Judge: It's "likely" Trump committed crimes.
WILL SMITH APOLOGIZES: 'I WAS OUT OF LINE' Actor Will Smith apologized to Chris Rock and everyone who witnessed his assault of the comedian at the Oscars. "Violence in all of its forms is poisonous and destructive," Smith wrote in an Instagram statement. Rock declined to press charges, but the academy said it has launched a formal review. [HuffPost] JUDGE: 'MORE LIKELY THAN NOT' TRUMP COMMITTED CRIMES A federal judge wrote that it is "more likely than not" that former President Donald Trump committed crimes in his attempt to stop the certification of the 2020 election. The ruling to order the release of more than 100 emails from Trump adviser John Eastman to the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection marks a major legal win for the panel. [AP] BIDEN: 'NO APOLOGIES' FOR SAYING PUTIN 'CANNOT REMAIN IN POWER' President Joe Biden said that he stood by his unscripted remarks that Vladimir Putin should not be president of Russia. "I was expressing moral outrage, and I make no apologies," he said. Biden said he had no interest in escalating a conflict with a nuclear arms, but was expressing a view shared by many. [HuffPost] NEW ROUND OF PEACE TALKS AIMS TO STOP PUTIN'S WAR Another round of peace talks between Russia and Ukraine is scheduled today in Istanbul as fighting appeared stalemated on the ground. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his country is prepared to declare its neutrality, as Moscow has demanded. [AP] |
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JAN. 6 PANEL WANTS TO INTERVIEW GINNI THOMAS OVER TEXTS The House committee investigating the Capitol attack reportedly will soon move to interview Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, over her texts to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows urging him to help overturn the 2020 presidential election. The panel will likely ask her to testify voluntarily, although they don't rule out issuing subpoenas. [HuffPost] TALIBAN HARD-LINERS TURN BACK THE CLOCK IN AFGHANISTAN The Taliban have issued a flurry of repressive edicts over the past days that hark to their harsh rule in Afghanistan from the late 1990s. The latest assault on women's rights came earlier this month, when the all-male and religiously driven Taliban government broke its promise to allow girls to return to school after the sixth grade. [AP] THE OSCARS TRIED TO PLEASE EVERYBODY. THEY ENDED UP PLEASING NO ONE. After a drop in viewership last year, ABC executives and the Oscars telecast producers made several widely pilloried changes to appeal to a supposedly broader audience. But they seemed to forget that people want to watch human moments, not soulless gimmicks and stunts, writes Marina Fang. [HuffPost] 3 KILLED IN 50-VEHICLE PILEUP ON SNOWY PENNSYLVANIA HIGHWAY At least three people died in a Pennsylvania highway pileup involving more than 50 vehicles that closed a portion of an interstate and sent more than a dozen people to hospitals. Video on social media showed a tractor-trailer smash into a large dump truck, and other vehicles slamming into one another amid snow squalls and very poor visibility. [AP] FLORIDA GOV SIGNS 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL INTO LAW; DISNEY PLEDGES REPEAL The Walt Disney Co. said it would help repeal Florida's "Don't Say Gay' law after Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed it. The company has faced a barrage of criticism for its initial reluctance to condemn the controversial anti-LGBTQ legislation. [HuffPost] |
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