Tracy Mumford

Not everyone is on board.

One education professor told The Times that while handwriting is important, valuing cursive specifically might just be a nostalgia thing.

It is true that reading old school cursive is a dying art.

The National Archives actually put out a call for help last year looking for volunteers who could read the script on old documents.

That is the kind of task that would require remembering what an uppercase cursive Q looks like.

Those are the headlines.

I'm Tracy Mumford.

We'll be back tomorrow.

From The New York Times, it's The Headlines.

I'm Tracy Mumford.

Today's Friday, January 16th.

Here's what we're covering.

President Trump's social media post threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act in response to protests in Minnesota has set off a flurry of questions of can he, will he, and what would it mean?

The act gives the president broad authority under some conditions to send troops into U.S.

cities.

President Trump has brought it up multiple times this term, including just last week in the Oval Office in an interview with Times reporters.

This time, the White House is framing it as a warning to Democrats, who the administration has accused of egging on the protests.

The Insurrection Act hasn't been invoked by a U.S.

president since 1992, when troops were deployed in L.A.

in response to riots that broke out after several white police officers were acquitted in the beating of an unarmed Black man, Rodney King.