Good morning. We’re covering moves in the U.S. Congress to charge President Trump, Indonesia’s poor air safety record and ideas from the creator of the web on fixing our digital world. | |  By Carole Landry | | | President Donald Trump in the Oval Office. Doug Mills/The New York Times | | | Representative Ted Lieu, Democrat of California, announced that the article of impeachment drafted by him and other House Democrats had drawn more than 190 co-sponsors, and that the measure would be introduced in the House of Representatives today. | | | A vote could come as soon as Tuesday on charging Mr. Trump with inciting a mob that went on to attack the Capitol. But top Democrats want to avoid hamstringing the first days of Joe Biden’s presidency with a Senate trial, so the House could delay sending the article to the Senate, which would postpone the trial. | | | Arrests: A man who had an assault rifle was charged with threatening Nancy Pelosi, the House speaker, after he sent a text message saying he would put “a bullet in her noggin on Live TV. ” Dozens of Trump supporters who took part in the attack on the Capitol have been arrested, including an armed Alabama man who had Molotov cocktails in his car and a West Virginia lawmaker charged with illegally entering the Capitol. (There’s more on the Capitol siege in our Back Story below). | | | Indonesian search and rescue teams on Sunday, carrying body bags to be examined by investigators in Jakarta. Ed Wray/Getty Images | | | On Saturday, Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 crashed into the Java Sea a few minutes after taking off in heavy rain. The Boeing 737-500 series passenger jet carrying 62 people, including six crew members, lost more than 10,000 feet in altitude within a minute. | | | The cause of the crash is not yet known. Indonesian investigators have confirmed where the plane’s data recorders are in the watery crash site and hope to recover the black boxes soon. | | | But there is no question that Indonesia’s skies remain some of the world’s most dangerous, tainted by a history of poor safety regulations that has dogged domestic airlines for years. | | | The National University of Singapore assigned students to different zones on campus and imposed stiff penalties for breaking its coronavirus rules. Ore Huiying for The New York Times | | | Not one person has been found to have contracted the coronavirus at any of Singapore’s three major universities. Their secret: technology to enforce social distancing, tough penalties and students willing to comply. | | | One other major reason for the universities’ success is the aggressive pandemic response in society at large, experts say. The government offers free testing and medical care, and it quickly isolates infected people and traces their contacts. It punishes those found to have violated restrictions, including by deporting foreign nationals and revoking work passes. | | | Lola and Pani for The New York Times | | | Tim Berners-Lee, the man behind the creation of the World Wide Web three decades ago, believes the online world has gone astray. Too much power and too much personal data, he says, reside with tech giants like Google and Facebook. 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The blockage is a possible sign that the city is turning to the censorship used in mainland China. | | | Pakistan power outage: Most of the country, including its capital and many of its other major cities, lost power early Sunday. The cause was not immediately clear. Initial reports said that the breakdown was traced to a power station in southern Sindh Province that ultimately affected the entire transmission system. | | | Saumya Khandelwal for The New York Times | | | Snapshot: Above, a protest camp set up by farmers in India. For six weeks, tens of thousands of farmers have choked the main entry points to Delhi to protest Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s effort to reshape the country’s agriculture. | | | Neil Sheehan: The Times reporter who obtained the Pentagon Papers — the secret history of U.S. decision-making on Vietnam — died on Thursday at 84. The story about how he pulled off the blockbuster scoop can now be told. | | | Con Poulos for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Jerrie-Joy Redman-Lloyd. | | | Cook: This spicy white bean soup is a poem in a pot, filled with winter greens, spiked with ginger and red-pepper flakes, and rounded out with only a little ground turkey. | | | Watch: Were you let down by “Wonder Woman 1984”? There are plenty of excellent and entertaining alternatives to stream. Here are six great superhero movies. | | | Whether you prefer cookies or comedies, At Home has ideas on what to read, cook, watch and do while staying safe at home. | | | Many of the reporters who covered the storming of the seat of Congress last week did their jobs a few feet from drawn weapons. Others were faced with Trump supporters, angry with the news media. We interviewed 11 journalists from a variety of outlets who covered the events. Here are excerpts from what they said. | | | Extremists backing President Trump smashed TV equipment and attacked an Associated Press photographer outside the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. Jose Luis Magana/Associated Press | | | Donie O’Sullivan, 29, CNN: We got to the barrier at the base of the Capitol as they broke through. It was a dramatic moment, but also surprisingly undramatic in that, you know, there were obviously not sufficient numbers of police or barricades. | | | Kadia Goba, Axios: Capitol Police came on the speaker to say there had been a breach. You go in this marble building, it seems sacred to the people that work there. You just don’t think of intruders gaining access to that portion of the building. | | | Marcus DiPaola, freelancer: This guy grabs me by the shoulder and he’s like, “Who do you work for?” I’m like, “I’m a freelance photographer.” He’s like, “Have you ever worked for CNN?” And then he pulled me out of the way, and he charges in. | | | Zoeann Murphy, The Washington Post: One of the Trump supporters who’s been participating in the screaming at police pulls out her cellphone and says: “Oh, my God, guys, listen up. The president tweeted. He says we’re a country of law and order, and, um, I think we should go.” She read the tweet out loud maybe 15 times. It was so clear that, even if the president wasn’t intentionally giving direction, people were receiving it as direction. And then that area dispersed quite a bit. | | | Robert Moore, Britain’s ITV: I went to sleep around 3 or 4 a.m. and was up a couple of hours later. What has surprised me is the level of interest in Europe, and in Britain, in particular, with the events here. This is seen as a seminal story, one that shatters the myth about the stability of American democracy. | | That’s it for this briefing. See you next time. — Carole | | Thank you
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