Trump White House records can be turned over to House Jan. 6 investigative committee, judge rules  —  A federal judge in Washington ruled late Tuesday that hundreds of pages of Trump White House records can be turned over to a congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack …

Brian Williams to Leave MSNBC  —  The former anchor of “NBC Nightly News” rehabilitated his tarnished image as the host of a popular 11 p.m. show on MSNBC.  —  Brian Williams, the square-jawed news anchor laid low by a fabulism scandal who mounted a career comeback with a popular 11 p.m. talk show on MSNBC …

Recruiting whiffs, checkered pasts complicate battle for Senate: The Note  —  The recent history of the evenly divided Senate has been defined by near misses.  —  The recent history of the evenly divided Senate has been defined by near misses and could-have-beens, from Sharron Angle …

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema takes victory lap after Congress passes physical infrastructure bill  —  Sen. Kyrsten Sinema took a victory lap Monday, saying the $1.2 trillion physical infrastructure bill passed by the House of Representatives is evidence her approach to bipartisan legislating is backed by the American public.

Goddard school district orders 29 books removed from circulation  —  WICHITA, Kansas — The Goddard school district has removed more than two dozen books from circulation in the district's school libraries, citing national attention and challenges to the books elsewhere.

Democrats are lying about critical race theory  —  It has become a refrain on the left and its media echo-chamber following Republican Glenn Youngkin's victory in the Virginia governor's race: Critical race theory is not being taught in schools.  PBS White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor …

Mayor Breed backs recall of three San Francisco school board members: ‘Our kids must come first’  —  San Francisco's Mayor London Breed is backing the effort to recall three school board members, saying she is supporting “the parents' call for change.”  —  Breed's endorsement of the recall …

Prosecutors seek 4+ years in prison for ‘QAnon Shaman’ in attempt to set example  —  ‘Man up’: Chairman challenges Trump after ruling  —  (CNN)The Justice Department is asking for the so-called QAnon Shaman, who wore a headdress and posed shirtless on the Senate floor during the siege of the US Capitol …

Newsmax tries to assuage furor of conservative hosts over vaccine mandate  —  On-air stars went from venting anger at their company's policy to accusing “fake news” of trying to turn viewers against the channel.  —  Newsmax seemed to have a massive problem on its hands at the end of last week.

CNN Poll: Three out of four adults think Facebook is making society worse  —  (CNN)Roughly three-quarters of adults believe Facebook is making American society worse, a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS finds, with about half saying they know somebody who was persuaded to believe in a conspiracy theory because of the site's content.

Dr. Oz Prepares To Jump Into Pennsylvania Senate Race  —  The celebrity physician Dr. Mehmet Oz is preparing to jump into the Pennsylvania Senate race on the Republican side, a move that would shake up contested primary and general election contests.  —  The 61-year-old Oz has begun hiring …

U.S. Holocaust Museum Says China ‘May Be Committing Genocide’ Against Uyghurs  —  Its report found that the government's attacks against the group of Muslims in Xinjiang had escalated and most likely included “forced sterilization, sexual violence, enslavement, torture, and forcible transfer.”

Post-Trump GOP doctrine  —  Republicans — reshaped, controlled and defined by Donald Trump since 2015 — are slowly but surely charting a post-Trump ideology and platform.  —  Why it matters: Other than conservative courts, toughness on immigration and hostility toward modern liberalism …

Sununu announcement act rubs top Republicans the wrong way  —  Mitch McConnell and Rick Scott found out the same way everyone else did that their top recruit to help secure the Senate majority was a no-go: They saw it on a local television livestream.  —  After months of courting Gov. Chris Sununu …

Howard Stern floats 2024 bid against Trump: 'There's no way I'd lose'  —  Howard Stern says he could launch a White House bid in 2024 against former President Trump, quipping he knows he'll “beat his ass.”  —  The SiriusXM host said Tuesday that running for president could be his “civic duty” …

Who Is Trying to ‘Save Parking Structure 3’ From Becoming Affordable Housing?  —  Santa Monica wants to tear down an underused parking facility in the heart of downtown and replace it with affordable housing.  Who could possibly be against that?  —  Aaron Gordon

At the Willard and the White House, the Jan. 6 Panel Widens Its Net  —  What went on at a five-star hotel near the White House the day before the riot could be a window into how a Trump-directed plot to upend the election ended in violence at the Capitol.  —  WASHINGTON — “We are essentially …

After nearly a year of doing nothing, Kamala Harris takes vacay to Paris with hubby  —  Joe Biden's “border czar,” Kamala Harris, who has spent all of about two hours at the border to find the “root causes” of illegal migration as two million migrants surged in, is now going to Paris.

South Dakota House votes to begin ‘unprecedented’ impeachment probe of AG  —  PIERRE, S.D. — South Dakota's House launched an investigation Tuesday into whether the state's attorney general should be impeached for his conduct surrounding a car crash last year that killed a pedestrian.

Tensions rise among Republicans over infrastructure bill and whether any agreement with Biden should be tolerated  —  Republicans are increasingly divided over the bipartisan infrastructure bill that will soon become law, with tensions rising among GOP members over whether the party …

I Will Create A Winning Basketball Program At The University Of Austin  —  It is important to note, up here at the beginning, that the University of Austin is not a real college.  It exists on its own website, and also in a mission statement written by the (why not) university's new president …

POLITICO Playbook: New reminders that this is not normal  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  BREAKING TUESDAY NIGHT — “Trump cannot shield White House records from Jan. 6 committee, judge rules,” by Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein ... Judge TANYA CHUTKAN: “Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President.”

Statement from Sir Geoffrey Cox  —  Sir Geoffrey Cox has practised as a Queen's Counsel in the courts since well before his election in 2005.  He is a leading barrister in England and makes no secret of his professional activities.  He was asked to advise the Attorney General …

Max Cleland Did Not Deserve What Rick Wilson Did to Him  —  The former Georgia senator died Tuesday at age 79.  His political career was a harbinger of things to come.  —  In 1999, I went to Washington to work on a profile of John McCain for this magazine.

Adam Schiff Keeps Lying  —  Adam Schiff's numerous fabrications have gone largely unchallenged by a fawning political media, even though the congressman has been a frequent guest on every network but Fox News since 2016.  Schiff most famously claimed that Congress had not only uncovered …