How Jan. 6 will be different this year. And, who took home a Golden Globe award

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🎧 When Trump ran for president again, he embraced the idea that the violence on Jan. 6, 2021, was overblown and said there were no guns. NPR's Tom Dresibach tells Up First that this claim is false. Trump also said his supporters at most "got a little out of hand" — a narrative that judges who heard the more than 1,500 cases have dispelled. Trump promised pardons on Day One in office but has been vague about who would receive them. Aquilino Gonell, who was a Capitol Police sergeant during the attack and whose injuries forced him to retire, says he feels betrayed by the election. “What did I risk my life for?” Gonell says.

➡️ Some of the people who stormed the Capitol believed in the QAnon conspiracy theory that claims Trump is involved in a secret battle against evil members of the alleged deep state. After the attack, multiple social media platforms pushed to ban QAnon content. Here’s why it hasn’t gone away.

➡️ There are subtle ways this year’s certification process will differ from 2021's due to Congress passing new rules. These are some of the key changes.

🎧 Young’s attorneys say his character was maligned, and he wasn’t doing it for individuals but for deeper-pocketed organizations like U.S. and European nongovernmental organizations. His attorneys claim he lost millions of dollars due to this story, according to NPR’s David Folkenflik. CNN apologized some months after the story first appeared, saying it shouldn’t have applied the "black market" label to Young. The network's lawyers have taken a more aggressive tone, saying Young lied to CNN reporters and that the network couldn’t confirm he evacuated anyone as he claimed. Behind the scenes, some editors at CNN have expressed misgivings about the reporting. 

🎧 Though Emilia Pérez's big wins were no surprise, says NPR’s Mandalit del Barco, who was inside the ballroom at the Beverly Hilton Hotel last night, there were some surprising moments. The movie musical Wicked only took home one win for its box office achievement. In 2022, the Globes faced criticism after the Los Angeles Times reported there were no Black members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which used to hand out these awards. The organization has since been bought and formally disbanded. The number and types of voting members have been expanded to include more than 300 entertainment journalists from around the world.