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  • On Monday, the newspaper chain Tribune Publishing, becomes "tronc" — a company with a futuristic mission built around distribution of "premium verified content." What the heck does that mean?
  • India abolished its highest-value currency notes last November, in an effort to rein in hoarders of big bills who evade tax. Six months later, how is it working?
  • Michael Flynn, who held the post of national security adviser in the Trump administration for less than a month, was set to be sentenced on Jan. 28.
  • Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told lawmakers that unaccompanied minors are moving more quickly out of custody and into facilities run by the Department of Health and Human Services.
  • On Thursday, a federal judge will tell the president's former campaign chairman how much time in prison he must serve and how much money he must pay for bank and tax fraud.
  • Jury trials are beginning for some members of a white nationalist group accused of conspiring to riot at a June LGBTQ event. But some experts say these local prosecutions yield little accountability.
  • These two British teenagers arrived from out of nowhere, young in years but artistically mature and assured — and now the pair is out to reshape and retake.
  • Preliminary test positivity rates in San Francisco's Mission District soar, as health workers deploy rapid tests in hopes people can isolate sooner.
  • NPR's David Kestenbaum examines allegations that two major cultural anthropologists brought social and political havoc - and even deaths - to a tribe of South American Indians - in the process of studying them. The charges are made in an upcoming book: Darkness in Eldorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon, by Patrick Tierney. If it's true, it is a major scientific and human rights scandal. If it is *not* true, then that's a different kind of scandal. NOTE: For more information about The Ax Fight or for any of the other 22 films in the Asch/Chagnon Yanomamo Series contact: Documentary Educational Resources, 1-800-569-6621 or email: docued@der.org. The movie soundtrack in the piece was recorded courtesy of : Human Studies Film Archives, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.
  • A report in The New York Times Friday says in 2002, President Bush authorized the National Security Agency to monitor the international phone calls and e-mails of hundreds of people inside the United States. The surveillance went on for years and was conducted without court approval in order to search for evidence of terrorist activity.
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