Here’s what I’m reading up on this morning: 

• NASA’s Antares rocket launch ends in utter catastrophe, raising questions about the future of the space agency’s commercial spaceflight program.  

• Some 80 Peshmerga fighters arrive in Turkey from Iraq to fight IS. 

• At least 16 people are dead and at least 300 are missing following a massive landslide in Sri Lanka. 

• Remember Ebola Czar Ron Klain? He’s seemed to all but disappear a week into the job. 

• Is the news you read news or simply a fake story written and published by the F.B.I. in an attempt to capture a 15-year-old child suspected of making threats? 

• Markets respond positively to the Fed’s set plan to end quantitative easing, or Q.E.–a turnaround in reaction from last year. There are a couple of pretty good Q.E. explainers if you want to find out more. 

• Check out Marvel’s upcoming films–which include the first black solo superhero, Black Panther.  

• Google is developing a pill that would essentially place nanoparticles into your bloodstream in order to detect cancer, heart attacks and more.