* After negotiations are broadcast live on YouTube, remaining Oregon militia members agree to surrender. * On Hillary and Bill's first date, they crossed a picket line to see a Mark Rothko exhibit. * Milbank: A new Jeb Bush has been sighted on the trail and on TV, and this one
* After Trump triumphs in New Hampshire, GOP envisions a long, bruising fight to secure a palatable competitor. * Sanders’s youth movement powered by revived energy in the new campus left. * Gloria Steinem's comment—that young women are supporting Sanders to meet boys—shows the rift between imperial and
* FOP is the world's largest association of police unions. A third of its contracts with US cities require the eventual destruction of misconduct complaints. * Chicago's FOP shapes often-false narratives around victims of fatal police shootings. * How a law unique to Florida, allowing juries to reach
* Amid accusations North Korea fired a missile over Japan, the rocket entered space and dropped an object into orbit. * French police have been using the government's state of emergency to target Muslims. * Europe does not have a refugee crisis; the top refugee-accepting countries per capita are in
* Obama pressed by top military advisers to attack the Islamic State in Libya. * Sanders gets credit for last night's debate performance, but still is expected to lose massively if he's the nominee. * Jeb's request for applause is the latest sign he's giving
{image-1} The Tulsa Artist Fellowship is a program established by the George Kaiser Family Foundation to enhance the local art scene by retaining and recruiting artists to Tulsa, Oklahoma. Entering its second year, the TAF is expanding to include writers. With the inaugural class of artists beginning their fellowships
Announcing the brackets for the 2016 edition of The Morning News Tournament of Books, presented by Field Notes.
* UN panel says Julian Assange is being arbitrarily held by the UK under threat of arrest. * Trump says Cruz stole Iowa with voter fraud and wants his win disqualified. * Iowa doesn’t decide the nominee. But it does send a clear signal about the direction a party’s taking. * Elif
* 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
* Cruz wins in Iowa, a result that will likely leave the GOP in an even more frustrated state than if he'd lost. * Clinton grabs very narrow victory in Iowa. * See also: Why a tie for Bernie is actually a win for Clinton. * Trump took 39% of Iowans who
