Open Secrets: Lawyers for President Joe Biden last Thursday found more classified documents at his home in Wilmington, Delaware, the White House said Saturday. They found five more pages marked classified in Biden’s library, bringing the total to six.

  White House lawyer Richard Sauber said in a statement that the people who found the documents did not have security clearance and immediately suspended their search.

  These documents are in addition to top secret papers found in the President’s garage and in his former office at the Penn Biden center in Washington.

  In light of the criminal investigation of Donald Trump for his hoarding and handling of secret documents, this is an enormous embarrassment for Biden that puts the Justice Department in a difficult political position with Republican critics saying there’s a double standard. The critical difference is whether Biden’s mishandling of documents was accidental or intentional.

The War Room: As the Ukraine war grinds on, at least 35 people were killed Saturday when a Russian missile hit an apartment block in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro. It is one of the biggest losses of civilians lives behind the front lines since Russia invaded.

  A photo posted by the Ukraine defense department shows a 23-year-old woman in the rubble of an upper story apartment, her hand over her mouth in shock. Her parents were missing. The young woman, Anastasiia Shvets, said on Instagram, “I have no words, I have no emotions, I feel nothing except a great emptiness inside.”

  Approaching the first anniversary of the Russian invasion, Ukraine is increasingly dependent upon foreign weapons. Britain announced that it is sending 12 Challenger 2 main battle tanks to Ukraine, taking a lead that other countries might follow. Poland is sending two German Leopard tanks and France also said it plans to send tanks.

  Germany so far has demurred in sending tanks, saying it doesn’t want to get ahead of other countries. But the German Leopard is what the Ukrainians want because so many of them are available in Germany, Spain, Poland, Greece, Denmark,  Finland, and other countries. The problem is that Germany would have to give a re-export license to any of those countries that wants to give tanks to Ukraine. Germany seems to be shy about that deep of an involvement.

Screen Time: With the kids focused on their screens, the Seattle public school district has filed a lawsuit against the tech giants behind TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Snapchat, accusing them of causing a mental health crisis among youth. The 91-page complaint filed Friday says the social media companies have created a public nuisance by targeting children.

  The lawsuit blames the tech companies for the behavioral troubles of youth including anxiety, depression, eating disorders and cyberbullying. The school system says the screens are making it more difficult to educate students and they have found it necessary to hire more mental health professionals, provide additional training to teachers, and even develop lesson plans about the effects of social media. 

  “Defendants have successfully exploited the vulnerable brains of youth, hooking tens of millions of students across the country into positive feedback loops of excessive use and abuse of Defendants’ social media platforms,” the complaint said. “Worse, the content Defendants curate and direct to youth is too often harmful and exploitive ….”

The Obit Page: Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida, the sultry brunette once described as “the most beautiful woman in the world” and one of the biggest stars of European movies in the 1950s and ’60s, has died at the age of 95. She starred in Beat the Devil, the Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Crossed Swords. She worked with big names including Humphrey Bogart, Frank Sinatra, Rock Hudson, and Errol Flynn.

  >Alfred T. Goodwin, the federal judge who caused an uproar in 2002 when he wrote the majority opinion in a case that declared the Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional because the  phrase “one nation under God” violated the separation of church and state,  died on Dec. 27 in Bend, Oregon at age 99.

  His decision was later reversed by the Supreme Court.

  Writing the opinion for a 2-1 appellate court majority, Goodwin said that the words “under God” in the pledge were as objectionable as “we are a nation ‘under Jesus,’ a nation ‘under Vishnu,’ a nation ‘under Zeus,’ or a nation ‘under no God.’” 

  Goodwin said that making the pledge a requirement in its current wording was “conveying a message of state endorsement of religious belief.”

The Spin Rack: China over the weekend reported 60,000 deaths since lifting the government’s “zero Covid” policy of health and social restrictions. Until Saturday, China had reported a total of just 5,241 Covid deaths since the pandemic began. Facing violent street protests, the government in December abruptly ended its draconian policy and now Covid is spreading like wildfire. — A twin-engine propeller plane crashed on approach to the city of Pokhara, in Nepal, killing at least 68 of the 72 people on board. — Darius Miles, a now former member of the University of Alabama basketball team, has been arrested and charged with the murder of a 23-year-old woman in a shooting near the campus yesterday. Michael Lynn Davis, 20, has also been charged in the shooting.

Below the Fold: Starbucks is planning to dial back its rewards plan in which customers can rack up points for free coffees and other stuff. Coffee addicts are unhappy. Emily Heil of The Washington Post reports that loyal customers “are hotter than a steaming peppermint mocha.” 

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