Above the Fold
**GETTING CLOSER:** Trump signs USMCA trade deal; next up is Canada’s ratification ([National Review](https://www.nationalreview.com/news/trump-signs-usmca-trade-deal/))
ACQUITTAL IMMINENT? Trump could be acquitted in impeachment trial as early as Friday, according to No. 3 Republican Sen. John Barrasso (Reuters)
Government & Politics
**”SOME ... INFORMATION IS AT THE TOP SECRET LEVEL”:** White House seeks to block classified material in John Bolton’s book ([The Hill](https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/480519-white-house-seeks-to-block-publication-of-boltons-book))
WHO’S READY FOR MORE DEBT? House Democrats release $760 billion “green” infrastructure plan (National Review)
SELF-AWARENESS FAIL: Elizabeth “Fauxcahontas” Warren proposes criminal penalties for spreading voting disinformation online (CNBC)
“I DID NOT LIE TO THEM”: Michael Flynn takes on “egregious” FBI misconduct, little-known FBI agent in guilty-plea withdrawal (Fox News)
BIRDS OF A FEATHER FLOCK TOGETHER: New York Times hires BuzzFeed News editor who green-lighted the publishing of bogus Steele dossier (Fox News)
Culture & Heartland
**BEYOND IDIOTIC:** Convicted of sex crimes as a man, felon no longer deemed threat because of gender change ([Storm Lake Times](https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2020/01/16/felon-no-longer-deemed-threat-after-sex-reassignment-treatment/4479275002/))
SLOW BUT STEADY: Fourth-quarter GDP rose only 2.1% and full-year 2019 posts slowest growth in three years at 2.3% (CNBC)
APEX REACHED? Drug deaths fall for first time in nearly 20 years, buoying U.S. life expectancy (Washington Examiner)
National Security
**THOUSAND TALENTS PLAN:** Acclaimed Harvard scientist is arrested, accused of lying about ties to China ([NPR](https://www.npr.org/2020/01/28/800442646/acclaimed-harvard-scientist-is-arrested-accused-of-lying-about-ties-to-china))
OPEN BORDERS: MS-13 gang member deported five times found in U.S. again (The Daily Wire)
WHEN THEY CAN’T GO OVER THEY GO UNDER: Feds expose longest illicit cross-border tunnel ever discovered on southwest border (The Daily Wire)
Closing Arguments
**POLICY:** Do we even need a FISA Court? ([Issues & Insights](https://issuesinsights.com/2020/01/30/do-we-even-need-a-fisa-court/))
POLICY: Monopoly power isn’t why hospital prices are so high (E21)
HUMOR: Warren wears her ancestral headdress while vowing to criminalize election “disinformation” (Genesius Times)
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