* After two years and 11,000 deaths, the Ebola epidemic in west Africa is now over. * "If Clinton keeps falling in NH and Iowa polls instead of rising, the establishment may not be able to bail her out." * Picking an SEO-in-Chief. * Al Jazeera America failed by
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* Obama tries to counter the GOP's glass-is-half-empty conversation. * Minute-by-minute takeaways from the State of the Union. * In case you missed it: CNN previewed the State of the Union in the style of a Wes Anderson movie. * Obama spotlights criminal justice reform as an
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* Bernie Sanders makes his point. * "The US had 43 presidents before Obama, but only five stood before Congress as Obama will this Tuesday night." * Ted Cruz's constitutional law professor says Cruz is eligible for the presidency—the Founders probably wouldn't agree. * Physicists spent a
What is the best way to honor a man like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.? Photographs from a cross-country trip to document streets named after the American icon.
* Sean Penn's renegade interview helped Mexico pin down escaped cocaine boss Guzman. * Conclusions from a new book on how isolated, commiserating extremists band together online. * French crackdown after Charlie Hebdo exposes a double standard when it comes to defending free speech. * Obama will campaign for the Democratic nominee,
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* American drone strikes in Pakistan, as well as the number of people they killed, dropped significantly in 2015. * Almost 4,000 Pakistanis have been killed by American drones since 2004. * A staggeringly high amount of people killed by drones under Obama have not been military targets. * He may have wanted
* "More people will get into more trucks. Most of them will get where they're going. But a few of them will die." * Turkish police raid business making fake life vests—that actually sink—for refugees. * Hundreds of thousands of indigenous Peruvians were sterilized under a nefarious
