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| Good morning. It’s Wednesday, Jan. 22, and we’re sorry to inform you that the price of your Netflix subscription is probably going up again. Now let’s get to the news. | |
 | President Donald Trump defended his decision to free Jan. 6 riot defendants. | | |
 |  | A “DOGE” revamp will empower Trump’s billionaire adviser Elon Musk. | | |
 | Israel launched a major military operation in the West Bank. | | |
 | Prince Harry settled a case against Rupert Murdoch’s British tabloids. | | |
 | A winter storm brought rare snow to the Southeast yesterday. | - What it looked like: Snowball fights in the French Quarter of New Orleans, people sledding and confused zoo animals in Houston, and snowy Gulf Coast beaches.
- What else to know: The storm led to at least five deaths. Snow and ice led to canceled flights and closed schools, and brought road travel to a halt in some places.
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 | Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner made baseball’s Hall of Fame. | | | Ichiro, shown in 2009, racked up 3,089 hits in a 19-year major league career spent mostly with the Seattle Mariners. (Mark J. Terrill/AP) | - The near-unanimous pick: Ichiro, the outfielder from Japan who joined the Mariners in 2001 at 27 and played 19 MLB seasons. He made all but one ballot from writers.
- Other inductees: Sabathia, a starting pitcher who struck out 3,093 batters and won 251 games for the Indians, Brewers and Yankees; and Wagner, a hard-throwing closer.
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 | Rats have been feasting on drugs held by Houston police. | - A strange tail: Officers say their evidence lockers are filled with stuff like backpacks, ATMs and bikes. They also have a lot of marijuana, and the rats can’t get enough.
- Can’t police just get rid of it? It’s not that simple — officers keep evidence in case it’s useful for future investigations. But an effort is underway to remove some narcotics.
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