Human Interest

Seriously, this might be big for Bernie Sanders in South Carolina:

AMY GOODMAN: Will you be voting for Senator Sanders?

What do you call a "growth" stock that has stopped growing?

TWTR!

While earnings (top and bottom line were ok):

• *TWITTER 4Q ADJ. EPS 16C, EST. 12C
• *TWITTER 4Q REV. $710M, EST. $709.9M

Not only did they reduce guidance:

• *TWITTER SEES 1Q REV $595M-$610M, EST. $627.6M; SHARES FALL 11%

And miss expectations on usewr growth overall:

International media outlets have reported that an assassination attempt on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad occurred on Tuesday evening whilst he attended his mothers funeral.  According to reports, the funeral procession was shelled from mortars, during the funeral of Anisa Makhlouf. Radio station Shems FM report that at least five mortar shells and grad rockets were fired in the direction of Assad’s motorcade in the district of Qardaha. Several relatives have been reported as injured or killed.

A man was reported dead on Tuesday after setting himself alight outside Kensington Palace, the home of Prince William and his wife Katie. The man, thought to have been in his 40s, was found next to the walls of the palace in central London home to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. RT reports: Paramedics and firefighters were called to the palace at around 03:00 GMT. They attempted to extinguish the flames and give the man first aid. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Police have not identified the man, but revealed that hours before self-immolating he had left a hospital in London.

This is pretty amazing stuff from Gawker: a glimpse into how Hillary Clinton gets the press she wants. A FOIA request turned up some e-mail exchanges from 2009 between Philippe Reines, Hillary’s press secretary, and then-Atlantic editor Marc Ambinder. Ambinder had asked Reines for an advance copy of a speech the then-Secretary of State was about to give at the Council on Foreign Relations. Reines responded: