Morning Must Reads February 26
Washington D.C. became the latest and strangest frontier in the marijuana-legalization movement. It's now O.K. for adult residents to possess 2 oz. of pot, grow up to six plants in homes and share their bounty with others, How German parents place a high value on independence and responsibility  and why Berlin doesn't need a "free range parenting" movement, The ISIS fighter who appeared in a series of videos and was nicknamed "Jihadi John" has been named by the BBC as Mohammed Emwazi, from London, Conservative organizers hope to overcome a crucial shortfall in digital savvy and voter reach ahead of the 2016 election by taking a page out of President Obama's winning campaign playbook. Organizers pointed to several Democratic outreach strategies as effective models, Seventeen shots were fired by three police officers at a Mexican man in a Washington state shooting earlier this month, with five or six bullets striking him before he died, a member of the police investigative team said Wednesday, Former America's Next Top Model contestant Mirjana Puhar was found dead in a Charlotte, N.C. apartment on Tuesday. She was 19. Puhar was one of three victims, including her boyfriend, Jonathan Alvarado, 23, and Jusmar Gonzaga-Garcia, 21, Facebook is going to give timelier help to users who post updates suggesting thoughts of suicide, the social-networking giant announced. In the future, posts appearing to be suicidal will trigger a series of notifications, Actress Emma Thompson won't pay taxes until those implicated in the HSBC tax-evasion scandal go to prison, according her husband Greg Wise. The U.K. customs department decided not to prosecute anyone after leaks detailed misconduct in HSBC's Swiss subsidiary, A team of astronomers has discovered a black hole of almost unimaginable proportions. At 12 billion times more massive than the sun, it challenges current cosmological thinking. The enormous object was formed 900 million years after the Big Bang, Mexican singer Ariel Camacho died in a car crash Wednesday on a highway outside Sinaloa, Mexico. The 22-year-old was on the road promoting a deluxe edition of his latest album El Karma, when he was involved in a collision, Lindsay Lohan is still on the hook for 125 out of the 240 total hours of community service she was ordered to complete, a California judge ordered on Wednesday. "There were things she did that didn't qualify as community service," said a city attorney, The U.K.'s Brit Awards nominees were full of big contenders for British and international artists alike, and with performances by the likes of Taylor Swift and Sam Smith, the night was full of great moments. Ed Sheeran snatched up two of the biggest awards of the night, We will hold an AskTIME subscriber QA this 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,