- Around 35,000 LA homes and businesses without electricity as police issue warning over looters (theguardian.com)Stronger Winds Add to Danger as L.A. Fires Rage On (nytimes.com)At least 16 dead so far in LA wildfires (washingtonpost.com)Why Los Angeles was unprepared for this fire (washingtonpost.com)
- Bidenomics: The labor market added 353,000 jobs in January, far more than expected, in a sign that economic growth remains vigorous (nytimes.com)
- Turkey-Syria Quake Death Toll Tops 25,000, Survivors Still Being Found (huffpost.com)Turkey earthquake failures leave Erdogan looking vulnerable (bbc.com)In earthquake-battered Syria, a desperate wait for help that never came (washingtonpost.com)
- Vote denier Kris Kobach’s U.S. Senate campaign, We Build the Wall hit by $30,000 fine for campaign law violations (kansasreflector.com)
- U.S. Job Growth Rebounds in Latest Demonstration of Bidenomics Strength
The labor market added 227,000 jobs, a big rally from October (nytimes.com)
- WHITE FLAG: FOX News Surrenders, Settles, Pays Dominion Voting Systems $787,500,000The 11th-hour deal saved Fox a potentially lengthy legal tangle, though it still faces other lawsuits over its coverage of false claims about the 2020 election. (nytimes.com)‘Dominion wins but the public loses’: Fox settlement avoids paying the highest price (theguardian.com)Smartmatic vows to 'expose the rest' of Fox News' alleged 'misconduct' after Dominion settles massive lawsuit: report (rawstory.com)Digby: The trial Fox News deserves (salon.com)Fox News settlement doesn't stop special master probe that could end in obstruction charges (rawstory.com)CNN’s Pam Brown Asks Dominion Lawyer Point-Blank Why They Didn’t Force Fox News Hosts ‘To Make On-air Apologies’ (mediaite.com)
- Quake Death Toll Surpasses 21,000 as More Aid Trickles Into Syria (nytimes.com)Pressure mounts on UN to provide urgent support to north-western Syria (theguardian.com)
- U.S. Hiring Surges, Adding 254,000 Jobs, Surpassing Expectations (nytimes.com)Unemployment rate falls to 4.1% (reuters.com)Pandemic Start-Ups Are Thriving, and Helping to Fuel the Economy (nytimes.com)
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Tells Off Transphobe In Capitol Encounter (huffpost.com)
- Private payroll growth surged by 235,000 in December, well above estimate, ADP reports (cnbc.com)U.S. weekly jobless claims at three-month low; layoffs drop in December (reuters.com)
