February 23, 2016
By The Morning News
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- Oceans are rising faster than at any point in the last 28 centuries and humans are to blame, scientists say.
- Oil prices have dropped so low, even pirates aren't interested.
- Oil sellers “may be forced by bankruptcy conditions to relent and accept whatever price they can achieve.”
- On the eve of China's New Year, 420 million people sent each other "lucky money" via an app.
- How Jeb Bush spent $130 million, including $48,544 on Las Vegas hotels.
- If Trump gets 40% of today's vote in Nevada, it's a sign that he can win even with low turnout.
- Gingrich, other top Republicans begin to accept a Trump future.
- Virginia McLaurin, 106, celebrates black history by meeting the Obamas.
- People, ages five to 60, name their life’s biggest mistake and what they learned.
- Obama tells Seinfeld his secret food weakness is nachos.
- Bellwether independent voters in Ohio and Pennsylvania want the Supreme Court seat filled this year.
- When ISIS says they’ll do apocalyptic battle in Rome, they may mean Turkey.
- How much would we really need a CIA were it not for the threats created by the CIA?
- Pictures of places where American soldiers practice killing at close range.
- When protesters shut down turnpikes, they draw attention to the ways urban highways facilitate racial segregation.
- Caste protests expose Delhi's failure to develop water infrastructure.
- Debt collection in America is undergoing a little-known but pervasive shift, concentrating in black neighborhoods.
- "Gelande quaffing" is a Wyoming tradition of catching beer mid-air and drinking rapidly.
- Map of language evolution as deployed by young, male, English-speaking Reddit users (aka, apparently, "the internet").
- Fighting back against devices and apps rigged to hold our attention.
- Startling true crime story of parents murdered for cash to spend on autographed collectibles.
- TMN's Nozlee Samadzadeh dishes insider Rooster dirt for hardcore fans of the Tournament of Books.
