Self-tying Nikes | North Korea fires missiles following US sanctions | John Kerry labels ISIS attacks as genocide | Campus stabbings in November were ISIS-inspired | Uber lawsuit was a hoax | New Pluto findings | Lin-Manuel Miranda got word that Hamilton will stay on the $10 bill | Judge blocks Lula appointment | Brazilians protest government conduct | Lower retirement age in Canada | Michigan governor faces the music from Congress | Lead-contaminated water goes beyond Flint | Ebola cases in Guinea | Bumblebee recalling a whole lot of tuna | Free burritos cost Chipotle big money | SeaWorld stopping with the orca breeding | Soda tax in the UK | Stock market rebounds to a positive 2016 | Hillary officially wins Missouri | Obama tells donors to get behind Hillary | Charges against CBS reporter dropped | Trump’s son threatened by mail | Anonymous posts Trump information | Hillary on Broad City | Lollapalooza headliners | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory on Broadway | A financial news network for Millennials | March Madness underway | Broncos get Okung | Ravens CB in serious motorcycle accident | Switzerland pursues criminal case against FIFA official | Chicago baseballers displeased with chaw ban | Boston ‘T’ ending late-night service | Audible puts out audio-sharing feature | Curious George on Hulu

World’s happiest country rankings | Merrick Garland nominated for SC | Republicans say he won’t be considered | Obama throws more sanctions at North Korea | Uber mass shooter sues Uber | Jared beat up in prison | Skyscraper in Malaysia | Money heisted from Bangladesh’s Fed account | FIFA admits to bribes | Paris terrorist plot foiled | Boko Haram attack at a Nigerian mosque | Pakistan bus bombing | Military personnel disciplined for Doctors Without Borders strike | North Carolina police demoted for ignoring violence at Trump rally | Interest rates stay put | Major financial services merger | Agreement made to make automatic emergency brakes standard | Chicago raises the smoking age | Next week’s GOP debate canceled | Trump foresees riots if he gets passed over | Florida governor endorses Trump | Steps taken to increase diversity at the Oscars | Revealing book coming from Scientology leader’s father | Frank Sinatra Jr. dead at 72 | Obama picks the Jayhawks | Patriots get Martellus Bennett | Browns cut Dansby and Bowe | Laroche retires over son’s clubhouse presence | Homophobia forced Cardinals minor leaguer to quit | Cal coach fired over harassment | Holy Cross and Michigan advance, Let the games begin | Public transportation ferries in NYC | Shake Shack in LA | The Cherry Blossom Frappucino | Homeless man gets $100,000 police reward | Pope getting an Instagram | Virtual reality PlayStation | Shia Labeouf engaged

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Wicked has earned $1 billion on Broadway since 2003 | Hillary sweeps five states | Trump wins all but Ohio | Rubio throws in the towel | Politico reporter shunned by Trump campaign | Ben Carson said job promise led to Trump endorsement | Chicago Attorney voted out | Paris suspects targeted in Brussels raid | Car bomb in Germany | ‘Fappening’ perpetrator pleads guilty | Mateen Cleaves charged for sexual assault | DC metro shut down today | Flooding causes major highway to close | Supreme Court nomination expected to come today | Obama decides against Atlantic drilling | Tourist restrictions with Cuba lifted | UberEATS launches in some cities | Uber tab on Google Maps | Smart basketball | Instagram tries switching up feed order | Valeant has had better days | WHO says pollution causing a quarter of global deaths | Mexico City pollution alert | Pope says Mother Teresa will be a saint | American sentenced to 15 years in North Korea | Brazil’s ex-president lands cabinet job while being prosecuted | Deadly Ecuadorian military plane crash | CDC wants doctors to stop overprescribing painkillers | Kendrick album tops the charts | New Indiana Jones movie in the works | Mariah Carey reality series | Christina Aguilera game show | Asians in Hollywood protest Oscars jokes | Sony buys MJ’s music | NYT will have fewer anonymous-sourced stories | Goodell may be losing discipline powers | Cardinals trade for Chandler Jones | Patriots grab Chris Long | Pats player wants to play Olympic rugby | Play-in games kick off March Madness

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Selena Gomez passes Taylor Swift on Instagram | Kalamazoo shooter said he was possessed by Uber | Train derailment in Kansas | Big day of primaries | Bernie unveils AIDS plan | Sarah Palin cancels event after husband’s accident | Senate confirms new Secretary of Education | Russia pulling troops from Syria | Migrants slog through to Macedonia, only to be sent back | Anti-immigrant party does well in German elections | Historic election in Myanmar | Turkish PM blames Kurdish group for terrorist attack | American trying to join ISIS captured | ISIS leader believed dead after all | North Korea says a nuclear warhead test is coming soon | Leaked sex tape of politician in Georgia | European space program will explore Mars | Video of man peeing on Kellogg assembly line surfaces | Expelled Yale basketball player fights back | DOJ wants courts to be judicious about fines | Maryland police killing was friendly fire | Three officers shot in Chicago | Radiohead tour a long time coming | Avett Brothers album coming out | Batman vs. Superman trailer | Ravens land Weddle | Bryant suspended for a year | Raji sitting out next season | Nadal suing over doping jab | Dawkins fired from Stanford | Women’s NCAA field announced | Derrick Gordon will be first openly gay NCAA Tournament player | NFL admits to CTE link for the first time | CBS sued over Judge Judy’s salary | Lin-Manuel Miranda raps with Obama

March Madness starts this week | Minor Republican primaries | Democratic town hall in Columbus | Protesters force Trump to cancel Chicago rally | CBS reporter among those arrested | Unrest at St. Louis Trump rally | Dayton protestor causes Secret Service panic | Trump considering paying legal fees for guy who punched protester | Breitbart reporter files charges against Trump campaign manager | And then resigns from Breitbart | Hillary goofs up on Nancy Reagan’s AIDS legacy | Seventeen-year-olds can vote in Ohio | Terrorist attack in Turkey | And in Ivory Coast | Rape used as payment to South Sudan military fighters | North Korea threatens NYC | February sets global heat records | Maryland policeman killed | Dogs attacked during Iditarod | Extensive flooding in the South | Fugitives caught in New Mexico | Fugitives not caught in Pittsburgh | Google vs. human in board game | SXSW co-founder dies at 60 | Keith Emerson gone at 71 | Caitlyn Jenner will model for H&M | Russell Wilson and Ciara engaged | Sterlings not getting divorced | Sasha Baron Cohen’s new movie not a hit | Broncos trade for Sanchez | Meldonium responsible for 99 positive tests | Bracket leaked during CBS’s drawn-out show | Steelers’ Bryant facing year-long suspension | Manziel released | Dak Prescott DUI | Kate del Castillo sounds off | Astronaut retires