- Scotland’s Leader Nicola Sturgeon Says She Will Step Down in Surprise Move (nytimes.com)
- Sensors, electronics, other ‘significant’ debris from China spy balloon retrieved, says US military (theguardian.com)Tensions Rise Over Spy Programs as U.S. Investigates Downed Craft (nytimes.com)White House: We’re Finding More High-Altitude Objects Because We’re Looking For Them Now (huffpost.com)‘People Don’t Need to Worry About Aliens’: John Kirby Dismisses Newsmax Reporter’s Question About Airborne Objects (mediaite.com)
- Wagner Group No Longer Recruiting Prisoners, Prigozhin Says (newsweek.com)
- Fierce fighting in north of Ukraine’s Bakhmut, says Russian head of Wagner militia (reuters.com)Ukraine Says It Will Not Strike Russian Territory With New Missiles (rferl.org)Germany has 'hundreds' of pieces of evidence of Russian war crimes in Ukraine (france24.com)
- Elon Musk asked engineers to boost his tweets after Joe Biden’s Super Bowl post got more engagement than his, report says (businessinsider.com)
- Twitter exec says ‘hundreds of thousands’ of Russian disinformation accounts still active on Twitter (weaponizedspaces.substack.com)
- Chinese balloon part of vast aerial surveillance program, U.S. says (washingtonpost.com)
- CA-Sen: Dianne Feinstein says she will not seek reelection in 2024 (washingtonpost.com)
- North Carolina’s rehearing of voting rights cases is ‘power grab’, justice says (theguardian.com)
- Russian Attacks Intensify in East, Ukraine Says (nytimes.com)Ukraine defense minister expects help from West on airplanes (nydailynews.com)
