Convicted: A jury in Nashville convicted two former Vanderbilt University football players of aggravated rape and related charges, the Washington Post reports. Brandon Vandenburg and Cory Batey, both 21, were convicted after a 12-day trial and about three hours of jury deliberation. Documentation of the assault proved damning – closed-circuit footage of players photographing an unconscious woman and dragging her into a room.

Food Safety: The New Yorker looks at food safety regulation, profiling plaintiffs lawyer Bill Marler. “Marler says it can be tempting to dismiss him as a ‘bloodsucking ambulance chaser who exploits other people’s personal tragedies.’ But many people who work in food safety believe that Marler is one of the few functioning pieces in a broken system,” Wil S. Hylton writes in “Why last night’s chicken made you sick.”

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