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Historically, 8 babies have been born at the French zoological park Saint-Martin-la-Plaine. As of February 20,2019, there are 11 gorillas in Saint-Martin. Gestation for a gorilla is 8.5 months. gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/female-gorilla-gypsy-holds-her-four-weeks-old-first-baby-on-news-photo/1126231301 espace-zoologique.com/mammiferes/gorille-des-plaines.html Photo shows Gypsy, a female gorilla, holding her first newborn at a French zoological park. https://t.co/24WED9ZWiB pic.twitter.com/nne5uLDcil — ABC News (@ABC) February 20, 2019

Digital Research Firm eMarketer says advertisers will spend $129.34 billion on digital ads vs. 109.48 billion on traditional advertising (television, magazines and newspapers). The top three digital ad platforms in rank order are Google, Facebook, and Amazon. More on the forecast from Forbes … forbes.com/sites/tonifitzgerald/2019/02/20/major-milestone-digital-ad-spending-will-pass-non-digital-this-year/

Attorney General Bill Barr is preparing to announce the completion of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia two-year investigation — possibly as early as next week. Attorney General Bill Barr has said that he wants to be as "transparent" as possible with Congress and the public, and "consistent with the rules and the law." This is Barr's second round as AG. Barr previously served for the George H. W. Bush administration from 1991 to 1993, and served for the Trump administration beginning in 2019. cnn.com/2019/02/20/politics/special-counsel-conclusion-announcement/index.html

The Nicholas Sandmann lawsuit claims that the Washington Post "engaged in a modern-day form of McCarthyism by competing with CNN and NBC, among others, to claim leadership of a mainstream and social media mob of bullies which attacked, vilified, and threatened Nicholas Sandmann ("Nicholas"), an innocent secondary school child." Attorneys also claim that "in targeting and bullying Nicholas by falsely accusing him of instigating the January 18 incident, the Post conveyed that Nicholas engaged in acts of racism by 'swarming' Phillips, 'blocking' his exit away from the students, and otherwise engaging in racist misconduct." arlingtoncardinal.com/2019/02/attorneys-for-family-of-covington-catholic-high-school-student-nicholas-sandmann-suing-the-washington-post-for-250-million/

Jabez Spann was 14 when he disappeared on Sept. 4, 2017, in Sarasota, Florida. A week earlier, another witness allegedly saw Spann at a fatal shooting scene. Spann's remains were found along a fence line west of Interstate 75 in a rural Manatee County (north and northeast of Sarasota County) on Saturday afternoon, February 16, 2019. abcnews.go.com/US/remains-found-missing-teen-witnessed-murder-florida-police/story?id=61182855 heraldtribune.com/news/20190219/body-of-sarasota-teenager-jabez-spann-missing-since-2017-found

Delta Air Lines Flight 2050 was forced to declare an emergency and make an unscheduled landing at Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport at 3:38 p.m. after an apparent lightning strike. Following a safe landing, 164 passengers were transferred to another plane. abcnews.go.com/US/delta-air-lines-flight-declares-emergency-apparent-lightning/story?id=61182953

The two oarfish, about 3.6 meters (12 feet) and 4 meters (13 feet) long, were found off the island's southwest Toya port on January 28, 2019. Traditionally known as "Ryugu no tsukai" in Japanese, or the "Messenger from the Sea God's Palace," and are associated with an ancient legend that oarfish beach themselves on shores before underwater earthquakes occur. edition.cnn.com/2019/02/19/asia/okinawa-living-oarfish-intl-trnd/index.html

Shamima Begum, age 19, who gave birth to a baby boy on Sunday, February 17, 2019 has been stripped of her citizenship in Great Britain, according to a letter from Great Britain's Home Office in Liverpool. While waiting in a camp in Syria, she might try using her marriage to Dutch jihadi Yago Riedijk, who faces possible prison in Holland, as a means to gain citizenship in Holland. thesun.co.uk/news/8466675/shamima-begum-isis-british-citizenship-revoked-unjust/

Growing fear of civil unrest if there is no Brexit deal, there has been spike in spending on plastic bullets, officially known as attenuating energy projectiles (AEPs). The plastic bullets were used during two public disorder incidents by police (PSNI) in Northern Ireland in 2018, but have never been used by police or military in Great Britain for civil unrest on the streets. theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/feb/19/met-police-spending-on-plastic-bullets-triples-in-a-year

While embattled President Nicolás Maduro calls the aid operation for the citizens of Venezuela a US-orchestrated show, Brazil says it will send humanitarian aid to its border with Venezuela by this weekend. Brazil and the United States and many other countries recognize   Juan Guaidó as the interim president. While Maduro is rejecting aid from any of these countries he is accepting and aid shipment from Russia Wednesday, February 20, 2019. bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-47300962

Silicon Valley-based Perfect Day Foods that creates a synthetic milk alternative says its animal-free milk is better for the environment and healthier than cow's milk because it's lactose-free, hormone-free, antibiotic-free, gluten-free and cholesterol-free.   The new competition could cause a further decline among dairy farmers. In 1970 there were nearly 650,000 dairy farms in the U.S., but just 40,219 remained at the end of 2017, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. nbcnews.com/business/business-news/fake-milk-real-news-synthetic-alternatives-threaten-traditional-dairy-farms-n973236?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma

In 2018, a medical student and a resident at NYU medical school killed themselves within just five days of each other, following suicides by a another medical student, a resident and a physician. All of these suicidal victims were affiliated with Mount Sinai, between 2016 and 2018.   "I always jokingly tell patients who see me looking at my screen more than them, 'Welp, I'm just a well-trained monkey that clicks buttons,' " says Hawkins Mecham about the computer work. "I spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on my education, and I'm reduced to clicking buttons and staring at computer screens for hours on end." As a medical student, Hawkins Mecham attempted suicide in 2014. nypost.com/2019/02/19/a-burnout-epidemic-is-hurting-doctors-and-their-patients/

"Together, you and I and our 2016 campaign began the political revolution. Now, it is time to complete that revolution and implement the vision that we fought for," Bernie Sanders said in an email to supporters and a announcement. Sanders broke the news early Tuesday on Vermont Public Radio. Early polls put Sanders in the lead, but trailing former Vice President Joe Biden. nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/bernie-sanders-enters-2020-presidential-race-complete-revolution-n972906 vpr.org/post/hes-2020-bernie-sanders-running-president-again

After her first husband was killed in Kobanî, her second husband was killed in Mosul, and Hoda Muthana was captured by Kurdish forces, she claims she went too hard into her religion while fleeing her strict, restrictive parents in Alabama. Muthana was captured after she fled the last pocket of land controlled by Islamic State. From a al-Hawl refugee camp in northern Syria, she claims she "deeply regrets" traveling to Syria to join the terror group and has pleaded to be allowed to return to her family in Alabama. theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/17/us-woman-hoda-muthana-deeply-regrets-joining-isis-and-wants-return-home

Apple is shaking up executive leadership and reordering priorities across its services, artificial intelligence, hardware and retail divisions to reduce the company's reliance on iPhone sales. Apple iPhone still contributes to about two-thirds of Apple sales. morningstar.com/news/dow-jones/TDJNDN_20190219944/apples-executive-shakeup-underscores-focus-on-future-wsj.html