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  • Ice, snow and freezing temperatures have combined to bring a large chunk of the southeast to a halt. Children are stranded at schools and travelers at airports. More than 3,000 flights were canceled.
  • The players say they work hard and bring in millions of dollars for their school. They want the right to bargain collectively. The NCAA says that would "undermine the purpose of college: an education." Who is right?
  • Members of the House and Senate sit and listen and often applaud the presidential State of the Union, but when it's done many members crowd the microphones in Statuary Hall to oppose the chief executive's vision.
  • Also: A New York congressman threatens to pitch a reporter over a balcony; the House is expected to vote on the huge farm bill today; Ukrainian lawmakers review whether to grant amnesty to arrested protesters; and graffiti is springing up near the Vatican featuring a crime fighting "Super Pope".
  • Cancer patients and survivors are told to exercise, but the disease and treatments can leave them with overwhelming fatigue. Yoga may be a gentle way to get moving, a study reports, with breast cancer survivors who did yoga saying they had less fatigue than women who did not.
  • Cooking for a crowd for the big game? Put away the pots and pans, and turn to these party-friendly dishes. Then you can settle onto the couch in front of the TV instead of getting stuck in the kitchen.
  • One of the nation's most remote places is now awash in oil money. We sent a photographer to North Dakota to capture not just what it looks like but how it feels.
  • Hong Kong tycoon Cecil Chao initially offered $65 million to any man who married his daughter. Gigi Chao has since been flooded with marriage requests from eager men around the world. But in an open letter, she asks her father to accept her partner.
  • What can't Pope Francis do? First he's Time's "Person of the Year," then he's a Rolling Stone cover story. Now, graffiti art in Rome is depicting the pontiff as a comic-book caped crusader. Even the Vatican approves.
  • Workers can't lose money in myRAs, the savings accounts President Obama unveiled in his State of the Union speech. The government would protect the principal and help savings grow a bit faster than inflation.
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