Former President Donald Trump pressured his vice president, Mike Pence, to overturn his 2020 election defeat despite being told he had no authority to do so, the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol revealed Thursday. Trump continued to press Pence even as a violent mob was threatening the Capitol as lawmakers met to formally certify President Joe Biden's win. 

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In a meeting with Twitter employees Thursday, Tesla CEO and SpaceX founder Elon Musk suggested that layoffs may come once he owns the social media platform. "It depends. The company does need to get healthy," Musk told his future employees. "Right now, the costs exceed revenue." His comments came as a surprise after current CEO Parag Agrawal had reassured employees that no layoffs were planned.

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Former Heisman Trophy winner Herschel Walker, the Republican nominee for Senate in Georgia, is making a strong case to win the Hypocrite Trophy. Walker, who has campaigned against absentee fathers, acknowledged that he has two more children he had not previously mentioned publicly. It is the second time this week that Walker has admitted to having a child with whom he is not in contact.

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In 1989, the Minnesota Vikings traded six players and five draft picks to the Dallas Cowboys to acquire the rights to Herschel Walker. What eventual Hall of Famer did the Cowboys use one of the picks to draft?

Thursday's answer: The original author of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Thomas Reardon is now a computational neuroscientist at CTRL-labs.