China warned the United States on Wednesday not to adopt punitive currency policies that could disrupt U.S.-China relations after Donald Trump’s win in the Nevada caucus. MORE

Telegraph’s Julian Ryall, in Tokyo reports, The joint US-South Korean exercises scheduled for March will be largest military drills ever staged on the Korean Peninsula and are both a warning to Pyongyang and an effort to reassure the jittery public in the South.

DEAR DOCTOR K:

Can you explain why “moderate” drinking is defined differently for men and women? Is it because men tend to be heavier? Or is there more to it?

DEAR READER:

Women are advised to drink less alcohol than men because they are much more vulnerable to alcohol’s harmful effects.

For example, research has found that if a woman has more than one drink a day, she increases her risk of car accidents and other traumatic injuries. Her risk of high blood pressure, stroke, suicide and breast cancer goes up. And drinking more than one drink a day also increases the risk that she will go on to abuse or become dependent on alcohol. MORE

The Pew Research Center, drawing on findings from the 2014 Religious Landscape Survey, released a report today on “U.S. Religious Groups and Their Political Leanings.”

“Mormons are the most heavily Republican-leaning religious group in the U.S., while a pair of major historically black Protestant denominations – the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church and the National Baptist Convention – are two of the most reliably Democratic groups,” said the report.

Seventy percent of Mormons now affiliate with the GOP, which is up from 65% when the survey was done in 2007. The next-most-Republican group, the Southern Baptist Convention, is six points behind the Latter-day Saints at 64%. MORE

A powerful storm system swept across the East Coast on Wednesday, killing four people in Virginia and knocking out power to tens of thousands of homes and businesses in the region.

A day earlier, the system spawned about two dozen tornadoes along the Gulf Coast, damaging hundreds of homes in Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida. Three people were killed and dozens were injured. MORE

The Vatican is calling for a complete investigation after the Pope’s pregnant receptionist was found dead in her apartment last week on the outskirts of the city.

Mariam Wuolou, a 34-year-old from Eritrea who worked at Pope Francis’ home and a priests’ guesthouse called Santa Marta, was seven months pregnant when she was discovered dead on Friday, The Mirror reports.

An initial review of the body showed no signs of violence, and Woulou had been absent from work for weeks due to complications from diabetes, according to the ANSA news agency. MORE

The stars are aligning for Marco just as Donald Trump seems to be steamrolling to the nomination. The Republican establishment has finally fallen in love with Marco Rubio, but it may be too late.

With Donald Trump trouncing the competition in Tuesday’s night’s Nevada caucuses and dramatically expanding his reach into voter groups thought to be leaning toward Rubio, lawmakers and party operatives are tripping over themselves to back the Florida senator’s presidential bid. MORE

A new version of Atlas, designed to operate outdoors and inside buildings. It is electrically powered and hydraulically actuated. It uses sensors in its body and legs to balance and LIDAR and stereo sensors in its head to avoid obstacles, assess the terrain and help with navigation. This version of Atlas is about 5′ 9″ tall (about a head shorter than the DRC Atlas) and weighs 180 lbs. MORE

Dave Berg used to book Donald Trump on “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno” back in the day when the billionaire was more interested in promoting his reality television shows than his political aspirations.

His power of celebrity was big then. But Berg said he was promoting his reality television shows and, well, himself. MORE

Cast members polish their characters in front of mirrors, perfecting movements. The curtain rises in an hour on the first episode of “Saturday Night Live in Arabic.”

In the shadow of the Pyramids of Giza lies Studio Misr, Egypt’s oldest production house. A large marquee broadcasts the show’s name in lights. The recently renovated studio smells of wet paint from the night’s sets. MORE

A New Hampshire state representative who supports Donald Trump referred to the pope as the “anti-Christ” in a Facebook post thread.

That comment came in a thread the same day, Feb. 18, that Pope Francis suggested that Trump’s desire to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico is “not Christian,” provoking a response from the Republican frontrunner.

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(NaturalNews) Dr. Mark Geier has an MD and a PhD in genetics. He worked for ten years at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and was also a professor at Johns Hopkins University. MORE

Last month, we documented the burgeoning spat between Brussels and Poland over the latter’s move to approve new laws that allow the conservative (and eurosceptic) Law and Justice (PiS) government to name the chiefs of public TV and radio, and select judges for Poland’s constitutional court.

In response to a bloc-wide backlash, Polish minister Zbigniew Ziobro sent a letter to EU commissioner Gunther Oettinger in which Ziobro dismissed criticism of the new laws as “silly.”

Oettinger earlier suggested that Poland be put under supervision for possible violations of democratic principles and after the Polish Wprost weekly ran a cover depicting Angela Merkel, Jean Claude-Juncker, and other eurocrats as Nazis who “want to supervise Poland again,” Brussels hit back by launching a review of the country’s new media laws. Under the “rule of law” mechanism, the EU Commission can compel member states to change measures that pose “a systematic threat” to democracy. MORE

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