This week for BuzzFeed News, Jess Testa meets Mackensie, an almost ordinary American teenager. Read that and these other great stories from BuzzFeed News and around the web.
16: Mackensie is Pulling Out Her Hair — BuzzFeed News
The first installment of “16,” a series about ordinary people at the weirdest age. Meet a teenager with trichotillomania who is trying to be more than the girl in class who pulls her hair out. Read it at BuzzFeed News.
Photograph by Bryan Meltz for BuzzFeed News
A Killing in Pocahontas — Arkansas Times
Will Stephenson chronicles the bizarre tale of murder and meth that jolted a sleepy Arkansas town. It all comes down to a former municipal judge who once sent someone a live poisonous snake in the mail — or does it? Read it at the Arkansas Times .
Illustration by Bryan Moats for Arkansas Times
The True Cost of Gun Violence — Mother Jones
A startling investigation by Mark Follman, Julia Lurie, Jaeah Lee, James West, and Ted Miller into the enormous economic toll of America's gun violence epidemic. "Divvied up among every man, woman, and child in the United States, it would work out to more than $700 per person." Read it at Mother Jones .
Mother Jones
These are the Families Left to Claim Garissa's Dead — BuzzFeed News
Jina Moore spends a heartbreaking afternoon with the relatives of the 147 students killed in the Garissa University attack as they attempt to identify their loved ones. "It’s the story of how hard it is to know your own dead, when their faces have been mutilated by terrorists and their bodies have been rotting in the heat — the story of mothers studying fingernails, of fathers interrogating what’s left of cheekbones, of living sisters lifting their ankles to compare the shape of their feet to a corpse." Read it at BuzzFeed News.
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