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A.M. Links: Birdman Wins Best Picture, Terror Threat Targets Shopping Malls, Obama Prepares to Veto Keystone XL

Damon Root | 2.23.2015 9:00 AM



  • Birdman won the Oscar for best picture at last night's Academy Awards.

  • Heightened security measures are now in effect in shopping malls in the U.S., France, and England in response to a terrorist threat.
  • President Barack Obama is expected to veto the Keystone XL pipeline bill this week.
  • Congress has until Friday to approve a new budget for the Department of Homeland Security.
  • A suicide attack by a young girl believed to be just 7 years old has killed at least 5 in a Nigerian market.
  • Joey Logano won the Daytona 500 on Sunday.

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Damon Root is a senior editor at Reason and the author of A Glorious Liberty: Frederick Douglass and the Fight for an Antislavery Constitution (Potomac Books).