Reading archive 2022-02-06

‘He never stopped ripping things up’: Inside Trump’s relentless document destruction habits: Trump’s shredding of paper in the White House was far more widespread and indiscriminate than previously known and — despite multiple admonishments — extended throughout his presidency. - "One senior Trump White House official said he and other White House staffers frequently put documents into “burn bags” to be destroyed, rather than preserving them, and would decide themselves what should be saved and what should be burned. When the Jan. 6 committee asked for certain documents related to Trump’s efforts to pressure Vice President Mike Pence, for example, some of them no longer existed in this person’s files because they had already been shredded, said someone familiar with the request."

‘Tinder Swindler’ con artist, subject of new Netflix documentary, reportedly banned from dating app: Tinder has also issued new guidelines to protect users from would-be romance scammers

As U.S. predicts Russia could seize Kyiv in days, Moscow calls assessment ‘scaremongering’: The response comes after U.S. officials warned that a full-scale Russian invasion could leave as many as 50,000 civilians dead or injured.

A closing factory, a booming economy and a town’s search for identity: The jobs lost at a firetruck plant in Pennsylvania can be easily replaced but not the pride it instilled