Stranger Than Fiction

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TOP NEWS

• The republican controlled Senate blocked access to documents and delayed a decision on calling new witnesses in the impeachment trial of President Trump.

  • Here’s a five minute recap on what’s happened to far in the impeachment trial.

  • Senate Dems are privately considering a witness trade: Biden for Bolton

• The phone of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was hacked when he opened a file sent on WhatsApp apparently sent from the personal account of Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman.

• Screenings for the coronavirus have expanded to airports in Atlanta and Chicago

• The Trump administration plans to expand travel restrictions to seven more countries

• South Korea’s military expels their first transgender soldier

THE ELECTION

• Sanders says he wants a positive campaign but allies don’t seem to listen

• Progressives and DCCC reach ceasefire over “blacklist”

• Biden and Sanders trade shots over social security

THE COMMENT

“The one thing we all agreed on, our chief aim, was to be totally unpredictable and never to repeat ourselves,” founding member of Monty Python, Terry Jones, who died Tuesday night at age 77, told The New York Times in 2009, when the group had a rare reunion at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York. “We wanted to be unquantifiable. That ‘pythonesque’ is now an adjective in the O.E.D. means we failed utterly.” Read the full NYT obit here.

THE STRANGEST

• New species of walking sharks have been discovered in the tropics.

THE AV ROOM

• GERVAIS PAYS UP

• SINATRA AND RICKLES ON CARSON

• SAGAN, HAWKING AND CLARKE DISCUSS BIG BANG THEORY