Stranger Than Fiction

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TOP NEWS

• Iran’s Khamenei made his first public address in eight years in which he called Trump a “clown” who only pretends to support the Iranian people.

• A non-partisan government agency, the Government Accountability Office, found that the Trump administration’s withholding of funds to Ukraine was illegal.

• China’s economic growth has slowed to a 30-year low and birth rate fell to lowest rate since 1949.

THE ELECTION

• Andrew Yang’s wife said her doctor sexually assaulted her

• There’s no clear front runner with 3 weeks to go before the first caucuses in Iowa

• The Biden implosion that never came

THE COMMENT

“The broader problem of inequality along with the various hurdles imposed by bureaucracy can collude to impair how and where children might be placed," Ginia Bellafante, New York Times on why there’s a lack of affluent foster parents

THE STRANGEST

• A Portland U.S. Bank employee said she was fired after giving $20 of her own money to a customer who was broke and stranded at a gas station on Christmas Eve.

THE AV ROOM

• WHY LAWRENCE FISHBURNE TURNED DOWN PULP FICTION

• “OUR PLANET” TRAILER

• A YEAR ON THE UKRAINIAN FRONTLINE