US Select Committee on January 6 must tread carefully

Significance The Select Committee is charged with investigating the “facts, circumstances, and causes relating to the domestic terrorist attack on the Capitol” on January 6. It will need to be scrupulous in its process and findings if it is to deflect charges of partisanship. Impacts The overwhelming of Capitol Police on duty on January 6 will lead to a strengthening of security around Congress. Those who believe the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump will see the Select Committee as complicit. A tightly argued and fully documented final committee report could be released ahead of next year’s midterm elections.

Nevada Bird Records Committee Report for 2019–2020

In 2019 and 2020, the Nevada Bird Records Committee reviewed 79 reports from the period 4 November 1955 to 23 October 2020. Seventy of them were endorsed. It added three species to the state checklist, the Field Sparrow (Spizella pusilla), Mexican Duck (Anas diazi), and Pine Warbler (Setophaga pinus). Two of those (the Field Sparrow and Pine Warbler) were added to the review list. The Mexican Duck was elevated from subspecies to species status, and it, along with six other species, were removed from the review list. We also continued reviewing records that precede the committee’s establishment in 1994.