Today seems to be rather a slow news day. Most of the news out today seems to be about minor stuff — one of CNN’s online headlines is “Third-Grader commutes to school by mule“; a story that managed to make the front page as well as being in the ‘education’ and ‘offbeat news’ sections. As enthralling a read as this story manages to be (the general gist of the story, believe it or not is something along the line of “how odd, a girl riding a mule to school”), it just lacks something as far as hard news goes.
So instead of reading more about stuff like that, you should read something educational instead.