*** REGIONAL NEWS FROM FRIDAY ***

+ Thurston Talk: Take a Day Trip for a Family Bike Ride Along the Yelm-Rainier-Tenino Trail

+ KING-5 TV: Veterans group helping relocate Afghan refugees to western Washington

+ The Seattle Times: Boeing accepts sole responsibility for 737 MAX crashes, wins agreement that avoids punitive damages

+ Office of Gov. Jay Inslee: Inslee leads subnational governments reducing emissions at U.N. climate summit

*** NATIONAL NEWS FROM FRIDAY ***

Common Dreams: AstraZeneca Abandons Pledge Not to Profit From Publicly Funded Vaccine

*** TRUMP NEWS FROM FRIDAY ***

NBC News: Trump defends Jan. 6 rioters’ ‘hang Mike Pence’ chant in new audio

Truthout: Trump Said It Was “Common Sense” for His Backers to Want to Hang Pence on January 6

MSNBC’s MaddowBlog: Steve Bannon indicted for contempt of Congress – The last time Bannon was indicted, he got a presidential pardon. “I have a hunch that won’t happen now that he’s been indicted by federal prosecutors again.“

NBC News: Former Trump aide Mark Meadows fails to appear before Jan. 6 committee – The panel’s chairman had warned that failure to comply could lead to Congress launching procedures to hold Meadows in contempt. [Ed. note: This from a former U.S. Senator! No other U.S citizen would be allowed to get away with this.]

MSNBC’s The Reidout: Mark Meadows is playing a ‘dangerous game of chicken’ with Jan. 6 investigators

The San Francisco Chronicle: Devin Nunes was not a beneficiary of California’s redistricting draft map

NBC News: How America moves on from the Jan. 6 attack could be found in Trump’s White House docs – A president possibly supporting plans to attack the U.S. Capitol is not good, but if any other leaders of the GOP were in on it, then the political crisis in the U.S. is much deeper.