Ex-White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham to meet with 1/6 committee  —  (CNN)Former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham will meet Wednesday evening on Capitol Hill with the select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection, according to multiple sources familiar with the meeting.

McConnell cracks door to Electoral Count Act reform  —  Mitch McConnell is signaling he's open to reforming the Electoral Count Act, one year after a mass of Republicans objected to certification of President Joe Biden's win ahead of an attempted insurrection.

2022 House Overview: Still a GOP Advantage, but Redistricting Looks Like a Wash  —  The surprising good news for Democrats: on the current trajectory, there will be a few more Biden-won districts after redistricting than there are now — producing a congressional map slightly less biased in the GOP's favor than the last decade's.

Report: Kazakh president's home ablaze as protests escalate  —  MOSCOW (AP) — Protesters in Kazakhstan's largest city stormed the presidential residence and the mayor's office on Wednesday and set both buildings on fire, according to new reports, as demonstrations sparked by a rise in fuel prices …

Omicron Is Milder  —  How should that affect your behavior?  —  The details of the Omicron variant are becoming clearer, and they are encouraging.  —  They're not entirely encouraging, and I will get into some detail about one of the biggest problems — the stress on hospitals …

Chicago Schools Close After Teachers' Union Votes for Remote Learning  —  More than 290,000 kids in Chicago Public Schools were shut out of the classroom Wednesday after the city's teachers' union voted against returning to in-person learning.  —  At a virtual town hall on Sunday …

J.D. Vance Versus Film Twitter  —  How film critics helped send the ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ author off the cliff.  —  I'd be remiss if I didn't note, briefly, that the online collective known as Film Twitter—critics, Letterboxd users, and sundry others—managed to completely break Ohio Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance's brain.

Macron says his strategy is to ‘piss off’ France's unvaccinated as Covid surges  —  Parliament suspends vaccine pass debate and rivals criticise president for ‘vulgar’ expression and ‘lack of empathy’  —  President Emmanuel Macron has come under fire from political rivals for saying he wanted to …

Husband: Kelly Ernby wasn't vaccinated when she died of COVID-19 complications  —  GOP leaders say Ernby's death won't deter them from speaking out against coronavirus vaccine mandates.  —  Deputy District Attorney and GOP activist Kelly Ernby wasn't vaccinated when she died early this week …

The GOP isn't even trying to sound coherent anymore  —  We must stop pretending the GOP is a real political party made up of coherent adults.  To understand why, let's examine a single day this week.  —  On Tuesday, former president Donald Trump, the undisputed head of the party …

White House insists CDC led by science amid shifting COVID-19 guidance  —  CDC causes some confusion with ambiguous coronavirus guidelines  —  Fox News Flash top headlines for January 5  —  The White House on Wednesday stood by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) …

LA's First Case Of Flurona Detected At COVID Testing Site Near Getty Center  —  LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — The first case of flurona - the combination of both influenza and coronavirus - has been detected at the COVID-19 testing center across the street from the Getty Center.

Treasury Sanctions Milorad Dodik and Associated Media Platform for Destabilizing and Corrupt Activity  —  Dodik's Destabilizing and Corrupt Activities Undermine 26 years of Progress Since the Dayton Peace Accords  —  WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control …

Don't Look Up Doesn't Get the Climate Crisis  —  Don't Look Up is an obscenely overlong, occasionally funny satire of American media and politics.  But it aspires to be something more.  —  As he has emphasized in interviews, director Adam McKay conceived of the film as an allegory for the climate crisis.