Radio Pangaea Strange Days

The arctic air that has chilled large swaths of the United States for days will culminate this with dangerous cold in Montana and North Dakota. At least three people are dead after a pair of multi-vehicle crashes on I-95 in Baltimore this morning.  It's been over twenty years since child beauty pageant contestant JonBenét Ramsey was found dead in her parents' basement, and Colorado police announced plans to conduct new DNA tests.  The United States more than doubled the bounty on the head of the shadowy leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, to $25 million.  An otherworldly noise that was recorded near the Mariana Trench could be a never-before-heard whale call.  Polls show a record percentage of Americans now favor legalization, and most of us already live in a state with some form of legal cannabis.  One in three U.S. adults has high blood pressure. Surprisingly, only about half of these people have it under control.  Japan has begun slaughtering about 210,000 farm birds in northern Hokkaido to contain another outbreak of a highly contagious strain of avian flu.  The Palestinian Hamas group in Gaza blamed Israel for the killing in Tunisia this week of a Tunisian national it described as one of its drone experts.