Morning Must Reads February 27
The militant group is more than a network of terrorist cells it's almost a nation. It collects taxes and delivers government services while slaughtering prisoners and demanding ransoms. Here are 12 dispatches from around the world on the rising global threat, The cereal industry isn't doing too well, but at least one person still enjoys their morning and evening cereal Kellogg's CEO John Bryant, The Internet officially broke on Thursday night, thanks to a dress that defies the classification of color. Is it white and gold or is it black and blue? Well, that depends on the light and the physiology of the individual eye, according to experts. The U.S. military is currently enjoying its longest stretch without a combat death since the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Wednesday marked the 75th day since American forces suffered its last fatality, when two soldiers were killed in Afghanistan's Parwan province, The Beck apology came after he kind of stole the artist's thunder at the 2015 Grammy Awards, nearly "pulling a Kanye"or his "I'mma let you finish" moment with Swift at the VMAs in 2009when Beck won Album of the Year over Byonce. Apple CEO Tim Cook has said the Apple Watch will hit stores in April, and a just-announced March 9 event looks like the perfect time to unveil new details about the device. The event could also involve other announcements, like a refreshed MacBook Air or Apple TV, The Commander-in-Chief said he wished he could "upvote" every one of the Reddit users who commented on the Federal Communications Commission FCC's net neutrality rules. The federal agency approved regulations to keep the internet an open marketplace. Harrison Ford will once again grace the silver screen as Rick Deckard in the upcoming sequel to Blade Runner, Alcon Entertainment announced on Thursday. Ridley Scott, the original director of the 1982 sci-fi thriller, will not be coming back to direct the latest version, Earl Lloyd, the first black professional NBA player, passed away Thursday at the age of 86. Known as "the Big Cat," the forward made his league debut in October 1950, playing for the Washington Capitals. Lloyd averaged 8.4 points during 560 regular-season NBA games, Virginia will now compensate victims of the eugenics program. Advocates for surviving victims won a three-year fight on Thursday when the Virginia General Assembly budgeted 400,000 to compensate them at the rate of 25,000 each, We will hold an AskTIME subscriber QA today, Friday, February 27, at 1 p.m. with editor-at-large for TIME, David Von Drehle, who wrote this week's cover story, The ISIS Trap. He is the author of four books, including Abraham Lincoln and America's Most Perilous Year and Triangle the Fire That Changed America. His other stories can be found here. You can submit your questions beforehand on Twitter using the AskTIME hashtag or in the comments of this post. We depend on smart, interesting questions from readers. You will need to be a TIME subscriber to read the Q  A. 30 a year or 8 cents a day for the magazine and all digital content. Once you're signed up, you can log in to the site with a username and password. Get TIME's The Brief e-mail every morning in your inbox,