Read by Gareth Sloan

Produced by Melissa Mulligan

Stories by Chris Hanna, Sarah Fangary. Michael Lemieux andMarcin Wisniewski

"The first hour of Monday's Haze World will feature a mixtape by Grimes, (née claire boucher) whose second album halfaxa is out now on Montreal label Arbutus. When I wrote about it in August, I described it as "a cavernous landscape of bassy 4ad surrealism and industrial pitchbent r&b", and that's pretty much how the mix sounds - if you added all of the tracks together you might approximate the album's tone, riled-up and half-asleep with nowhere to go.

News Produced by Erica Bridgeman and read by Drew Pascoe

Stories by Jacqueline Di Bartolomeo, Mike Moore, Alina Gotcherian

When looking at the budget fights the Americans are currently embroiled in, it's important to ignore the spin from both sides and remember what it is they actually spend their money on. If ever there was a case to be made that the Military Industrial Complex has taken over and has far too much influence on American policy both foreign and domestic, it's contained in the numbers below which were put together by the non-partisan National Priorities Project.