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A migrant camp in Gevgelija, Macedonia, on Sept. 20, 2015.(Photo: Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY)
Trekking with the migrants, making their stories human?
People across our planet are on the move like never before. For months, hundreds of thousands of displaced migrants and refugees have been making a wrenching<span style="color: Red;">*</span>trek from Lesbos, Greece, to Berlin. USA TODAY reporter Kim Hjelmgaard is making the journey along with them. He's filing reports on the challenges facing both migrants and European authorities trying to cope with the flood of humans. The dispatches are gripping. He tells us of kids, desperate to be kids, unwinding for a moment with cartoons set up by volunteers. Sisters so anxious to keep moving that a phone call to their mother lasts long enough for them to simply say they are alive. He writes of the exhaustion. The echoing cries. The walking, the sitting, the waiting. Follow him<span style="color: Red;">*</span>for updates from the arduous 1,500-mile journey. For a deeper look at why the migrant crisis is bubbling now, read this.
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USA TODAY journalist Kim Hjelmgaard reports from the migrants trail in Macedonia. Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY
There was so much right about the Emmys<span style="color: Red;">*</span>— and so much so wrong
Sunday night's Emmy Awards ceremony seemed to take place in two different universes. In one, Viola Davis made history, Jon Hamm received a long-overdue statuette, and Jeffery Tambor and Jill Soloway made impassioned calls for the rights of transgender people. In the other universe, Game of Thrones won the night's top honor for its worst and most controversial season. Yes, we know: Game of Thrones is an excellent show that has tremendous acting, writing and directing. It deserved to win an Emmy for best drama series — four years ago. But then the Emmys have never been particularly in tune with either the cultural or critical zeitgeist. The Emmys' inability to pick the right winner has almost become a cliché. And although television has become one of the most exciting, unpredictable forms of entertainment, the Emmys seem the opposite: out of touch and almost formulaic in its choices. But in a time when we have come to expect so much from the shows we watch, it's only fair that we should expect as much for the organization dedicated to rewarding them. The Emmys got closer than ever to the right choices this year, but we're not grading on a curve. Here's to hoping 2016 is the year they finally learn.
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Potential spoilers for Game of Thrones season six to come? Let's go with "yes." Once again, since the sixth season of the show hasn't aired yet and a new novel from George R.R Martin about this plot point has not been released, it's hard to say any USA TODAY
Prosecutors piece together<span style="color: Red;">*</span>heartbreaking murder of 'Baby Doe'
"I hope you rot in hell!" That spectator's cry rang out in Boston courtroom Monday as a prosecutor recounted the grim, heartbreaking details of a little girl's last moments. After her body washed up on a Boston Harbor beach in June, we knew her as "Baby Doe." On Friday, we learned her name: Bella Bond. She was only 2½ when she died. On Monday, more clues emerged in the tragic mystery. Bella's mom and her boyfriend are charged in the little girl's death. Michael McCarthy, 35, is charged with murder; Rachelle Bond, 40, has been charged as an accessory after the murder, accused of helping McCarthy dispose of the body and cover up the crime. Both pleaded not guilty. The mother was ordered held on $1 million cash bail. McCarthy was ordered to be held without bail.
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A Massachusetts judge on Monday ordered Rachelle Bond, the mother of Baby Doe, to be held on $1 million cash bond and the mother's boyfriend, charged with killing Bella, to be held without bail. (Sept. 21) AP
First an iPencil, now an iCar?
Pinch us! We must be dreaming. If the rumors are true, Apple fans may find themselves test-driving far more than a new iPhone in 2019 —<span style="color: Red;">*</span>something like, say, an electric car with the company's famous logo. We're hearing that Apple is speeding up its automotive venture, going so far as to meet with government officials in California. There are other rumors about the car project, which has been code-named Titan, but by far the biggest proof point is the considerable hiring of engineers with automotive backgrounds that the company has done in recent months. (Some have even come from Elon Musk's successful electric car company, Tesla.) Of course, Cupertino<span style="color: Red;">*</span>officials are mum about the move, so we'll just have to busy ourselves with the iPhone 6S as we wait to hear more about the<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Next Big Thing.
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With reports that Apple is on a hiring spree to manufacture an electric car for 2019 release, Jefferson Graham ponders what an i-Car might look like on #talkingtech.
And then there were 72 Republican hopefuls. Kidding. Just 15.
Scott Walker has called it quits. The Wisconsin governor is the second Republican hopeful to ditch his White House bid. (You might recall —<span style="color: Red;">*</span>or not —<span style="color: Red;">*</span>that<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Rick Perry bailed first.) <span style="color: Red;">*</span>The move comes less than two months after Walker mused about Marco Rubio as his vice presidential pick —<span style="color: Red;">*</span>and it comes as no surprise. In recent weeks, he was missing in action — at rock bottom in polls, left out of news stories and talk-show lineups. The onetime Iowa front-runner was hard pressed to convince supporters his White House candidacy could be saved. The candidate seemed to have it all:<span style="color: Red;">*</span>executive experience, appeal to the business and religious wings of his party, an iconic conservative record in a blue state. In the end, it wasn't enough.
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There's a real-life competition for people trying to make the ugliest faces.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>It’s pretty simple: People put a thing around their neck and then pull the weirdest face they can.
Creepy. Tarantula mating season is underway in Colorado.
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Tarantula mating season is underway in southern Colorado, with thousands of hairy spiders searching for mates so they can reproduce before dying. Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY
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This is a compilation of stories from across USA TODAY.
Contributing: Kim Hjelmgaard, Kelly Lawler, Robert Bianco, Brett Molina, Marco della Cava,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Trisha Thadani,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>John Bacon,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Donovan Slack, David Jackson, Heidi Przybyla and Fredreka Schouten,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>USA TODAY;<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Jason Noble, The Des Moines Register; Jill Lawrence, Special for USA TODAY
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