Reading archive 2023-01-20

Trump warns GOP about efforts to cut Social Security, Medicare

Under oath, Trump is confronted with his ‘hoax’ hyperbole - "A bit later he again claimed that climate change activists had stopped using the term 'global warming' because 'it wasn’t working' rhetorically. In reality, Republican consultant Frank Luntz recommended that conservatives adopt the term 'climate change' to blunt the implications of 'global warming.'"

Sick of smelling her neighbor’s legal pot, this woman sued - "Secondhand marijuana smoke contains many of the same cancer-causing toxins as secondhand tobacco smoke, said Brooke Hoots, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention epidemiologist."

CIA director holds secret meeting with Zelensky on Russia’s next steps: High-level visit by Burns comes at critical juncture in war and as government in Kyiv airs concern about durability of U.S. support

Native American tribe in Va. reclaims big parcel of its homeland: The Rappahannock Indians once dominated the area of Fones Cliffs, a unique rock formation in Virginia’s Northern Neck

Trees have long protected Sacramento. Storms turned them to ‘carnage.’