News from the note…
A round up of the day’s news that might be of interest to you.
This is an OPEN THREAD, folks. Chat about any of the stories listed, share links to stories that caught your eye today, and generally have a good time discussing whatever you want.
Former President Donald Trump teased a 2024 presidential candidacy and said he would consider pardoning those who were charged in connection with the deadly January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol if he wins the White House again.https://t.co/torGh7k7dO
— CNN (@CNN) January 30, 2022
Beijing officials have sealed off several residential communities in the city’s northern district after two cases of COVID-19 were found. https://t.co/Lgn702H10p
— ABC News (@ABC) January 30, 2022
Scientists say they can outline scenarios for how the virus could evolve, but variants remain Covid’s unknowable wild card.
— NBC News (@NBCNews) January 30, 2022
Anyone saying they know for sure what happens next is full of it, says a New York virologist. https://t.co/npPFQK2QGE
The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said members of the U.N. Security Council will press Russia on Monday about Moscow’s massing of troops near Ukraine and rising fears it is planning an invasion. https://t.co/fbipI4kmNh
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 30, 2022
Police recovered about 100 bags of fentanyl from the bedroom of a 13-year-old who died after a presumed fentanyl exposure at his school in Hartford, Connecticut.https://t.co/UOJ4fxwgTm
— CNN (@CNN) January 30, 2022
Biden says the Taliban must release Navy veteran Mark Frerichs, who was kidnapped 2 years ago, "before it can expect any consideration of its aspirations for legitimacy."
— Axios (@axios) January 30, 2022
"This is not negotiable."
https://t.co/Ipt7Zl0sBi
Graham says he "can't think of a better person" than Michelle Childs for the Supreme Court https://t.co/O8wOXVXC9G
— CBS News (@CBSNews) January 30, 2022
Ohio offered Intel Corp. incentives worth roughly $2 billion to secure a new $20 billion chipmaking factory that the company says will help alleviate a global shortage and create a new technology hub in the Midwest. https://t.co/I9pEcAyZTh
— ABC News (@ABC) January 30, 2022
FAA clears Verizon and AT&T to activate more 5G towers https://t.co/L05AaT9khN
— CBS News (@CBSNews) January 30, 2022
Five decades after British soldiers killed 13 unarmed Catholic civil-rights marchers on one of the defining days of the Northern Ireland conflict, relatives are still searching for the justice they believe is needed for a scarred society to heal https://t.co/P6ivzPFg5A pic.twitter.com/pXo7EjBS4A
— Reuters (@Reuters) January 30, 2022
Tens of thousands of people wake up without power as the East Coast plunges into a deep freeze after a powerful nor’easter. https://t.co/9SO8ioe35y
— NBC News (@NBCNews) January 30, 2022
