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

• Hundreds of miners are dead following a devastating mining disaster in Turkey. 

• Obama meets with Syrian opposition leaders. 

• Chelsea Manning may be moved to a civilian prison to facilitate her hormone therapy. 

• A new report indicates that children as young as seven years old are picking tobacco in the U.S.–without so much as overtime pay or protective gear. 

• Feeling like you wanna creep everyone out ? Google Glass goes back on sale. 

• Michael Jackson’s "Xscape" tops charts. 

• Magic Johnson responds to Donald Sterling’s remarks. 

• There may very well be a MERS outbreak emerging in the United States. 

• NASA reveals a stunning video that illustrates two neutron starts colliding to form a black hole: