Inside Hillary Clinton's increased criticisms of her rival, and why Bill's worried about Super Tuesday. [AP]
"North Korea has detained a U.S. university student, the third western citizen known to be held in the isolated state, for committing a ‘hostile act’ and wanting to ‘destroy the country's unity’, it said on Friday." [Reuters]
The Islamic extremist group al-Shabab has claimed responsibility for the massacre, which took place in a beachfront restaurant in the capital of Mogadishu. [AP]
D.C. could see a historic white out of over two feet of snow. [AP]
"The Environmental Protection Agency boss for the Midwest resigned Thursday amid ongoing fallout over the drinking water crisis in Flint, Michigan. As the EPA's Region 5 administrator, Susan Hedman helped oversee the state's handling of Flint's water, which became toxic after the city switched its water source nearly two years ago." [Arthur Delaney, HuffPost]
In light of the charges that Vladimir Putin probably approved the assassination of a former KBG agent, here's a look at all his other critics that have gone missing. [Sam Levine, HuffPost]
"Global stocks rallied Friday as oil prices staged a recovery and investors bet more stimulus from the world’s central banks could help lift financial markets out of the new year’s malaise." [WSJ | Paywall]
WHAT’S BREWING
No one man should have all that power -- thus the appearance of Miley. [HuffPost]
"Love him, hate him, respect him or resent him, Tom Brady finally gave us a window into his life. He is as human to us, now, as he has ever been." [ESPN]
Along with the woman she looks up to the most. [HuffPost]
Here's how much you'd need to shell out. [Slate]
It "causes your brain to literally eat itself." [HuffPost]
"Arno Smit made off with an estimated $12 million from local dairymen he’d duped in a massive fraud." [The California Sunday Magazine]
WHAT'S WORKING
Is speaking to moms everywhere. [HuffPost]
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BEFORE YOU GO
~ A slew of prominent conservatives have written in the National Review why they will not be backing Donald Trump.
~ The 12 marines who went missing after their helicopters went down in Hawaii have been declared dead.
~ An argument against posting on Medium.
~ The environmental cost of your email.
~ A top cleric in Saudi Arabia has forbidden chess.
~ Google gave us all a streetview look at the world's largest model railway exhibit.
~ How to eat less pizza, not that we recommend this at all.
~ Amazon will refund you for that explosive fireball that is the hoverboard you bought your kid for Christmas.
~ Gwyneth Paltrow's kids can now eat sugar, and the world continues to turn.
~ Congrats to Mariah Carey, who is engaged to billionaire businessman James Packer.
~ TSA reported finding a record 2,653 guns at checkpoints, which is about a 20 percent increase from last year.
~ Biologists report that thousands of birds are washing up dead on the Alaskan shoreline.
~ America, we were all right: Jim and Pam were really in love on "The Office."
~ The "So That Happened" team tackle the implosion of the Republican party in the 2016 election.
~ And turns out basketball shorts are getting shorter.
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