--- description: Twitter for Terrorists Militant groups like Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria have flocked to Twitter and other social networks with sophistication, raising questions... title: Morning Must Reads: September 12 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb24c27fcf0ec0da8/6986837dcd6848a30809364f/morning-must-reads1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Politics](/section/politics/) ## Politics Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Morning Must Reads](/tag/morning-must-reads/) ## Morning Must Reads Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Morning Must Reads: September 12 by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 12, 2014 11:28 AM CUT  The early morning sun rises behind the US Capitol Building in Washington, DC. The early morning sun rises behind the US Capitol Building in Washington, DC.Mark Wilson—Getty Images by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 12, 2014 11:28 AM CUT [Twitter for Terrorists](http://time.com/3319278/isis-isil-twitter/ "undefined") Militant groups like Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria have flocked to Twitter and other social networks with sophistication, raising questions for both those companies and the Obama Administration as it aims to “degrade and destroy” the threat [Pistorius Judge Issues Verdict](http://time.com/3336346/pistorius-guilty-culpable-homicide/ "undefined") Judge Thokozile Masipa found South African athlete Oscar Pistorius guilty of culpable homicide in the shooting of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp [The View from Iraq](http://time.com/3326996/obama-isis-isil-speech-iraq-john-kerry/ "undefined") A trip through Baghdad with Secretary of State John Kerry reveals just what a large gamble President Obama is making in the fight against ISIS [U.S. Threatened Yahoo With Massive Fines Over User Data](http://time.com/3329581/yahoo-government-fines-prism/ "undefined") The company faced a $250,000-a-day fine in 2008 if it did not comply with requests for user information, newly released legal documents show; Yahoo put up an unsuccessful fight, however, and later began providing user data to the NSA program PRISM [Police: Escaped School Shooter T.J. Lane Captured](http://time.com/3334602/police-escaped-school-shooter-t-j-lane-captured/ "undefined") Authorities in Lima, Ohio, said T.J. Lane, 19, escaped Thursday night from a prison with two other inmates but police tweeted around 2 a.m. that they had apprehended the convicted killer of three students: “We got him…… One more to go” [_SNL_](http://time.com/3332143/saturday-night-live-snl-michael-che-weekend-update-co-anchor/ "undefined")[ Names Michael Che as ‘Weekend Update’ Co-Anchor](http://time.com/3332143/saturday-night-live-snl-michael-che-weekend-update-co-anchor/ "undefined") NBC announced comedian Michael Che will co-anchor _Saturday Night Live_‘s Weekend Update segment with Colin Jost this upcoming season, replacing anchor Cecily Strong, who will continue to appear on the show as a repertory player [Poor Countries Do Most of the World’s Peacekeeping](http://time.com/3272718/un-undof-peacekeeping-golan-heights-terrorism/ "undefined") Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Fiji, Ethiopia, Rwanda and the Philippines provide a staggering 39% of all U.N. forces — troops likely to be less well trained, under-supplied and ill-equipped — while member-nations of the Security Council provide just 4% [San Diego Cabbies Cry Foul Over Body Odor Test](http://time.com/3337362/san-diego-cabbies-cry-foul-over-body-odor-test/ "undefined") Body odor is among 52 criteria that officials at San Diego International Airport use to judge taxi drivers, a practice that cabbies say is discriminatory, as anyone who flunks the smell test is told to change before picking up another customer [Madoff Son Leaves $15 Million in Will to Fiancée, Family](http://time.com/3332556/andrew-madoff-son-bernard-will/ "undefined") Andrew Madoff, the son of convicted fraudster Bernie Madoff, left a will following his death from lymphoma earlier this month that gives his children, estranged wife and fiancée more than $15 million in properties; there is no mention of his mother [World’s First Player-Powered Stadium Lights Launch in Rio](http://time.com/3332593/floodlights-soccer-football-pavegen-movement/ "undefined") The world’s first soccer field with floodlights powered by player movement were unveiled in Brazil this week; the technology is called Pavegen and harvests energy from players’ footsteps using tiles made from 80% recycled material that capture kinetic energy [The Biggest, Baddest Dinosaur Ever Has Been Discovered](http://time.com/3326688/swimming-dinosaur-spinosaurus-discovered/ "undefined") The intriguing tale of the Spinosaurus’ discovery spans nearly a century, and the way it was reconstructed is almost equally unusual; people will get a chance to see it up close at the National Geographic Museum in Washington, D.C., starting Sept. 12 [HP Fined $58.7M for Bribery of Russian Government](http://time.com/3331426/hp-fined-58-7m-for-bribery-of-russian-government/ "undefined") Hewlett-Packard Co. pleaded guilty to felony charges that former employees bribed Russian government officials for a contract, and the company has been fined $58.7 million; the U.S. alleged HP paid $2 million to get a technology contract _We will hold an #AskTIME subscriber Q&A today, Friday, September 12 at about 1 p.m. with Michael Crowley, TIME’s chief foreign affairs correspondent, who is traveling this week in the Middle East on the plane of Secretary of State John Kerry._ _Please submit your questions beforehand to Crowley about the coming war with ISIS, President Obama’s coalition building and any other topic on Twitter using the #AskTIME hashtag or in the comments of this post. We depend on smart, interesting questions from readers._ [_Get_ ](http://time.com/politicsemail "undefined")[TIME](http://time.com/politicsemail "undefined")[_’s_ ](http://time.com/politicsemail "undefined")[_The Brief e-mail every morning in your inbox_](http://time.com/politicsemail "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3338339/morning-must-reads-september-12/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3338339/morning-must-reads-september-12/"},"headline":"Morning Must Reads: September 12","datePublished":"2014-09-12T11:28:13.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T10:09:07.854Z","description":"Twitter for Terrorists Militant groups like Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria have flocked to Twitter and other social networks with sophistication, raising questions...","url":"https://time.com/3338339/morning-must-reads-september-12/","keywords":["Morning Must Reads"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb24c27fcf0ec0da8/6986837dcd6848a30809364f/morning-must-reads1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb24c27fcf0ec0da8/6986837dcd6848a30809364f/morning-must-reads1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Morning Must Reads","caption":"Capitol","creditText":"Mark Wilson—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/morning-must-reads/","name":"Morning Must Reads"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3338339/morning-must-reads-september-12/","name":"Morning Must Reads: September 12"}}]}] ```