1. Erik Prince Helped Fund Pro-Trump Espionage Scheme, Says NYT

I SPY

The ex-Blackwater chief reportedly met with a Gore-Tex scion to raise money for a scheme to use undercover operatives to infiltrate progressive groups and Demo campaigns.

POLITICS

2. Feds: Rioter Stormed Capitol After Attempted Murder Charge

AIN’T NO REST...

Matthew Jason Beddingfield was first identified after internet sleuths used facial recognition software to place him and his dad at the Capitol riot.

U.S. NEWS

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4. Top Backers Ditch Turning Point USA’s ‘America-First’ School

CONSERVATIVE CONUNDRUM

Charlie Kirk still intends to open the academy, a spokesman said.

POLITICS

5. Two Inmates Who Snuck Out Through Air Vents Dead: Sheriff

BRIEF FREEDOM

The pair allegedly carried out a convenience-store robbery after their escape.

U.S. NEWS

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7. Camp Counselor Touched Sleeping Kid’s Genitals: Prosecutors

SICKENING

The alleged assault occurred in 2009, and a woman who is now in her early twenties only recently reported it.

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8. Female Ski Jumpers Out of Olympic Finals Over Baggy Clothes

‘PUPPET THEATER’

“It is outrageous that this happens with the four biggest ski-jump nations,” one sports official said.

WORLD

9. Ron Johnson Loses It on Holocaust Expert Who Criticized Him

LOOK IN THE MIRROR

Deborah Lipstadt accused Johnson of white supremacy after he claimed to be more afraid of Black Lives Matter protesters than Capitol rioters.

POLITICS

10. Canadian Leaders Are Sick of U.S. Republicans’ Anti-Vax BS

STAY IN YOUR LANE

U.S. Republicans had been promoting the protests of Canadian truckers who opposed Canada’s vaccine mandate and COVID restrictions.

WORLD

11. Mechanics Find Human Teeth Stuck in Grill of Woman’s Car

GRISLY DISCOVERY

The driver is thought to have unknowingly run over a victim who had already repeatedly been struck on the New Jersey Turnpike last year.

U.S. NEWS

12. Sheriff’s Deputy and Son Fatally Shot, Wife Wounded

BRUTAL

“This does not appear to be a random act of violence, and there is no threat to the public,” a spokesperson said.

U.S. NEWS

13. Nurse Found Dead After Allegedly Setting Co-Worker on Fire

ON THE LAM

Nicholas Pagano attacked a hospital technician with a wrench before badly burning her in a break room just after 5 a.m. Monday, officials said.

U.S. NEWS

14. U.S. Olympian ‘Heartbroken’ After Crash Fractures Her Leg

CRUEL ENDING

Nina O’Brien took a terrible tumble and was left with an “open fracture” during her second run in the women’s giant slalom on Monday.

WORLD

15. Women in ‘Tinder Swindler’ Start GoFundMe to Cover Debts

‘DEFRAUDED’

Cecilie Fjellhøy, Pernilla Sjöholm, and Ayleen Charlotte claimed they fell victim to Simon Leviev’s elaborate Ponzi scheme.

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