China's currency devaluation plans are off to a rocky start in 2016. [NYT]
In a December raid in Brussels, investigators found the fingerprint of Salah Abdeslam. [AP]
"An inert U.S. Hellfire missile sent to Europe for training purposes was wrongly shipped from there to Cuba in 2014, said people familiar with the matter, a loss of sensitive military technology that ranks among the worst-known incidents of its kind." [WSJ | Paywall]
The White House will pick the brains of the best and brightest in the social media world for the fight against online radicalization. [The Guardian]
After she "encouraged him to leave the group." [Reuters]
"Aid agencies expressed alarm Thursday about dire conditions in a besieged town west of Damascus where people have been eating cats and grass to stay alive and as many as 23 people are reported to have died of hunger." [WaPo]
And it involves three years of airplane surveillance. [Chris D'Angelo, HuffPost]
"Drug-resistant tuberculosis threatens to reverse the gains that we've made. It's not just the threat overseas, it's the threat here … We know that TB anywhere can be TB everywhere." [Lauren Weber, HuffPost]
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WHAT’S BREWING
Fulfilling all of America's dreams. [HuffPost]
"You don’t have to worry about the cholesterol count in your food as much, and for the first time, there is a hard limit on added sugar, which should make up no more than 10 percent of your daily calories." [HuffPost]
Aka how to sound up to date in the impending Oscar convos. [HuffPost]
Renew that passport. [NYT]
And the showrunners are not so happy about it… [HuffPost]
It's possible. [HuffPost]
WHAT'S WORKING
"Know Your Neighbor's goal is to get people to re-evaluate their misconceptions and start celebrating religious diversity, according to Gurwin Ahuja, co-founder of the National Sikh Campaign, which is leading the Know Your Neighbor coalition." [HuffPost]
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ON THE BLOG
"I am writing this because I didn't realize the importance of drinking responsibly until I was waking up from a coma, and I don't want anyone to go through what my family and I went through." [HuffPost]
BEFORE YOU GO
~ What we know so far about the attacks in Cologne on New Year's Eve.
~ There were over 70 earthquakes in Oklahoma this week.
~ Deciding the plural of emoji.
~ Emma Stone may be our new favorite Cruella de Vil.
~ It's kind of hard to take out the trash with all that ice on the ground.
~ FYI, your partner can always prove you sleeptalk. Always.
~ What if Rey's name isn't even Rey?
~ Start saving, folks: most Americans are only $1,000 from financial ruin.
~ The meals to have ready to go in your freezer.
~ The mayor of St. Louis isn't happy after Rams owner Stan Kroenke ripped the town to shreds in his appeal to move the team to L.A.
~ And according to the "So That Happened" team, Hillary Clinton is lying to you about her record on Wall Street.
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