January 16, 2015
By The Morning News
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- Police raids in five towns around Paris net 12 suspects in connection with last week's terror attacks.
- An anthropologist explains the Paris attacks.
- In Belgium, terrorists killed in firefight with police; they were suspected of planning attacks on Jewish schools in Antwerp and Brussels.
- France is seeing a huge spike in cyberattacks, but nothing more serious than vandalism.
- The Taliban and other terrorist organizations may be using spammy subject lines to escape the watch of the NSA.
- The myth that millions of Americans use guns to defend themselves can be traced to a debunked series of 1992 studies.
- Ross Ulbricht's defense theorizes a failed Bitcoin company's CEO operated Silk Road to drive up BTC prices.
- Inside the mystery of Cicada, a series of online puzzles possibly created by hackers, the military, or a cult.
- Tsarnaev trial juror selection included questions on their social media usage.
- Norwegian man wins lawsuit against the assassin he hired.
- As anticipated, this year's flu vaccine has been 23% effective—one of the worst performers in the past decade.
- Obama proposes legislation to require seven sick days a year; 39% of all private-sector workers don't get any.
- Obama has been a good president. But he could be a great ex-president.
- Hawaii is known as a haven of multiculturalism, but effort to bring Obama's presidential library to the island conjures demons.
- GOP skeptical of Mitt, though the third time was a charm for Reagan.
- Checking the odds on potential 2016 presidential candidates based on primary polls, what they've hinted, and what they've attended.
- The White House has released a long list of rules for Americans' dealings in Cuba; only $100 of rum and cigars can be brought home.
- The boy who came back from heaven says he never went; the bestseller and other products will be pulled from production.
- Mormon who runs a website for those questioning their faith will likely be excommunicated later this month.
- Detroit in the boom years of the 1940s.
- Rock icon Kim Fowley—who is credited with starting the tradition of raising lighters at concerts—dies at 75.
