Acting US attorney Tracy Wilkinson: "The scope of these crimes by North Korean hackers are staggering. They are the crimes of a nation-state willing to stop at nothing to extract revenge and extort money to prop up the regime."

Emotional on-air moment as @brikeilarcnn  recounts the terrible human toll the pandemic has taken in the United States.

Six-story front with 15 bylines. Tremendous firepower these days.

NEW: Mounting evidence suggests Trump knew of danger to Pence when he attacked him as lacking ‘courage’ amid Capitol siege By @PostRoz  @jdawsey1 :

On media call, Assistant AG John Demurs calls NK operatives the "world's leading bank robbers."

Of note: FBI and DOJ officials praising help of Secret Service in unraveling this case. Before taking on dignitary protection, @SecretService  was originally housed under Treasury b/c it focused on investigating counterfeiting financial crimes.

This is how sniping over race in the newsroom played out pre-Twitter: I found this mid-1990s sports gossip column from the Washington Times which mocked me for an argument I had with another reporter over the lack of diversity in press boxes.

NEW as Garland faces AG confirmation: A spate of assaults on Asian Americans has renewed long-standing criticism that DOJ is vastly undercounting hate crimes, a problem critics say is more acute amid rising white nationalism and deepening racial strife.