Monday morning articles
Millions in Cryptocurrency Vanished as Agents Watched Helplessly: Feds locked up a storage device full of ill-gotten tokens. Then someone started stealing the loot. (Bloomberg)
Wedding planners on their biggest scams: You know what your wedding doesn’t need? Doughnut walls. It’s a multibillion-dollar industry for a reason. (Vox)
Why Nancy Pelosi Sabotaged Wildly Popular Bipartisan Legislation: Most Americans do not think lawmakers should be able to trade stocks at all, which is why some thought this was going to be the year Congress reined itself in when it came to the stock market. After all, there are multiple bills floating around the Capitol that could ban elected officials from investing in companies directly. “There’s not a whole lot of issues that are talked about on the agenda right now that command such bipartisan support.” (Slate)
Attacks Expose Vulnerability of European Infrastructure: The search for the perpetrators has begun following Monday’s sabotage attack on the Nord Stream pipelines. Which countries could have been behind it, and how secure is Europe’s critical infrastructure at the bottom of the sea? (Spiegel)
The teacher shortage problem has been going on for 50 years. Why are so few entering the profession? Since the 1970s, the number of people choosing teaching as a career has tanked. Here a look at the stats. (Grid)
They Legitimized the Myth of a Stolen Election — and Reaped the Rewards: On the day the Capitol was attacked, 139 Republicans in the House voted to dispute the Electoral College count. This is how they got there. A majority of House Republicans last year voted to challenge the Electoral College and upend the presidential election. That action, signaled ahead of the vote in signed petitions, would change the direction of the party. (New York Times)
Capitol attack officer Fanone hits out at ‘weasel’ McCarthy in startling interview: In an extraordinarily candid and profane interview with Rolling Stone, Michael Fanone – the former Washington police officer who was seriously hurt at the US Capitol during the January 6 attack – called the Republican House leader, potentially the next speaker, a “fucking weasel bitch.” (The Guardian)
Confidence Man: Key revelations from new book on Donald Trump: Former US President Donald Trump nearly fired his daughter and routinely flushed documents down the toilet. These explosive details and more are revealed in New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman’s highly-anticipated book Confidence Man, which is released on Tuesday. (BBC)