Good morning. 
Saturday in Whitewater will be cloudy with occasional light snow and a high of thirty-four. Sunrise is 7:21 AM and sunset 4:48 PM, for 9h 27m 15s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 12.4% of its visible disk illuminated.
Today is both the one thousand five hundred thirtieth and the seventy-first day.
On this day in 1945, Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker.
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Gwynn Guilford and Hannah Lang report U.S. Unemployment Claims Rise as Coronavirus Weighs on Economy (‘Initial claims for benefits jump to highest level since pandemic began; Fed chairman says job market has a long way to go’):
The number of workers filing for jobless benefits posted its biggest weekly gain since the pandemic hit last March and the head of the Federal Reserve warned the job market had a long way to go before it is strong again.
Applications for unemployment claims, a proxy for layoffs, rose by 181,000 to 965,000 last week, the Labor Department said Thursday, reflecting rising layoffs amid a winter surge in coronavirus cases.
The total for the week ended Jan. 9 also was the highest in nearly five months and put claims well above the roughly 800,000 a week they had averaged in recent months.
“We are a long way from maximum employment,” Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said in a webcast hosted by Princeton University, his undergraduate alma mater, an indication that the central bank’s easy-money policies will remain in place for the foreseeable future.
The U.S. labor-market recovery stalled last month with the December jobs report showing the U.S. lost 140,000 payroll positions. The economic recovery’s slowdown has included
Holly Bailey and Tim Craig report Nation’s governors prepare for worst, warn of long-term dangers to their capitols:
“It’s going to take quite a while to turn back what’s been started here,” said Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), who has participated in joint calls in recent days with other Midwestern governors about the possibility of fresh violence in the aftermath of last week’s riot at the U.S. Capitol and an FBI warning about armed far-right extremists gathering across the country this weekend.
The weekly calls began last spring between the governors — mostly Democrats, but some Republicans — as a way to informally coordinate and trade ideas about how to respond to the coronavirus pandemic amid a perceived leadership vacuum by the Trump administration.
But in recent days, the calls — which have included the governors of Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin — have taken on a new urgency as state officials have shared information and advice about how to confront what many believe could be a dark and dangerous period of extended insurgency against state and even local governments.
Neil MacFarquhar, Jack Healy, Mike Baker, and Capitol Attack Could Fuel Extremist Recruitment For Years, Experts Warn:
Overthrowing the government. Igniting a second Civil War. Banishing racial minorities, immigrants and Jews. Or simply sowing chaos in the streets.
The ragged camps of far-right groups and white nationalists emboldened under President Trump have long nursed an overlapping list of hatreds and goals. But now they have been galvanized by the outgoing president’s false claims that the election was stolen from him — and by the violent attack on the nation’s Capitol that hundreds of them led in his name.
“The politicians who have lied, betrayed and sold out the American people for decades were forced to cower in fear and scatter like rats,” one group, known for pushing the worst anti-Semitic tropes, commented on Twitter the day after the attack.
(Trump is finished, but Trumpism will slither along. See Man and Movement.)
Weekly Space Highlights — Starship test-fired, lunar transit, and more: