The Chicago Bulls are in the 3rd biggest market in America. They’ve only paid the luxury tax once. It’s actually hilarious how cheap they are. They just try to go 42-40 every year and win a play-in game and call it a year. The other big market owners must loving having them.

One Sister Fled Boko Haram. The Other Was Trapped. Their Lives Will Never Be the Same. wsj.com/world/africa/b…

The original 1944 New York Times review of pizza is excellent.

The White House is urging Netanyahu to accept a commitment to Palestinian statehood in exchange for Saudi recognition, U.S. and Saudi officials say wsj.com/articles/white…

'That [tubby insult] was directed directly at Matt Gaetz. He felt like he should call me a squish and I wanted to remind anybody who has not been in combat and held his friend's hand as they died bring shot by the enemy really doesn't have any business calling someone else a…

Tom Brady at the end of his career — Chasing rings

Peyton Manning — Chasing rings

Drew Brees — got jobbed by the refs vs Rams

Aaron Rodgers — “you’re being lied to. the sky isnt blue. its actually orange”

Housing Market Slumps as Mortgage Rates Top 7% wsj.com/articles/home-…

Hotline’s updated House Power Rankings: Majority runs through California, New York njour.nl/s/724799/?unlo…

Biden Tries to Build on Small Gains in Polls as Trump Stands Trial wsj.com/politics/elect…

My favorite thing about this trailer (aside from the fact that this movie actually got made and I watched it 10 times) is how completely bad and out of place the music is. youtube.com/watch?v=12DtHO…

A secret Amazon team posed as a seller on rivals’ marketplaces, scooping up information about pricing, logistics and third-party services. wsj.com/business/retai…

President Biden stopped at Sheetz in Pittsburgh today, per travel pool—an inflammatory move that amounts to declaring war on Wawa Nation

Move over New York. A developer is trying to build America’s tallest skyscraper—in Oklahoma. The idea has its skeptics. “What do you see when you go to the observatory? Prairie or whatever?” wsj.com/us-news/oklaho…

Republicans in the Arizona state House blocked two attempts Wednesday to repeal the state’s 160-year-old near total ban on abortion, despite mounting pressure on the GOP—including from former President Donald Trump—to change course on the hot-button issue. wsj.com/politics/polic…

We love a Repost King

The U.S. has reached an agreement to pay around $100 million to 100 victims of Larry Nassar over the FBI's failures, bringing the final price-tag of settlements relating to the former gymnastics team doctor close to $1 billion. wsj.com/sports/olympic…

The NBA banned Toronto Raptors forward Jontay Porter from the league, in the fallout from a gambling scandal. Porter won’t be eligible for reinstatement. wsj.com/sports/basketb…

Fun moment from today's House Committee on Flagellating University Presidents:

JIM BANKS: Can you explain the word 'folks' is spelled f-o-l-x throughout this guidebook?

COLUMBIA PRESIDENT SHAFIK: They don't know how to spell?

Amazon has fallen so far behind schedule in creating new jobs at its Northern Virginia headquarters that its workforce at those offices shrank last year, showing how the project that it had pitched as an economic jolt is instead hitting a slowdown. wapo.st/4aEr7Zw

Youngkin, Va. lawmakers agree to seek new state budget, avert crisis wapo.st/3JoBtRy