HIT
A new record, by the Dow Jones industrial average, which traded above 20,000 for the first time ever on Jan. 25. President Trump’s adviser Kellyanne Conway credited the rally to “the Trump effect.”
DIED
Kansas City Royals pitcher Yordano “Ace” Ventura, 25, in a car accident in the Dominican Republic. The young baseball star pitched in two World Series.
> William A. Hilliard, 89, the Oregonian newspaper’s first black reporter and editor. In 1993, Hilliard became the American Society of Newspaper Editors’ first black president.
> Charlie Liteky, 85, an Army chaplain in Vietnam who received the Medal of Honor but returned it in 1986 in protest over U.S. policies in Central America.
> Mark Baumer, 33, a writer and activist who was struck by an SUV while walking across the U.S. barefoot to raise awareness about climate change.
SUSPENDED
Writer Katie Rich, from Saturday Night Live, after tweeting a widely criticized joke about President Trump’s 10-year-old son Barron.
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