- New Year’s Horror: Officials Believe Man Who Drove Car Into New Orleans Crowd ‘Hell Bent’ On ‘Carnage’ (huffpost.com)FBI investigating attack as act of terrorism (washingtonpost.com)What we know about the attack on NOLA's French Quarter (nytimes.com)
- New ethics inquiry into Justice Thomas is underway (theguardian.com)
- Trump Openly Interferes with Spending Deal, Pushing Congress Toward a Shutdown (nytimes.com)Chaos Consumes Drive to Avoid Government Shutdown, With 2 Days to Go (nytimes.com)Government shutdown nears after Trump and unelected oligarch Musk kill compromise (washingtonpost.com)Mike Johnson Faces Growing GOP Backlash As Elon Musk Calls For Government Shutdown (huffpost.com)Johnson’s speakership in doubt as Trump, Musk help scrap spending plan (washingtonpost.com)Musk, Ramaswamy fueled online campaign that led to Republicans rejecting spending bill (washingtonpost.com)Government Funding Fight Foreshadows DOGE Disappointment For Elon Musk (huffpost.com)
- Legal Political Bribery, only in the USA: Elon Musk put $277 million into the election. Now he’s $200 billion richer. (msn.com)
- At Least 179 Killed After Plane In South Korea Skids Off Runway, Bursts Into Flames (huffpost.com)South Korea plane crash: air traffic controllers warned of bird strike minutes before accident (theguardian.com)
- Trump’s claims of a mandate run into reality of narrow majorities (washingtonpost.com)
- Activist Ayşenur Eygi’s Family Demands U.S. Probe Into Her Killing By Israel (huffpost.com)
