Light News Dump

A video of medics in Hazmat suits scanning plane passengers for China's mysterious Wuhan virus is stoking fears of a global epidemic
https://www.businessinsider.com/china-virus-wuhan-outbreak-medics-scan-plane-passengers-2020-1

Architects of Cia Torture Program to Testify at Guantanamo for First Time - The contract psychologists, James E. Mitchell and John “Bruce” Jessen, are responsible for developing interrogation techniques, including waterboarding, confinement in small boxes, beatings, and sleep deprivation
https://www.amnestyusa.org/press-releases/architects-of-cia-torture-program-to-testify-at-guantanamo-for-first-time/

Christian Republican White Conservative Voters In Kansas City Vote To Remove Martin Luther King's Name From Street
https://www.npr.org/2019/11/12/778451944/kansas-city-votes-to-remove-martin-luther-kings-name-from-street

Trump's Russia adviser was escorted from the White House after 2 months on the job, as part of a mysterious security probe
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-russia-adviser-andrew-peek-leave-white-house-security-probe-2020-1

Republican  terrorists directly threaten violence at Virgina rally
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-guns-rally/militia-leaders-warn-virginia-gun-rally-could-get-violent-idUSKBN1ZJ15B

Navy Secretary nominee Kenneth Braithwaite had undisclosed ties to Cambridge Analytica
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/navy-secretary-kenneth-brathwaite-trump-nominee-cambridge-analytica-disclosure/

Climate refugees cannot be sent back home, United Nations rules in landmark decision | Ruling outlined that countries could violate people's international rights if they force them back to countries where climate change poses an immediate threat
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/20/world/climate-refugees-unhrc-ruling-scli-intl/index.html

Chinese authorities are continuing to detain foreign nationals of Uighur descent, which experts charge is part of an effort by Beijing to prevent any outside access to Xinjiang province.
https://www.voanews.com/extremism-watch/china-targets-foreign-nationals-uighur-origin

Human-to-human transmission of new coronavirus confirmed, Chinese official says
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/thailand-china-coronavirus-1.5432108

A third of the world's poorest girls, aged between 10 and 18, have never been to school, in what the UN calls a "crippling learning crisis"
https://www.bbc.com/news/education-51176678

YouTube Has Been 'Actively Promoting' Videos Spreading Climate Denialism, According to New Report
https://time.com/5765622/youtube-climate-change-denial/

San Francisco 49ers vs Kansas City Chiefs 6:30pm
https://www.espn.com/nfl/game/_/gameId/401131047

Shoutout to the Tennessee Titans. ▪ 2-4 early in season ▪ took a risk by starting castoff Ryan Tannehill ▪Tannehill & Derrick Henry lead Titans to 7-3 finish down stretch ▪Stun heavily favored Pats & Ravens on road to reach AFC Title Game ▪Fall 1 game short of Super Bowl

This will be the first Super Bowl that hasn’t featured LeGarrette Blount or C.J. Anderson as a RB in 7 years

Dee Ford, who caused the Chiefs to miss the Super Bowl last year because of an offsides penalty, gets to play against the Chiefs in this year's Super Bowl

2 dеad, 15 hurt in shooting outside Kansas City bar after someone opens fire on fаns celebrating the Chiefs’ Super Bowl berth.
https://apnews.com/d2f19c481503aff9f98b1aba324a894c

Super Bowl LIV marks the first Super Bowl with two tight ends that each had 1,000+ receiving yards that season. George Kittle and Travis Kelce also own the top two receiving yardage seasons of all-time for a TE. The two best in the game headed to Miami.

Sit with me. Close your eyes. Just for a while. Look at the images of the Virginia armed protesters through the eyes of a mother whose own unarmed child was shot and killed for “looking suspicious or threatening”. Can you still breathe?
https://twitter.com/Nelba_MG/status/1219279738549821442

People no longer believe working hard will lead to a better life, survey shows
https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/hack/2020-edelman-trust-barometer-shows-growing-sense-of-inequality/11883788

Immune cell which kills most cancers discovered by accident by British scientists in major breakthrough
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2020/01/20/immune-cell-kills-cancers-discovered-accident-british-scientists/

Malaysia has sent back 150 shipping containers of plastic waste to mostly wealthier nations, saying it would not be world's "garbage dump". The region has been flooded with plastic from more developed economies such as the US and Britain since 2018, after China ordered a halt to most imports.
http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/world/malaysia-says-won-t-be-garbage-dump-as-it-returns-waste/article/565566

Scientists are creating oxygen from moon dust in experiments that could be "hugely useful for future lunar settlements"
https://www.newsweek.com/scientists-oxygen-moon-dust-experiments-future-lunar-settlements-1483088

'Brink of extinction': Steep drop in platypus numbers as drought bites - The platypus, once viewed as so bizarre as to be mythical, could end up merely a legend as habitat destruction and climate threats push the mammal towards the “brink of extinction”.
https://www.theage.com.au/environment/conservation/brink-of-extinction-steep-drop-in-platypus-numbers-as-drought-bites-20200116-p53rz8.html

Just as Australia's deadly fires begin to subside, it's being hit with more apocalyptic weather. Videos show enormous dust storms and golf-ball-sized hail battering cars and buildings
https://www.insider.com/australia-bushfires-subside-but-now-hail-dust-storms-videos-2020-1

After horrific bushfires, South Eastern Australia is battered with 66 miles per hour red dust storms. Hail storms with hail as big as golf balls struck Melbourne. Topped with flash floods whilst bushfires stil raging. The severe drought and lost vegetation are culprits at exacerbating the situation
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2020/01/20/australia-wildfires-floods-hail-hit-canberra-dust-storm-dubbo/4522565002/

South Korea confirms first case of new coronavirus
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/479021-south-korea-confirms-first-case-of-new-coronavirus-report

2 more Puerto Rico officials fired after warehouse break-in | Gov. Wanda Vázquez fired the heads of Puerto Rico’s housing and family departments Sunday in the latest fallout over the discovery of a warehouse filled with emergency supplies dating from Hurricane Maria.

The removal of Housing Secretary Fernando Gil and Department of Family Secretary Glorimar Andújar came a day after the governor fired the director of Puerto Rico’s emergency management agency. Vázquez fired him hours after a Facebook video showed angry people breaking into the warehouse in an area where thousands have been in shelters since a recent earthquake.
https://apnews.com/19c71cd09651f583a0ed8b630493ea8d

Elon Musk: SpaceX first launch with NASA astronauts in second quarter
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/19/elon-musk-spacex-first-launch-with-nasa-astronauts-in-second-quarter.html

Family of Canadian crash victim claims Iran is intimidating them, won’t release remains
https://globalnews.ca/news/6411065/iran-plane-crash-families-repatriate-canadian-victims/

Angolan prosecutors vowed on Monday to use "all possible" means to bring back Isabel dos Santos, the former president's billionaire daughter, after thousands of leaked documents brought new allegations she siphoned off hundreds of millions in public money
https://www.france24.com/en/20200120-angola-vows-to-bring-back-billionaire-dos-santos-over-graft-claims

Pro-gun rally by thousands in Virginia starts and ends fast without ado
https://apnews.com/2c997c92fa7acd394f7cbb89882d9b5b

In 26 minutes of raw tape he never speaks a syllable in error, and we get to see how incredibly patient and creative he was in putting the same vital, maddeningly obvious argument into fresh words each time. Amazing.
https://www.nbcnews.com/video/martin-luther-king-jr-speaks-with-nbc-news-11-months-before-assassination-1202163779741

Nancy Pelosi's daughter said she was able to hand Trump a bottle of water in the White House without anyone checking for contamination
https://www.businessinsider.com/nancy-pelosi-daughter-trump-water-bottle-no-checks-2020-1

Bernie criticized Biden for thinking videogames cause violence. Here is Bernie Sanders in a 2012 interview blaming videogames and movies for violence.
https://streamable.com/leib8

"When @JoeBiden first ran for office in 1972 he pledged not to own a single share of stock so long as he held public office. He kept that promise for his entire political career. Support any candidate you like, but spreading Republican lies about other Democrats has got to stop."
https://twitter.com/Weinsteinlaw/status/1219336454964420614

Bernie is a millionaire. Joe Biden never was.

Today Trump is quoting the 2nd amendment as a strict constructionist, saying we have to take the constitution literally. At the same time, his lawyers are arguing the opposite, the framers couldn't possible envision America as it is today. Dershowitz, as well, has distorted *any* construction of the Constitutional language on impeachment.

Each and every one of these younglings have courage, are determined and know that their limb difference is their very own superpower. 💪 #TheForceIsWithThemALL: This 11-year-old Star Wars fan just received a bionic arm inspired by R2-D2 from @openbionics. The company makes all sorts of prosthetics from Frozen to Iron Man-themed "Hero Arms," taking a cue from @HamillHimself
https://twitter.com/v_shakthi/status/1219218116627972096

Boeing tells CNBC that “MAX production has now been temporarily suspended inside the 737 factory” as it had planned as the plane’s grounding reaches into the 11th month. It says its Washington factory is still open for work on “quality initiatives”
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/20/737-max-crisis-boeing-seeks-to-borrow-10-billion-or-more.html

The psychologist James Mitchell will be the first witness to describe the torture of detainees in the secret prisons — some at his own hands — in the trial of the men accused of plotting the Sept. 11 attacks
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/20/us/politics/911-trial-psychologists.html

2 dead, 5 injured after shooter fired ‘indiscriminately’ inside San Antonio club, police say
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/01/20/2-dead-5-injured-after-shooter-fired-indiscriminately-inside-san-antonio-club-police-say/

Gray wolves were reintroduced in Yellowstone 25 years ago. It’s been a struggle but today they survive.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/gray-wolves-were-reintroduced-in-yellowstone-25-years-ago-its-been-a-struggle-but-today-they-survive/2020/01/17/12515f3a-3703-11ea-9541-9107303481a4_story.html

Conservative States Seek Billions to Brace for Disaster. (Just Don’t Call It Climate Change.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/20/climate/climate-change-funding-states.html

Jimmy Heath, 93, Jazz Saxophonist and Composer, Is Dead | Mr. Heath, whose compositions became part of the midcentury jazz canon, found new prominence in middle age as a co-leader of a band with his two brothers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/19/obituaries/jimmy-heath-dead.html

Joaquin Phoenix Wins SAG Award, Heads Straight to Pig Vigil
https://www.livekindly.co/joaquin-phoenix-wins-sag-award-pig-vigil/