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Assassination Attempt Charges

Officials yesterday charged a 58-year-old man—suspected of the second attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump—with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number. The charges are preliminary, and the case will require a grand jury indictment before it can proceed.

 

New details from the attempt Sunday (see previous write-up) at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, reveal the suspect spent nearly 12 hours lying in wait. Cellphone data showed the suspect's phone had remained at the same location since 2 am ET before he was spotted. Secret Service yesterday also said the suspect did not have a clear line of sight to the former president. See a visual timeline of the suspect's capture here.

 

Separately, court records show more than 100 criminal charges have been filed against the suspect in North Carolina, where he lived until 2018 before moving to Hawaii. He was also once convicted of owning a machine gun. 

 

Jackson 5 Brother Dies

Tito Jackson, a founding member of the Jackson 5, has died at age 70 from a suspected heart attack, his family announced. Born Oct. 15, 1953, Tito played guitar and sang backup vocals in the family band that rose to fame in the 1970s alongside brothers Michael, Jackie, Jermaine, and Marlon, selling over 150 million records worldwide with hits like "I'll Be There" and "ABC." They were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1997.

 

The third-oldest of nine siblings, Tito began his career at age 10 after his father discovered he had broken a string on one of their guitars. Instead of punishment, Joe Jackson allegedly bought Tito a new guitar and formed the band. Tito later pursued a solo blues career, releasing "Tito Time" in 2016 and "Under Your Spell" in 2021. He was the most recent sibling to have a solo single on the Billboard charts with 2016’s “Get It Baby.”

 

In total, the Jackson family has produced 27 No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100.

 

TikTok Heads to Court

TikTok argued in a federal appeals court yesterday against a US government law forcing it to separate from China-based parent company ByteDance by Jan. 19 or face a federal ban.

 

The bipartisan law, passed in April, maintains TikTok poses a national security risk due to Chinese laws granting the government access to American users’ data upon request. The US government also maintains the app can be used to spread Chinese propaganda

 

TikTok’s lawyer rejected both allegations. The company argued a divestment is impractical, especially in the law's timeframe, and said a ban would undercut Americans’ First Amendment rights, including the right to choose an editor and publisher of their choice. The court yesterday appeared to question that narrative, invoking the US government’s claim the law targets company ownership structure, not speech. 

 

TikTok boasts more than 170 million US users, over half the country’s population. Watch how TikTok became a cultural phenomenon here.

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In The Know
 

Sports, Entertainment, & Culture

> Sean "Diddy" Combs arrested in New York by federal prosecutors after grand jury indictment (More) | Longtime BBC presenter Huw Edwards avoids jail time after pleading guilty to three counts of making indecent images of children (More) | Former MoviePass CEO Mitch Lowe pleads guilty to securities fraud charges (More)

> Shaboozey’s "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" tops Billboard Hot 100 for 10th consecutive week as well as the Hot Country Songs chart for the 14th week (More

> Independent hearing on Manchester City's alleged finance breaches begin; the soccer club is alleged to have breached 115 Premier League financial regulations between 2009 and 2018 (More

 

Science & Technology

> Researchers produce first-ever map of brain changes occurring during pregnancy; effects include a long-lasting decrease in gray matter and a temporary increase in white matter (More) | Gray versus white brain matter, explained (More

> US health regulators approve sleep apnea detection feature on new Apple watches, the company's latest step into health; the decision follows approval for hearing aid function on AirPods Pro 2 (More

> Engineers develop cheap, biocompatible fabric-like filter to remove microplastics and lead from drinking water (More

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Business & Markets

> US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 +0.1%, Dow +0.6%, Nasdaq -0.5%); Dow closes at an all-time high (More) | Intel shares rise nearly 8% in after-hours trading on plans to turn foundry business into subsidiary; unit offers semiconductor manufacturing services to customers (More) | Oracle shares close up 5%; chairman Larry Ellison becomes world's second-richest person (More

> Boeing freezes hiring, considers temporary furloughs to cut costs as more than 33,000 union workers strike for fourth day (More) | See previous write-up (More) | Amazon orders workers to return to office five days a week in 2025 (More

> AI startup World Labs raises $230M from backers including Andreessen Horowitz and Nvidia's venture capital arm; aims to build AI models that interact with 3D world (More) | See other US AI startups that have raised $100M or more this year (More

 

Politics & World Affairs

> Two former chiefs of the New York City Fire Department charged for allegedly soliciting, accepting bribes to expedite fire safety approvals of large building projects; unclear if case is related to corruption investigation around Mayor Eric Adams' (D) administration (More

> Coast Guard's Marine Board of Investigation begins hearing two weeks of testimony from former employees of OceanGate as part of probe into Titan submersible, which imploded in June 2023 and killed five people (More, w/photo) 

> Death toll from flooding in central Europe rises to 18 after Storm Boris brings unusually heavy rainfall to Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia (More) | See photos (More)

 

In-Depth

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No Such Podcast | Staff. In the inaugural episode of a podcast by the US National Security Agency, members of the agency discuss how foreign signals intelligence led the US to al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. (Listen)

 

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