312 is the new 420.

Senate leaders say they’re close to brokering a two-year budget deal. Meanwhile, the President tells the Defense Department he wants a military parade. 1/19

About 4,000 former Trump University students should begin to receive payments from a $25 million settlement. 2/19

The President's advisors may advise going back on a global deal to limit hyper-warming pollution from refrigerants. 3/19

Toxic thaw: Melting Arctic permafrost holds twice the mercury found in the rest of the world. 4/19

Eight states are considering bills, basically written by the fossil fuel industry, that would criminalize pipeline protests. 5/19

Scientists recently learned that tomato plants defend themselves by making caterpillars prefer to eat each other, if ever so slowly. 6/19

Cape Town’s water crisis should be a warning to your city, too. 7/19

After an Italian shoots six Africans, Berlusconi has the class to say immigrants represent "a social bomb ready to explode.” 8/19

When it comes to “who murdered more,” Hitler and Stalin fall short of Chairman Mao. 9/19

Marathon fans complain that pacers corrupt races, adding asterisks and dampening the drama. 10/19

A good reminder that anti-feminist memes have a long history: this collection of anti-suffragist postcards. 11/19

Maybe solo camping as a woman is somewhat dangerous. But you know what else is dangerous? Going anywhere, every day. An advice columnist responds to a woman whose boyfriend wants her to quit venturing into the wilderness alone. 12/19

A young woman in San Diego sold 312 boxes of Girl Scout cookies outside a marijuana shop. 13/19

Headline of the day? "McDonald’s Fries Chemical May Cure Baldness, Study Says." 14/19

A New Hampshire woman wins $560 million in a lotto jackpot, but can't collect until she reveals her name. She refuses. 15/19

Some useless, terrible ideas from hackers: a robot that watches porn; infinite folders; a VR doorbell; "magic nub." 16/19

Approximately one-fourth of bitcoin users and one-half of bitcoin transactions are associated with illegal activity. 17/19

In light of the new Ram Trucks ad, here’s what Dr. King really thought about car commercials. 18/19

Reviewing all of last weekend’s Super Bowl commercials, all at once, shows that US corporations are freaking out. 19/19

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