Stranger Than Fiction

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TOP NEWS

• A cyber-operation used to disrupt Islamic State’s online presence hit significant delays during Obama’s final year in office, newly released documents show.

• The Senate will open the impeachment trial against President Trump today. Trump lawyers and Senate allies are strongly against allowing former National Security Advisor John Bolton from testifying publicly. The White House wants a swift trial.

• Trump is speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Also at Davos, U.S. Treasury Secretary Mnuchin warned Italy and U.K. against their digital tax plans.

• Conservative southern coastal states seek billions in disaster relief, while avoiding mentions of climate change.

THE ELECTION

• The double standards of men and women using humor in politics

• 3 organizers, 3 candidates, one roof

• Biden dismisses doubts on support from black voters

THE COMMENT

“Love with open eyes — when you have fallen in love with someone you have seen — is different with that of closed eyes,” poet Zaheer Ahmad Zindani, who was blinded by a roadside bombing in Afghanistan “When you can’t see the person, the thirst is not fulfilled the same.”

THE STRANGEST

• Outrage after Chinese theme park forces pig to bungee jump

THE AV ROOM

• DUCK DRAMA

• INFILTRATING SCIENTOLOGY

• MLK JR ON “THE OTHER AMERICA”