- The House Intelligence Committee voted unanimously to make the Democratic rebuttal to last week's memo by GOP chair Devin Nunes public, but it is unknown if Trump will block its release.
- The City of Seattle says Facebook violated a city ordnance requiring disclosure of who bought political ads in the 2016 election, Seattle may levy fines of $5,000 for each ad buy.
- The global market sell-off continues as some $4 trillion in value has been wiped from world stock markets since hitting record highs last week.
- US Firearms sales are down for a second January in a row as Republican control of the government isn't stoking the kind of fear-based buying the industry saw during the Obama years.
- European scientists have concluded that without new improvements to technologies for removing carbon from the atmosphere, the world will fall well short of limiting global warming to 2C.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. -- Benjamin Franklin
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