*** REGIONAL NEWS FROM TUESDAY ***

+ The Olympian: Judge dismisses cases against 4 of 5 defendants charged in wind farm worker’s death – The remaining defendant is scheduled to stand trial in March.

+ JOLT News: Port commissioners authorize independent probe into Evans’ alleged conflict of interest

+ KING-5 TV: ‘Out of our control’: 5G, weather blamed for potential flight cancellations out of Everett’s Paine Field – Alaska Airlines warns flights into and out of Paine Field may be delayed or canceled due to heavy fog and 5G signal disruptions.

+ JOLT News: Thurston Commissioners create a county-wide Home Fund – extending the 0.1 percent increase Olympia added to its retail sales taxes to the rest of the county in a bid to fund affordable housing.

+ The Points Guy: Is a single beverage service enough for a 6-hour flight? It will be on American and Alaska [Ed. note: Be prepared when flying domestic long-haul flights from Seattle.]

*** NATIONAL NEWS FROM TUESDAY ***

CNN Exclusive: Federal prosecutors looking at 2020 fake elector certifications, deputy attorney general tells CNN

The Washington Post: Manufacturers have less than five days’ supply of some computer chips, Commerce Department says – Wafer-thin inventories leave factories vulnerable to shutdowns if their chip deliveries are interrupted by weather or covid-19

CNBC: Alabama’s new congressional districts map blocked by federal judges

AP: Democrats make surprising inroads in redistricting fight

*** VIRUS NEWS FROM TUESDAY ***

Independent Sentimental: Biden’s FDA Suddenly Bans Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for Two Monoclonal Antibodies Without Providing Clinical Data. Click here for the FDA announcement.

The Defender: A study published in Obstetrics & Gynecology — and funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the National Institutes of Health’s Office of Research on Women’s Health — confirms an association between menstrual cycle length and COVID-19 shots. Click here for the Obstetrics & Gynecology study.

*** TRUMP NEWS FROM TUESDAY ***

Reuters via MSN: Dominion Voting Systems Corp has told a court there is “no realistic possibility” that the voting machine manufacturer will reach settlements in its billion-dollar defamation lawsuits against Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, lawyers who worked for former President Donald Trump.

The New York Times via Yahoo! News: What the Trump Documents Might Tell the Jan. 6 Committee

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow: Trump is clearly unnerved by Georgia criminal probe. Here’s how to tell.

NBC News: Alex Jones says he spoke to Jan. 6 committee and pled the Fifth ‘almost 100 times’

Daily Kos: Ukraine would not be on the brink of invasion were it not for Paul Manafort and Donald Trump

MSNBC’s The Beat With Ari Melber: Trump electors plot implodes: Giuliani and the admission that may haunt 45

Truthout: State Attorneys General Ask Feds to Investigate Fake Electors Scheme Led by Trump Campaign