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• Boston Hospital Denies Unvaccinated Man Heart Transplant
  
  A 31-year-old man in need of a heart transplant has been removed from the transplant list at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston because he has not been vaccinated for COVID-19, his parents said. ...
• Ted Cruz Slams Biden for Failing to Impose Sanctions Over Nord Stream 2
  
  Sen. Ted Cruz took to social media to say President Joe Biden's refusal to impose sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline has helped fuel the possibility of Ukraine being invaded by Russia.
• China Re-Edits 'Fight Club' With New Ending
  
  David Fincher’s "Fight Club" has been given a new ending in China to show audiences that law enforcement, on the side of justice, triumphs over criminals. ...
• Rep. Meeks Heads Bipartisan Trip to Ukraine
  
  House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., is leading a bipartisan congressional delegation to Ukraine on Tuesday amid heightened concerns that Russia is about to launch an invasion of the country, a congressional source told The Hill.
• NCAA Facilitator Resigns Over Transgender Participation Policy Update
  
  A facilitator in the NCAA Division III LGBTQ OneTeam program has resigned due to the organization's updated policy on the participation of transgender athletes, Fox News reports.
• Labor Dept. Withdraws COVID Vaccine Rule for Large Employers
  
  The Department of Labor said Tuesday it will withdraw its COVID-19 vaccine-and-testing requirement for large U.S. employers after the U.S. Supreme Court blocked the rule, ending a controversial bid to increase vaccination rates.
• Hit List? Liberals Want Five Democrats Out in Midterms
  
  Progressive Democrats, stung by their failure to push through their voting rights bill and the Build Back Better spending package, are now targeting five of their own party's lawmakers in the midterms, The Hill is reported.
• FTC Suing Sue to Block Lockheed Martin's $4.4B Aerojet Deal
  
  The Federal Trade Commission has voted unanimously to sue to block arms maker Lockheed Martin Corp's proposed $4.4 billion purchase of rocket engine maker Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings Inc over antitrust concerns, the agency said on Tuesday.Aerojet's shares fell 16.7% to...
• Mike Pompeo's PAC Spent More Than $30K Honing Media Skills Last Year
  
  Amid speculation about a possible presidential run, Mike Pompeo's political action committee spent more than $30,000 on media training from March to June 2021, according to data from the Federal Election Commission.
• Education, Parents' Rights Emerge as Key Issues in Florida Governor's Race
  
  Education and parents' rights will be prominent issues during Gov. Ron DeSantis' reelection campaign in Florida this year, according to a state politician.
• US Combat Jet Crashes in South China Sea Exercise, 7 Hurt
  
  A U.S. Navy F35C Lightning II combat jet conducting exercises in the South China Sea crashed while trying to land on the deck of an American aircraft carrier, injuring seven sailors, the military said.
• Consumer Confidence Dips in January
  
  U.S. consumer confidence ebbed slightly in January, with more consumers planning to purchase homes, automobiles and other big ticket items even as they grew less optimistic about business and labor market conditions in the near term.
• DHS Starts New Policy of Electronically Tracking Migrants After 47,000 Go Missing
  
  After losing track of almost 50,000 migrants let go from Border Patrol custody, the Biden administration has started tracking all illegal immigrants released at the southern border into the United States with electronic monitoring.
• Dr. Fauci: The $10 Million Man Revealed
  
  Joining public service in 1968 has truly paid off for Dr. Anthony Fauci, who checks in with a net worth of more than $10 million. But how did a man who spent almost his entire career as a civil servant amass such a fortune? The answer is both interesting and disturbing.
• Some Democrats Livid at Schumer's Leadership Strategy
  
  Some Democrats are complaining about how Schumer, D-N.Y., isolated moderate Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz.
• Biden's DOJ Defending Major Trump Immigration Policies
  
  The Biden administration is actively defending two key Trump-era immigration policies in court, Vox is reporting. The Justice Department is arguing that separating migrant families during the Trump administration was lawful and is fighting against compensating them.
• GOP Senators Slam Biden's Expected Police Reform Order
  
  Seven Republican Senators , worried about defunding the police , have written President Joe Biden to express concern over his police reform executive order, the Washington Examiner reported.
• Axios/Ipsos Poll: Free Tests, Masks, Aren't Boosting Biden's Numbers on COVID
  
  An overwhelming majority of Americans say they agree with the Biden administration's move to mail free COVID-19 at-home tests to people who ask for them and to make free N95 masks available, but their approval hasn't boosted Biden's numbers.
• Judge: Parkland High Shooter's Instagram Photos Can Be Shown to Jury
  
  Photos on the Instagram account of the man who shot and killed 17 people at a Parkland, Florida, high school can be seen by jurors, who will decide whether he is sentenced to death or life in prison, a judge has ruled.
• Putin Also Eyes 'Strategic' Swede Island to Make Russia a 'Great Power'
  
  With the world focused on a potential Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin may have set his sights on multiple targets. In addition to the troop buildup on Ukraine's border, the Kremlin has also increased its saber-rattling in the Baltic Sea.
• Companies Pivot to Encourage, Not Mandate Vaccines Post-SCOTUS Decision
  
  Facing an extremely limited labor pool amid the "Great Resignation" and no federal mandate requiring business owners to moonlight as vaccine police, companies are beginning to change how they handle vaccination status among employees, labor experts say. After the recent...
• Cannabis Compound CBD Stops Coronavirus in Test Tube, but Can It Treat COVID?
  
  Early research suggesting that a popular non-psychoactive compound derived from marijuana might help prevent or treat COVID-19 warrants further investigation in rigorous clinical trials, researchers say. Several recent laboratory studies of cannabidiol, or CBD, have shown...
• Trump Battled the Powell Fed's Rate Hikes, Biden Is Betting on Them
  
  U.S. central bankers on Tuesday will open their first meeting of the year already in broad agreement that they need to raise interest rates soon, likely in March, to slow the economy. They are likely not to hear a peep about it from the White House. The silence marks a sharp...
• US Set to Release Study Details on Chips Shortage Amid Funding Push
  
  The U.S. Commerce Department is expected to soon release details from a study of semiconductor chips it conducted last year amid a push to win funding to boost U.S. manufacturing from Congress. In September, the department asked semiconductor chip manufacturers and other...
• US Spy Planes Scouting for Russian Tactical Nukes on Ukraine Border as Tensions Rise
  
  United States spy planes are scouting the build up of Russian forces at its Ukrainian border to see if Russian President Vladimir Putin is deploying tactical nuclear weapons to the theater.

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