Not Secret: A document describing a foreign government’s military defenses, including its nuclear capabilities, was among items found by FBI agents who searched former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, The Washington Post reports citing “people familiar with the matter.”

  Some of the seized documents detail secrets so closely guarded that even many senior national security officials don’t know about them, The Post reports. Only the President, Cabinet members or anear-Cabinet-level official could authorize other government officials to know details of these programs, The Post reports, attributing its information to “people familiar with the search.” 

  This is new information about the sensitivity of documents seized at Trump’s estate that he claims he declassified with the wave of a hand and kept scattered around Mar-a-Lago.

Vaporized: Juul Labs has tentatively agreed to pay $438.5 million to settle an investigation by nearly three dozen states focused on the company’s marketing of vaping products to underage customers.

  The company in the settlement does not admit doing anything wrong.

  Juul featured attractive young people in its marketing, used social media, and offered flavored vaping pods that appealed to teenagers. Forty-five percent of the company’s Twitter followers were found to be ages 13 to 17.

  William Tong, Connecticut’s attorney general, said of the settlement at a news conference; “We are under no illusions and cannot claim that it will stop youth vaping. It continues to be an epidemic. It continues to be a huge problem. But we have essentially taken a big chunk out of what was once a market leader.”

Vote Counting: Two election-denying technology consultants seeking evidence that Donald Trump’s 2020 defeat was fraudulent made multiple visits to a county elections office in rural Georgia in the weeks after an a post-election breach of voting equipment there that is the subject of a criminal investigation, The Washington Post reports.

  The Post cites surveillance video showing Doug Logan and Jeffrey Lenberg, making two visits in January 2021 to the elections office in Coffee County, about 200 miles south of Atlanta. Lenberg visited five more times by himself, The Post reports.  Both men are also under investigation in the breaches of voting machines in Michigan.

  The footage  shows that one day in January of ’21, Cathy Latham, a teacher and then-chairwoman of the county Republican Party, greeted a group of outside data forensics experts when they arrived at the elections office shortly before noon on the day of the election machine breach in Coffee County. 

Murder Beat: The body of Memphis kindergarten teacher Eliza “Liza” Fletcher, who was abducted about 4 am while jogging last Friday, has been found a little over seven miles from where surveillance video showed she was taken. 

  Cops saw vehicle tracks in tall grass and smelled the unmistakable odor of a dead body.

 The suspect, 38-year-old  Cleotha Abston, who has been in custody for several days refusing to talk, has been charged with first degree murder in perpetration of kidnapping. He was identified in part through the SUV he drove and a pair of sandals left at the scene of the snatching. He has already served 20 years for a kidnapping in 2000.

  Fletcher was 34, had a husband, and two children. She came from a family that founded a multi-billion dollar private hardware company. 

The War Zone: President Vladimir Putin said today that the West has failed in its “economic, financial and technological aggression” against Russia and that his country has actually gained stature with its invasion of  Ukraine. “We have not lost anything and will not lose anything,” Putin said at an economic conference in Vladivostok.

  But they are struggling. With its own production hampered by international sanctions, Russia is buying millions of artillery shells and rockets from North Korea, according to US intelligence.

  Russia is also buying Iranian-made drones for its war on Ukraine.

  US intelligence has released this information, as well as other reports, to expose what’s going on with the Russian military, including its original plans to invade.

  Shortages are hitting in the trenches as well. Ukraine’s Operational Command South says that soldiers with Russia’s 127th Regiment of the 1st Army Corps rioted and refused to continue fighting because they don’t have basic supplies, like water. Rebellious soldiers were reportedly removed from their unit. 

  The Institute for the Study of war reports that, “The Ukrainian counteroffensive is tangibly degrading Russian logistics and administrative capabilities in occupied southern Ukraine.” ISW says that because of military setbacks, Russia is delaying its election to rubber stamp the annexation of the Kherson region. 

Plugged In: As wildfires burn, temperatures break 100, and air conditioners hum, California is using so much electricity that it’s on the brink of rolling blackouts to avoid an uncontrolled shutdown of the electrical grid.

  The agency that operates the system announced that, “electricity demand is currently forecast at more than 52,000 megawatts, a new historic all-time high for the grid.”

The Spin Rack: A powerful 6.5 magnitude earthquake shook China’s Sichuan province, rattling buildings, triggering landslides, and  killing at least 65 people while injuring hundreds. — A New Mexico judge ordered a county commissioner convicted of participating in the January 6th Capitol attack to be removed from his position under the 14th Amendment that bars an insurrectionist from holding office. Couy Griffin, a commissioner in Otero County and founder of Cowboys for Trump, would be the first public official in a century removed on such grounds.

Cold Heart: One of the traditions of growing up in snow country is “snow days.” When the snow is too deep for safe transportation, school is out and the kids go sledding.

  New York Schools Chancellor David Banks announced in a television interview yesterday that the city will no longer have snow days because the kids can just turn to their computers at home. He said, “So, sorry kids! No more snow days, but it’s gonna be good for you!”

  Somebody please push his face in a snowbank. 

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