January 12, 2015
- Several million people spill into Paris streets for anti-terrorism rally, the country's largest in history.
- Kerry deflects criticism that no high-ranking White House officials marched in Paris, says he'll drop in on Thursday.
- Terrorists behind France attacks collaborated while claiming allegiance to rival factions in ISIS and al Qaeda.
- Successive suicide bombings by children send wave of horror through Nigeria, already beset with Boko Haram violence.
- NYPD officers are being denied vacation and sick days until arrest and summons numbers increase.
- Divers have recovered one of the two black boxes of crashed AirAsia flight.
- FBI recommends felony charges against former CIA director and Iraq head Petraeus, who shared secret documents with mistress.
- The FBI has been increasing its involvement in government surveillance tactics, reviewing emails collected through Prism.
- The trial of alleged Silk Road mastermind Ross Ulbricht begins Tuesday.
- Silk Road Reloaded launches, abandoning Tor over identity concerns and now accepting any cryptocurrency.
- Related: A former Silk Road customer wonders why he used his real name to buy MDMA.
- A musician and number theorist reveal the last theorems of a mathematician a century ahead of his time.
- Swedish actress Anita Ekberg, star of Fellini's La Dolce Vita, dies at 83.
- The first portable e-reader was announced in 1972; it stored photocopies of microfilm and could run on a battery unit.
- Vote by midnight for your favorite novel in the Tournament of Books Zombie Poll—your vote could bring it back from the dead!