A Whale Graveyard, Two Loose Pigs, and the Boy with the Painted Snake

Wednesday’s Sterling Report covers earthquake recovery in the southern Philippines, global economic talks, EU-South Korea digital trade, a Somali World Cup referee’s homecoming, a major U.S. immigration enforcement bill, national park history disputes, an Ebola monitoring case ending safely, World Cup hydration breaks, a deep whale graveyard in the Indian Ocean, China’s neutrino detector, World War One soldiers buried in Belgium, loose pigs in Connecticut, a fifty-sweater world record, and a Quebec boy’s painted-rock snake.