I am probably BARELY READING NEWS until the NH primary is over, so I’m giving you good links I mostly stashed last week, but apologies if something major happens that I don’t manage to include.
Coronavirus Live Updates: More Than 800 Have Died in China, Surpassing Toll From SARS (NYT)
These totals are ridiculous and the Trumps have directly lied about them: Secret Service has paid rates as high as $650 a night for rooms at Trump’s properties (WaPo)
The Iowa Caucuses App Had Another Problem: It Could Have Been Hacked (ProPublica)
A climate activist swam under the Antarctic ice sheet to prove how quickly glaciers are melting (CNN)
Dissident republicans suspected of Brexit day plot to blow up ferry (The Guardian)
After a Dozen Deaths, Justice Dept. Investigates Mississippi Prisons (NYT)
Fox News Internal Document Bashes Pro-Trump Fox Regulars for Spreading ‘Disinformation’ (Daily Beast)
Deborah Batts, the nation's first openly gay federal judge, dies at 72 (CNN)
Wow: HBG Buys More Than 1,000 Disney Book Group Titles (PW)
A New Type of Aurora Has Been Discovered — and It Looks Like Glowing Ocean Waves (T+L)
And today’s longer reads:
Whew: Meet the Black People Who Helped Make Mayor Pete (TYT)
Women and People of Color Still Underrepresented Behind the Scenes, Study Says (Variety)
After 2,000 Years, These Seeds Have Finally Sprouted (The Atlantic)
Holding Virginia Woolf in Your Hands (TNY)
Home comforts: how The Sims let millennials live out a distant dream (The Guardian)
xoxo, Katie