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  • Takeaways from yesterdays' Jan. 6 committee hearing. President Biden visits Israel. And, new video is released from the Uvalde school shooting.
  • In a play on signature top-hatted man on Johnnie Walker scotch bottles, the company introduced the Jane Walker Edition. It's the latest example of seemingly gender-neutral products marketed to women.
  • Two powerhouses have teamed up for an inevitable remix, should you need a reminder that "Old Town Road" will remain at the top of the charts until the earth is a charred cinder.
  • The president will announce in his State of the Union address that he's signing an executive order to lift the pay in new federal contracts. A top adviser tells NPR that Obama has "warmed up to" the idea of using executive orders to move his agenda ahead.
  • A court filing reveals the former FBI bomb tech used his top secret clearance to obtain information about an al-Qaida bomb the U.S. intercepted in Yemen. Officials have called the leak one of the most serious in U.S. history.
  • Jofi Joseph, who worked on issues related to nuclear non-proliferation, was tweeting as @natsecwonk. The posts included insulting comments about other administration officials and politicians from both parties. They were also critical of policies he was helping develop. Joseph is now out of a job.
  • In his new book The Beast, Salvadoran journalist Oscar Martinez narrates his eight trips on top of the freight trains known as La Bestia — a journey embarked upon by hundreds of thousands of migrants every year, across Mexico and up to the U.S. border.
  • The U.S. Supreme Court sent a case involving the use of race in the University of Texas' admissions process back to a lower court for stricter scrutiny on Monday. Over the years, the University of Texas has been in court more than once over how race is factored into its admissions decisions.
  • The president said the option was one of many he was considering if diplomacy fails. Germany's chancellor, who held a joint news conference with the president, backs diplomacy to end the crisis.
  • South Korea is the top foreign destination for Chinese tourists, which means Koreans are scrambling to adjust to the hordes of travelers from the mainland.
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