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  • Every day it seems that Donald Trump’s legal troubles are increasing. The former president, who is seeking re-election, is under criminal indictments for stealing and hording government secret documents. And there are the charges of falsifying business records for the porn star payoffs. Now Trump could be indicted for January 6th—trying to keep himself in power using fake electors. Is all this political retaliation? What are the facts?
  • The House Jan. 6 committee will hold its eighth hearing Thursday night, focused on former President Trump's activities when he was out of public view for three hours during the attack on the Capitol.
  • The National Bureau of Economic Research recently published a new paper about obesity rates and average BMI. NPR's Arun Rath talks with economist Charles Courtemanche, who worked on the study.
  • The burden for retirement planning has shifted dramatically, from traditional pensions run by experts to 401(k)s that require decisions by "gravely undereducated investors, Vanguard founder John Bogle says. He says the government should set minimum standards to protect retirement plans.
  • The late author wrote close to 50 novels, and several of them, including Get Shorty and Out of Sight, were made into films. His 1978 book The Switch has been turned into a film called Life of Crime.
  • Inspired by the events at Mizzou, students at Occidental College in Los Angeles recently got administrators to agree to a list of demands and are pledging to hold them accountable.
  • After Google search results erroneously said the Utah senator had died in 2017, Hatch's staff had fun on social media showing that their boss was alive and well.
  • In his two elections, Gonzales proved adept at navigating tides of national issues to victory. In 2018 he unseated incumbent Nico LaHood in his Democratic primary, running on a police accountability and reform platform. His challenger this time, Republican Marc LaHood (Nico’s brother) was swimming against the tide of abortion access.
  • The Justice Department has accused executives at two of the world's biggest online poker companies of bank fraud. The government took over their accounts and disabled their websites. The case is shaking up the deck in the high stakes electronic gambling industry.
  • The Biden administration says Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman should be shielded from a lawsuit over his role in journalist Jamal Khashoggi's killing, angering human rights activist.
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