Here is this evening’s Daily Run Down.
Big News
General News
- The grown-ups with teddy bears
- American Sniper Author Shot and Killed in Texas – New York Times
- Americans Closest to Retirement Were Hardest Hit by Recession
- Nate Silver uses numbers to predict the Super Bowl
International
- In Russia volunteers step up
- Why Malis nomads are lying low
- Iraq rocked by suicide car bomb
- Iraqi mobile firm raises $1.3bn
Politics
- White House rebuffed Clinton-Petraeus plan to arm Syrian rebels report
- In immigration debate same-sex marriage comes to the fore – Washington Post
- Which G.O.P. House Members Might Support Immigration Reform
Obits
Science/Space
- Your pictures Ice
- Wired Science Space Photo of the Day Wheatley Crater on Venus
- Wind could kill many more birds
- How Co-Sleeping with an Infant Might Make You a Better Dad
Gadgets
- Test Drive Surface Pro Today
- Surface Pro appears in some retail stores nows your chance to see it in person
- When Gotham is in Ashes You Will Have My Permission to Text
Technology
- NASA to beam Super Bowl game to International Space Station crew
- Dont wait for lawmakers Set up network security standards for the BYOD era now
Software/Apps
- Experimental Microsoft software tries to predict catastrophic events by analyzing news headlines
- Carbon Twitter client released for Android smartphones
London/Britain/UK
- Staffing danger on wards say nurses
- Minister defends parents right to smack – My generation got spanked as children. We turned out alright. It’s these fuckers who abuse their kids that are the real offenders.
- Small shop closures are progress says former Tesco boss
- Pork in halal meat supplier named
- Police crack down on Silk Road following first drug dealer conviction
Personal
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?
Funny
- Which
- Why Bother Using Woods Since the North Koreans Have Their Juche Idea
- Only the Eastern Europeans Would Box Vodka
- These Heels R2 Awesome
- Lesson #1656 – Fake Meats
Chicagoland
- Man shot critically hurt after attackers enter Southwest Side apartment
- Police Gas grab went beyond the simple theft
- 3 injured in Southwest Side crash
- 1 person dead 8 to 10 people displaced in apartment fire
- 1 killed 4 injured in accident on Tri-State Tollway
- 3 to 6 inches of snow en route to Chicago making a messy rush hour
- Little Village shooting leaves man critically wounded
Total Number of stories: 45
Look for more stories tomorrow.