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This is a day to pay no attention to the news

The world is populated by decent people, but today -- unlike almost every other day -- it seems impossible to prove the assertion.

This is your world today, humans:

2 police officers killed in Des Moines in apparent 'ambush-style' attacks (NPR)

Mom gave kids heroin to make them sleep (BBC)

Man charged with pressuring 11-year-old boy to smoke meth (WDAY)

DC woman accused of trying to flush newborn son down toilet (Star Tribune)

Harvard president orders review of soccer team’s sexually explicit ‘scouting report’ (Boston Globe)

Baylor official called women who reported sexual assault "mentally ill," Title IX coordinator says (Dallas News)

This would be a great day for science to announce it's discovered a cure for something.