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Thursday, February 6

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-VT, gestures while speaking during a news conference at his New Hampshire headquarters, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020 in Manchester, N.H.

Behold, the self-declared winner of Iowa

Bernie Sanders declared a 'decisive victory' in the Iowa caucuses, but he isn't the clear winner. It's Thursday's news.

Bernie Sanders takes an Iowa caucus victory lap a little early, and President Donald Trump takes a victory lap at the ... National Prayer Breakfast.

Here's the news you need to know Thursday.

But first, water to wine? Alcohol was flowing from an apartment unit's faucets by accident. The water smelled like liquor, tasted like liquor, and it turned out it was liquor.

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Today's word of the day: Byeowa [by-i-oh-wah]

noun

1. the act of taking more than three days to release the results of the extremely important and precedent-setting first-in-the-nation presidential caucuses.

Iowa is essentially a dumpster fire right now (the chair of the Democratic National Committee is calling for a recanvass of results) after the state's disastrous caucus, but that hasn't stopped Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders from claiming a "decisive victory" Thursday, pointing to his 6,000-vote lead in raw popular votes in the first alignment and downplaying partial results that show a tiny lead for former Mayor Pete Buttigieg in state equivalent delegates. "What I want to do, three days late, is thank the people of Iowa for the very strong victory they gave us Monday night," Sanders said. Sanders' announcement comes as Iowa results are still not fully counted following the malfunction of a cellphone app used to report results.

Nothing lasts forever, except for impeachment that is

It's been a mere 24 hours since Trump avoided removal from office after the Senate acquitted him of two articles of impeachment. But our nation's leader sure isn't being shy about celebrating his impeachment trial victory:

•	Trump touted his impeachment acquittal at a White House ceremony, saying he had "been through hell" and attacked the impeachment effort against him as "evil" and "corrupt."
•	Let's paint this picture a little bit more: Trump entered the room to the anthem "Hail to the Chief."
•	Political tensions generated by impeachment dominated the National Prayer Breakfast as Trump attacked supporters of the impeachment.
•	House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in her first public remarks since the acquittal, said the president will remain "impeached forever."

President Donald Trump celebrates his impeachment acquittal on Feb. 6, 2020.

Evan Vucci/AP

What everyone's talking about

•	The super drug called "gray death" shouldn't be touched or inhaled, police say. It has a potency 10,000 times greater than morphine.
•	It lived fast and died young: Scientists have discovered an unusual "monster" galaxy that existed about 12 billion years ago.
•	A bizarre case of two missing Idaho children involves multiple suspicious deaths and alleged connections to cult-like religious beliefs.

Clippers, Knicks, Wizards pull off four-player trade just before NBA deadline

Just minutes before the NBA trade deadline, another three-team blockbuster deal went down . The Los Angeles Clippers, who entered Thursday second in the Western Conference behind the Los Angeles Lakers, picked up Marcus Morris from the New York Knicks and Isaiah Thomas from the Washington Wizards to bolster their playoff run. In return, the Clippers sent Jerome Robinson to the Wizards and Moe Harkless and a 2020 first-round pick to New York. A 2023 second-round pick (via the Detroit Pistons) also goes to the Knicks. Sportspeople, this is for you. Everyone else, we aren't quite sure what's happened either.

•	Here are the completed deals now that the NBA's deadline has passed.

New York Knicks' Marcus Morris Sr. (13) passes the ball away from Memphis Grizzlies' Dillon Brooks (24) during the first half of an NBA basketball game Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020, in New York.

Frank Franklin II, AP

Real quick

•	Gayle King is "very angry" about a controversial clip of her asking WNBA player Lisa Leslie a question about Kobe Bryant's rape charge.
•	Thousands of flights were canceled, angry storms and tornadoes tore through several Southern states, and the Northeast was bracing for up to 20 inches of snow as a gnarly winter storm roared east.
•	More than 100 models signed a letter to Victoria's Secret CEO demanding the lingerie company increase efforts to "protect the people they profit from."
•	The Trump Administration will prohibit New York residents from enrolling in programs that expedite border crossings, such as Global Entry.

When your nice cruise ship vacation turns into 'a floating prison'

One man's 50th wedding anniversary luxury cruise is ending with him quarantined in his cabin aboard the Diamond Princess for two extra weeks , watching 20 infected people heading for hospitals for treatment of the coronavirus. David Abel is among hundreds of passengers on two cruise ships – in Japan and Hong Kong – caught in the middle of a new viral threat from Wuhan, China, in which 28,344 cases and 565 deaths have been confirmed as of Thursday. "It's not going to be a luxury cruise; it's going to be like a floating prison," Abel said on Facebook from the ship in the port of Yokohama, outside Tokyo.

•	Six things everyone is buying for flu protection – and if they actually work.
•	A Chinese doctor who was reprimanded for warning fellow doctors about the initial coronavirus outbreak has died of the illness, according to Wuhan Central Hospital.

A break from the news

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