February 3, 2016
By The Morning News
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- Rand Paul joins O'Malley and Huckabee in dropping out of the presidential race.
- Sanders viewed as goofy father figure, Clinton perceived as disciplinarian mom.
- An all-caps reaction to the liberal backlash against Hillary Clinton.
- Kool & the Gang backs out of GOP Convention gig.
- Kanye walks back greatness claims for new album—now merely one of the all-time greats.
- Jon Lee Anderson on Haiti's charismatic president, part Clinton, part Kanye, part Putin.
- Side effect of the US-Cuba thaw: the renewed rum licensing war between Bacardi and Pernod Ricard.
- Amazon to open a chain of brick-and-mortar bookstores next year, as many as 400.
- The internet is powered by airplanes.
- Microsoft's temporary undersea data center takes advantage of the sea’s natural cooling properties.
- Out-of-context telenovela clips are a goldmine for Telemundo.
- According to analysis of consumer phone calls, America's fastest talkers are from Oregon, Minnesota, and Massachusetts.
- Random Wal-Mart employees pick up the phone, answer questions about life inside the giant retailer.
- U.S. Court of Appeals says Wisconsin can make a sex offender who’s completed his sentence wear a GPS monitor for the rest of his life.
- Potential model for justice: the harsher the prospective punishment, the laxer you should be about reasonable doubt.
- Filipina “comfort women” demand apologies and reparations from Japan, as South Koreans have received.
- Between 1993 and 2015, cattle killed 13 people who were out for walks in the United Kingdom.
- Three suicides in NYPD holding cells in the past nine months.
- The homeless refugees of San Francisco’s Super Bowl City.
- Continuous "mystery fire" at Mumbai's largest landfill can be seen from space.
