Quickly catch up on the day's news

-- House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff announces sweeping investigation into Trump's finances and Russia, offering a detailed look into how Democrats will probe possible ties to foreign entities.

-- Virginia politics IS. IN. CHAOS. First, a racist photo in the governor's yearbook surfaced. Now the attorney general admits to wearing blackface at a 1980 college party. Also, the lieutenant governor is facing assault allegations.

-- Planet Earth just experienced one of the warmest years on record. Humanity is now more than two-thirds of the way to the warming limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius that was set in the Paris climate agreement.

-- Analysis: President Trump delivered his State of the Union address Tuesday night, a speech that was surprisingly bipartisan and deeply divisive -- reflective of the deep contradictions that sit at the heart of his presidency.

-- More than a dozen videos released by a Chicago-area sheriff's office this week show the commotion after Jemel Roberson was shot by a police officer. A bystander in one video calls police racist, while another tells them to go home.

-- Face to face with the sharp claws and teeth of a mountain lion, a runner fought hard for his life. He choked the animal to death to break free, wildlife officials said.

-- There is a good chance hackers already know your favorite passwords. Now Google has a new free tool to let you know when your login information is exposed.

-- For decades he didn't give up trying to ID a boy and his killer. The obsession paid off just before this detective retired.

-- North Korea is hiding nukes from potential US military strikes and selling weapons to Libya, Sudan, and Houthi rebels in Yemen, a confidential UN report alleges.

-- For the first time, Pope Francis has acknowledged the sexual abuse of nuns by priests and bishops as a problem in the Catholic Church.

-- Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren listed her race as "American Indian" on a State Bar of Texas registration card in 1986, the Washington Post reported.

-- Jennifer Lawrence is getting hitched. The "Hunger Games" star, 28, reportedly started dating 33-year-old Cooke Maroney last summer.

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