Your weekend long reads 🗞️

Good morning, friends of The Short List! 

We've scored an extra day this year. It's leap day! And what better way to spend a rare Feb. 29th than devouring some in-depth reads from USA TODAY? Let’s get to it. 

• Killed by a cartel. Betrayed by his own? The US re-examines the killing of a federal agent featured in "Narcos." 
• It's not the Loch Ness monster. But this bizarre fish that washed up on the beaches of California has created a worldwide furor.
• We tell suicidal people to go to therapy. So why are therapists rarely trained in suicide? 

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