The Marilyn mystique
The House Ways and Means Committee votes to release former President Trump's tax returns in the next couple days. / NPR
Details on the government funding package expected to pass this week. / Wake Up to Politics
Wells Fargo will pay a record $3.7 billion to settle claims of improper practices. / CNN
America's rotten health infrastructure prevents cutting-edge medicines—e.g., new drugs for sickle cell disease—from reaching patients. / STAT
3M says it will stop producing "forever chemicals" by 2025. / Reuters
Facial recognition software stops a Girl Scouts mom from attending a Rockettes show because she works for a law firm they don't like. / NBC
See also: Millions of workers are managed by algorithms. / rest of world
Headline of the week? "A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook?" / MIT Technology Review
In 2022, TSA officers confiscated 6,301 firearms at airport security checkpoints. More than 88% of them were loaded. / BuzzFeed News
Andy Warhol's "Shot Sage Blue Marilyn" (1964) was the year's most expensive art, selling for $195,040,000. / Artsy
See also: A round-up of weird news stories from the year. Also, 10 designs that rethink how people use energy. / NPR, dezeen
Los Angeles considers covering its 370-mile aqueduct with solar panels. / Treehugger
Archaeologists uncover hundreds of additional geoglyphs on the Nazca Lines site in Peru. / Colossal
In Estonia, Christmas trees are turned into tonics. / Gastro Obscura
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