Weekly News Roundup: Birds and a Plane

• The science of birds taking down a commercial plane—and how the danger could apply to NASA as well. • "Scientific and legal integrity" to return to the EPA. And not a moment too soon. • A ruckus brews over cookies at the White House—and we don't mean the kind with sugar and sprinkles. • Facebook graduates from a civil litigation tool to a crime-fighting tool. • Recession? What recession? Pass the console. • And not to spoil the pre-inaugural lovefest with bad news or anything, but that little salmonella outbreak has caused 2 more deaths, bringing the total to 5 dead and over 400 sickened.