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State

• Chicago-area teenager pleads guilty to stabbing death of sister

National

• Utah parents who fatally drugged children feared apocalypse: police

• Man in Minnesota city hall shooting had history of threats

• California man pleads guilty to smuggling dying immigrants in trunk

Blizzard hits Boston and New England, spares New York despite forecasts

A man walks out of an ocean front house covered in ice during a winter blizzard in Marshfield, Massachusetts January 27, 2015. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

• Spy agency employee was flying drone that crashed at White House

• Army says no decision made in Bergdahl investigation

• South Carolina court to clear 'Friendship Nine' of civil rights crimes

• Opera strives to strike a chord with U.S. youth

Politics, Government & Elections

Obama and Saudi king discuss Iran, energy in symbolic visit

President Obama shakes hands with Saudi Arabia's King Salman at the start of a bilateral meeting at Erga Palace in Riyadh January 27, 2015. REUTERS/Jim Bourg

• Obama dropping plan to tax college savings

• White House seeks $534 billion base defense budget, $51 billion for wars

• U.S. says 9.5 million people enroll for 2015 Obamacare insurance

• Exclusive: Spending- why 'red' states shoulder the deepest cuts under Obama

• Obama's pick for attorney general faces heated confirmation debate

• Alabama Supreme Court chief justice encourages defiance on gay marriage ruling

• New York Assembly speaker to be replaced next week: NYT

International

• Hezbollah missile wounds four Israeli soldiers on Lebanon frontier

Jordan proposes prisoner swap, fate of Japanese IS hostage unclear

A man walks past screens displaying a television news programme showing an image of Kenji Goto, one of two Japanese citizens taken captive by Islamic State militants, on a street in Tokyo January 25, 2015. REUTERS/Yuya Shino

• Jordan says ready to free Iraqi militant if pilot released

• Greek PM Tsipras pushes on with radical change, markets tumble

• Thailand warns U.S. to mind its own business over politics

Science, Technology and the Environment

Remarkable fossils push back snake origins by 65 million years

An artist rendering from oldest-known snake fossils shows Paleo reconstructions of three Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous snakes: Portugalophis lignites from Upper Jurassic period in a ginko tree from the coal swamp deposits at Guimarota, Portugal (top left); Diablophis gilmorei from Upper Jurassic period, hiding in a ceratosaur skull from the Morrison Formation in Fruita, Colorado (top right) and Parviraptor estesi from Upper Jurassic/Lower Cretaceous period swimming in a freshwater lake with snails and algae from the Purbeck Limestone, Swanage, England (bottom center). REUTERS/Julius Csotonyi/Handout

• Asteroid that buzzed Earth has a plus one, NASA says