2 Police Officers Shot Amid Protest At Ferguson Police Department Plus 19 More Stories

Daily Briefing A look at the day's top stories News 2 Police Officers Shot Amid Protest At Ferguson Police Department One officer was shot in the face and another in the shoulder, but neither is expected to have any "remarkable long-term injuries," says St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar. Read this story Drawn-Out Syrian Civil War Spawns A Literal Dark Age Once, Syria was a modern nation. Today, after five years of brutal conflict, 83 percent of the country's lights are out and life expectancies are 20 years shorter. Read this story Plans To Explore For Oil Offshore Worry East Coast Residents With memories of the massive BP spill still fresh, residents are hoping to stop offshore drilling and underwater seismic testing. Industry leaders say they follow rules meant to protect wildlife. Read this story Space Station Astronauts Make Safe Landing In Kazakhstan An astronaut and two cosmonauts have landed safely back on Earth. While in orbit, they traveled almost 71 million miles, NASA says. Read this story Researchers Think There's A Warm Ocean On Enceladus A new analysis of particles believed to be from the bottom of oceans inside Enceladus suggests the moon is toasty warm. Read this story more news stories Most Popular U.S. College Finds Priceless Coin Collection — In Its Own Library Dozens of gold and silver coins, some from the eras of Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, spent decades on a shelf in the University at Buffalo's library. Read this story Why The GOP Iran Letter Is Spurring Debate Over An 18th Century Law The Logan Act prevents "unauthorized citizens" from meddling in foreign affairs. There's a petition to charge the 47 senators who signed the letter, but no one has ever been prosecuted under the law. Read this story Think Man-Sized Swimming Centipede — And Be Glad It's A Fossil This sea monster swam Earth's seas about 480 million years ago and was the biggest creature of its day, scientists say. Read this story Ferguson, Mo., Police Chief Resigns Following Justice Department Report Chief Thomas Jackson's departure is effective March 19. He is the latest employee to resign or be fired in the wake of a Justice Department report that accused local police and courts of racial bias. Read this story Researchers Think There's A Warm Ocean On Enceladus A new analysis of particles believed to be from the bottom of oceans inside Enceladus suggests the moon is toasty warm. Read this story more most popular stories Arts & Life TV Movies TV movies are usually an hour-long special on TV but in this game they are mashed up TV and movie titles which all share one word in common. Read this story Palindromes Semordnilap A palindrome is a word or phrase that is the same forwards and backwards, but a semordnilap ("palindromes" backwards) is a word that becomes a different word when read backwards. Get it, smug gums? Read this story Award-Winning Tonys Apparently, the key to success is being named Tony, because these various Tonys have all won awards. Try to guess which Tony won a Best Supporting Emmy on Veep. Read this story Stateside Attractions Everybody knows how to identify state names from the first few letters, but the last ones? What state ends with a "s-i-n"? Bonus trivia: we'll tell you a weird roadside attraction found in each state. Read this story What Is Jeopardy? Because you've been programmed to give answers in the form of a question, all the answers in this game are famous phrases that begin with the question "what is." Read this story more arts & life stories Music Phony Ppl, 'HelGa.' Watch Brooklyn band Phony Ppl's new video, an playful ode to to mean girl character Helga Pataki from Nickelodeon's classic '90s cartoon, Hey Arnold! Read this story $7 Million Verdict Blurs The Lines On Music Sampling A jury concluded that Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke must pay over $7 million to Marvin Gaye's heirs for copying his music. Audie Cornish asks what this mean for music in the age of sampling. Read this story Ben Khan, '1000' The young British soul singer floored us last year with his debut EP, 1992. On "1000," he proves it wasn't beginner's luck. Read this story New Madrid On World Cafe Hear the Athens, Ga., indie-rock band perform a few of its songs live in the studio. Read this story The Thistle & Shamrock: Scent Of Spring This week's show puts out a musical welcome mat for the first signs of the season. Read this story more music stories