*** SELECT REGIONAL NEWS FROM WEDNESDAY ***

+ Yelm Dollars for Scholars: Upcoming Taste of the Prairie dates benefiting Yelm Dollars for Scholars Fundraiser

+ JOLT News: State contract will create Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion program in Thurston County

+ Prestige Care: Connect Your Body and Mind with Prestige Senior Living at Rosemont through a Free Webinar – Friday, January 29 at 10:30 a.m. PST

+ CNBC: Boeing posts record annual loss, pushes out 777X deliveries to late 2023

*** SELECT NATIONAL NEWS FROM WEDNESDAY ***

WaPo: Millions of federal dollars for health emergencies were diverted to unrelated projects, watchdog says [investigation done by Health and Human Services Department’s inspector general, overseen by the Office of Special Counsel]

San Francisco Chronicle: US terrorism alert warns of politically motivated violence

CNN: The face mask that could end the pandemic – the N95

WaPo: Everyone should be wearing N95 masks now – by Joseph G. Allen is an associate professor and director of the Healthy Buildings program at Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health

People: Pope Francis Marked Holocaust Remembrance Day [Jan. 27] with Warning That ‘These Things Can Happen Again’

NBC News: Small-business owners welcome Biden’s order to ‘Buy American’

NYT: Surge of Student Suicides Pushes Las Vegas Schools to Reopen – Firmly linking teen suicides to school closings is difficult, but rising mental health emergencies and suicide rates point to the toll the pandemic lockdown is taking.

*** SELECT POLITICAL NEWS FROM WEDNESDAY ***

MSN: Google Halts Donations to Republicans Who Voted Against Election Results

NBC News: He used Twitter to mislead voters. Now alt-right figure Douglass Mackey, known better by his alter ego, Ricky Vaughn, is being charged with election interference in conspiring with others “to disseminate misinformation designed to deprive individuals of their constitutional right to vote.”

Daily Kos: ‘No immigrant is an alien’: Advocates cheer Biden push to remove dehumanizing term from U.S. law

CNBC: Trump supporter arrested for pipe bombs discussed attacking Twitter, Facebook

Daily Kos: Now that Trump’s gone, a rush of federal judges decide it’s safe to step aside

WaPo: Anti-Trump Republican Adam Kinzinger accepts his fate, whatever it is [Ed. note: He has a perspective as a pilot with the Air Force National Guard, who formerly flew excursions into enemy territory in Iraq and Afghanistan.]