Richard Leakey, and so it goes.
"The world’s oldest person has celebrated her 119th birthday in Japan, saying she is determined to extend the record by another year."
"A winter storm packing heavy snow blew into Washington DC on Monday, closing government offices and schools and grounding the president’s helicopter. As much as 10in of snow was forecast for the District of Columbia, northern Virginia and central Maryland through the afternoon."
"If the clouds cooperate, you can start the year with a meteor shower. The Quadrantid meteor shower reaches its peak activity on or about 3 January each year. This year, the peak has been estimated to occur at about 10pm GMT, although this can vary by a day or so."
"Engineers activating the James Webb Space Telescope decided Sunday to hold off tightening the observatory's critical sunshade to allow more time to check out the performance of its power systems and overall behavior now that several major deployments are complete."
"David Bowie’s estate has reached a deal to sell the music icon’s songwriting catalog to Warner Music Group’s Warner Chappell in one of the largest music publishing deals to date… The company did not divulge financial details, but sources told Variety that the deal, which includes Bowie’s “entire body of work,” was worth more than $250 million."
"Turkey's annual rate of inflation has hit a 19-year high as a currency collapse sends the cost of imports soaring… According to the Turkish Statistical Institute, consumer prices soared 36% in December compared to the same month the previous year. Prices are now rising at their fastest pace since September 2002. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's party came to power later that year."
"A man has been arrested after a large fire severely damaged the Houses of Parliament in the South African city of Cape Town… The suspect, who is not a parliamentary employee, will appear in court on Tuesday, facing charges of arson, housebreaking and theft, police said."
"Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, the vice chair of the committee and one of its two Republican members, told ABC News that the panel has 'firsthand testimony' that during the attack, Trump's daughter and then-senior adviser Ivanka Trump asked him to intervene. And Chairman Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat, told CNN the panel has 'significant testimony' that the White House 'had been told to do something.'" The real culpability here isn't that Trump didn't do anything to stop the assault on the Capitol, but that he helped plan and launched the attack. That there is now evidence that they took money raised for the "protest" (the event on the green) and that everything raised can not be accounted for, that's just extra sauce.
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