Headlines from February 3, 2016

Rand Paul joins O’Malley and Huckabee in dropping out of the presidential race.
Sanders viewed as goofy father figure, Clinton perceived as disciplinarian mom.
A WOMAN DOESN’T GET THE OPTION *NOT* TO PLAY THE GAME. An all-caps reaction to the liberal backlash against Hillary Clinton.
Kool & the Gang backs out of GOP Convention gig.
Kanye walks back greatness claims for new album—now merely one of the all-time greats.
Jon Lee Anderson on Haiti’s charismatic president, part Clinton, part Kanye, part Putin.
Side effect of the US-Cuba thaw: the renewed rum licensing war between Bacardi and Pernod Ricard.
Amazon to open a chain of brick-and-mortar bookstores next year, as many as 400.
Your sleek, modern Internet experience relies more on offline data delivery than you think. The internet is powered by airplanes.
Microsoft’s temporary undersea data center takes advantage of the sea’s natural cooling properties.
Out-of-context telenovela clips are a goldmine for Telemundo.
According to analysis of consumer phone calls, America’s fastest talkers are from Oregon, Minnesota, and Massachusetts.
Random Wal-Mart employees pick up the phone, answer questions about life inside the giant retailer.
U.S. Court of Appeals says Wisconsin can make a sex offender who’s completed his sentence wear a GPS monitor for the rest of his life.
Potential model for justice: the harsher the prospective punishment, the laxer you should be about reasonable doubt.
Filipina “comfort women” demand apologies and reparations from Japan, as South Koreans have received.
Between 1993 and 2015, cattle killed 13 people who were out for walks in the United Kingdom.
Three suicides in NYPD holding cells in the past nine months.
The cops haven’t been any worse so far. The homeless refugees of San Francisco’s Super Bowl City.
Continuous “mystery fire” at Mumbai’s largest landfill can be seen from space.