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#1 Scott Adams, ‘Dilbert’ Creator and Conservative Commentator, Dies at 68 - David K. Li and Austin Mullen for NBC News, Scott Adams, Dr. Eoin Lenihan, Marco Antonio/Ian Miles Cheong, Monica, and Ross B. Clarkon X
Scott Adams, the "Dilbert" creator whose cartoon was dropped by hundreds of newspapers after he made racist remarks, died months after he revealed his diagnosis with prostate cancer, his family said Tuesday. Adams told fans in May that he'd been diagnosed with prostate cancer, which had spread to his bones. He'd recently been in hospice care in Northern California. "Unfortunately, this isn't good news," his ex-wife, Shelly Miles, told Adams' fans Tuesday on YouTube. "He's not with us ... anymore." In a statement he wrote Jan. 1, which Miles shared Tuesday, Adams said he hoped his work brought joy to "lots of lonely people."\ "I had an amazing life," he said. "I gave it everything I had."
#2 Lawsuit Dismissed After Trump Admin Quietly Restored Tens of Millions to Planned Parenthood - Alice Miranda Ollstein for Politico, Andrea Box, Julie “Florida Woman” Barrett, and The Salt Lake Tribune on X
The American Civil Liberties Union on Monday dropped its lawsuit against the Trump administration over tens of millions in Title X family planning funds that federal officials had withheld from Planned Parenthood and some other health clinics since last spring, after HHS quietly released the money in December. Though the Trump administration is still defending in court far bigger federal cuts to Planned Parenthood that Congress approved last summer, the release of the Title X funds gives the clinics a crucial lifeline. It is also likely to inflame existing tensions between the administration and anti-abortion conservatives who will rally in Washington later this month for the annual March for Life...
#3 Joe Rogan Breaks With Trump Over ‘Gestapo’ ICE Operations - Dominick Mastrangelo for The Hill, CALL TO ACTIVISM, Sean Strickland, Old Patrol HQ, The 4th, Jesus Freaking Congress, and WETM-TV on X
Podcaster Joe Rogan voiced sympathy with Americans who have expressed anger and frustration at the way President Trump’s administration has conducted immigration enforcement during his first year in office. “You don’t want militarized people in the streets just roaming around, snatching up people — many of which turn out to be U.S. citizens that just don’t have their papers on them,” Rogan said on Tuesday’s episode of his podcast, likely referring to the president’s deployment of National Guard soldiers to aid in the crackdown...
#4 DOJ Prosecutors Resign in Protest Over Handling of ICE Shooting Investigation - Amna Nawaz and Doug Adams for PBS, Joe Romulo, Pablo Croquevielle, RedLotus, WeCanSaveOurCountry, and KTXS News on X
Across the Justice Department, there was a wave of resignations from top prosecutors. At least four senior leaders of the division that investigates police killings have resigned in protest over the handling of the fatal shooting of a woman in Minneapolis by an ICE officer. In Minnesota, six other federal prosecutors have left their posts. Amna Nawaz discussed more with Carol Leonnig...
#5 Mark Ruffalo Blasts Trump as ‘Worst Human Being’ and Joins Golden Globes Attendees in Making Red Carpet Statement - Carsen Holaday for Independent, Paul A. Szypula, Godly Nation, Deborah Meaden/Gad Saad, The Resonance, and Chief Nerd on X
Mark Ruffalo has blasted Donald Trump as the “worst human being” during a red carpet interview at the Golden Globes. The actor, 58, joined other A-listers in protesting Trump’s administration at Sunday’s Los Angeles ceremony by wearing buttons that say “BE GOOD” and “ICE OUT” to honor Renee Nicole Good, who was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis last week. Ruffalo told USA Today on the red carpet, “This is for Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered.” He went on to call out Trump for the recent military operations in Venezuela, adding, “We're in the middle of a war with Venezuela that we illegally invaded. He's telling the world that international law doesn't matter to him. The only thing that matters to him is his own morality, but the guy is a convicted felon, a convicted rapist. He’s a pedophile.”
#6 Venezuelan-American Journalist Sounds Alarm on Pro-Maduro Protests, Calls Them a ‘Threat to National Security' - Max Bacall for Fox News, Germania Rodriguez Poleo, and Francisco Poleo/Earth Hippyon X
A Venezuelan-American journalist who fled the South American country as a child condemned protesters calling to "free Maduro," denouncing the demonstrations as an insult to Venezuelans who suffered under the regime and a threat to U.S. national security. "It's disgusting, both as an American and as a Venezuelan. It's so obvious there's not one Venezuelan in those protests," said Germania Rodriguez Poleo, who escaped Venezuela with her mother when she was 11 years old. "These people are disrespecting our tragedy, are disrespecting our political prisoners, those we have lost, those who are still in Venezuela's jails, those who are still starving."
#7 Vance and Rubio to Meet With Greenland and Denmark Officials - NBC News, CBS2 News, iavian, Del, Reuters, Mario Nawfal/zahid hussain, and Thomas Manning on X
GREENLAND MEETING: Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio will host the foreign ministers of Denmark and Greenland today amid President Donald Trump's efforts to take over the vast, semi-autonomous Danish territory. AT WHAT PRICE? Buying Greenland, which a senior White House official said is a high priority for Trump, could cost the U.S. as much as $700 billion, according to three people familiar with the cost estimate...#8 The Problem With Cheese: How Pfizer Hijacked Cheese Without Asking - Tracy Beanz and Michelle Edwards for The HighWire, DL, Linda Buxa/Grok, Richie from the Bronx, and the Livingstone5 on X
Most Americans assume that they know what they’re eating. They glance at their grilled cheese, lasagna, pizza, and yummy morning omelet sprinkled with cheddar, and think: ahhh … cheese. Simple, wholesome, and a staple for many families that has been around since biblical times. But what the cheese manufacturer didn’t put on the label is that there’s a decent chance that the cheese at hand was made using genetically modified organisms, courtesy of Big Pharma’s favorite overachiever, Pfizer. And, again, most consumers probably had no idea...#9 Trump Responds to Shouting Protester During Michigan Auto Plant Tour - Jasmine Baehr for Fox News, FOX 17, politically brewed, BionicB, Iran Military Media, and Memes, Myself and I on X
President Donald Trump was caught on video appearing to mouth an expletive and make an obscene gesture toward a heckler during a visit to a Ford factory in Michigan Tuesday, a moment the White House later defended as an "appropriate and unambiguous response."The video, first published by TMZ, shows Trump briefly turning toward someone shouting from the crowd as he walked through the Ford River Rouge complex in Dearborn. In the video, Trump appears to mouth the words "f--- you" twice and gestures with his middle finger...
#10 Supreme Court Appears Likely to Uphold Transgender Athlete Bans - Amy Howe for SCOTUS Blog, News 4 San Antonio, Gunther Eagleman/Citizen Kane, Rep. Dwayne Yunker HD3, Steven Mazie, and Darrell on X
The Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed likely to uphold laws that prohibit transgender women and girls from competing on women’s and girls’ school sports teams. After nearly three-and-a-half hours of arguments in a pair of cases from Idaho and West Virginia, a majority of the justices appeared to agree with the states that the laws can remain in place, even if it was not clear how broadly their ruling might sweep. The court’s three Democratic appointees appeared to recognize that the challengers faced an uphill battle. They seemed to devote much of their efforts to mitigating their losses – either by getting one case thrown out or by limiting the court’s decision to a narrow one...
