Time - USA (2022-01-31)

8 Time January 31/February 7, 2022

RABBI CHARLIE CYTRON-WALKER,

60

MILLION

Number of icefish

discovered in 2021 in a

breeding colony—believed

to be the world’s largest—

in Antarctica’s Weddell

Sea, per a scientific

paper published on Jan. 

LEUNG SIU-FAI,

director of Hong
Kong’s Agriculture,
Fisheries and
Conservation
Department,
confirming on Jan. 18
that authorities will
kill some 2,000 of
the rodents and
other small animals
after around a dozen
hamsters tested
positive for the
COVID-19 virus in a
pet store where an
employee was also
infected

JASON MOMOA AND LISA BONET, in a joint

statement released on Jan. 12 confirming

their plans to end their marriage

AI WEIWEI, exiled

Chinese artist and

activist, on not

sending diplomats to

the Beijing Olympics,

to the Associated

Press on Jan. 

‘Every partisan action

taken to protect a

cherished value has led us to

more division, not less.’

SENATOR KYRSTEN SINEMA (D., Ariz.), in a Jan. 13 speech reconfirming her opposition to

filibuster reform, seemingly dooming President Biden’s hopes for voting-rights legislation

$1.

BILLION

Amount of student-

loan debt to be

canceled by the loan-

collecting company

Navient, as part of a

settlement

announced Jan. 

$3.

MILLION

Sale price for a
single page of
artwork from a 1984
Spider-Man comic at
a Jan. 13 auction

FOR THE RECORD

SOURCES: AP: THE NEW YORK TIMES; NPR; CBS NEWS; THE GUARDIAN