“When we started to see the uptick in children taking their lives, we knew it wasn’t just the COVID numbers we need to look at anymore.”

Clark County, Nev., school district superintendent JESÚS JARA on his push to reopen schools in the Las Vegas–area district after seeing 18 student suicides between March and December last year.

“California’s uniquely severe restrictions against religious worship services—including its total ban against indoor worship in nearly the entire state—are patently unconstitutional.”

U.S. appellate Judge DIARMUID O’SCANNLAIN, in a Jan. 25 panel ruling criticizing California’s ban on indoor church gatherings in most counties to prevent coronavirus spread. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judge reluctantly upheld the ban, however, citing a previous Circuit Court ruling.

“As a lifelong Catholic, I have always been pro-life.”

U.S. Sen. JOE MANCHIN, D-W.V., on his intention to vote against any Democratic attempt to repeal the long-standing Hyde Amendment, which prohibits federal funding of abortion.

“I sort of realized how I was going to define my self-worth going forward. It wasn’t going to be about how much money I have.”

STEFAN THOMAS, who has $220 million in Bitcoin locked in an account whose password he can’t remember. He has two password entry attempts left before the account will delete the digital currency.

“I could have died if I got out late.”

ROBERT, an Indonesian father of three, who was in a hospital in Mamuju, Sulawesi island, when a 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck early on Jan. 15, killing dozens of people. He said he pulled out his IV and ran out before the building fell: “I cried when I saw the hospital where I was being treated collapse with people still inside.”