Merrick Garland has appointed a special counsel to review the classified material found at Biden's Delaware home. / NBC News A timeline of the Biden documents case. / The New York Times Before drawing too many parallels between Biden and Trump's document handling, remember the latter resisted official
Uganda declares the end of its latest Ebola epidemic after four months and dozens of people killed. / Reuters Some trends that will shape urban Africa in 2023: Gentrification, increased focus on emerging cities, confronting flooding. / This Week in Africa Venice's lagoon contains an estimated 2,000 abandoned vessels.
California storm costs may add up to the United States' first billion-dollar disaster of 2023. / Yahoo! News The entire community of Planada, a town of about 4,000 people, was evacuated amid rising waters from a breached levee. / The Los Angeles Times Some notes on military-funded TikTok
Earth's last eight years were the hottest on record. The poles continue to see "worrisome changes as well." / Axios, MarketWatch A study finds the earth's ozone layer on track to repair itself in four decades. / NPR What Kevin McCarthy's deal with ultraconservatives
Thousands of supporters of Jair Bolsonaro mount an insurrection in Brazil. / The Guardian Questions will be asked about whose side the police were on. More obvious, it seems, were Donald Trump's allies. / The Economist, BBC News Analysis of Xi Jinping's bookshelf from the background of his
It took all week, but late last night—following a historical, debasing 15th ballot—Kevin McCarthy became House speaker, crediting Trump for getting the final votes. / Associated Press Here's video from last night of Rep. Mike Rogers being restrained after he appears to go after Rep. Matt Gaetz,
Twelve experts offer thoughts on how to avoid war with China over Taiwan, or anywhere else. / Foreign Policy Related: What we know on day 317 of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. / The Guardian An online black market for Covid-19 drugs is said to be thriving in China. / rest
Retail pharmacies will now be able to distribute abortion pills, no longer requiring patients to receive the drugs directly from their medical provider or a mail-order pharmacy. / STAT However, a federal judge who openly opposed Roe v. Wade might freeze the FDA's approval of one of the
Twenty-three experts tell Helen Branswell what surprised them the most about the pandemic. / STAT China is now proclaimed "the center of Covid." A professor at Yale Law School gives China-related predictions for 2023. / The Guardian, Twitter Temperatures for January reach an all-time high in a
China lashes out at a dozen nations placing "discriminatory" restrictions on its travelers. Meanwhile, the year's biggest economic event gets going. / Forbes, The Economist California prepares for a third atmospheric river as much of the rest of the country prepares for consequences from the second one.
