* French justice minister steps down, protesting plan to strip convicted terrorists of their citizenship. * Standoff in Oregon ends with both Bundys arrested after brief shootout. * Dead Oregon militaman told NBC he’d rather die than go to prison. * Trump to boycott Fox News' Republican debate, calling host Megyn Kelly
* In dramatic reversal, grand jury indicts creators of Planned Parenthood sting videos. * Why Republicans are backing Trump over Cruz. * The biggest problem with Cruz isn't his hypocrisy—it's his all-out attack on mainstream Republican voters. * Cruz at 18: "I’d like to take over
* Syria peace discussions begin today in Geneva, starting with "proximity talks," where groups meet separately. * Winter Storm Jonas—the second-biggest snowstorm in New York City history—shuts down government offices in Washington, D.C. * Despite the travel ban in New York, some used the blizzard as a
* More than 500 flights cancelled ahead of the East Coast's dreaded weekend storm. * Washington Post shuts down its column on "what was fake on the internet this week." * Haiti's opposition presidential candidate calls the planned run-off a farce with only one candidate. * Probably
* Report finds Putin "probably" approved the poisoning of former KGB officer Alexander Litvinetko. * "As he lay dying, he traced the lethal substance to a former comrade in the Russian secret service." * Inside a Russian attempt to engineer unending daylight. * Two scientists indicted for emailing confidential GlaxoSmithKline
* In 21 states during 2014, gun deaths outnumbered car deaths. [pdf] * Drug overdoses are the cause of a recent spike in deaths among young, white people. * California has the most death row inmates in the US, hasn't executed anyone in a decade, but won't end the
* "Republicans tweet out flowery statements on MLK Day and even insist that King was one of them." * A cross-country trip to photograph the streets named after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. * A little more than a third of US employees receive MLK Day as a paid holiday.
* A day after the WHO announced the west Africa Ebola epidemic over, a new case surfaces in Sierra Leone. * For the second year in a row, the Oscars are lilywhite. * The Academy's nominations show it values women more as subjects of violence than desire. * How the 2016 Oscar
* After two years and 11,000 deaths, the Ebola epidemic in west Africa is now over. * "If Clinton keeps falling in NH and Iowa polls instead of rising, the establishment may not be able to bail her out." * Picking an SEO-in-Chief. * Al Jazeera America failed by
* Obama tries to counter the GOP's glass-is-half-empty conversation. * Minute-by-minute takeaways from the State of the Union. * In case you missed it: CNN previewed the State of the Union in the style of a Wes Anderson movie. * Obama spotlights criminal justice reform as an
