New(s) Reads

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• Debt Ceiling Looms Over Capitol as Congress Returns to Work (WSJ)

• Democrats may have to bend on negotiations with GOP on debt ceiling (The Hill)

• Manchin says it’s a ‘mistake’ for White House to want Democrats to address debt ceiling without GOP (CNN)

• Bipartisan U.S. lawmakers preparing plan to avert debt-ceiling crisis (Reuters)

• DOJ search of Biden's Delaware home results in more seized documents (Politico)

• New Brett Kavanaugh Sexual Assault Allegations Revealed in Secret Sundance Doc (Daily Beast)

• ‘I hope this triggers outrage’: surprise Brett Kavanaugh documentary premieres at Sundance (Guardian)

• Takeaways from Sundance’s secret Brett Kavanaugh documentary (WP)

• Inside the battle for the future of Amazon (Vox)

• What Happens When AI Has Read Everything? (Atlantic)

• ChatGPT passed a Wharton MBA exam and it’s still in its infancy. One professor is sounding the alarm (Fortune)

• The Getty Family’s Trust Issues (New Yorker)

• Attacks on U.S. Jews and gays accelerate as hate speech grows on Twitter (WP)

• Monterey Park shooting: 10 killed at Lunar New Year celebration, suspect dead from apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound (CBS)

• Baton Rouge nightclub shooting injures 12 (CNN)

• Japan was the future but it's stuck in the past (BBC)

• Iranian currency falls to record low amid isolation and sanctions (Reuters)

• This butterfly was once thought extinct. Now it’s off the endangered species list (CNN)

• Mathematicians Roll Dice and Get Rock-Paper-Scissors (Quanta)

• Berkeley Scientists Discover Secret to Waking Up Alert and Refreshed (SciTechDaily)

• Here’s the No. 1 phrase used in successful relationships, say psychologists who studied 40,000 couples (CNBC)

• Girl asks police to run DNA test on Christmas cookie for evidence of Santa Claus (NPR)

• Bleary-Eyed, Stuporous Houseguest Assures Host That He Slept Great (The Onion)