Congo Ebola Passes 1,500 Dead in Record Time
AP and NYT run the second-largest-ever superlative while the cumulative ledger still carries WHO's backfill caveat and modeling two to four times the reported scale.
Kenji Nakamura
Bureau: Tokyo
FAA Proposes Waiving Environmental Laws for Launches
Space trade reads streamlining and environmental readers read gutted review; the instrument is a waiver-authority proposal with a 30-day comment clock, and the live court test is unaffected.
Astronomers Find a Three-Lobed Asteroid and Its Moon
Space.com runs the wonder frame; the paper's value is the evidence stage — a submitted preprint, two observing campaigns, and an unresolved formation question.
The Welsh Sea Dragon Gets a Second Institution
BBC runs the recovery-and-mindfulness profile while the paper's discipline narrows but holds: a museum research program is custody evidence, not taxonomy.
Kenya Blames Cyanide for Fifteen Elephant Deaths
The Guardian runs the mystery-to-answer arc while wildlife X runs poaching outrage; “may be due to” traces is a preliminary finding, not a toxicology chain.