Stranger Than Fiction

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TOP NEWS

• Markets are down significantly off news that coronavirus cases have accelerated outside China. Prior to sending this newsletter, around 9am ET, the DJIA was set to open down 800 points.

• Trump said the United States and India will sign a new agreement to sell $3 billion worth of U.S. military helicopters to the Indian armed forces.

• Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad resigned less than two years after he took office.

THE ELECTION

• Steyer qualified for the next debate in South Carolina.

• Sanders is positioned to take over the Democratic party.

• 5 questions following the Nevada caucuses

THE COMMENT

“People who have been locked out of power are speaking up about corporate influence over the issues that matter in their lives,” said Abdul El-Sayed, a Sanders ally and liberal organizer who ran unsuccessfully for Michigan governor in 2018. “What you’re seeing is a necessary and natural readjustment in the Democratic Party.”

THE STRANGEST

• Three US aircraft shot down during World War II have been found in the Pacific -- 76 years later

THE AV ROOM

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• MOONLIGHT SONATA

• SMOOTH CRIMINAL