Selected News For Week Jan 21 - 27

As usual, this thread is for our readers to post news items that might have not gotten enough attention during the week. Of course articles that fit under the topic of a fairly recent thread should be posted as comments there.
Please don’t post articles from hugely popular sites like Drudge, since most people will presumably see such material elsewhere. Also, avoid material from blogs and editorials unless they are truly newsworthy in their own right.
In order to make the articles as readable as possible, try to stick to the format described in the first of these weekly threads here.
