Ready to start a full work week?  Here are the 5 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW

1. Y’all are still talking about the Alaska Airlines incident on Friday. Federal aviation officials have since ordered the grounding of a popular model of Boeing’s 737 MAX jets following the harrowing incident on a Friday Alaska Airlines flight during which a chunk of the plane’s fuselage blew off midascent. No one was injured during the incident, though depressurization reportedly ripped a child’s shirt off. See video here.

2. House and Senate leaders on Sunday announced a spending deal for government funding in 2024, the first step to averting a shutdown later this month even as that threat still looms.

3. “Oppenheimer,” “Poor Things,” “Succession,” and “The Bear” win top prizes at 81st Golden Globe Awards; see complete list  of winners (More)

4. Tonight, Michigan and Washington play for all the college football marbles in the College Football Championship.  Coverage of the game from Houston begins at 6:30p

5. and it only took a few minutes after the announcement for the NFL and NBC and Peacock to start getting a lot and I mean a lot of smoke for their money grab move to air the Dolphins – Chiefs game exclusively on Peacock. Which means, outside of a couple of local tv markets around Miami and Kansas City, the rest of you are shelling out $5.99 for a month of Peacock Premium. So, let me get this straight, you’ll spend $150 on football party food and beer or even just $6 on a fancy coffee, but $5.99 is gonna break the bank.  Okay, just checking.

AND THAT’S TRENDING.