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✈️ Plane Crash in Indonesia

A Boeing passenger plane carrying 62 people crashed into Indonesia’s Java Sea four minutes after take-off Saturday afternoon local time.

• The Boeing 737-500 - not the 737 MAX model behind two crashes in 2018 & 2019 - was headed on a domestic flight from the capital of Jakarta to Pontianak in West Kalimantan.

Indonesian authorities on Sunday identified the locations of the plane’s two ‘black boxes’ containing key flight data that could offer clues as to the cause of the crash, which is currently unknown. There has been no sign of survivors.

🏛️ Capitol Update

Dozens of people involved in last Wednesday’s riot at the Capitol have been arrested by the FBI and charged with a range of counts, including violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.

• The DOJ opened formal probes into the deaths of Capitol Hill Police Officer Brian D. Sicknick, who was injured while engaging with rioters, and Ashli Babbitt, who was shot by Capitol Police as she and other pro-Trump supporters swarmed the building.
• On Friday, officials confirmed five National Security Council officials had resigned since Wednesday’s events.

More: Capitol Police disclosed the off-duty death of a second officer in an apparent suicide, per the Associated Press (though it's unclear whether the death was connected to the riot).

🍩 DONUT Holes

⚾📚 Hall of Fame baseball manager Tommy Lasorda died on Thursday at 93; American journalist and writer Neil Sheehan, famous for obtaining the Pentagon Papers in 1971, died last week at 84.

📺 The late Alex Trebek’s final taped episode of Jeopardy! aired on Friday, closing with a 90-second video tribute to the legendary game host.

💰 A Fine Line

Deutsche Bank AG agreed to pay a ~$130M fine to avoid U.S. prosecution for claims it engaged in foreign bribery schemes and manipulated precious metal markets. According to court papers released Friday, the DOJ and SEC accused Deutsche Bank of bribing intermediaries to make payments in Saudi Arabia from 2009 to 2016.

More: Last summer, Deutsche Bank agreed to pay the state of New York $150M to settle allegations of “significant compliance failures” in its dealings with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, who died in prison awaiting trial for sex trafficking charges.

🤝 Stream Dream Team

Roku, maker of the largest U.S. streaming video-player, acquired the rights to content from streaming service Quibi for an undisclosed price, which the WSJ reports is “significantly less” than $100M. Roku will display Quibi’s content in the Roku Channel, an app found on its associated streaming devices filled with more than 40k movies and TV shows.

🤷 Mixed Signals

The stock of an obscure company called Signal Advance rose nearly 1,100% on Thursday and Friday. The jump followed Tesla CEO Elon Musk telling his Twitter followers to “use Signal” - an encrypted messaging app completely unaffiliated with Signal Advance - as an alternative to texting apps such as Facebook’s Messenger and WhatsApp, or Apple’s iMessage.

More: Last March, the SEC suspended trading of Zoom Technology, a defunct Chinese company unrelated to Zoom Video Communications, after its stock rose more than 1,500% at the beginning of the pandemic.

🍩 DONUT Holes

🚁💸 DraftKings announced an exclusive deal with the Drone Racing League letting people bet on drone races in certain states.

🔌 General Motors unveiled a redesign of its corporate logo as part of its pivot to all-electric vehicles. View it here.

🍋🍺 Bud Light will release a line of hard seltzer lemonades in four flavors this month: Original, Strawberry, Peach, and Black Cherry.

🧥 No Worse For Wear

Image via Facebook.

Mal Osborn, a 92-year-old from Winston-Salem, NC, lettered in track nine times at the University of Maine between 1949-1952, and has consistently worn his letterman jacket from the school for more than 70 years.

• One day this past October, Mal misplaced his beloved jacket. “I must’ve thrown it on top of the roof of the car and drove down the street,” he told WFMY News.
• After weeks of searching, Mal’s daughter, Beverly, posted about the predicament on Facebook, quickly connecting with a local family who had found the jacket in their yard. After having it dry-cleaned, Beverly returned the coat to her father.

“As challenging as this year has been, this has given us some hope,” said Beverly.

Need more good news to satisfy that sweet tooth?

• A recent soccer match in Potosí, Bolivia, was interrupted when a stray dog ran onto the field and stole a player’s shoe – after receiving pets and cuddles from the athletes, the playful pooch was adopted by one of the players. (Video)