Good morning.

Tuesday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 68. Sunrise is 7:00, and sunset is 6:23, for 11 hours, 22 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent, with 28.1 percent of its visible disk illuminated.

Whitewater’s Tech Park Innovation Center Board meets at 8:30 AM, the city’s Finance Committee at 4:30 PM, and the Public Works Committee at 5 PM.

On this day in 1871, Peshtigo, Wisconsin is devastated by a fire which took 1,200 lives:

The fire caused over $2 million in damages and destroyed 1.25 million acres of forest. This was the greatest human loss due to fire in the history of the United States. The Peshtigo Fire was overshadowed by the Great Chicago fire which occurred on the same day, killing 250 people and lasting three days. While the Chicago fire is said to have started by a cow kicking over a lantern, it is uncertain how the Peshtigo fire began. 

Isaac Stanley-Becker, writing of Bob Woodward’s new book (War, about international crises), reports:

As the coronavirus tore through the world in 2020, and the United States and other countries confronted a shortage of tests designed to detect the illness, then-President Donald Trump secretly sent coveted tests to Russian President Vladimir Putin for his personal use.

Putin, petrified of the virus, accepted the supplies but took pains to prevent political fallout — not for him, but for his American counterpart. He cautioned Trump not to reveal that he had dispatched the scarce medical equipment to Moscow, according to a new book by Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward.

Putin, according to the book, told Trump, “I don’t want you to tell anybody because people will get mad at you, not me.”

America’s COVID test kits for Russia’s dictator.

Trump needs to revise one of his his oft-repeated slogans.

‘Russia First’ would be more accurate.

Gyms in Japan Now Offer Laundry, Karaoke, Etc.: