January 27, 2016
By The Morning News
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- French justice minister steps down, protesting plan to strip convicted terrorists of their citizenship.
- Standoff in Oregon ends with both Bundys arrested after brief shootout.
- Dead Oregon militaman told NBC he’d rather die than go to prison.
- Trump to boycott Fox News' Republican debate, calling host Megyn Kelly "totally obsessed" with him.
- Twitter bot publishes bios of people who retweet Donald Trump.
- Abramson: "Hillary, can you excite us?"
- In an attempt to find brown folks to take direction from, white folks often end up tokenizing a specific group whose politics most match their own.
- Denmark will confiscate valuables and cash to deter refugees at the border.
- Fox Searchlight buys The Birth of a Nation for $17.5 million, Sundance's biggest sale ever.
- Continuing the rapper vs. science saga, B.o.B. insults Tyson on diss track; Tyson calls rapper "regressed."
- Traditional black funeral homes losing out to chains and cremation.
- Journalist learns how to embalm a body.
- Victim of Obama’s first strike, now blinded, campaigns against drones.
- On the terrible responsibility of translating, from Russian, a novel that nearly got its author killed.
- Amherst drops "Lord Jeff" mascot, named for British general who endorsed giving smallpox-infected blankets to Native Americans
- University of Michigan journalist tries out for football team, doesn't make it.
- US poised to miss out on world’s biggest new market.
- James Deen’s assault allegations loom over the "Oscars of porn," but many just want to forget.
- Multiple regression analysis is the go-to tool for correlation in public statistics, but it should come with a warning label.
- Washing machines for everyone are uneconomical and inefficient, but probably not going anywhere.
- Ursula was a singular Disney villain, and behind the animated tentacles was a real-life, big-haired, poo-eating Baltimore drag queen named Divine.
