A HUMAN WHO HAS TROUBLE WITH WORDS
First off, don't try to keep a lynx as a pet. It's mean to the lynx, dangerous for you and probably terrible for your apartment. Which is how you get an angry lynx like this guy, who also sounds exactly like a very confused human.
