By Lauren Weber
Monday February 22nd, 2016
TOP STORIES
I’m heading out on a reporting trip this week, so The Morning Email will return next Monday, the 29th!
MARCO VS. THE DONALD? Donald Trump coasted to a massive victory in South Carolina, and the establishment is looking to rally around Marco Rubio in the aftermath. Mitt Romney is expected to endorse the Florida senator. And here's where Jeb Bush's voters might go after he dropped out of the race Saturday. [Ryan Grim and Igor Bobic, HuffPost]
FBI DIRECTOR BEGS APPLE TO UNLOCK SAN BERNARDINO TERRORIST'S PHONE You can read his full statement here. Victims of the shooting also plan to file a legal brief in support of the government asking for the contents of the phone. [WaPo]
THIS VET FILMED HIMSELF TRYING TO GET A VA DOCTOR'S APPOINTMENT And it isn't pretty, folks. [Jen Bendery, HuffPost]
THE FUTURE OF 5G "Fueled by people’s insatiable appetite for accessing videos, social media and other entertainment on their mobile devices, many of the world’s largest carriers, like AT&T and NTT DoCoMo of Japan, are rushing to be the first to offer customers this next-generation ultrafast wireless technology." [NYT]
YAHOO POSSIBLY HEADED TO BIDDERS TODAY Verizon Communications Inc. (which owns The Huffington Post), Comcast Corp., AT&T Inc., Bain Capital Partners, KKR & Co. and TPG are interested. [Bloomberg]
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WHAT’S BREWING
YOU CAN'T HELP BUT SMILE Watching this 106-year-old dance her way into the White House. [HuffPost]
DENNY HAMLIN WON THE DAYTONA 500 By .0010 seconds. Talk about margins of victory. [Sports Illustrated]
THE FUTURE OF OUR DATA IN CASE OF A NUCLEAR WAR The glass discs that can live on for 13.8 billion years. [The Verge]
26-YEAR-OLD WIFE OF 'EL CHAPO' SPEAKS OUT "'He is like any other man -- of course he is not violent, not rude,' says Coronel, who insists she has never seen her husband act violently or take drugs. 'I have never heard him say a bad word. I have never seen him get excited or be upset at anyone.'” [LA Times]
OF COURSE TAYLOR SWIFT WAS THE CUTEST MAID OF HONOR In her best friend from home's wedding this weekend. [HuffPost]
DRINKING COFFEE MAY SAVE YOUR LIVER From those drinks this weekend. [Reuters]
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WHAT'S WORKING
DROP IN TEENAGE HPV AFTER VACCINE "A vaccine introduced a decade ago to combat the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer has already reduced the virus’s prevalence in teenage girls by almost two-thirds, federal researchers said Monday." [NYT]
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BEFORE YOU GO
~ You may have heard that Taylor Swift donated a quarter of a million dollars to Kesha, but here's what you need to know about the horror of the Kesha trial and verdict.
~ There are too many people that believe Katy Perry is actually JonBenet Ramsey.
~ Turns out an astronaut crew heard "unexplained music" on the far side of the moon in the ‘60s.
~ The blogger whose pro-Bernie posts go viral every single time.
~ The white priest making it his mission to "fight for his black parishioners on the South Side" of Chicago.
~ We finally have a trailer for the live-action "Pete's Dragon."
~ The new political class: single women.
~ Westeros would like Donald Trump to leave, thank you very much.
~ This social engineer got thousands of dollars’ worth of free stuff.
~ A look at how emotional labor disproportionately falls on women.
~ Until next Monday...
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