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Coinbase to shut down Coinbase Pro to merge trading services Solana Labs Is Building a Web3 Mobile Phone A solution in search of a problem? EU champion Airbus has deep links to Chinese military industrial complex

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

Five COVID Numbers That Don’t Make Sense Anymore Global impact of the first year of COVID-19 vaccination: a mathematical modelling study > Based on official reported COVID-19 deaths, we estimated that vaccinations prevented 14·4 million (95% credible interval [Crl] 13·7–15·9) deaths from COVID-19 in 185 countries and territories between Dec 8, 2020, and Dec 8, 2021. This estimate rose to 19·8 million (95% Crl 19·1–20·4) deaths from COVID-19 averted when we used excess deaths as an estimate of the true extent of the pandemic, representing a global reduction of 63% in total deaths (19·8 million of 31·4 million) during the first year of COVID-19 vaccination.

Politics:

The smoking gun quote that proves Trump was directing the scheme: “Just say it was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican Congressmen.” ’There Is Nowhere I Feel Safe’: Election Officials Describe Threats Fueled by Trump Multiple House Republicans on defensive over Jan. 6 panel testimony that they sought post-riot pardons >Former top Department of Justice officials who testified thwarted the then-president's election subversion by threatening a mass resignation. Angry Trump Again Demands The Impossible From Jan. 6 Panel After Riveting Hearing Germany Looks at Potential Rationing of Natural Gas >The German government moved closer to rationing natural gas on Thursday after Russia cut deliveries to the country last week in an escalation of the economic war triggered by Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. DOJ Now Appears Focused On Fake Electors Who Got Wrapped Up In Coup Plot What Trump Has Taken From Us >Our elections work because they are run by ordinary citizens at the state and local level who either were elected or volunteered to help administer the vote as a matter of civic duty. This is a wondrous thing: community volunteers overseeing the vote and counting the results. I love voting in person for just this reason; having seen people in other nations too terrified even to talk about politics, it always filled me with quiet joy to have my fellow townspeople hand me a ballot and protect my privacy while I voted. >Trump and his people, however, have made it clear that democracy is a meaningless word. They want what they want and they will hurt anyone who gets in their way. Their goal is to make public service a hazardous undertaking, to create an environment in which people working on elections—their fellow American citizens—fear for their lives if they don’t cough up the results they want. “I think if you can step back, what’s going on here right now in the Republican Party… 50% roughly of the Republicans would walk off the cliff for Donald Trump. Now I think at least 20% want to push him off the cliff.” — Bob Woodward Kazakhstan Speaks Out Against Russia Over Ukraine War Feds Search Home of Trump Justice Department Official >Federal investigators descended on the home of Jeffrey Clark, a former Justice Department official, on Wednesday in connection with the department’s sprawling inquiry into efforts to overturn the 2020 election. >It remained unclear exactly what the investigators may have been looking for, but Mr. Clark was central to President Donald Trump’s unsuccessful effort in late 2020 to strong-arm the nation’s top prosecutors into supporting his claims of election fraud.

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