January 13, 2015
By The Morning News
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- Central Command hackers claimed to be ISIS, but were mere pranksters, Pentagon says.
- Just because Centcom's Twitter account has been hacked doesn't automatically mean that Centcom itself has been hacked.
- Excellent Human Rights Watch report on the crisis in the Central African Republic, where the UN confirms ethnic cleansing.
- Flashbangs have seriously injured, maimed, or killed 50 people in the US since 2000, but no police officers have ever faced charges.
- Some police officials begin to consider reversing the chokehold ban, arguing that officers continue to employ it without proper training.
- George Zimmerman arrested for throwing a bottle of wine at his partner.
- Sean Flynn on the birth of the heroin trade—non-existent five years ago, and now a bustling business—in Laramie, Wyo.
- Fifty-three historians offer brief takes on President Obama's legacy.
- See also: Obama's legacy graded in non-political categories—golf, offspring, homebrewing, etc.
- Republicans gain edge on Democrats in the youth department, with presidential candidates, on average, a decade younger.
- The South’s original peanut, the Carolina African runner, long thought to be extinct, is primed for a comeback.
- American employers added more than 3 million jobs in 2014—the highest sum since 1999—but wage growth is stagnant.
- In the '70s, no other TV show wove modern music into its storytelling as well as WKRP.
- US and UK covers compared for some of this year's contenders in the Tournament of Books.
- Charlie Hebdo to print a special issue in three million copies—100x its normal run—with the Prophet Muhammad on the cover.
- On navigating psychiatry and learning how to be the right kind of caregiver.
- "Scientific" love method, explaining how to fall in love with someone, has apparently worked twice.
- If you’re garbage, then I am, like, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, because Monday doesn’t work.
